orpheus10

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Pryso, you just added another must have album to my growing list; Pepper Adams plays Charles Mingus contains some of the best music I've heard this year, and it's old music that he reinvented. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7CoJEyiSfE 
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Rok, I'm a lot like the weather, you never know what to expect; lately it's been a stroll down long past memory lane, who knows what tomorrow will bring? 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
What about "Moving Iron"? 
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"You can't teach an old dog new tricks"; I bet if an old dog really wanted to learn new tricks, he could, but most old dogs like me, just find new tricks unnecessary; especially when compared to all the old tricks.That was my introduction to the m... 
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While it's certain that West Coast is not as fast as East Coast, slow does not necessarily mean West coast; Miles "It Never Entered My Mind";            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Np8PJDGq_A 
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I have been very close to a few jazz persons. I refer to them as "persons" as opposed to musicians, because that’s a different relationship. While I idolized what they did on the bandstand, they were just friends of mine off the bandstand. I never... 
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This was recorded at the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in June 1969. Both the Eddie Harris Quartet, and the Les McCann Trio performed with great success at the Festival. Later in the week, Eddie and Les felt like playing together. Benny B... 
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mary_jo, I sincerely adored everything about your post, except; that scratchy recording of Dark Eyes by Yoska Gabor and his Gypsy Orchestra.While I liked the music, the audiophile in me detests scratchy records. 
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Frogman, I go by what I hear, not what musicians say; Bill Evans played a lot with Miles, I can't hear where Bill Evans began to sound like Miles. 
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Frogman, because you're a professional musician, you sometime don't see the forest for the trees; you get too hung up in the "nuts and bolts".The "feel" of those two versions of "Nica's Dream" was different; one "felt" West Coast, and the other "f... 
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"As you define "real", meaning emotionally from the heart, West Coast is less real, but that doesn't mean it's less jazzy."You read too fast Frogman; the "you" in that sentence was referring to Rok, not me; he identifies some things different from... 
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In regard to Acmans language statement, it's more likely that musicians who speak the same language find one another; the "hard bop" improvisational jazz language is both fast and complex; musicians can not get acquainted on the bandstand, they mu... 
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Frogman, evidently, you haven't spent much time in El A, as soon as you get there, you know you're in a different world, and West Coast jazz reflects that casual, cool, laid back life style; there is no such thing as a necktie in almost all of El ... 
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Both were excellent versions of "Nica's Dream"; the West Coast version kind of flowed and oozed, while the East Coast was "hard riding"; imagine an outlaw making his get away from the posse across the badlands, you could hear Horace Silver riding ...