orpheus10
Responses from orpheus10
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, I like stories like that, it makes the music real. If you can think of any more, please share them. | |
| Jazz for aficionados I'm glad I've got a number of Tito Puente CD's; I've been a fan of his since I can remember. | |
| Jazz for aficionados I am thinking only of very special jazz musicians, and I assume you are thinking of special concert pianists. The bottom line is I don't resonate with the concert pianists, and it's too late now. Although I feel I'm right because of the "interna... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "Wikipedia"Theodore "Fats" Navarro (September 24, 1923 – July 6, 1950[1]) was an American jazz trumpet player. He was a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. He had a strong stylistic influence on many other players, most ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Frogman, you sometime mix apples and oranges and I don't know what you call the finished product. That's what you're doing when you mix classical and jazz.""Obviously no disrespect intended toward these amazing players; only meant to point out th... | |
| Jazz for aficionados The Cooker is an album by the jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan, released on the Blue Note label in 1958 as BLP 1578. It was recorded on September 29, 1957, and features a quintet with Morgan, Pepper Adams, Bobby Timmons, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jone... | |
| Jazz for aficionados That quote was right on time Acman.While I'm not a musician, I can tell you what I've witnessed; big time jazz musicians came to St. Louis, some time alone, and collected what was called a "pick up band". How they selected these musicians, maybe ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Bill Frizell, Thomas Morgan, "Subconscious Lee"; the music reached me, I didn't have to make any effort. I checked and was surprised it was done in 2016.Subconscious-Lee is a jazz album by Lee Konitz although a few tracks were issued on 78rpm und... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, you and Frogman are making interesting conversation, but you both are totally wrong.Do you recall an interview with Herby Hancock, where he stated how he goofed (played wrong chord or notes) and Miles came right behind him and made it all per... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I don't mean to break up the current party; although I don't agree with most of what's been said in regard to various genres and jazz, I'm just one person with one opinion.Making good jazz music is never easy; the practitioner must spend years mas... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Celebrating "Oscar Pettiford" today. While Mingus is one of my "go to" musicians, for all of his many incredible compositions, when just singling out the bass, Oscar Pettiford is my favorite.Unfortunately, you won't find as many Oscar Pettiford r... | |
| Jazz for aficionados When I think of Blue Mitchel, I think of Horace Silver; that might be the only Blue Mitchel, I have, but it's boss.What you submitted sure sounds good, him and Junior Cook have been blowing together for so long they can read one another's musical ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I'm concerned about homelessness today; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFcSVOU1CRMI once worked (without pay) for the homeless in my city; that was in the 80's when the problem was no where near what it is today. The vast majority suffered f... | |
| Jazz for aficionados “Suite For Flute and Jazz Piano” with the great flutist Jean Pierre Rampal. *****That was the most forgettable music I ever heard; I have the CD, but I don't know where it is.Some reviewer wrote that you had to work in order to hear the "new ja... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Pryso, I only remember early purchases because I was in the Air Force, and each new album was an event that we shared with other airmen; consequently, I remember the party surrounding the reviewing of the album. (any event was an excuse for a part... |