orpheus10
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| Jazz for aficionados I never attempted to ascertain the different divisions in Rock, such as "Heavy Metal" or maybe "Rock a billy" or whatever; as a matter of fact, I have always liked Santana, but never considered him Rock.Rok, you just messed up my thoughts; but in ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Mary_jo, I'm glad you presented your side of this discussion in music. I only see 2 that I'm familiar with; "While My Guitar Weeps" and "The End". That opening intro with the helicopter blades whirring tells me it's "Nam"; being a vet who's cons... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Here's a percussionist I like; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y4cc8lzPBIHere's some fantastic Brazilian percussion; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDPuQWg_A8Q | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, that must be my favorite "doo wop", and I have a doo wop collection on reel to reel.I'm not sure about the effect R&R had on "doo wop"; I think doo wop morphed into "Motown", like jazz morphed into "fusion".Out of all the genres of music,... | |
| Jazz for aficionados When you comprehend this scene, you comprehend the music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OKQdp6iGUk | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEDB62oKv2M | |
| Jazz for aficionados By the way, the ghetto was paradise when this song came out compared to what it is today. I know blame the victim, but since I'm a long time student of sociology, I know better.This is also closely related to "The American Dream"; it's not all Bl... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "WAR's" greatest appeal was to the urban ghetto, and I don't connect R&R to the urban ghetto.When I was young, when talking about R&R we were talking about Elvis Presley, or Bill Haley and the Comets, or Chuck Berry, but now I don't know. ... | |
| Quincy Jones Interview I feel, as many jazz aficionados feel, that Quincy Jones is someone they know personally, and out of the decades we have known him, he has been one of the most intelligent and articulate jazz artists out of the many. Now when he starts to say thi... | |
| Quincy Jones Interview Frogman, the funny thing about when your chain starts slipping, you're the last person to know it, and if you live long enough, it's going to happen. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Alex, you did it again, you hit the ball out of the park; that JATP article was most informative, I certainly didn't know all that about the JATP. Keep up the good work. | |
| Quincy Jones Interview Did anyone take into account that he once had a brain anurism and is 85 years old? | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkFSM9Frx3w | |
| Jazz for aficionados According to Wikipedia; Yusef lateef, October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013 was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in America, in 1950.Although Lateef's main instruments were the ten... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Alex, and Mary_jo, I can't thank you two enough for consistently posting albums I must have. These albums will be precious, and I know they will get repeated play; that's a sure sign of a winner.Pryso, you have been posting nothing but killers, b... |