orpheus10

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Jazz for aficionados
So many jazz artists I've known were like "shooting stars", they came on brilliant and fast but didn't last. Although their very sketchy bios can be found in "Wikipedia", I don't have anything to add in regard to their personal life.While they co... 
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If I made the mistake of assuming that the music was something I liked a lot, how could I not like the music.In regard to how different Cuber sounded from "Pepper Adams", someone else will have to decide that, I'm not qualified.Call it "improvisin... 
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Frogman, in response to: Juilliard was in reference to a musical institute of higher learning. We could have substituted your favorite school, there was no "subterfuge" in my post, it was direct.Those three clips I posted was honoring "Pepper Ada... 
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Frogman, assuming I'm 18, and decide to become a jazz musician. I could go to Juilliard School of music, and graduate with honors as being one of the best on my instrument; that would not make me a jazz musician of note for sure.The ability to st... 
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Rok, 'Twixt optimist and pessimistThe difference is droll...The optimist sees the doughnut;The pessimist sees the hole. 
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Frogman, music will continue, but not "Jazz". At some point we have to define jazz, and not consider any music played to be "Jazz".Let us start from the most fundamental point, and that is with the artists who create jazz; in their hearts they ar... 
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Jafant, I have many of his albums in my collection, and I've enjoyed his music for many years.He will be missed. 
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Yes Frogman, I have both of those and enjoy them very much. 
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This lady is truly underrated, but she is well represented in my collection. Lorez Alexandria is a singer that I have admired since the first time I heard her; probably in 69.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWXimvRssmQ    https://www.youtub... 
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That cover on the King Fleming Trio looks like somewhere I've been, maybe it was in a dream. The misty night and the music belong together; I must have that album.King Fleming is a name I've never heard, but his music is unforgetable.  
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Man can not live on "Hard-Bop" alone;           https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKZQxZjGhYQ      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgKMdqSUkKc 
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I recently got rid of a trash can full of records not worth the time it takes to listen to them; since I bought them a long time ago, I don't have a clue why I bought them in the first place, but I was tired of them taking up much needed space.I m... 
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WikipediaOthello Molineaux is a jazz steelpan player who spent much of his early career backing bass guitarist Jaco Pastorius.[1] Additionally, Molineaux has worked with other musicians such as Monty Alexander, Chicago, and David Johansen.[2]I saw... 
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To begin with, jazz is near the bottom of the list in regard to popularity of music genres; this thread is an example of that, it's at the bottom of the list on "audiogon".Some have given more reasons than you can shake a stick at for that fact, b...