orpheus10
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| Jazz for aficionados Although I have never been into any kind of music other than jazz, Chuck Berry has been with me all my life; or every since school when all the other kids were into Rock and Roll, which meant Chuck Berry's "Maybellene".I recall sneaking into the b... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "I just thank God it's all over," said Aaron, who endured months of media interviews, near-constant scrutiny, and death threats and hate mail. He had hired a bodyguard, needed to find temporary living quarters in Atlanta, and registered under a fa... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, your post hit the nail dead on the head; there is nothing I can add or subtract. | |
| Jazz for aficionados "Wikiman" I have lived jazz for my entire life, I don't need any musicians to tell me about it; especially bourgeois musicians, regardless how accomplished. I knew African American musicians who could not even read music, but they were able to ex... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Ghosthouse, that reminded me of when I was on this old steam locomotive puffing across the Congo; I can still see the natives waving as we pass and elephants screeching in the distance. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Lay it on me dude, I want to hear it too; the afro in the Bebop, before Diz added it onto the Rebop and called it "Afrobop". But since he did it without consulting the "Bird" that would make it "illegitimate", and not worthy of my consideration. | |
| Jazz for aficionados What does Voodoo have to do with "Bebop"? | |
| Jazz for aficionados Peter King made a nice tribute to "Bird". | |
| Jazz for aficionados Alex, I thought those posts to be good examples of "Afro-Jazz", while what we were discussing was Afro input into the origination of "Bebop", which is different.What you have posted is the Afro inclusion after the music had been developed, and it'... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Alex, presently, we are discussing "Bebop" specifically and not jazz in general. Rok's major complaint is when you talk about jazz currently, anything goes; it's kind of like "Mulligan stew", throw anything in the pot and call it "Mulligan stew". | |
| Jazz for aficionados Frogman, "Body and Soul" is not "Bebop", nor is Coleman Hawkins a Bebop musician, give me a break.Music can not, nor should it ever be approached from an intellectual stance. Why would I speak to Billy Taylor or Wynton Marsalis about Bebop? When... | |
| Jazz for aficionados When it comes to Cuban music, I can not say enough good things about this CD, "Afro-Cuban All-Stars" it covers "Son" which is Afro Cuban music combined in perfect proportion like a perfect cooking recipe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Now back to the Jazz! Bird's the word when we talk about Bebop, and everybody knows that, he is the undisputed King. We are not talking about just a lot of notes played at lightening speed, but music you both hear and feel. https://www.y... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Frogman, your objective is not to communicate an idea, but to change the subject and win the argument; that's been pointed out many times. At other times you choose to impress with your long diatribes.Apparently you and I listen to different Bebo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Frogman, I'm capable of communicating with people from various sociological and economic groupings, and quite often express the mood I'm in at the time. Sometime I'm in a hip mood and choose to express myself in a "jazzy" manner.At other times I'... |