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| Donald Byrd Charles1dad, I hope we haven't lost you. Your contributions were important and very much appreciated. | |
| Donald Byrd Paul Chambers Quintet: When I listen to jazz, I try to take my mind back to when the record was made. This was cut in the late 50's, and that's when "West Coast jazz" was hip. This music has a west coast jazz feel to it.The Sound of Jazz: was the ... | |
| Donald Byrd Rok, I think your criticism and critique of Donald Bird are both accurate and concise. In regard to Pepper Adams and Gerry Mulligan, it's a case of orange or blue.While both Adams and Mulligan have records I could live without, both have records I... | |
| Donald Byrd Rok, I just discovered a video cassette in my collection of "Sun Ra". The title is "A Joyful Noise", and it includes his band when they lived in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. If you want to know more about "Sun Ra" and his music, I ... | |
| Donald Byrd Rok and Charles, we are in total agreement in regard to the top 3 ladies. Carmen is my girl too, she sounds the most seductive.I remember Clifford, he left us much too soon. "Sassy Swings Again" will be in my collection, "Sweet Georgia Brown" or n... | |
| Donald Byrd Snakeyp, initially I was one of those purists who cried "foul, it ain't jazz". I went to the record store and bought a Donald Byrd LP, when I put it on and heard something different, "What's this"? If you went to the liquor store and bought what y... | |
| Donald Byrd Rok2id, I'm glad you brought in the girl singers, this conversation would be incomplete without them. But you left one out that deserves to be ranked alongside the one's you mentioned, and to be placed in the company of those ladies is the highest... | |
| Donald Byrd Rockadanny, I can certainly respect your preference for Byrd as a sideman, instead of a leader. I just double checked my collection of LP's and CD's that feature Byrd as a "sideman".He appeared with "Kenny Clark", on Bohemia After Dark;"Art Blakey... | |
| Donald Byrd Charles1dad, you cleared it up all the way and I'm with you. The fact that we are all "audiophile's" and have rigs that add so much to the music we heard ages ago is icing on the cake.Enjoy the music. | |
| Donald Byrd Charles1dad, ages ago, I would argue whether or not this artist, or that artist was the best on his chosen instrument, and I would argue my point till the cows came home. Since we were in the city, the cows never came home.Now, as far as I'm conce... | |
| Donald Byrd Foster_9, after your welcome, this is like being back among old friends who are all "jazz aficionado's".While I know a lot about jazz, I learn a lot every time I post. Now that we have "youtube", it's unnecessary to buy the record or CD before you... | |
| Donald Byrd Rok2id, your question "Should we include the girl singers", just soaked in. Absolutely! Nina Simone was forced to become a singer. She was playing piano at a lounge to pay for her education as a classical pianist, when the owner told her to sing. ... | |
| Donald Byrd This is the first time I heard "Harlem Blues". I will definitely add it to my collection. I don't blame you for being out of the vinyl business, it's quite expensive when you're talking about better than CD.I think the term "jazz giant" between th... | |
| Audiophile blues... America's Roots musical is an LP that contains Little Walter, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddly, Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Memphis Slim. | |
| Dave Brubeck Onhwy61, if you think it's jazz, then it's jazz. While the music I brought into this discussion is "definitively" jazz, recently, music from other parts of the world that incorporates our jazz, and possibly our musicians, is more interesting than ... |