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| Jazz for aficionados A short lived "Jazz Super Group" V.S.O.P Tony Williams is the featured musician on "Birdlike" Byrdlike (Live) - YouTube One of a Kind (Live) - YouTube V.S.O.P. QUINTET 「So What」 - YouTube Joe Henderson replaces Wayne Shorter on tenor on this ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Musical taste is a subjective subject. Music affects us all differently and in a very personal way. I would not say that I am deeply knowledgeable on jazz when discussing the nature of the "actual music" but I understand it layman terms. The pers... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim What are your thoughts on Tina Brooks as a tenor sax player? Tina Brooks was a great tenor and also a very good composer. Its too bad he died so young. I have all 5 of his Blue Note albums as a leader on CDs. He played tenor on Fr... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim Listening to Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers, First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings. Excellent! Excellent may be an understatement. Blakey and his band hit Japan like one of the countries yearly typhoons and ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @frogman Pretty bold comment that Rollins was a better improviser than was Coltrane. From my vantage point to deem one better than the other is a bit of an apples/oranges issue I believe it has been the 4 plus weeks of reading about all of th... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hello @frogman The three greatest tenor players have been Trane, Rollins and Henderson. Probably in that order. Bottom line is, who has gotten copied the most by other tenor players? Those three are the top three. I think Wayne Shorter should... | |
| Jazz for aficionados HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONNY ROLLINS 93 TODAY GOD BLESS!! 50s Sonny Sonny Rollins Live in Europe 1959 - YouTube 60s Sonny Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas - YouTube 70s Sonny SONNY ROLLINS LIVE 1973 LAREN ft 増尾好秋. "There Is No Greater Love/Don’t Stop the ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @stuartk I saw RTF live on the "Romantic Warrior" tour and caught the S. Clarke Band a couple times in the mid 70’s. That’s it for me... Wow thats going back a half century. I was listening to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull, amon... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I have a very eclectic musical taste as opposed to narrow taste. I have always been that way and my taste has not narrowed with age. If anything it has widened.... I like the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I like John McLaughlin and Billy Cobham as well a... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim I just started The Complete EmArcy recordings and so far A+! I'm glad you like it. Another suggestion is this Brownie biography which I have read and consider it a really good bio of which I have read hundreds of bio's on jazz art... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @stuartk I was writing an answer to curiousjim and when I posted it I saw you had already answered while I was writing.... Here is the song Santana played with McLaughlin on the Electric Guitarist album Frienship - YouTube | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim Did he play on any Santana albums? John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana played on two albums both recorded in 1973. "Love Devotion Surrender" (Santana and McLaughlin contribute on every song. "Welcome" John McLaughlin contributes on... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Clifford Brown and The Max Roach Quintet. @curiousjim A couple pages back I posted that Clifford Brown is my favorite trumpet player, second only to Louis Armstrong. A great box set to have (I do) is this one from 1989 titled "Brownie: Th... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Billy Harper plays on this excellent Grachan Moncur III 2004 recording. Harper is definitely one of the great tenor players post 1970. Exploration - YouTube | |
| Jazz for aficionados The whole thing sounds like a tale told by someone trying to explain why their career never went anywhere. Or Alfred Lion could have been "feeling him out" to see if he snatched up the dope, and then agreed to any contract that Lion proposed i... |