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| 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... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @stuartk Anyone here ever read "Straight Life" (was there ever a more ironic title?) by Art Pepper? Yes I read Straight Life by Art and Lauri Pepper and its a great book. | |
| Jazz for aficionados And Ben Webster also a top 20. One of my favorite Webster tunes Charlotte's Piccolo - YouTube | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim Sonny Stitt might not be in my top five, but he’s probably in my top twenty. 😁 Stitt is definitely in my top 20 as well! A great Sonny Stitt record with an even greater title Sonny Stitt - Just In Case You Forgot How Bad He Real... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Blue Note paying artists in Heroin???? My BS alarm is beginning to vibrate. I have no problem believing that Lion could be guilty of this. He was, after all a record producer in the 30s through the end of the 60s and heroin was used by a lot ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Back to the music... Re: Sonny Simmons (the artist that Alfred Lion tried to sign using heroin) This was the first I have heard of him because Sonny Rollins liked his playing. Rollins and Simmons would go over to saxophonist Clifford Jordans hou... |