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| Jazz for aficionados mary jo why not give it a try? Astrud Gilberto never sang professionally until the group Stan Getz had assembled in Brazil had to wait a couple days for the professional singer to show up and he asked band member Joao Gilberto to have his wife sin... | |
| Jazz for aficionados A little laid back but I enjoyed these Eric Gale tunes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D4ckrFVzzQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHnYaXFRy50I read somewhere that Gale was mainly a hired hand as a session guitarist. His sessions as a leader unfort... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Miss Merrill and Clifford Brown had me in a trance in that last song so I had to snap out of it with these two masterpieces. Both feature legendary drummers. A young Billy Cobham with the Horace Silver Quintet and Shelly Manne leading his band:htt... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Schubert Doris Day had a beautiful voice for sure. Here in one of my favorite fem jazz vocalists. Her parents immigrated here from Croatia which is alex and mary jo's neck of the woods.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM2YKTmGHBQhttps://www.youtube... | |
| Jazz for aficionados The process of enslaving financially 98% of the population of the United States and other major world economies has been going on for over a century and has absolutely nothing to do with music. One must remember there was a time back in the 30’s w... | |
| Jazz for aficionados mary jo Andres Segovia was a brilliant classical guitarist and he is entitled to his opinion. That does not make it the opinion of others and Paco De Lucia was certainly not making "noise" IMHO..... | |
| Jazz for aficionados alex your response to Mary jo was pretty deep. Everyone is different and likes different music. All genres of music have great songs and duds, depending on who the listener is. | |
| Jazz for aficionados acman3 I had nothing to recover from I was driving so therefore had just one glass of Jameson Irish Whiskey...JC was fantastic as always. Sometimes he gets carried away with the Jimi Hendrix like pyrotechnics improvised solo's but he always mixes ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Schubert I'm happy you enjoyed the Stitt - Eldridge link. One more James Carter link for the road. I'm out!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qasXXzsDpPk | |
| Jazz for aficionados On my way into NYC for the James Carter Organ Trio at Birdland!A younger Carter playing the flute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYcCkl6M7y8Did I mention he plays the Alto, Tenor, Soprano, and Baritone as well.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SH... | |
| Jazz for aficionados acman3 great Konitz links. I already ordered the Carnegie Hall recording with Kenny Clarke, Red Garland, Oscar Pettiford, et al. Also ordered the one with Miles Davis and others - EZZ - THETIC. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Sonny Stitt Sextet and Quintet I would say is a must have for jazz aficionados:Roy Eldridge, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Herb Ellis, and Stan Leveyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3t47Hik22Q | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thanks frogman and Schubert for the recommendations. I have "Motion" on the wat along with the Konitz/Marsh recording (I liked the songs I heard on that one).I'm giving the other suggestions a listen right now as I'm writing this.Pyramid is defini... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Great Turrentine selection Schubert. Big Stanley Turrentine fan myself. I have that disc with the song "Shirley." The albums called "Mr. Natural" and was recorded in 1964 but not releases until 1980.So I searched high and low for my first Lee Koni... | |
| Jazz for aficionados frogman and Schubert I must admit, ashamedly so, that I have not one disc in my collection with Lee Konitz on it. I plan on listening to him a bit more and decide whether to buy some of his recordings as a leader or sideman. Any suggestions?Lee is... |