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| 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... | |
| Jazz for aficionados It goes without saying that Alfred Lion, a man I had respected as one of the greats of bringing American Jazz to millions of listeners, was just another business man trying to take advantage of artists (yes I know most all recording companies and ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados As all of you know I have been reading the new Sonny Rollins biography. I just started Chapter 25 titled Sonny Meets Hawk. On page 402 (yes I am a slow reader) I read something that really disturbed me. I have been wanting to share so much of thi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thanks @acman3 and @alexatpos for the Dupree Bolton suggestions. Another relatively unknown trumpeter who also played with Harold Land and many other great artists was Carmell Jones. His album Jay Hawk Talk has one of my favorite renditions of Wha... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim The RVG remasters may have a bright sound as stuartk has posted and I have heard many others who feel that way. Music genres and listening are both subjective in nature. I for one like the way they sound and you can get a ton of RVG ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados From Wiki The Jazz Messengers were a jazz band that existed with varying personnel for 35 years. Their discography consists of 47 studio albums, 21 live albums, 2 soundtracks, 6 compilations, and one boxed set. As you can see it is definite... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Re: "The Van Gelder Sound" I like it. All of the record producers and musicians that recorded sessions engineered by Van Gelder liked it. Whether first, at his parents studio and later at the purpose built Englewood Cliffs studio. Of course Van ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @frogman Great post Weather Report Shorter session. Here are some post 80s Shorter I really like Wayne Shorter - Children of the Night - YouTube Sacajawea - YouTube The 3 live albums, Footprints, Beyond the Sound Barrier and Without a Net ar... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @stuartk That Blakey outfit with Wayne, Freddie Hubbard (or Lee Morgan on Indestructible) was amazing. I agree and over the last 3 decades I have purchased over 50 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers CDs. After Miles and then Coltrane, my B... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Listened to a lot of the late great Wayne Shorter last night. The album Speak No Evil is probably his best overall session. When Wayne joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, he became the bands primary composer and a few years later became the prim... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @mahgister While surfing You Tube I came across this video about Sansui which I thought might interest you. He talks about the history of Sansui, the "70s stereo wars" between electronic industry and why quality Sansui hifi "disappeared" by the en... |