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Thanks acman3 for all the links. My favorite versions are the ones I have in my music library. Which are the Miles Davis, Chet Baker, and Stan Getz versions. Out of the vocal versions I favor Julie London. Wait a minute, I have that disc also. May... 
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orpheus10 thanks for taking the time to insert that link for It "Never Entered My Mind." during your debate.I had forgotten how truly beautiful that song is. 
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Well how about it frogman, could you ignore rok2id and orpheus10 for a sec and weigh in on Baker? 
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East coast west coast, black/white, soul or no soul, rythm or no rythm.....I think its all a good and worthy debate. At the same time I did post some Ginger Baker jazz songs and Baker and his idol Art Blakey doing a drum duet. Black and white, bot... 
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Ginger Baker in a drum solo duet with one of his idols Art Blakey. As I mentioned in an earlier post his top 3 influences on the drums were Blakey, Max Roach and Elvin Jones. Of course, being influenced by, and playing in style firmly rooted in ja... 
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More from Ginger Baker. This is his trio sessions with Bill Frisell on guitar and Charlie Haden on bass. These 3 videos are from the same concert at the jazz festival in Frankfurt Germany. On the 3rd video Baker solo’s from 9 minute mark to 12:30,... 
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**********Roy Eldridge makes the claim that he can tell the difference between a black player and a white player merely by listening. Leonard Feather gives Roy a blindfold test. Roy fails.******* Thanks acman3 for that tidbit. All in all it would ... 
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rok2id your right "never" was the wrong word. I should have written "the majority" 
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I think frogman made a lot of good points and I agree with him. Not trying to start a war here but if you blindfolded any jazz aficionados, man or woman of any race and played many different variants of jazz, (songs they were not familiar with) th... 
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rok2id, Here is more Wynton Marsalis NOLA jazzhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RqWGuWIM_g 
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acman3, I only listened to disc one last night and the recording was remastered as good as one could, I think, from the source tapes. Very open soundstage and separation of the instruments. I will listen to disc 2 next Friday and compare it. My li... 
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rok2id, Thanks for that link. That is some smoking New Orleans style jazz. Eric Clapton looks like he's having a great time sitting in with that terrific band ensemble.Did you know that Clapton's bandmates from the super group Cream, Jack Bruce (b... 
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nsp, I have this 4 disc version of Art Pepper live at Ronnie Scotts:https://www.amazon.com/Blues-Fisherman-Unreleased-Pepper-Vol/dp/B005BY8XA4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qi...I was unaware of the Milcho Leviev releases. I believe he plays piano on the... 
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orpheus10,I want to hear your answer 
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alexatpos, thanks for the Victor Feldman links. I saw Ronnie Scott playing tenor on one of them. Ronnie Scott was also the owner of the Ronnie Scotts jazz club in London. The place is still open. I have a bluray of Jeff Beck performing live at tha...