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| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim Get well soon and keep listening to your favorite music to cheer you up..... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @stuartk I only own 3 or 4 albums If 3 of those albums are Saxophone Colossus, Way Out West, and Freedom Suite you have the essentials... My friend and JFA poster Alextapos is not big on Sonny either (as he posted in a few years back). Not e... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @rok2id Well I hope the new knee works better then the old one... Been reading Saxophone Colossus and playing lots of Rollins lately. His birthday is coming up on 7 September and he will be 93! You know all the praise Sonny gets for the albums... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @alexatpos Hello friend. Happy to hear from you and I was digging that Gillespie rendition of Portrait Of Jenny. Here is another beautiful rendition by Wes Montgomery, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb.... Portrait Of Jennie (Live At... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim Sorry maybe I should have said "old regulars" meaning many posters here on JFA, besides the three I mentioned, that have been posting on a daily basis since the OP ten years ago. You, stuartk, calgary, mahgister and a few others tha... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Just wanted to add this beautiful version of Portrait Of Jenny by Joe Lovano which was also the theme song and name of a great movie staring Edward G Robinson Joe Lovano - Portrait of Jenny - YouTube | |
| Jazz for aficionados Some of the artists who were greatly influenced by Sonny Rollins Dave Liebman whips it out - amazing soprano saxophone solo - YouTube Joshua Redman - Jazz Crimes (Live) - YouTube Joe Lovano, live in Marciac jazz festival 2019 - YouTube Branfor... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @frogman @rok2id @alexatpos Where have all the "JFA regulars" gone..... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Your welcome @mahgister and here is a great Sonny Rollins interview with another great saxophone player Joshua Redman. Sonny Rollins Interviewed by Joshua Redman: Newk's Time - JazzTimes A great live rendition of what is probably Sonny's most... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I am a big Sonny Rollins fan and am reading the new biography of his life appropriately titled Saxophone Colossus. The book is 715 pages of text plus and the impeccable research by the author using predominately primary sources required the book... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @mahgister I have many Kenny Wheeler CDs. Excellent underrated trumpeter. Another underrated and seldom mentioned trumpeter Tom Harrell solo "Darn That Dream" June 2012 - YouTube | |
| Jazz for aficionados My favorite current Japanese pianist/keyboard/organist is the one and only Hiromi Uehara. Since her album debut in 2002 she has consistently released new material on subsequent albums since. Having seen her live multiple times I can attest to the... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @mahgister Thanks stuartk... He suggested her... Ok thanks @stuartk for the Toshiko Akiyoshi suggestions. | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim Re Gary Bartz. Another great artist of whom I had the pleasure of seeing live. Also had a very interesting, long conversation with Bartz and Lou Donaldson in the band room at the Village Vanguard NYC after a Lou Donaldson show. I saw ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @mahgister Thanks for the Toshiko Akiyoshi suggestions. Listened to a lot of her music last night. |