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Jazz for aficionados I have been listening to my Kenny Wheeler collection a lot lately. Especially his ECM sessions. Great music. Great engineering at the ECM studio = great sonics.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p096UTjQgeI&t=87shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC... | |
Jazz for aficionados acman,I have listened to JC's "Out Of Nowhere" the "full album" at least a hundred times. I own all of his recordings and that's one of my favorites.I'm partial to Gene Ammons' version of "Angel Eyes" but Sonny Stitt's rendition is excellent as we... | |
Jazz for aficionados Thanks mary__jo I am going to use that toothpaste from now on! | |
Jazz for aficionados We are on the third straight page of a lyrics or no lyrics debate quickly headed for a fourth. SMH..... | |
Jazz for aficionados pryso,Great link to the xmass tune.Chicago, IMHO, was way ahead of the "simpleton" rock bands of the 70's. After Terry Kath's death they did "sell out" a little with the top ten FM tunes sung by Peter Cetera. especially in the 80's. But man they s... | |
Jazz for aficionados Mark Murphy's rendition of "Stolen Moments"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsvTPeAYfuATerry Kath, the great guitarist from the band Chicago (one of my favorites) and vocalist on many of their songs, has a similar tone. When I heard Murphy the firs... | |
Jazz for aficionados frogman, The vocal rendition to Body And Soul by the Manhattan Transfer was not to my liking. As a matter of fact, the first thing that came to my mind when I listened was this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTq6Tofmo7E | |
Jazz for aficionados frogman,Great post especially this part:"One of the great things about art, in this case music, is that while it is true that sometimes the artist is very specific about the meaning, the listener is more times than not free to attach his own perso... | |
Jazz for aficionados I thought Miles Davis' first electric period of 1968 - 1975 was awesome. After his 5 year hiatus (76 - 80) his 2nd electric period of 81 - 89 was sub par bordering on just plain bad. JMHO. | |
Jazz for aficionados mary_jo and alex where have you been?It there an internet blackout over there in the Balkans? | |
Jazz for aficionados orpheus10,I have 2 of Jacintha's albums I bought at the same time around 10 years ago after hearing her voice, which I agree, is beautiful. They are "Lush Life" which contains the song from you first link. Your following 2 links were great selecti... | |
Jazz for aficionados I posted 2 songs yesterday from a great female jazz vocalist Helen Merrill and 1 a duet with an old (and you can tell) Billie Holiday and Helen Merrill.That was a day before orpheus10's suggestion. So I already contributed. | |
Jazz for aficionados Back to jazz in keeping with the thread themehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM2YKTmGHBQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAHE8LIbyzohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x6Vq2OsdFM | |
Jazz for aficionados The thing is I can listen to Fela and then listen to this next:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZBlqcbpmxYAnd then this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpKB6OZ_B4cI too leave the "jazz reservation" on occasion. | |
Jazz for aficionados Great Fela Kuti live performance:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8oRpA2SpEFor the Fela uninitiated:https://www.allmusic.com/artist/fela-kuti-mn0000138833/biography |