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| sonny rollins Charles Parker was an alto sax player;Rollins play a tenor and occasionally a soprano sax. In addition to the fine recording mentioned above,allow me to add anything recorded by the Clifford Brown/Max Roach quintet-of which Rollins was a member. | |
| sonny rollins I have not heard him on this tour but have heard him live. He is the best living tenor player and one of this planet's finest musicians. GO! | |
| Jazz Recs for Classical Music Fan - Challenging I read you criteria. Because jazz started roughly at the time of commercial sound reproduction,some of the recordings sound like,well,remasters of recordings up to a century old.Early Jazz--any of the compilation anthologies of Louis Armstrong,Hot... | |
| Food for thought/Opinions please From midevil times when classical music was church music,through the transition from the Roman school to the German School,through the reformation,movable type and the age of reason,through Vienna as an art's center,though the age of electronic so... | |
| Jazz Piano? http://www.alevy.com/tatum.htm | |
| Jazz Piano? Art Tatum's piano teacher was his mother-who was classiclly trained. At the risk of putting too fine a point on it,Tatum can be broken down into three periods. His third period is over my head but I listen to his second period stuff with my mouth ... | |
| Jazz Piano? Early Jazz: Jelly Roll Morton,James P. JohnsonSwing: Duke Ellington,Count Basie,**ART TATUM**Bop: Bud PowellHard Bop:McCoy TynerModern: Oscar Peterson,Bill Evans,Horace Silver,Herbie HancockMark Gridley's one volume jazz text is a good read and a ... | |
| Cheap class A intergrated power..... This has always confused me. Some say class a as a marketing term and others use it to describe a function one step about class ab "push-pull" that generates what is not being drawn upon as heat.Cheap is in the wallet of the beholder and I know yo... | |
| Has someone imposed a speed limit on jazz? I suspect that these things go in cycles. Early Romanticism was an age of pyrotechnic-think Liszt and Paganinni. In jazz,the boppers-think Gillespie and Parker, pushed technique.The speed limit is set by the technical ability of the players and ho... | |
| Ten Percent Distortion? My personal favorite is the Marantz PM-17 integrated amp that is "only" 60 watts. At sixty watts,into 8 ohms,Marantz lists its total harmonic distortion at less than one one hundredth of one percentage point. Imagine what its watts rating would be... | |
| What's Your Favorite Rollins album? Horn CultureHappy Birthday to The Best Living Tenor Player. | |
| Is it worth spending $10k on CD-only player today? Not to me. | |
| Current Trends In Home Audio Interesting thread. I'm curious.How many of the houses had musical instuments? Pianos? Guitars? | |
| Best Tweak??? Acoustically deadening the wall behind a pair of Maggie 1.6s with acoustic wallpaper. | |
| No Audiophiles in Hollywood Product placement helps offset the costs of production. For a sum of money,a producer will put your product in the movie and even mention it in the script. Because most mid-fi and high end systems are made up of components from different manufacur... |