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| Jazz for aficionados o10, wow, there was a time when I considered myself a film buff. Apparently no longer. I don't remember that film at all. And what a cast with Scorsese directing!! Thanks for introducing me to that one.That Mahler chamber piece was interesting... | |
| Jazz for aficionados And now, due to a diminishing number of requests (as the old club MC would say), a last comment from me about the bass clarinet. Like many of you I do have interests in other music besides jazz (Dead Can Dance o10?) and I attended our local sympho... | |
| Jazz for aficionados o10, with pianists better known as vocalists I thought you might be about to post Nat King Cole.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrdJS4ZxRbAMaybe I'm unusual but I think of Nina as both, not just a singer. I don't recall hearing her singing withou... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I was proud then, and I'm proud today. Never wore any double-knits! ;^)(Although I did have one leisure suit in the '70s. But it was linen.) ;^)))) | |
| Jazz for aficionados frog, before dad married my mother he had a part time gig in a dance band playing a C melody sax. As you might guess that was during the '30s when they were popular. I'm not aware of many (any?) sax players using those today. I imagine with the... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Seeing Glen Moore's name in o10's post about made me think of Oregon, which then led to this -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld9VEgOvjsI | |
| Jazz for aficionados I find a connection between some Middle Eastern instrumentation/melodies and jazz. So "The Astounding Eyes of Rita" was an interesting discovery. Here’s one of my favorites -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVIUQaW8Z9Mrok, early Satchmo takes us ba... | |
| Jazz for aficionados rok, I was not familiar with Gary BB Coleman, but I surely liked that number.o10, that Ray Charles was the one that got everyone up dancing at parties in the early '60s."Mingus at Antibes" was lost for some time before release, right? I know "Tij... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thanks frog, I expected you would come through with good information. I'd wondered why the flute was included with the reed instruments since it doesn't have a reed. But that was my mistake, it belongs to the broader woodwind family.For instrumen... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Yes, from recordings I'm familiar with Mann played mainly flute.Frog might jump in with his usual musical expertise but I believe it may be more common for reed players to master more than one instrument that those in other instrument groups. Man... | |
| Jazz for aficionados nsp, you caused me to do a little research and I'm glad I did. That album was "great ideas of Western mann" and he played bass clarinet on all numbers. Now I'm really bummed it disappeared from my collection.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47RnX... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I agree with o10 the bass clarinet can be a wonderful thing to hear. But that's not easy, at least in jazz. Years ago I had a Herbie Mann album that included him playing bass clarinet (which somehow disappeared over time) and I've heard Eric Dol... | |
| Jazz for aficionados o10, regarding Ahmad Jamal, in college in the early ’60s several friends and I went downtown for his concert. We were all fans and looked forward to seeing/hearing him in person.So he came out with his trio and sat down at the keyboard and began h... | |
| Jazz for aficionados rok, I was unaware of that Cannonball recording. I'm not a big fan of electric piano but I did enjoy those. Not as much as the originals, but still fun to hear new interpretations. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Not to whack a stick on the hornet's nest of the value of "Kind of Blue" yet again, but for those who do favor it you might like this excerpt from the PBS American Masters program airing next Tuesday -- https://www.pbs.org/video/how-miles-davis-re... |