pryso
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| 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... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "electrolytic capacitors go downhill in such a way that you don’t realize it until the quality of audio is really bad."Very true o10. But that condition applies to several parts of an audio system; vacuum tubes weaken as they age (and sometimes ge... | |
| Jazz for aficionados rok, a word of caution with your Yamaha. I’m not an EE or a tech, but electrolytic caps go bad with age. There is no universal life expectancy I’m aware of, some say 10 years, others say 15. The point is they will leak or fail at some point. If yo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados o10, I was quite surprised to read this from you: "Here’s Miles Davis sounding like Cannonball wants him to sound".With your deep experience with jazz personalities do you really feel Miles’ ego by the late ’50s would allow him to play as someone ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados o10, " they know full well that if you don't have a big buck high end rig, CD's sound better."Well, that's one opinion. I don't happen to agree. If you have some basic mechanical knowledge you could buy an AR-XA table and arm for example for may... |