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| Ken Burns' JAZZ starts Monday on PBS! Marsalis has a long standing reputation as a traditionalist. I find his music to be inspiring, but his views to be stuffy. On the other hand, we're all entitled to our opinions. BTW, I was fairly sure that Burns covering of contemporary jazz would... | |
| Class Action Suit against UPS? Axomoxa - My opinions are what they are - opinions. My point in the Levinson - DHL analogy was that sometimes added quality does cost more. Although I'm quite aware that sometimes things that cost more are not necessarily of added quality. I do us... | |
| I'm very upset. Let me tell you why. Angela - Often with large companies it is very difficult to get past the 'front line'. Of course you could fight, but I'd probably just end up taking the hit. Bob - you don't think a 900% mark-up is high... even if it's industry standard? Also, it... | |
| Class Action Suit against UPS? Angela, you weren't the only one who had that thought (the apparent symetry in those two threads). DHL is more expensive than UPS or Fed-Ex. Levinson is also more expensive than Sony. Most people claim there's no difference between Levinson and So... | |
| You got to show me something more! 'Trane - regarding compositional use of Jazz structures... I had a friend in HS who went on to study composition in college and one of the major ideas he was trying to bring in was using these newer structures into his composition. There's some re... | |
| Best Ambient Music The Orb. 'Saw' Alex spinning once before a MBM show. Wow. FSOL is up there too. Hmm, haven't listen to any of this stuff in a looong time. | |
| Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list Many of my favs are listed her, but the two recording that I've been enjoying (and forcing others to enjoy) most recently have been Keith Jarret's Kohln (sp!) concert and Giya Kancheli's Lamment, both available on ECM (which is rapidly becomming m... | |
| Are you Guys Rich or What!? An oponent of blatent consumerism and materialism, I occasionally find it hard to rationalize to myself my own spending for audio gear. Certainly from the lowly depths of middle class America, 50k - 100k systems seem as extravagent as using Spring... | |
| You got to show me something more! I think frogman and coltrane1 (softy) are comparing apples and oranges here. In my conversations with musicians I've gathered that the kind of theoretical background that coltrane is talking about is necessary for the kind of intense improv and av... | |
| I'm very upset. Let me tell you why. It's strange that the initial post has caused so many angry responses. I wonder if any of these people know what this piece is. I agree that the company is completely overcharging you because they know they have you. And the shipping is also redic... | |
| Ken Burns' JAZZ starts Monday on PBS! 'Trane - While I share your love of Jazz, I disagree with the statement that Jazz spawned rock. Rock's direct originators (imho, of course) are R&B and Country (and ultimately blues). Jazz influenced early rock, but I don't think you can call ... | |
| Ken Burns' JAZZ starts Monday on PBS! TG - Thanks. | |
| Ken Burns' JAZZ starts Monday on PBS! All documents of events are framed within some context. Even so-called objective reporting is colored by the viewpoints of the author. This is just common sense and obvious to any one who has heard the difference in the way The New York Times and ... | |
| Ken Burns' JAZZ starts Monday on PBS! What makes NPR think that documentaries are not works of art themselves? I would expect any author (and I'd probably elevate Burton to autuer) to lace his work with his own persona. I think the problem many may be having here is in confusing docum... | |
| Rock? money down the drain? Anyone catch the article on classical music in the latest Listener? Eldragon - Have you heard Keith Jarret's solo work? |