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| Jazz Recommendations. I find that most of the suggestions given have a good degree of merit to them but fail to take into account some quite important facts that any potential new jazz listener and fan should be made aware of from the get go. To wit:1) You will have a ... | |
| sonny rollins >>Heh, not to mention that even picasso had his bad days!<<A really bad day for Sonny Rollins is still a hundred times better than the best day for about 95% of the "smooth jazz" sax players out there.You may not be "going back in time... | |
| sonny rollins Do NOT pass up any opportunity to see and hear the great Sonny Rollins, especially in a town like Ann Arbor. I live the NYC area where when Rollins does play it's both overcrowded and overpriced - but still worth it.I had the chance to see the lat... | |
| Marsalis's horn on "JAZZ" Good question. I've also noticed that his trumpet is rather unique looking. I don't think that it's molded but rather that it has some additional metal flanges and embellishments added to it. And where is the mouthpiece? It doesn't even look like ... | |
| Feelings on Napster? Round and round we go. Fpeel (any relation to Mrs. Peel?) once again brings the courts into the picture (haven't we had enough of the courts showing us what's fair?) and again I say who cares? The record companies would have us believe that they'r... | |
| Feelings on Napster? Carl: you gotta learn to go just a little bit easier. I may not have much experience with Napster - but then again it's not all that complicated or difficult to learn and use. And yes, I have based my comments on my "limited" experience. So what. ... | |
| Feelings on Napster? Carl: Your response was a bit over the top and you may even be correct. The music industry has survived plenty of "scares" - radio broadcast, MTV, home taping, live taping, etc. I've heard some really poor sounding live recordings that only a true... | |
| Feelings on Napster? Kacz: You said it prefectly - and that's why the record companies had better stop complaining and find a way to deal with it. How about cutting the prices of new CDs instead of raising them? Another method could be on-line direct sales. There's a ... | |
| Feelings on Napster? Pghedge: I'm primarily a jazz fan, and an avant-garde jazz at that, so there's basically nothing anything like that anywhere on Napster. However, there is plenty of material by the big name acts, like U2 and Santana. Does Napster hurt them? I don'... | |
| Feelings on Napster? Robba: Here's the basic problem - there are really two parties involved in the Napster ripoff, the big bad record companies and the poor starving atrists. Most people don't seem to care if they hurt a record company but people really don't want to... | |
| Feelings on Napster? To Pghedge@aol.com: Maybe "distributing copywritten, intellectual property, in any form, is illegal" - if so how does MTV and radio fit into the picture? One could have a vcr or tape deck running all day and copy a whole bunch of "copyrighted" mat... | |
| Your 5 Fav Rock Concerts In no particular order: George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh; The Allman Brothers Band with Duane Allman; Funkadelic, in a 3000 seat theater; The Rolling Stones, also in a 3000 seat theater and Elvis Costello. There are plenty of others but th... | |
| Jazz- Modern big band Seems like you folks have a pretty good handle on the US big band scene (Mingus BB, Maria Scneider, etal.) so I'd like to suggest something from our European friends. From Holland there's Pierre Dorge and New Jungle Orchestra - a wonderful group t... | |
| Hidden Audiophile Classics I've got another one for you: Chris McGregor Brotherhood Of Breath "Country Cooking" - 1988 on Venture/Virgin Records (LP 1-90998). The late Chris McGregor was a white South Africian jazz pianist, who left South Africa for England in the mid-1960'... | |
| Great Sounding New Releases Another "new" release which sounds great is the Dave Holland Quintet's "Prime Directive" on ECM. And the playing and compositions are firstr rate too. |