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Jazz for aficionados
***** Luckily, I won’t be having men in trench coats knocking on my door to take me away for expressing my views*****I have Black Trench Coat and Black Helicopter, will travel.Cheers 
Jazz for aficionados
***** How much economic and social progress has Detroit, Gary Indiana, Flint Michigan and a number of other cities made? I doubt very seriously if they are having happy holidays.*****That's because all the tax payers(white folks) left town.Cheers 
Jazz for aficionados
Today's Listen:Kenny Dorham  --  AFRO-CUBANwith/J.J. Johnson,Hank Mobley,Horace Silver,Art Blakey,Carlos Valdes and othersExcellent Booklet with great Pictures.   Tells of Kenny's long years of paying his dues, playing with all the big stars, but ... 
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Today's listen:Gene Ammons  --  BOSS TENORRay Barretto on CongaNotes:..."his playing is a perfect (albeit weird) assimilation of two seemingly widely opposed ideas of playing the Tenor saxophone.  Gene somehow manages to sound like he comes right ... 
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Does anyone know the Name of this type of singing? https://www.chanticleer.org/cds/where-the-sun-will-never-go-down Click on the  "Am I a Soldier of the Cross" track.Thanks.Cheers 
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Today's Listen:Roy Hargrove Quintet  --  WITH THE TENORS OF OUR TIMEthe tenors are:Johnny Griffin, Joe Henderson, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman, and Stanley TurrentineTurrentine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERsjIjpfdlI   Griffin https://ww... 
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Let's get them footes a moving.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_aiWVQXIE for some reason, they dedicated this to the OP.   hmmmm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkQdwth1A7I Cheers 
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Today's Listen:Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers  --  MOSAICmessengers include Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, Wayne ShorterOne of the better incarnations of The Jazz Messengers.Notes:  They talk about a tour of Japan where they were aired on J... 
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All great movies, all Jazz soundtracks, and all about the seedier side of life.   What's the message here?Cheers 
Jazz for aficionados
The Frogman:Thanks for the comprehensive post on West / East coast Jazz.  I think I speak for all, when I say How much we do appreciate the time and effort you take to share your knowledge.Cheers 
Jazz for aficionados
O-10,  I think the facts of today are the same as they were back then.  Different audience, with money,  meant different music.   Primarily a post war thingy.   But, even back then, NYC was the creative home of Jazz, even though players traveled a... 
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O-10,We should all be wary of fabricated genres.   Esp in Jazz and Blues.Some people found they could give the locals what they wanted to hear and make a lot of money doing it.  That's the American way.  Even Miles did it. But, the creative heart ... 
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A must have for the quality of the singing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z62Ju7ADThY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQjr4wtozLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxVgUulaSGE Cheers 
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*****  you're not fooling me, you're just in love with Kathleen Battle.***Curses!!!!   Exposed again!!Cheers 
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Today's Listen:Gene Harris Quartet  --  BLACK AND BLUEThe more I hear him, the better he gets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jYSjqYABHg   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5UkBJWMVz4  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1UZTOHzFAA Cheers