rok2id
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| Jazz for aficionados ***** I also believe that the "Jazz Messengers" produced the best groups and best music in the history of modern jazz.*****an outrageous provocation.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Jazz if anything, means freedom. It is the music of freedom of expression and ideals. So why does it attract so many socialists?I need answers people.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Climate Change:Can you think of a species more deserving of going extinct than us?Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados The Government says, if:1. you do not have children out of wedlock2. you do not have any children before age 203. you finish high school4. you are not addicted to drugsYOU WILL NOT BE POOR !!Actually not a very high bar at all.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Where is Ayn Rand when you need her?Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** What kind of prize do I win?*****You get all my Kenny G 8-track tapes, and a slightly used color 8"x12" picture of Spike Jones, suitable for framing.This is your lucky day.CheersBtw, your Jazz sensibilities are as sharp as ever. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Cultural anthropology is more to the point than Musicology.Where are the African Languages?Where are the African Religions? Even Islam didn’t survive.Where are all the things that made them African?None survived the trip and assimilation.Except Ja... | |
| Jazz for aficionados More African music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUcEGOLfUTE could have been called the Kenyan blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ_4cRG8B1g wow!! I thought I was in the Congo!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sOygJsLDc4 if you d... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** Personally, and not meaning to get personal 😊, I think a far more interesting question is why, in the face of so much musicological supporting evidence, not to mention the practically universal opinion of Jazz players, you are so bothered b... | |
| Jazz for aficionados aaarrrgghh !!!!Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Nice Weston clips. Lest any aficionado becomes confused, Mr Weston was born in Brooklyn New York. The references to Africa and the costumes notwithstanding.I will never understand the silly compulsion some Jazz players have to try and connect... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** we share the same ideals; the ideals of FDR, JFK, and MLK, and I will never quit fighting for those ideals.*****Ideals are fine, but are pretty useless unless acted upon.I prefer the ACTIONS of people like Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, a... | |
| Jazz for aficionados schubert, There are a few You-tube clips that are on my regular goto play list. That one by Ahmad you posted is one of them.So is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfNIVdnz1FQ Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Today’s Listen:Randy Weston -- PORTRAITS OF DUKE ELLINGTONpart of a trilogy called ’Protraits’. Ellington, Monk, Self.Best when heard loud thru Polks. Not sure what all that is at the start of ’Caravan’. Getting the camels up in the morning? https... | |
| Jazz for aficionados There is a famous, or maybe infamous, true story of Stalin up late at night reviewing a list from the NKVD. A list of names of people to be arrested and or shot. Went to Stalin for his signature. Thousands of names. Stalin read them all, struc... |