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Jazz for aficionados
Great Photos, and music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC_XM4l1DHo Cheers 
Jazz for aficionados
Yep.   Miles was Miles, Trane was Trane, Jazz was Jazz, and all cases were closed.CheersThe pictures you paint are vivid as usual. 
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One of the great Jazz LP photo  covers.   I didn't hear no singing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIgLt7LAZF0 Case Closed.Cheers 
Jazz for aficionados
Well, back then, the radio was all there was in small Southern Towns.   It was country music and Broadway / Show-tunes.   The Wayward Wind, Canadian Sunset, On the Street where you live    etc......   Of course later, R&R came on the scene.   ... 
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I am a long time fan of Cline and Country Music.  She is also a favorite of the wife.   I remember that song when it was done by Jo Stafford, another great from my Childhood.In this kind of music, The Lyrics Matter.Nice clip.Cheers 
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I never thought of 'after the fact' lyrics to Jazz tunes as being 'permanent'.   Just something a singer did to a tune that struck their fancy.   It did not affect the original tune in any way thereafter.Now, if a tune is written with lyrics, then... 
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The case is in fact CLOSED.Artists of all stripes are better trained, educated, and have easier access to better materials, instruments, and places of learning than at any time in Human history.When the next Mozart, Bach, Parker, Mingus, Monet, or... 
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Christmas Music for the Devil's Music errrr I mean Jazz CrowdBattle, von Stade, Marsalis, Previn  --  A CARNEGIE HALL CHRISTMAS CONCERT -- DVD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XIjGei8zG8   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2nEPpFgpz8 https://ww... 
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Christmas Music --  The Traditional (The kind I like)Listing all the stuff I like would have been an impossible task.   So these are my essential albums.   Covers all styles of traditional Christmas.A new CD of two Ormandy / Philadelphia Christmas... 
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Just saw on an European news show that a "rare" Trumpet once owned by Miles Davis, sold for 275,000.00 Dollars at auction.I just know the OP would not let some outsider get his homeboy's stuff, so, congratulations are in order to our OP on his pur... 
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Anyone have any Christmas Recommendations?   Now is the time to make them.   Wynton and the Band have a new holiday album out this year.   Can be pre-ordered on Amazon.   I think Aretha is on it.I will post mine tomorrow.Cheers 
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No mention of Dee Dee and her Horace Silver Interpretations???All good to listen to, but they are also very forgettable, preventing a person being trapped.   The best kind of Jazz lyric, for Jazz instrumental music, great when you hear them, but t... 
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***** I am in the process of writing the lyrics to Mingus' Hog Calling Blues.*****On second thought, maybe not.Cheers 
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Excellent Clips from The OP and The Frogman.   I hesitate to ask, but was that Mcferrin on the round midnight clip?   I'm still trying to figure out what kind of horn that was.      That was Wonderful.The first clip said I was not old enough to wa... 
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Today’s Listen:Dexter Gordon -- GOwith / Sonny Clark, Billy Higgins, Butch Warren (Bass)Notes By Ira GitlerHe writes, on ’Cheese Cake’ Dexter soars like a condor over the Andes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkyJQcmVtZQ Here, he writes, "a beau...