rok2id
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| Jazz for aficionados ***** If you asked some of the jazz legends who are still active like Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Jack De Johnette, Dave Holland, and Chick Corea if there exists absolutely 0 good jazz artists today because their "ears" tell them s... | |
| Jazz for aficionados This thread has been going since 02-24-2013 10:12am. At least Four regulars that have stuck pretty much all the way. Each closing in on 5000 posts. Quite a few folks have jumped in from time to time, to make their comments. Over 1.5 milli... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** I am so sick of that same old boring "stereotypical" toot toot jazz I could scream.*****OP, you may need to vary your musical diet.Remember Cannonball said it was all the same thing.Scientist say Birds are actually dinosaurs.In that spirit ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Frogman, we have no disagreement. And I don't dislike the people involved, or dis their efforts. We are discussing how Jazz has changed. All the people are just fine. After all, If they can play middle C, they can out play me.And some music... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Poinciana:A good example of the later version, with better everything, being actually better. I have the Pershing Disc, who doesn't, and on my copy you can the audience talking throughout, Also, the applause was very perfunctory. Like, oh he... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Today's Listen:Cannonball Adderley -- CANNONBALL AND THE POLL WINNERSThe poll winners were Ray Brown, Wes Montgomery and Cannonball.This grouping came about almost by accident, Cannonball was playing in SF at the Jazz Workshop, Oscar Peterson,... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Jazz be Gone?:All your points support mine. We are in total agreement.I say it's gone, you say it's not being recorded, very small audience, and you have to go to large cities to hear it. Same thing. When scientist say a species is extinct, t... | |
| Jazz for aficionados When Jackie and Woods heard Cannonball blow for the first time with the Oscar Pettiford band, they said, almost simultaneously, "Ohhhhh S**t".This is funny because they had just seen a chance at regular work because Bird had recently died. Now ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I think it may have been because of the Phil Woods / Jackie McLean quote.It can be in the notes of a CD offered to the public, but not this site???Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Did anyone see my post of the Adderley brothers yesterday? Some 'person' deleted it.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Imprint -- To fix indelibly or permanently (as on the memory)websterI had an aunt that passed away back in 1999. Very sophisticated woman. Well traveled, Berkeley, HS Principal, taught Latin in High school. Her former students in large citie... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** Rok, the reason I keep going back to the 2015 jazz poll is because I'm trying to refute my own thesis that good jazz is no longer being created.*****The Jazz you are speaking of is gone. Gone. Accept that fact. Also we must accept that o... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Buddy Rich:Show-man and show-off. The best Jazz drummers, you hardly know they are there.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados 2015 Jazz Poll:Reads like the Obituary of Jazz.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Seems as if everyone is scaling down. I think it was preordained by the advent of the CD player. The vinyl brigade is holding out, but eventually it'll all be one or two boxes. And Polks of course.That's the one thing I didn't like about the... |