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Questions To The Frogman:Sonatas & Partitas Solo Violin2017 | Hybrid SACD - DSDby Julia Fischer and J.S. BachFischer AND J.S. Bach??   I notice this on a  lot of classical listings. Almost as if the composer is playing along side the instrumen... 
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A master of all things music:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK2MLRlDWzo    Cheers 
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Wynton should stick to this, and leave Jazz history to me ....oops   I mean others.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUOTq_xGWpE    Cheers 
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*****but your man Wynton himself will tell you that the earliest roots of jazz are the influence of things like the European music tradition and African rhythms; with a dash of things like Irish reels and Middle Eastern chants thrown in. *****Funn... 
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Evolution: (sigh)The point is that a thing can evolve until it is no longer what it once was.I know The Lord is testing me, and he would not put more on me than he knows I can handle.Cheers 
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Recently posted on this thread:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax4K-3UZOzg&app=desktop   Jazz:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abUBJlLHBOI   I posted this years ago, greeted with boos and hisses.Cheers 
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and another thing,Evolution of Jazz, and other things:Man, homo sapiens, evolved from single cell creatures that came out of the Oceans.  Why aren't we called big amoebas, instead of human.  We have a common origin.Same with improvising noise make... 
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All the whole world needs, is a little Ray Charles."when you know my name is Ray"great stuffCheers 
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Wynton Marsalis:Leader of Improvised Music at Lincoln Center.New Orleans Improvised music orchestraBillie Holiday  -- Improvised music divaNah, just don't sound right.    Keep it in New York.Cheers 
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The man is a 'Jazz' critic, so if he meant Jazz, I am sure he would have used the word Jazz.Speaking of seeing / reading, what we want to see/read.Cheers 
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*****No other than the great Duke Ellington said that he didn’t like the word “jazz” because it is so limiting*****Jazz is probably limiting when speaking of Ellington.  He composed music that was not Jazz, and he did not call it Jazz.  I hope you... 
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*****There is actually little that is “interesting” about the use of the term “improvised music” in pryso’s linked article. That is a term that is used by some jazz heads to refer to simply “jazz”;*****I find this hard to believe.  Perhaps you sho... 
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*****...about ’present state of affairs’, one funny saying comes on my mind...it says that ’pessimist is the educated optimist’...*****The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.Alex seems to be a truth teller.The truth shall set you fr... 
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*****“I feel like there are more reasons to be excited about improvised music today than at any time during my 41 years on the planet,” the jazz critic Nate Chinen tells Rolling Stone. *****Interesting that he used the term 'improvised Music', and... 
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Oversight corrected:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OVtpnpCOKM    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtolv9kM1qk    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mynzbmrtp9I   Cheers