rok2id
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| Jazz for aficionados Can anyone recommend any of the latest and greatest Computer speakers? I have Logitech Z623. Price no object. :)CheersDon't jump on the OP too hard. Every account of that white Saxophone, in all the Jazz publications I have ever read, refer ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Guilty as charged. I should have said Massey Hall SHOULD have been the definitive Tunisia.I wondered was that the infamous plastic saxophone. I have a hard time taking Dizzy and Bird serious for just that reason. They act like kids. The bent... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Since it's Dizzy's tune, and he plays on both performances, the only thing left for us to critique is the recording quality.Massey Hall by a nose. They had Mingus!Speaking of the best. Love the chorus. 15:26/27 wow!https://www.youtube.co... | |
| Jazz for aficionados One of the marvels of Jazz, is how so much, is said by so few.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNmpIA_bLcEI know, I know, "we have all heard this". So what, hear it again.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados From 1941. I think the OP used to jam to this at the local soda fountain.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ilho9oNFQICheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Welcome to Coldducktime.Looking thru my stuff today and found this. We have ignored Benny Carter for too long. Fairly decent Saxophone section on this one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmOwsjS9PekCheers | |
| Recommend some Jazz to me *****Gratuitous displays of empty virtuosity leave me cold.*****I wish I had said this on Aficionados. Well said.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados The downside is that he left the stage thinking he had played Jazz. I don't understand the motive of real Jazz players being complicit in it's destruction.Must be the money.Cheers | |
| Anybody watch the Grammys tonight? “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” ― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time I think we are now in the "racket" stage. Kool-aid anyone??Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados "Sound Generation" comes to mind. At least none of the commentators called it Jazz.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados See, it's still happening.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcPsgMa74LkCheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados I do try to look for New Jazz. This is one of my newest CDs, but when I put it in the player, Old Jazz comes out.What's An Aficionado to do??Caution: OLD JAZZ may cause Ear Hemorrhaging.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BTB3BfIcrwCheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados "The Past Is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past."William FaulknerThis is esp true in the South. So I am actually stuck in what some call the past, but I call the present. I always use the present tense when talking about these folks.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados We lost another great one.Real African rhythms, but not because of some stinkin' drums.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQpp9mLgPKcCheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Why O-10, you are just a Ray of Sunshine this morning.Cheers |