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| Jazz for aficionados Excellent post O-10. And you are correct comparing it to bell bottoms. Both are equally relevant today.I said about three years ago that the 70's was a terrible time for music. Music from that era just never gave me good vibes. I am sure ther... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I don't get it. But, I realize it could be me, so I read a lot of the reviews and comments on you-tube and Amazon."Corea is a god"."This is the best record ever recorded" Yikes!!!I'm thinking, what planet are these people from. I'm thinking,... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I think we all know where this is going, so in the interest of saving time and typing:, allow me:O-10's response to Learsfool: How do you know how much Jazz I have heard. Not only do I live and breath and listen to Jazz, I eat it also. So ther... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Didn't we all used to play poker on the Star ship USS Enterprise?Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10:Since the music seems to elicit such vivid mental images in your mind. I would think that Ellington would be your favorite artist.Received Ellington's "New Orleans Suite" today. Another home run.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Well, I guess so. Did she make Miles go Sinbad on us? Don't take any more than a chicken leg on the front porch.I did think of Dr John and Marie Laveau. The voice does sound like the Kirk tune.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale? | |
| Jazz for aficionados Reminds me of the tune "Theme for the Eulipions" by Roland Kirk.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Read what I said again OP. You said it was not as good as you remembered them being. I was just suggesting that maybe it was because of the large number of standards. Broadway type stuff.I used the CD by Wes as a contrast and example of what th... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Watching the French news yesterday. They were interviewing the American Movie Director William Friedkin at the Cannes Film Festival.He directed 'The French Connection' and 'The Exorcist' among others.When asked which movie did he think was the b... | |
| Jazz for aficionados He played Moon River on the Sonny Clark set. That's what we are talking about.I do not have anything by Benny Green.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Wynton:When Marsalis arrived on the scene, the epicenter of Jazz was in NYC. Full of hard, bitter, angry, drug addicted Jazz players. They played music that reflected this condition. Forgotten was the warning from Pops that,"If you can't danc... | |
| Jazz for aficionados People who want to play Jazz, should play Jazz instruments. Picture the NYPO with all the violins replaced by guys on electric guitars, wearing tank tops with rings in their noses and baseball caps on backwards. I don't think saying "We be advanc... | |
| Jazz for aficionados You people will have a lot to answer for one day. When, or if, you reach the pearly gates, you better hope they aren't manned by Pops, The Duke, or people of their ilk. If so, you are all in deep doo-doo.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Today's Listen:Grant Green / Sonny Clark -- The Complete QuartetsThe OP's boy. Well, he can play. Every tune well played by both Sonny and Grant. Great tone on the guitar. Lots of standards. And I think this maybe be why the OP was sort of ... |