rok2id
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| Jazz for aficionados https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy31fe40Rg4&list=RDuy31fe40Rg4#t=370Listen to all the tracks. This is great stuff. Great video and audio. Check Gene Harris at 0:50 on "Things Ain't What They Used To BE". He sits like a choir boy, hands on... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Shadowfax:Liked them both. I think I had some of this on LP back in the day. I used to give all the LPs I was not too fond of to friends when I PCS'd.The images were not even necessary, the music stood on its own merit.And you accuse me of livin... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10:Today I Received the Donald Byrd replacement set. much better packing this time. Also the Grant Green / Sonny Clark set, Marvis Staples' "We'll Never Turn Back" that was posted by The Frogman, and Ellington's "Latin America Suite". Wil... | |
| Jazz for aficionados If you guys insist on straying off the R-Word, at least have a little fun.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK_LN3XEcnwCheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** I don't know what this gal is singing, but I like it.*****Don't feel bad, she probably doesn't know either.***** Rok, who does this remind you of? *****Bits of a lot of people, but I am too senile to remember who. Nice rap.I listened to a... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Larry Young:I have the CD UNITY. I never thought of it as Fusion. Just goes to show that maybe I don't know fusion when i hear it. :)Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados The Frogman:BBC News just reported that many items from the Duke Ellington estate are being auctioned off in NYC. Includes Clothing and Music scores. His piano is expected to go for a cool million. Better hurry!Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Free Jazz "Keith Johnson of AllMusic describes a "Modern Creative" genre, in which "musicians may incorporate free playing into structured modes -- or play just about anything."Hell, I can do that. Anyone can do that. But then, that's the purpo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** Now that the interest is below 0, I think we should let Rok take us into whatever direction he chooses.*****Back to the future!!! Jelly Roll here we come!!!Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Words matter. I( think a pro from NYC said that on this very thread.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** Not good jazz as far as level of improvisation and interplay between the players? Seriously?*****Interplay and improvisation can exist in non-Jazz music. Seriously.I think I posted a Classical piece a while back with interplay between the ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** How, exactly, is it being hurt by the appropriation of the name? Who or what suffers by this?*****All Jazz players and fans, past, present and future. It degrades the music. I just don't understand why we need hybrid or hyphenated mus... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Today's Listen (and disinfectant) So much strange stuff floating around this thread, I felt it was necessary to remind ourselves of what this is supposed to be all about. Hence this! My kind of Fusion. Notice how he blends the elements of Jaz... | |
| Jazz for aficionados My problem with Fusion is this:(Of course this is from the perspective of the Great Unwashed.)It's not good Jazz, not Good Rock, or Good Soul or good whatever the fused element is supposed to be. To my ear, more like experiments in sound.Goo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados SorryTo Thishttp://search.aol.com/aol/image?q=miles+davis++on+the+corner&s_it=img-ans&v_t=keyword_rollov...cheers |