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| Jazz for aficionados From the Blaxploitation genre???Junk music glorifying drugs and violence.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** Musicians were supplied with alcoholic refreshments, and recorded in the early hours of the morning after their evening's work in clubs and bars had finished. The label soon became known for treating musicians uncommonly well - setting up r... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I always thought they just filled a niche that no one else was interested in filling. After reading this wiki thing, I see I am right. If other established labels had been willing to record Jazz, there may have never been a BN. Of course all t... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Junkies:Being a musician does not make you do drugs, or give you the 'right' to be an addict. There were thousands of men going to work everyday at jobs all over NY, and the country for that matter, who did not do drugs.Musicians have a talent ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** players deserving more recognition; one of the exceptions to my belief that "there is usually a reason why". It is important to remember that record labels, even great and art-sensitive ones like BN, are a business.*****That sums it up. ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Marcia Ball: Not everyone can sing the blues. It helps a lot if you have lived the Blues.Paul Desmond & Dry martini:Mission accomplished.The Frogman Posting Shemekia Copeland:WTF!!! oops She's from NYC. Never Mind. .Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Brubeck and the 2012 posts:I am surprised I am / was so consistent. Would not change a word.Thanks. I enjoyed reading all that.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** Timmons is playing a less than stellar piano*****If he was speaking of his playing, he would not have included the letter 'a' in the sentence. He would simply have said "he was playing less than stellar piano".He was speaking of the piano... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Coltrane for lovers:It's a compilation. I have found that I usually have all the music on the initial CD releases. I almost sprung for Coltrane's 'Heavyweight Champion'. But, like most one-artist compilation I had most of it, and just too man... | |
| Jazz for aficionados How many sax players does it take to change a light bulb?Sixty. One to change the bulb and fifty-nine to talk about how much better Michael Brecker would have done it.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Kenny G gets on an elevator and says “Wow! This rocks!” | |
| Jazz for aficionados A group of terrorists hijacked a plane full of tenor players…They called down to ground control with their list of demands and added that if their demands weren’t met, they would release one tenor player every hour.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Today's Listen:Ron Carter & Jim Hall -- TELEPHONEJust Guitar and Bass, but it works just fine. Speaking of nimble!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2Omlufc2rwThanks to The Frogman for the insight on 'take Five'. We all know what we like and... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Learsfool:Thanks for the info. Yes I am familiar with Mellophones in marching bands. I played Bass Trumpet in the marching band, and Fluglehorn in Concert Band. Jack of all trades, Master of none. :)Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados cleeds:***** I think the French horn is, hands down, the most difficult to play of all of the brass instruments. That's because the same valve fingering can produce multiple, often closely spaced, notes. *****That's what I thought also. That's ... |