rok2id
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| Jazz for aficionados Listened to this CD yesterday. Thought about all you guys.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGx_i8SIYgcCheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados *****Rok, he can certainly play the piano, and I like the music; I just can't figure why this comes under the heading "JAZZ"? ******Exactly!! I like it, but is it Jazz? Maybe it's called Jazz for the "Coolness" factor?That's what Pope Wynton w... | |
| Jazz for aficionados You would be surprised, or maybe not, at the number of current Jazz guys that started off in Classical. I wonder why they change? Maybe they think it's easier. Maybe Wynton is correct.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Maybe you were confused because The Frogman did post his 7 commandments. I was glad he stopped at Seven, because The Good Lord himself only posted 10Cheers. | |
| Jazz for aficionados The Gospel According to The Frogman? King Frogman Version?BTW, you and The Frogman have this bad habit of reading things that aren't there. No one would argue with anything you said in your post. Saint Frogman just said, there is usually a go... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Today's Listen:Keith Jarrett -- THE KOLN CONCERThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKNQSSNNag8I, along with the rest of the Jazz world went ga-ga over this when it came out. listening today, does anyone know what all the fuss was about?Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** We have already covered the very best jazz musicians who ever lived, we have also covered the best "jazz albums"; now, with some help, I'm going to cover the lesser known artists; some who might have been as good as the best. *****We have n... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I have to keep telling myself that my God has a plan. There is a purpose to all of this. I have faith.1. Look up the meaning of 'Authentic'. Does not speak to good or bad. Does speak to the 'real' deal.2. Human beings would not be able to... | |
| Jazz for aficionados The Frogman / O-10:Assuming my usual role as peacemaker, is it possible that you guys are at odds over what is Authentic / Authenticity, and what is not.Think, Woody Guthrie vs Peter Paul & Mary. One came from a certain time and place, and... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10:Leon Thomas:Loved it! He may have knocked Dee Dee off her perch.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados @russbutton Catherine Russell:***** "Whatcha Gonna Do When There Ain't No Swing?*****I have been asking this very same question, to my fellow posters, since this thread started.Gal Costa: The most unique and recognizable music on the planet. I... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** her mother was Carline Ray, who played with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. So she's got some pedigree. ******Indeed she does. I posted the Sweethearts of Rhythm a while back. Seems like years ago. :) I have an original Publ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Was watching a military documentary a few nights ago. It was about the 900+ day siege of Leiningrad. It said that shostakovich was there, and wrote his 7th symphony "Leningrad", during the siege. Turns out that is in dispute, but, I found ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10:When I read your post about butchering 'standards', I just happen to be listening to Masekela's CD 'Uptownship'. I love the guy, but, he should have left, 'If you don't know me by now' and 'ooo, baby, baby' to Melvin and the Blue Notes and ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** Hey, welcome back, Rok******The great unwashed demanded my return. Folks demonstrating outside my house last night. Shouting and chanting Things like, "The Frogman is out of control", or words to that effect.As Chief of Jazz Police for ... |