rok2id
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| Jazz for aficionados ***** Much of the disagreement on this thread is due to a both narrow minded and arrogant mind-set*****You are beginning to sound like that creature from Minnesota. | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** No it isn't.*****Yes it is | |
| Jazz for aficionados moto_man***** any academic trying to impose intellectual analysis on a visceral experience like jazz *****I meant to comment of this earlier. This is an outstanding point. Explains so much. It is the answer to much of the disagreement on t... | |
| Jazz for aficionados moto_man:I stand corrected, somewhat. Great players abound, but it would have been better if they had been leaders of groups. Monk was wasted backing a singer. My CD does not include some of the tracks you listed.Thanks for the info.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados NYC:I am going to state the obvious and say, Everything we Read, See or Hear concerning the arts, is decided by someone for us.Too many of those decision makers are from a very small; group of people in NYC.If taxpayer money is involved in the art... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****** Reading his bio I see a pretty accomplished individual who has done much for the health of jazz. ******His Bio makes my point. NO ONE is that accomplished. He is a Country Music critic!! Really?? That's when he is not solving the pro... | |
| Jazz for aficionados moto_man:I have the CD, and you are correct, the sound quality is much better than the youtube clip. Listening to it now.This was recorded in 1957, during the golden age of Jazz. This made me wonder about the performers that appear on this bro... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** as is Billie Holliday's "Fine and Mellow*****This video of her always makes me very sad. It's great, even if her voice is almost gone. Painful to listen / see. But she owns that song.Speaking of drugs.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Grossman: 'Tunisia"At :09 and 2:06 Was there anything amiss there?Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados *****Rok, what did Billie Holiday go to jail for? What did Art Pepper go to jail for?******The laws / attitudes have changed. Back in the day, a guy was sentenced to 1500 years in prison for possession of one joint of weed. Happened in Dallas c... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Lord, Lord, my burden is great.Where in my post did I say 'well to do' or 'rich' meant white? And it may be / is, unlawful regardless of who is doing it. We were talking of punitive measures for using drugs. And if the cops don't see it, they... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10:Drugs, and drug addiction, only become a problem for society if the people taking drugs and those hooked on drugs, CANNOT afford to buy them.The implication being, they must commit crimes in order to support their habits. Then it's a proble... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** "its a slower tempo *Freddie Freeloader* from Miles’ KOB":*****I knew it sounded familiar. Thanks for pointing that out.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** there are many other countries that do not condone drug use/abuse and incarcerate their people for these crimes...*****I was speaking of the Civilized or Western world. Sorry, I should have made that clear.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados I was reading about Art Pepper today, and came across this. It makes me sad and mad to think of his story. This has to be the only country that locks up it's creative people for taking drugs.He made some very interesting points in the short ... |