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| Jazz for aficionados ***** that kool-aid bottled at West Point is the strongest and most long-lasting on the Planet !*****For which we should be eternally grateful.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados College Bands:Both were very good. I give the nod to the guys in Miami. To my tin ear, their playing was more polished / sophisticated and together. Although the first Trombone soloist at Texas was very good. Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados The Frogman & O-10:My Taste in Jazz--You cats say my taste in Jazz has changed or improved, but man, you cats could not be more wrong. You see, my Jazz appreciation and understanding is so deep, and on such a radical trajectory, that you cou... | |
| Jazz for aficionados From three of my most recent acquisitions.Gene harris -- FUNKY GENE"SI liked the track "Blues for Basie" the best, but could not find it on youtube. But anything this man plays is excellent. He is like Oscar in that respect.[url]https://www.yo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10:Bird: I noticed that in Nica's book, many, many of the Jazz players, 'wished' they could play like Bird.I don't know if he had a 'patent' or not, but that's high praise from his peers. I would have thought most would have been too proud ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados From the WTF? File.From Review in Downbeat"..Because it's a LIVE(in the studio) recording........Google explained, but the logic still escapes me.BTW, Doublers galore on the Harlem/Cuba CD.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Today's Listen:Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra -- QUE VIVA HARLEM[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtbsMXGcums[/url]This is just great. And these are supposed to be students!! No filler here, all the tunes will hold your i... | |
| Jazz for aficionados *****he did not love one piece of ground more than another *****Including Texas? | |
| Jazz for aficionados The Frogman:When a player is named "Artist-in-Residence' at an institution, is that the same as being a 'temporary' member of the faculty?Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Schubert: Yesterday, here at the local Texas State Veterans cemetery.. Thought it might interest you.[url]http://kdhnews.com/news/local/more-than-attend-funeral-for-vietnam-veteran-billy-david-hill/article_...[/url] | |
| Jazz for aficionados BTW, there are such things as Bad soldiers. The Vietnam era US Army was full of them. And as the war went on, they spread to Germany and Korea as well as bases in the U.S.Even now when you see them on TV, they all go out of their way to look ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** " There are no bad soldiers only bad Generals " Napoleon*****Did he say this before, or after Waterloo? | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** US Army is what it always was , good soldiers led by incompetent careerists*****Damn Schubert, back in the day we would say, you have an attitude. If you are speaking of Officers, you don't know what you are talking about. Politicians? Y... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** rok2id, A lot of the guys I was with in the Ia Drang see it as an Icon not to be used unless you have blood in the game .I don't agree but have seen violence over it .*****It's a Military Unit, not a motorcycle gang. Not one 'owns' these... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** rok2id, cool with me but I know others who did that would take offense******How so? Explain? |