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| Jazz for aficionados Peter Tosh -- EQUAL RIGHTSTypical Afro-based Third World Claptrap. The music is infectious as a lot of this stuff is, but the lyrics are starting to sound a little silly and tiresome. On the cover he strikes his 'Che' pose. Stuck in another time.C... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Recent purchases:Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra -- LIVE IN CUBAExcellent Big Band Record. It's a 2-CD set, which was a nice Surprise.Not as much 'Latin' as I was expecting, but, I guess the objective was to showcase different music for the folks... | |
| Jazz for aficionados *****comment on "Pepper Adams Plays Mingus". This music is for "very serious" fans of Charles Mingus*****Now we have, Pepper Adams meets the Rhythm Section??It was very good. Listening to them back to back, put me into sensory overload. Aural memo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados UT 24 --- OU 17how bout them horns!!!!!!hook'emCheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Bdp24:I remember the first time I saw/heard a CD being played. It was in the mid-80's at the PX in Nuremberg, Germany. The Sony Representative was demonstrating the player. The remote control functions blew me away. I remember saying quietly, "tha... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "Calcutta Blues"Proto --Take Five.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados 10-06-15: Orpheus10*****Da Blues! "Let's cover Da Blues". **********First and foremost, this thread is titled "Jazz For Aficionados"; it don't say nothing about "Blues For Aficionados". *****You can't say our OP is not consistent.Cheers. | |
| Jazz for aficionados *****while his words capture the struggles of people living in the city on the lower economic level, and they do this with a delicate sensitivity. ****The CD, THE LAST POETS, by a group of the same name, captures all one needs to know about lower ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Bdp24:I have read before about the playing time of the CD and LvB's 9th. Another reason I love the CD. No more change-overs during long classical pieces. It's my understanding that the Japanese go gaga over the 9thSymphony. I can understand why, h... | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oica5jG7FpUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRctq68MGxMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoHDrzw-RPg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCPutYaGFlE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9wTQsAgktg Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados *****Of course J.S.'s music was greatly influenced by his family environment, academic education, and faith, but are those considered "social conditions"? ******Yes. There may have been other people with his 'genius', just born under the wrong Soc... | |
| Jazz for aficionados *****I learned a lot about the people of Mississippi from reading "Eudora Welty" and Faulkner******I learned a lot about the people of Mississippi from being born and raised there.I assume you are joking about Faulkner and Welty. Those people wrot... | |
| Jazz for aficionados *****While not wishing to be contrary, "all great music springs from social conditions" must be challenged! Bach's, for one, didn't. It sprung from his genius, and deep religious faith, neither of which do I consider a social condition.*****Social... | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKo80b-QfK0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5IOou6qN1oNorth Mississippi (hill country) Blues Music.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TMvxIRDLws fife and drum also from North Mississippihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Mapman, you are a wise man. One of the worst things about Jazz and blues, is that the early recordings are so bad. Some people can listen thru the noise, I am not one of them. :( I have a lot of the early guys, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith etc...,... |