rok2id

Responses from rok2id

Jazz for aficionados
O-10:Shadowfax:Excellent!! Enjoyed them both. I vaguely remember the name, but I don't own any of their stuff on CD. This is legitimate music. If these cuts are representative of the entire CDs, I will look them up on Amazon.I still don't understa... 
Jazz for aficionados
Yiippeee!!! I won the "how long will he stay away" betting pool. I selected less than 24 hours!! My prize? I won all, and I mean ALL, of the OP's Kenny G collection.A suggestion to The Frogman, if I may be so bold.You should submit music that you ... 
Jazz for aficionados
Today's Listen:Tuck & Patti -- TEARS OF JOYRecorded in 1988This is a lot better than I remember it being. Played it last night in the dark. Nice. Patti can sing, and Tuck knows his way around the guitar. Just a duo, but they sound like a large... 
Jazz for aficionados
****Frogman been misinterpreting every thing I say, but he's been rewriting my posts, and coming up with something completely different from what I said originally.*****He is a Master of the Strawman.Just ordered CDs by Morgan, Dinah, Ellington an... 
Jazz for aficionados
{A person cannot make a 'contribution' to Jazz, with something that you cannot define as Jazz.}****We are talking about what led to the birth of what would be one known as jazz; and, as such, the contribution of the European classical tradition to... 
Jazz for aficionados
BTW, the article came from the 'Mosaic Records' site.cheers 
Jazz for aficionados
Sometimes the 'connections' or 'influences' we make are extremely tenuous. You can reach a point where we can say all music was influenced by the first human that ever hummed a sound. He/she created notes and phrases., without having any possible ... 
Jazz for aficionados
O-10:You are right about all the 'Filler' on current day CDs. The increased time is difficult for a lot of players to fill with quality music.Lee morgan? I thought I had all of his 'must-have' stuff, but "The Procrastinator" is currently in my CAR... 
Jazz for aficionados
Comments Anyone?Beethoven’s Last Piano Sonata: Does it Anticipate Jazz?This epic Piano Sonata in C Minor, Opus 111, isn’t the last piano work Beethoven published (his staggering Diabelli Variations, Opus 120, arrived a bit later), but it’s his las... 
Jazz for aficionados
Aficionados:I agree with the comments of O-10 and The Frogman, concerning my conduct. Message received and understood. My apologies to all.Cheers 
Jazz for aficionados
**** we can stay in this decade as long as you like, or leave anytime you get ready.*****Wow!! You Folks ready to move on so soon? I thought we would be talking about this wonderful and interesting music for months!!I'll see you guys when you comp... 
Jazz for aficionados
*****I heard the incredible Michael Brecker; perhaps the greatest saxophone virtuouso to ever live (really!) and who would become the voice of fusion saxophone.*****He could have been. I would go so far as to say, he is Fusion!! His contributions ... 
Jazz for aficionados
I realize we may upset the purest, but this is as pure as it gets!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk0_PDhuguc 
Jazz for aficionados
*****The 70's was a tough decade for pure jazz, ******Very true. I noticed that if you google 70's Jazz, seems as if every link comes up with the word 'Fusion' in it. I also notice a lot of artist just didn't seem to record in the 70's. Sad era.BT... 
Jazz for aficionados
O-10:Jutta Hipp.I remember her from back in the day. I have her Blue Note LP, "At the Hickory House".If I recall correctly, she eventually pulled a 'Miles' on us, and left Jazz and went into working as a seamtress.That was a nice Clip, thanks most...