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| Jazz for aficionados At last, a trumpet player with whom I can relate :) I sounded just like that in high school :) Very 'interesting' clip.I have at least two CDs with Lester Bowie. Malachi Thompson & Africa Brass -- BUDDY BOLDEN'S RAG featuring Lester Bowieand R... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Today's Playlist:Ornette Coleman -- SOUND MUSEUM HIDDEN MANNot nearly as irritating as I thought it would be. This stuff must be growing on me. BUT, I do think music like this should be 'explained' in the liner notes.Coleman played Sax, Violin and... | |
| Jazz for aficionados *****The coolest video ever!*****It could be!!!Great atmosphere, singing and playing. The Band was awesome. I think I recognized everyone the camera zoomed in on. Just don't ask me to name them. Comes with age.Good to see Ella. They are all gone n... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Today's Listen:Michel Legrand -- LEGRAND JAZZJazz standards arranged by the Frenchman Michel Legrand. Great lineup.Miles, Trane, Evans, Woods, Ben Webster and many more. Just by looking at the photos in the booklet, and reading the notes, it is ob... | |
| Why not horns? ****By the way I'm listening to Milt Jackson and Wes Montgomery "Bags Meets Wes!".*****I seem to have 'Bags' with everyone, except Wes. Should be a good one. Very hard to make a bad Jazz recording that includes vibes. Esp Jackson.Speaking of not h... | |
| Why not horns? The speaker/room is the only component that should affect sound.Cheers | |
| Why not horns? Julian Hirsch, Leonard Feldman, Rok2id :), Pete Azcel and about 99.99999999999% of all HUMANITY, both past and present, KNOW, that all amps sound the same. Meaning, if they are well made and engineered correctly, they have no 'sound'. Now the que... | |
| Why not horns? I didn't read TAS, but here is an opinion of Pearson written by the man I most respect in Audio.http://www.theaudiocritic.com/back_issues/The_Audio_Critic_23_r.pdfAnother short paragraph about the guy in Issue #24.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados Today's Listen:John Coltrane -- COLTRANE LIVE AT BIRDLANDGreat set. This was before he got in his Sunship and took off for Stellar Regions. Great version of Afro-Blue.The recording had problems. Coltrane from the left speaker, Piano and bass inbet... | |
| The State of Jazz I can't believe someone used Ella Fitzgerald and Diana Krall in the same sentence. Sacrilege!! That in itself says volumes about today's Jazz 'audience'. Thank God we have recorded music!Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados I listened to this today:Irakere -- THE BEST OF IRAKERE Plenty of Latin brass vibrato and of course the incomparable Cuban percussion. Many of the future heavyweights of Cuban Jazz are here. With D'Rivera, Sandoval and Valdes on board, what's not ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ***** I guarantee you that you can play me ANYTHING that Phil Woods ever did and after two measures, I would be able to tell you that it was Phil.******Well, since I don't have anything by Woods, he is not on my 'Instant Recognition' list. Didn't ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Things I listened to Today:Keith Jarrett -- THE KOLN CONCERT Tour de force. Quite an accomplishment for a full CD of unaccompanied Jazz piano.Howlin' Wolf -- THE CHESS BOX CD #2 Warning!! This is the real blues. Might be a little raw for some. One... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Brownsfan:Just so happens that two of my most recent acquisitions 'Beethoven's Piano Trios vols 1 & 2' feature Lynn Harrell, Itzhak Perlman and Vladimir Ashkenazy.Cheers | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Brownsfan:Judging by the lastest crop of players, in addition to personality, beauty does not hurt either. It never does. :)Frogman:Thanks for another point of view.Cheers |