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I wonder if Geronimo and Sitting Bull ever knew they were actually Norwegian!!Fusion: POPULAR music combining different styles (as jazz and rock) ---- From Merriam-Webster.Since fusion is POP music, it has no place on a Jazz forum. Just saying.Cheers 
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Jazz Alert!Most of Freddie Hubbard's best stuff is avalible on Amazon in the 8 - 10 dollar range. Just in case you have missed some of his best. CTI and Blue Note Labels.Cheers 
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******my suggestion of.."Blue Bacharach - A Cooler Shaker" is NOT in the same category of your three Dionne CDs. I re-address this just so that other readers here do not assume that is the case.**********I agree. I was, in my typically clumsy way,... 
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She is neither native Amerrican or even American. Google says she is from Norway. Lapland?? Nice Music anyway.Cheers 
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Today's Recommendations:Clark Terry -- Yes, The Blueswith / Cleanhead Vinson (on alto and vocals) and othersNothing to figure out here. Just pros playing well. Is it Bop, Blues or R&B? Well it depends on which part of which tune you are listen... 
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You are right about Ammons. I have 'Boss Tenor' and 'Boss Tenors', which is Ammons with Sonny Stitt. The one with BEAN looks interesting. I hope it's still aval.I don't have the SA8004. I have the SA8001 which does not have USB. How Is the USB inv... 
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*******You lost me with "The Wolf Man", that's the kind of blues I can live without********That kind of blues is called 'The Blues' :)Cheers 
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******It's called HD Downloads******Does this involve computers? If it does, I will have to start at day one, step one. Like, Bill Gates was born on ..........Cheers 
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Yesterday I was Planning to 'review' 'Miles at the Plugged Nickel', but after a few minutes decided I was not in the mood. I then decided to see what O-10 was so excited about, and put on Toshiko Akiyoshi. Was not in the mood for that either.I ene... 
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Isochronism:******I came across this gem: Blue Bacharach******Nice CD, but I have three Dionne Warrick CDs. All this sounds very very familiar now. Cheers 
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Learsfool:Thanks for the info.Cheers 
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Final inquiry of the day.Who / what determines the size and instrumental makeup of a Jazz group. Big Bands excluded. i.e. Oscar Peterson has a trio, Cannonball a quintet etc.... How and by whom is that determined?Cheers 
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Frogman: Great info on, and analysis of, Coleman Hawkins. I have a lot of his stuff, but not him playing Body & Soul. How can that be?Cheers 
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Article from BBC Music magazine:Concert Halls of America. Symphony Hall, Boston.The hall was built in 1900, the architects hired a physics professor from Harvard to perfect the acoustics. The result was a Hall with a reverberation time of 1.9 to 2... 
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Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon:Hank Mobley -- Soul Stationwith / Art Blakey, Wynton Kelly, Paul ChambersGreat Blue Note Hard Bop. One of the most over looked and underrated Tenor players in Jazz. I love his tone. Not an innovator, but a top tier Teno...