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Jazz for aficionados
Questions to The Frogman: When you have a few minutes, to watch this clip,  your comments and thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8YFCo0QWUc   Cheers  
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Charles Mingus BLUES & ROOTS Atlantic Jazz        1959 Notes: " This record is unusual--it presents only one part of my musical world, the Blues.  A year ago, Nesuhi Ertegun suggested that I record an entire Blues album album in the style o... 
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Ludwig Van Beethoven BEETHOVEN 9 SYMPHONIES Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique - John Eliot Gardiner Archiv  1994      5CD Box   You can't accuse this guy of loitering about. Symphony No. 5 in C minor,  op. 67 1. Allegro con brio : htt... 
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my "go to" for a reasonable price for years has been their HD-580. I had the HD580, now my son has them.  I still have the HD650, HD660S and the HD560S.   Love them all.  An inexpensive way to scratch the 'something new' itch. Cheers  
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Grover Washington Jr. WINELIGHT Elektra   1980   Winelight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPH1IuMtFGc Make Me a Memory : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLv2tua4i-U Just the Two of Us : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gelwwYuYGn0   Cheers  
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Elton John ONE NIGHT ONLY - The Greatest Hits Mercury / Universal      2000   My Favorite Treadmill Music Philadelphia Freedom : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44SkvEqbpuc Rocket Man : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6wxp3Z_zks The Sun Go... 
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Chester  Burnett  a.k.a.  Howlin' Wolf THE CHESS BOX - Disc 2 of 3    1955-1962 Chess / MCA Records      1991   Gotta be Saturday Night Somewhere.   Howlin' For My Darling : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paEv5A5Ir1c Goin' Down Slow : http... 
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Wynton Marsalis MR. JELLY LORD - STANDARD TIME VOL. 6 Columbia / Sony Classics 1999 A tribute to Jelly Roll Morton   Smokehouse Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OLBY3vk-hQ New Orleans Bump : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmBHMTsy2B... 
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Highly Recommended, great value. Sennheiser   HD 560S    $199.99 Maybe better than all the HD 6xx phones.  Very neutral, transparent  with a flat freq response. Cheers    
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Ellington & Coltrane DUKE ELLINGTON & JOHN COLTRANE John Coltrane(tenor sax, soprano sax), Duke Ellington(piano), Jimmy Garrison(bass), Aaron Bell(bass), Elvin Jones(drums), Sam Woodyard(drums) Impulse      1962 /1995 Notes: "Duke Elli... 
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Nat Adderley WORK SONG Riverside / OJC        1960 / 1989 Notes: "Cornet, cello, and guitar make up a front line that will probably never be duplicated.  The guitarist was his friend Wes Montgomery, just emerging towards Jazz stardom; the celli... 
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Jon Henderson DOUBLE RAINBOW - The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim Joe Henderson(tenor sax), Eliane Elias(piano), Oscar Castro-Nieves(guitar), Nico Assumpcao(Bass), Paulo Braga(drums) Verve   1995 Felicidade : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdq... 
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Nancy Wilson / Julian "Cannonball" Adderley NANCY WILSON / CANNONBALL ADDERLEY Nancy Wilson(vocals), Cannonball Adderley(alto sax), Nat Adderley(cornet), Joe Zawinul(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Louis Hayes(drums) Capitol  1961 / 1993   Save Your... 
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Bill Evans THE PARIS CONCERT, Edition One Elektra Masters  1989   My Romance : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ESPzJB9JOI *I Loves You Porgy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWCtoE7OX4Q Beautiful Love : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeDu... 
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Sunday Down South   Down to the River to Pray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSif77IVQdY&t=20s Pass Me Not : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8kpmiOUfjk Gloryland : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOkdZr0HMAc Canaan : https://www.youtub...