stuartk
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| Bad recordings and high end audio @daydream816:There are those who will only play music that sounds optimal on their systems. Perhaps those salespeople you encountered were of this persuasion-- preferring to let the tail wag the dog?I say, if you can't play the music you like and ... | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? @noske:"@stuartk perhaps you speak of musicianship? I'm not even sure that's a word. I am inclined to mostly agree with you"Musicianship is mastery of expressive means. That is half the equation. The other half is having something valuable to e... | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? @mijostyn:"The best systems make everything sound better, everything. When confronted with a system capable of the absolute sound everyone will think it sounds great. Everyone knows what "right" is when they hear it."I'm curious: what percentage o... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @marlkings:OK-- sorry for misunderstanding you. When you said you 1) didn't like improv and 2) that you "like order and structure and purpose and overall sense of a composition", I thought you were saying that you don't enjoy improv BECAUSE IT LAC... | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? RE: not mutually exclusive, it seems to me that, with all due respect to those whom have much more knowledge and experience than I possess, terms such as musicality and resolution are frequently bandied about here as though we all define such term... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @wolfgarcia:Took my 65-year-old brain a while to recall the name...The group was The Cookers.You've been warned! :o) | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @wolf_garcia:The last Jazz show I attended was an all-star group that included, among others, Billy Harper and Eddie Henderson-- two giants. Altogether, there were four or five horns and reeds, piano, bass and drums. Everything was mic'd. This was... | |
| Sonnet Morpheus MK II DAC Decided not to go in this direction, so it's just as well no-one responded. | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @yuviarora:There is no way for me to verify whether what you assert is true or not.It could be labelled a conspiracy theory but again, I have no way to authoritatively disprove it.I find there are plenty of challenges in life that are undeniably r... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @facten:"Classic Jazz" is a term most often used to describe Dixieland, so now I'm really confused.I'll just say that I've never heard anything by J. M. that has any elements that remotely approach Smooth Jazz. His music is far too harmonically an... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @yuviarora:: "What if both are completely wrong?"Can you offer an example of what "both being wrong" might look like?I find it easier to see how each side could be both partially right and partially wrong than to envision both sides being complete... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @middlemass: "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987""We are there."Yup. Well, half the population believes in facts while the other half be... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @facten:We seem to not be communicating very well-- I apologize for whatever responsibility I bear for this.As it happens, I'm very familiar with John McLaughlin-- I've been listening to him since 1972. However, I have never heard anything by him ... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @facten;Actually, no.I'd appreciate some examples, if you don't mind. | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @marklings:I'd go further and assert that what I've said about the nature of Jazz improv holds true for improv in any genre. Aimless noodling doesn't tend to be very satisfying for players or listeners. For example, the "theme and variation" appro... |