stuartk
Responses from stuartk
| What decibel level do you listen at? What is ideal? While I can relate to music "coming alive" at a certain volume (average 65-70dB in my room), I’m astounded by some of the higher listening levels posted here. I don’t expect I’ll ever have the resources to experience what @ghdprentice describes, b... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @tyray I hadn’t heard that story but ’ol Hank sure enough had the Blues... no doubt about it. | |
| Jazz for aficionados @tyray Yeah -- it seems such "theft" is one of the defining characteristics of American musical genres, including Jazz ! | |
| Jazz for aficionados @tyray Thanks for the links. Love Ray Benson. So, is Malagueña Salerosa Mariachi or some other style? I love how Ry Cooder incorporated Ranchera music into his Chicken Skin Review. There was a great interview in Guitar Player back in the 70’... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @audio-b-dog PM sent. I seem to remember doing square dancing in elementary school, too. Have you heard any of Lloyd's later work for ECM, such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VoQCdsN_CA&list=OLAK5uy_ljS8UH12GPpvKKeKmZo7jh11jRuBXbxZ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @audio-b-dog I am envious of your luck, growing up in the Bay Area in that era! You are no doubt correct about each generation tending to focus upon whatever music they happened to grow up with. I didn’t see that K. Burns Country series. I w... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @mahgister It is just subjective metaphors not something i felt to justify in debating.. You get it or you dont... FYI, I wasn’t challenging you. Just wanting to understand more clearly where you were coming from, which you did address when... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @audio-b-dog I agree that Grisman transcends the genre, as do Tony Rice, Mark O’Connor, Chris Thile, Jerry Douglas, Sarah Jarosz, Bela Fleck and numerous others. Grisman’s pioneering Dawg Music led the way into a rich and fascinating cross polli... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @mahgister I can see how the dazzling, uplifting Armstrong would be the progenitor solar body and the nocturnal, melancholic Baker, the moon, but I'm not sure about Miles as Jupiter. Perhaps because Miles went through so many stylistic shifts, I... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Another "East meets West group" with violin, played by Jerry Goodman, in this case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAN_GNDmjs And one more: Elvin Jones with Oregon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00e1wqawEMg&list=PLUQMjA4aCygThCQW6bBZ0... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @audio-b-dog You mentioned Grisman, which reminded me of Old and In The Way and his associate in that band, Vassar Clements, who was clearly not a Jazz musician but nevertheless quite "jazzy" in his approach. I’m guessing he was influenced in th... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @audio-b-dog Have you heard this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLJqeKHOCA4&list=OLAK5uy_k64-SZyjhnqd_DzzmgDkdDmoSBm8fICZo&index=2 RE: poetry, my poems are very much based in images. Thanks for your suggestion. | |
| Jim Gordon has Passed On... I hadn't realized Gordon was in J. Browne's band 1978: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wF7zc_YK6A&list=RD9wF7zc_YK6A&start_radio=1 | |
| How competitive are you with your system? @rvpiano Why do they bother responding to this thread if it didn’t occur to them at some point how others’ systems sounded. I very much doubt there’s anyone here who has never considered how others’ systems sound. I thought the whole focus... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? What matters to me is whether I'm moved by my system. I’ve had friends with far more costly rigs. They sounded very nice but didn’t actually draw me into the music any more deeply than mine. I don’t know how you can compare subjective listening... |