trentmemphis
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| Speaker upgrade for classical music A pair of whichever ATCs fit your budget seems like a good solution. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Grant Green / Grant's First Standhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3MN-s6_-Y4 | |
| Jazz for aficionados @mary_jo You be careful out there. | |
| Jazz for aficionados @frogman Mahalia! Thanks.@alexatpos That's a great Baker quote. Musicians who are somewhat more limited than others may be often do some of the most interesting work. Love it. I think it was Jeff Tweedy who said creativity comes from deprivati... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @frogman Holy cats! How did that not catch on?? | |
| Jazz for aficionados You're welcome. I knew nothing about jazz and had never heard of Joe Williams, so I really had no reason to remember him. But he looked and sounded so incredibly sad, he made an impression. I can still see/hear those performances in my head, 40... | |
| Jazz for aficionados And now I see rok2id posted a link to the same tune, earlier. It was a different version, though, so I guess the repetition doesn't matter.Here's another track from that album, though, just to make up for it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7saQm... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Heh. That whole record kicks like hell.Joe Williams was probably the first living jazz vocalist I had any awareness of. Male vocalist, at least. Johnny Carson used to have him on the show semi-regularly. Looking back, I think he may have been ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Count Basie & Joe Williams / Count Basie Swings - Joe Williams Singshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L31pDORVifQ | |
| Jazz for aficionados @mary_jo A wise person once told me...Do not believe anything you hear and believe only a half of what you see... Marvin Gaye's delivery of that saying is one of the great line deliveries in the history of pop music. I feel it every time I hea... | |
| Jazz for aficionados You're quite welcome! It made for a very nice evening last night, for me. I guess I *will* post YT links every now and then. ;) "Sister Sadie" was hot. I really enjoyed that Ike Quebec & Grant Green track, too. (I've forgotten the name be... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @middlemass Then one of us is missing something important. Maybe it's me.@rok2id You do you.Returning to the subject at hand:Kenny Dorham / Quiet Kenny | |
| Jazz for aficionados I don't know what article you read, but it wasn't the linked one. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thanks, guys. Last night's session reminded me how much I like Kenny Dorham. Pretty sure a record or two of his will be on today's playlist. | |
| Jazz for aficionados I spent the evening letting Roon Radio pick things to play. I played Art Pepper / Intensity to seed it, then let Roon take it from there. It did pretty well! Nothing obscure or earth shaking, but I enjoyed nearly everything.Some tracks it picke... |