tylermunns
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| Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article) @mahgister I appreciate the data relating to the 432 vs. 440 Hz thing. I have not given the issue much time. I usually tune my instruments to 440 as that is the common standard, and may look into a conscious effort to at least try tuning my guit... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @chowkwan I figured it out, the guy is Bobby Bare. | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @chowkwan I love that show! When Glen sings “Gentle on my Mind” and kicks the buh-jeesuz out of the guitar solo, it’s sooooo fantastic! Is that Jerry Jeff on the far left, in the blue shirt and black hat? | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @stuartk “You seem to be asserting that once jazz musicians tackle “songbook” material, they suddenly (in your mind) morph into something suspect, something lesser, something somehow not quite ‘legit’” I neither asserted, nor even insinuated an... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @frogman I noted a clear distinction in my initial post of “the ‘60s stuff” in regards to Lincoln. When I think of jazz vocalists, I think of people singing jazz music. I don’t consider the likes of the masterful pop songwriters I mentioned to... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @skyscraper As far as vocalists go, Ella isn’t “straight jazz.” When we talk of vocalists of this ilk, (Holiday, Vaughn, Washington, Sinatra, etc.) I don’t consider any of them “straight jazz.” I think of Abbey Lincoln who, by the 1960s, was si... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @skyscraper So as to properly address your query, I’m curious as to what you mean by, “straight jazz.” What would be an example of such? | |
| Best Sound Track Ever Vote for One Can’t believe I left out one of my very favorite artists, film-score-or-otherwise: Henry Mancini. It ain’t just “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (though a rightfully mentioned score in this thread already) “Experiment in Terror,” “Hatari!,” (featuring... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? @stuartk Otis Rush and Roy Buchanan! Great guitar player mentions! If we were trying to reach the most legitimate, objectively, empirically-based rankings of certain performers, technical proficiency would have to be taken into consideration. T... | |
| Which pair of speakers changed your Hifi life? Usher CP-6311 Solved so many of my sound problems. With diligent attention to placement and use/non-use of the gold spikes (depending on the room) for the beefy cast iron stands, I achieved an extremely focused image, excellent depth and height ... | |
| Billie or Ella? Maria or Renata? Technique or feeling? Technical proficiency is only another tool that may or may not assist the artist in achieving the ultimate goal: cause one to feel something. To reduce an artist to a polarized representation of some manufactured binary makes no sense. If Ella d... | |
| Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article) @jim5559 ”Unless they listen to Jazz or Classical (capitol letters, huh? Interesting…) people under 70 listen to junk and have no idea what good music is.” Where to begin with a statement like this. Ay yi yi… | |
| Best Sound Track Ever Vote for One “Les Stances a Sophie” by the Art Ensemble of Chicago. “Theme De YoYo” from this, featuring Fontella Bass on vocals - amazing. | |
| Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article) @cd318 There’s an intention to make art and do so in a viable fashion. Then there’s an intention to simply produce a viable commodity. These are two different things. Justin Bieber is not losing sleep fretting over whether his art is too vacuou... | |
| Your experience in "in their day" brands/components that you remember foundly? I love to look at, handle, and listen to a fully recapped/restored Marantz 2285b (with mint condition walnut case) when I listen to music. Playing great OG vinyl pressings with fancy-shmancy front end gear is simply wonderful. |