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Ever Damage A Stylus Using Cleaning Brush?
Onzow Zerodust. Easy, reliable, safe.  
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...