Jazz for aficionados

I paid $40 for a CD once.  Oscar Peterson's "Girl Talk".   Some sort of Japanese pressing.   The only one I could find, and I had to have "On A Clear Day" on CD.

$40 is not a lot to pay for great music.   The key word being GREAT.

I would pay 40 dollars for these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wG6Cgmgn5U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrRhkY9CIz8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F28X8--2dFU

Remember when music was always New and Exciting?  Lord, I miss those days.

Cheers

If you were buying music, or anything else, based upon recommendations from 'Stereophile', you were indeed lost.

Now 'Stereo Review', they knew their music.   Are those howls I hear?

Cheers

Hi O-10:  what is "wack," to use your phrase, is this comment of yours:  "The only thing you can practice is a written piece of music, or you can practice familiarity with your musical instrument."  This is so wrong I am not even sure where to start - it shows your almost total lack of knowledge of what you are trying to speak of.  

Your next sentences:  "This is what it is about; to have a musical idea in your head, and to make your instrument audibly produce that sound exactly as you hear it in your head. That means your brain extends through your hands into the musical instrument and the precise sound you want to hear comes out. The more I talk about this the clearer it becomes. Simply because others don't believe what I'm saying, only means they can't do it."  

Honestly, O-10, any good student musician, and certainly all professionals, can do what you are talking about here, no matter what type of music they play.  Your last sentence above is truly absurd for this reason.    

Frogman is bothered by your arrogance.  That is not what bothers me - what bothers me is your anti-intellectualism.  Your "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."  You clearly love music very much, and you have two professionals trying to explain to you things about it that you clearly have no idea about, and you just don't care.  That's very depressing to me.  Now you will probably want me to go away from your thread again.  

@learsfool 

***** Honestly, O-10, any good student musician, and certainly all professionals, can do what you are talking about here, no matter what type of music they play.  Your last sentence above is truly absurd for this reason.*****

You need to read Nica's book.   Quite a few of the Jazz musicians in her book, and we are speaking of some of the best, said being able to play what was in their head was  their most wished for ability.

When if come to arrogance, you are without peer on this thread. Calling a person 'arrogant', just for disagreeing with you, is in itself, the height of arrogance.

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Learsfool, I don't want you to leave this thread, but if you and Frogman make an absurd statement in unison, the fact that you both are accomplished musicians, will make it no less absurd.

You can not practice "improvisation"; how can you answer a question that has not even been asked? And you are saying that you can practice answering questions that have not been asked. If that's not absurd, I would like to know what is. "Improvisation" is spontaneously playing music, the right music, that fits in after the soloist before you. Now explain to me, how you can practice that?

You go on to state,
"Honestly, O-10, any good student musician, and certainly all professionals, can do what you are talking about here, no matter what type of music they play. Your last sentence above is truly absurd for this reason."

That statement was too "wack" for words. You are saying any student musician can do what Oscar Peterson, Sonny Rollins, and J. J. Johnson wished they could do; they wished they could transfer their thoughts to their musical instrument.

That last paragraph is almost comical: You are bothered by my "anti- intellectualism", and Frogman is bothered by my arrogance. As they used to say in USAF, My heart pumps purple panther piss for the both of you.


Enjoy the music.