Jazz for aficionados

I want to congratulate jazzcourier on an excellent edition of "All That Jazz", hosted by him on KUNM.  I listened to it and found it highly rewarding and interesting; thank you for the invitation, jazzcourier.  I recommend the show highly to all reading this.

The word jazz "great" gets thrown around way too casually in my opinion.  If so many of the musicians who we discuss we also call great, then what do we call a musician like Duke Ellington whose music towers above all but a small handful in this art form? Listening to jazzcourier's show reminded me of this and why it's so important as a listener to always aim to be a more and more discerning and smarter listener.  The show featured many gems that I had never heard before; especially the radio broadcast transcriptions.  Some of the biggest surprises for me:

- Radio transcription of "Happy Go Lucky Local".  Reminder of what great "old school" ensemble playing was all about.  Tight, tight, right, and always conscious of the composer's intent with a beautiful sense of blend trumping (sorry) individual ego; saving the ego for when the individual's player unique "voice" was wanted by the composer which was how he always wrote.
- Norris Turney's flute (!) on "Mahalia Suite".
- Duke's solo piano version of "Nagoya" which would become one of the movements of "Far East Suite".  Amazing in its freshness and modern sensibility.

I appreciated jazzcourier's economy of words in his descriptions of the music.  Got the point across without the "this is how tightly Bird tightened his shoe strings that day" kind of detail heard from another jazz dj I listen to (Phil Schaap).  Anyone who is interested can, with a little sleuthing, find out more about jazzcourier's credentials; they are impressive.  I hope he continues to post on this thread.  

O-10, my father would often say: "some people are not simply s&@?!d; they are, first and foremost, mean spirited".

I could waste my time even further by asking what on earth I wrote that is fundamentally different from what you wrote; I won’t bother. I could also ask you why, if you knew the answer (or so you think) why you bothered asking the question. I won’t bother with that either; the answer goes to my father’s wise words. You are so pathetically intent on somehow proving me wrong about anything that, as always, you see only what you want to see. As always, no comment about the music.  Shame on me for taking the bait.

O-10, this last episode is the last straw for me. Not as far as my participation in this thread, you can’t control that; but, as far as my holding back about what I really think because I believe you are doing the participants and anyone new to the music a disservice by your insistence on keeping things in the gutter. That you know very little about the music and its language has been obvious and proudly admitted by you. The really bizarre part of all this is that I believe that, just as with your claims to have seen Coltrane live and which you later admitted were "exaggerations", you are making all of this stuff up. I don’t believe there was any jazz playing friend, no encounters with Grant Green, no nothing; all made up by a need to .....who knows? Shame on you.

sbank, thank you for that; I will check it out.

One thing is for certain, I didn't make up the one and only "Frogman"!


Enjoy the music.

Rok, "Radiant Warmth" was the first CD I bought by Mari Boine; these are the "Wicki" facts on that CD;


      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Boine


And here is the music.


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


It was released in 1996, she was almost foxy then; there seems to be some kind of disease called "chunkitis" that ladies catch that makes them look "chunky"; but her music has gotten even better.

There is no better way to communicate than posting links, which I established at the beginning of this thread; that says it all, argue with "Wicki" or "you tube" if you don't like it.



Enjoy the music.