Jazz for aficionados

Sansui,Dual, and JBL sounded pretty good back then, and they didn't break the bank. Even today, a Sansui tuner is beautiful, and it's sound is unique among tuners "mello" is how I would describe it.

Now that you mention it, I don't have any Gabor CD's. I guess I didn't keep up with musicians back then, because I didn't know a lot of things about him, like he was on drugs, and died relatively young. I don't think I've heard enough of his music.


                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A1bor_Szab%C3%B3


Enjoy the music.

Rok, I wonder about these musician drug addicts in regard to their business dealings. First, no matter what the "up standing business" says about the "drug addict", the public takes their word for it. Now I find that the "up standing business" was flat out lying; and another question is "Why did that business have so many drug addicts"? So many that one musician left for that very reason. I didn't finish college, but I can add, subtract, multiply, and I can even do long division; these numbers for the musicians ain't coming up right.



Enjoy the music.

If you are speaking of Jazz musicians that end up broke and dead at 27, it's their fault.


Harsh but true: "A Fool and his Money are soon parted".

Truer words have never been spoken.

As I have said before, some folks just think other people should look out for their best interest.   What a strange idea.

I think the drug thingy is true for this reason:  Consider pro athletes.   Some make more money in a year than most working class folks make in their lives.  Within 5 years of their playing days, they are all broke.  Seek out, and watch the episode of the ESPN program 30/30 titled "Broke". You won't know whether to laugh or cry.   I laughed.

Lay off that purple stuff.

Cheers

Rok, you're talking in general, and I'm talking about specific cases where all the details were laid out. There is no doubt about what you are saying, but in this case the drug addicts were taken advantage of, the same as sharecroppers who couldn't read and write were taken advantage of.

You seem to be saying it's OK to take advantage of drug addicts just like it's OK to take advantage of people who can't read and write, is that right?

No, we are not talking about the same thing; this is about "so called" sub standard albums that were not released until after the musician was dead. Those albums as it turns out, were the best he ever made, and you being an 'aficionado' could judge that, in regard to the albums.


Enjoy the music.

I don't even pretend to understand the music business, but I always thought the amount of money an artist made was at least in part based on record sales.

If the LP is not released, how does the artist get paid or make money?   Any player with an IQ over 6 would be aware that music recordings sell forever.  A player in 1965 would know that records cut decades before where still being sold.

So what did he think happened to the stuff that was not released? Why didn't the contract demand release?  What didn't he retain the rights to all unreleased sessions?  What was he paid for recording sessions that were not released?  Had they heard of Lawyers?

Why would they think the guys at the studio would put their, the player's, interest before their own?

Do I think all this OK?  No.  It's just human nature.  Today there was a crisis here in my home.  'Our' cat that has set up homestead in our back yard, cleaned out his bowl of food, and then walked right out into the yard and killed a bird at the bird bath.  My wife wants to kill the cat.  i asked, why?  She was just doing what cats do.   They kill things. That's what they do. If she was bigger, she would kill us.

Jazz players make music, and business men make money.  That's what they do.  The more the businessmen makes, the less the player makes.

Cheers