Jazz for aficionados

Rok, I'm hoping the CD will offer something I didn't hear on the computer, but before I get the CD, I must say; they have too much of a "popular" sound for me. Just from reading the song titles, and personnel, I'm saying to myself "It's got to be good", but in my old age, I'm very hard to please because "good" is no longer good enough.

These are my thoughts before listening to the CD, I'll give you a long write up after.

Enjoy the music.

Notec, if only I still had the vim vigor and vitality to hang at those nightclubs which were anything but "melancholy". Visions of beautiful jazzy ladies still dance in my head, while the live sounds of saxophones, trumpets, drums and many other melodic instruments haunt my memories; they remind me of nights of a thousand dreams that are no more. Have you ever been on the street of dreams?

Love laughs at a king
Kings don't mean a thing
On the street of dreams

Dreams broken in two
Can be made like new
On the street of dreams

Gold, silver and gold
All you can hold
Is in the moonbeam

Poor, no one is poor
As long as love is sure
On the street of dreams

Gold, silver and gold
All you can hold
Is in the moonbeam

Poor, no one is poor
As long as love is sure
On the street of dreams

Or walked the street of sorrow on the boulevard of broken dreams?

I walk along the street of sorrow -
The boulevard of broken dreams -
Where Gigolo and Gigolette -
Can take a kiss without regret -
and so forget their broken dreams.

You laugh today and cry tomorrow -
When you behold your shattered schemes -
And Gigolo and Gigolette wake up to find
their eyes are wet with tears that tell of
broken dreams.

Here is where you'll always find
me -
Always walking up and down -
But I left my soul behind me
in an old cathedral town "

The joy that you find here, you borrow -
You cannot keep it long it seems -
But Gigolo and Gigolette -
Still sing a song and dance along -
The boulevard of broken dreams.

They are both flip sides of the same coin, where Gigolo and Gigolette can take a kiss without regret and so forget their broken dreams. Gigolo and Gigolette can always be found in those, not so "melancholy" jazz clubs where they are destined to meet and once again to walk the street of dreams, a street that leads to the boulevard of sorrow.

Enjoy the music.

O-10:

*****Rok, I'm hoping the CD will offer something I didn't hear on the computer, but before I get the CD, I must say; they have too much of a "popular" sound for me. Just from reading the song titles, and personnel, I'm saying to myself "It's got to be good", but in my old age, I'm very hard to please because "good" is no longer good enough.******

The computer/youtube does not do the bey's justice. The tune list is sort of misleading, in the sense that you have never heard them done this way. Unique arrangements and fantastic harmony. The can really sing. Besides Kenny Burrell, Milt Hinton, Jo Jones and others, are on board, and provide great Jazz credentials.

If you don't love it, I will refund your money. I am older than you, and I listen to it everyday.

Got a new Cd player today. Can't wait to hear it on the new Marantz. Damn, I'm beginning to sound like an Audiophile!:( Help me Jesus!!

Cheers.

****Miles went to Juilliard*** His first mistake. I knew there was something wrong there.****

Hmmmm, so did Wynton.

Acman, that CS Lewis quote is fantastic! Do you happen to know where that is from exactly?

Rok, Frogman as usual answered your questions very well. The only thing I would add about differences between different orchestras is that obviously budget size/season length comes into it, which of course has a tremendous effect on the quality of musician that would audition when there are openings. The Berlin Philharmonic and the Austin Symphony are in no way comparable in this sense, they are very different animals indeed. The Berlin Philharmonic is a very well paying full time job (and in this case by full time I mean a 52 week orchestra). The Austin Symphony is a part time orchestra - many of the players in it are the professors at UT Austin and their students. I would have to look up how many weeks the season is, but I doubt they play more than 8 or 10 concert sets in a season - what we call a "gig" orchestra. Perhaps they are one step up from that, but no one is making their living solely as a member of the Austin Symphony. They would be supplementing it with another job. This type of orchestra does not attract anywhere near the best musicians, in fact there wouldn't be very many people show up from outside the central Texas area for one of their auditions - it simply doesn't pay enough for anyone to justify moving to Austin to be in it. Central Texas, by the way, does not even have much of a free-lance classical music scene - this is the main reason why the Austin Symphony relies so much on the University of Texas.