Jazz for aficionados

Rok, you force me to justify my statement, and that always takes a long story. If you got time to listen, I got time to tell it.

I hung out at this high end emporium so much that some of the customers thought I worked there; especially this one customer who could afford to buy the joint. Since I was always in the small theater where you audition equipment, he always had someone to talk to.

He would come in and ask me questions, and I told him there was only one way to decide, and that was to listen to the stuff. Me and him would sit back in the movie theater seats, while I requested the changes in equipment; like less try this ARC pre-amp with that CJ amp. Since he didn't have his own music, we listened to mine.

That went on for over a week, in which he had decided what he wanted, and brought in his own music. I was comfortably seated, and waiting to hear this dynamite music, when out blasts some kind of British marching music. It was all I could do to get that "What the .... is that" look off my face. I was thinking; he could have bought a wind up Graphenola to hear that; but he wasn't buying CJ and ARC for me.

My point is, his music is my noise, and my music could have been noise to him which he tolerated, and the same could apply to you and me at times; so where is this judge who can say unequivocally which is which?


Enjoy the music.

In regard to Frogman, how many times do I have to tell him, "I do not want to learn squat in regard to making music". As far as show of hands, I ain't got none; I hope that clears that up; but I don't want him to get off his box for my sake.

Is there anything that I failed to cover?


Enjoy the music.

There was a time when I bought anything with Miles in the lineup; I also have a lot of "crap" by Miles; old habits die hard.

Back in the LP day when you had to buy in order to hear, I bought a lot of "crap"; that's because buying before you listen is a crap shoot.

Frogman - Take my advice. Don’t even bother responding. It is wasted effort. Extraordinary and disappointing to read of a lack of interest on the one hand and scornful dismissal on the other for learning more about something one professes to love. Meaningful dialog is only possible within limits set by O and Rok, apparently.

"I don’t understand what an analysis of music is suppose[d] to achieve." That strikes me as a remarkably ignorant statement from one of the main contributors to a thread called, "Jazz for aficionados". Selective memory about liner notes aside, in the larger universe of music appreciation, analysis plays an important and respected role.

Aficionadao: a person who is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about an activity, subject, or pastime.
"aficionados of the finest wines"
synonyms: connoisseur, expert, authority, specialist, pundit, cognoscente

***** Frogman - Take my advice. Don’t even bother responding. It is wasted effort*****

I think we have heard this tune before.   In fact, many, many times before.  You need not worry.   He never responds to what I say, he just responds to what he wish I had said.

Cheers