Jazz for aficionados

I was catching up on posts on this thread over the last week or so tonight and saw a couple of mentions of Gunther Schuller.  In addition to being a great writer/jazz historian, he was also a great composer, both of jazz and "classical" music. He organized brass groups in New York that crossed over both styles of playing and made some very interesting records.  He played my instrument, the French horn. He was actually principal horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and wrote a famous book on horn playing.  He was a great man and great musician.  Had the pleasure of meeting him my freshman year in college when he came to speak at my school.  He died in 2015.  He can be heard on some classic jazz albums, including Birth of the Cool. He was also good friends with the best jazz horn player of the era, Julius Watkins.  He and one of the other top orchestral horn players of the era, John Barrows, can both be heard (in a backup horn quartet) on Watkins' record entitled French Horns For My Lady, recorded for Phillips. Watkins himself was mostly a side man, as you can imagine, playing the horn, but he was leader on a few albums, notably a couple he recorded for Blue Note with a sextet he put together.  

pjw, all I have to say is, thank God for Jazz fans like you.

Answer to your question: Miles

This thread has been going since  02-24-2013 10:12am.  At least Four regulars that have stuck pretty much all the way.   Each closing in on 5000 posts.   
Quite a few folks have jumped in from time to time, to make  their comments.   Over 1.5 million views!!

And to the best of my knowledge, no one, and I mean NO ONE, has ever mentioned Buddy Rich until you did 3 days ago!!

Over 6 years and over 17,000 posts, and not one mention of Buddy Rich!.   I think Kenny G has at least a mention or two.  Of course NOW, The Frogman is all gaga over Rich.  How predictable..

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Cheers

O-10, a very friendly suggestion: be confident with and comfortable in what you believe to be the truth and move on.  Btw, as nsp recently pointed out a great deal of new Jazz was posted while you were away.  Check it out.  From me over just the last week or so: Michael Brecker, Donny McCaslin, Scott Robinson, Ralph Peterson, Albert Ayler, Bob Mintzer.  Nothing stereotypical about any of them.
Regards.  

I can see right now that people who live in and around New York City, have absolutely no idea what the rest of the country is like. Once upon a time there were cities that had lots of nightclubs that entertained people, cities like Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, and the South Side of Chicago, which was a city unto itself with lots of jazz clubs that no longer exists; while the other half of Chicago is thriving (at least it was the last time I was there) the South Side for the most part no longer exists.

There was nothing I liked better than going to clubs in St. Louis when they existed. It's a daytime tourist thing now in order to still claim that it's a city; you want to go to the zoo or see the arch?


Pjw, I never said anything about "new jazz musicians"; I said "new jazz"; there is a difference.

Buddy Rich was my favorite drummer, and everybody else's favorite drummer in high school, but my tastes have evolved.


"Frankly speaking, how any so called jazz aficionado, could put up a post that subtly or indirectly suggests that Buddy Rich was a sub par jazz musician/drummer is absurd."


Who dat say dat, not me?


there exists absolutely 0 good jazz artists today because their "ears" tell them so, what do you think their reply would be ???

Again, who dat say dat?


I'm looking for "new jazz music"; could you post some?