Jazz for aficionados

I listen to beautiful music all day every day; all night every night; it keeps me blissfully ensconced in the past.

I have 3 rigs; one in the main listening room, one in the basement, and one in the bedroom; they are all fed from the computer in the basement; consequently, the music is the same all over the house.

While there is a separate preamp and amp in each case, the line level signal is the same on all three. Up to 60 feet of line transmission can be accomplished by using ethernet cable with baluns on each end.


        https://www.amazon.com/ethernet-cable/s?k=ethernet+cable


There are other ways of running line level signals long distances that give the same result as running a line level signal 3 feet. They cost about the same and give the same good results.

When I go from the basement (work projects) to the listening room, and finally to the bedroom, the same music is playing. This music enables me to live in the past, decades into the past, and relive my most glorious times; thank God for the past; can I get an amen on that brother, or sister.

"Tammy's Breeze"; this takes me back to 1960, and my cousin had just bought a brand new 88 Oldsmobile, which I knew I could borrow to impress beautiful young ladies; what a wonderful past time; much fun was had by all. Erlene was her name and I shall remember her always.


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v--G29uMrY


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JSAq-gspJk

69 was a very good year; as a matter of fact it was the best Summer of my life, although I didn't know it at that time; one can never assess the present until it's past.

Some of the very best musicians I've ever heard aren't famous, and that was the case with Eddie Fisher, guitarist. He played at a place called "Mothers", that I frequented every night he was there. It was a stylish place with good food (Best steaks in town) and jazzy people, and to top it all off, it had Eddie Fisher; he was the only musician I've ever heard who could play one tune so many different ways that I never got tired of it; I listened to it all Summer.



      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e5FVMt0FVw


We liked Eddie so much that we told him to go on the road and become famous, but he knew better; he declined the road. Later on, I discovered fame does not always mean fortune; case in point, "Grant Green".



      http://www.stlamerican.com/news/obituaries/guitarist-eddie-fisher-passes-at/article_022d92a2-4584-5b...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9CxF7qxYqc



      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uljur-ALJOU

Boss Indeed!.   Great Ammons.   I have the Boss Tenor and Tenors, have to get the Bossa Nova.


Eddie Fisher was great also.   Lot of great musicians out of  Saint Louis.   Must be the Mississippi river.

Cheers

Lot of great musicians out of St. Louis that I can't even find recordings for, and the recording quality is low for those that I can. Just because the band sounded good, they seemed to think that the recording would sound good also; ain't necessarily so.


              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkux11dCjYU


The last time I saw Oliver Sain was in the hot tube at the Y, and we talked over years of good times at all the clubs he played in St. Louis; he even told me about the times when he was in the big money and lived on "The Bluff", where the rich folks lived; that's when he was with Fontella Bass.


              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ2Il3blv_k



              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7BeGDZewHs


He invited me to his next club date, but I didn't make it; something I regret because not long after that, he joined that big band in the sky.



          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wEsTHTGLS0