Jazz for aficionados

Just to be clear, the low t comment was meant as a joke. I have always liked Branford Marsalis's music. I even managed to see his Quartet play once. He played some free music during the show, based on a chord, and they would improvise and let it take them where it wanted to go. He said they did this every night of the tour for their interest. The jazz that night was a very high level, very exciting for me, but lost my brother after about 10 minutes.

*****A milestone in the avant-gard jazz movement and, imo, one of the greatest jazz records ever (Tony Williams was 18 yrs old!!!):*******

Agreed, But this is cherry picking. :) Besides, I did say All/Most.

Cheers

Frog, to hear Shaham hold a long line that went 3-4, 4-4, 2-4 was something to hear.I've read his Stad is the best extant, I believe it.
I would put him up with the 2 best IMO other fiddlers I've heard in person. Milstein and Oistrakh. sort of a happy medium between the two !
FWIW, intermission gossip had it the Minnesota agent beat the NY and Chicago to the bunch so I'm sure they will play in Cuba as well!
Speaking of the NY, I heard them in some Berlioz on NPR under Andrew Davis, who seems able to get the best from any band, and they sounded really good. esp. brass.

Old and New Jazz. As Branford said, there are only so many notes. After awhile it will repeat itself to some degree. Nothing new under the sun type thingy.

Several years ago I was in San Antonio at a Best Buy store. They had a fantastic CD section, and everytime I was in town I went there. Once I bought a Multi-Disc box set by Ellington. At the checkout counter, the girl scanned it and said, "wow, that's expensive". I said, "yes it is". She looked at the CD for a moment and said, "He really must have been famous". I smiled and said, "yes he was".

Every musical genre has a beginning, reaches an apex which is followed by a slow decline. The genres carry on, but a lot of people get off the train when the music stops speaking to them. They are replaced by the young, who think the current stuff is just awesome. Just as we did in the 50s /60s. Just imagine what the swing fans thought of Trane.

There are no more people like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Elvis, The Stones, Mozart, Bach, Goodman, Ellington, Mingus, Mahalia Jackson etc...... you get the drift. I just hope you enjoyed the ride when your prime coincided with the music's prime. That's all there is. Of course there is always a little overlap.

We can all be thankful for the recorded media we have.

And if THEY don't know who The Duke Is, then I don't know who Paterson is! So there!

Cheers

I disagree with you both on this matter. We are going in circles, over and over.

The only thing is to agree to disagree, but the complete hopelessness of your viewpoint, makes me sure we will be back again.