Jazz for aficionados

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.

Schubert, I agree with you that Shaham is one of the best I have ever heard live as well. I have played with most of the really famous ones of the past twenty years now. Another favorite of mine, though very different, is Perlman. He did one of the best solo recitals I have ever heard on any instrument when I was in college, and my orchestra got to accompany him about 15 years ago for our annual gala fundraiser. Very nice guy, too.

Well, its certainly nice to know that a musician of your stature agrees with me Learsfool.
In the violin sonata realm , the best I ever heard was Joseph Suk , son of the composer and great-grandson of Dvorak who played often in Berlin.
BTW, the Minnesota is sold out for next couple years, cost me $200 for a scalped ticket.Cheap for what I heard.