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| Jazz for aficionados Oh, and I forgot, she is also a talented visual artist. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Lorez Alexandria sounds good, but doesn't kill me. A little "pitchy", and she and the rhythm section aren't always locked in. I like her tone; nice voice quality.Here's a great "jazz singer we never heard of". Amazing talent; she writes most her o... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Loved the Gene Ammons cuts. What a distinctive tenor sound: dark, fat, and with just the right amount of nasal edge; and man could he ever play in the pocket! Amazing time feel. Thanks, I have not pulled out any of my Jug records in a while.Since ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Adding to Learsfool's definition: reverb time is how long it takes for sound to die away after it is produced. Because frequency and how loud the sound was to begin with will affect reverb time, acousticians set "60 db below the loudness level of ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I love "Bean". He was the first great jazz saxophone player. And what a sound! He could sound huge and robust, and sensual and velvety all at the same time. Eventhough his style could sound a little "dated" depending on the context, he was one of ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Orpheus, my intention was not to shoot down "Somethin Else"; it's an excellent record. But, when something is referred to as "the best" it better standup to the very highest scrutiny.I don't think I could pick a "best" jazz record; jazz can be too... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****And the sax player! Where has this guy been hiding all my life!****Rok, you need to get out more often :-) | |
| Jazz for aficionados "Somethin Else" has never been a favorite record. Being a Cannonball junkie, I have owned this record for many years and have always had mixed feelings about it; it should be great, but comes up short of me. I agree with Rok's overall take. Clearl... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****I.E. the song HAS TO BE about vermont only when you sing the words. Otherwise it's just a very nice tune in the category of Autumn Leaves etc..... that Jazz guys like to improvise over.****Perhaps. But, many great improvisers will tell you tha... | |
| What is a really good sounding low volume system?? ****"I would heed Atmasphere's advice." What advice, to buy his amps.****I believe his primary advice was about speakers, no?****You just described all speakers to some degree. However, it depends a lot on how you tune your system. ****Uhh, maybe.... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Orpheus, my next music contribution was going to be Ella doing Billie's Bounce. I completely agree with your comments about the appropriateness of scatting some times and not others, and this relates in key ways to the earlier discussion about Moo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, at first I was confused by your post. ****I feel you and The Frogman might be putting too much emphasis on the name of the tune. I don't think of Vermont at all.****Huh!? The tune IS about Vermont. You can't remove the lyrics from the equatio... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****BTW, there are much worst places to be musically, than a Baptist church. Some good stuff there.****GREAT stuff there. That was not the point.Cheers. | |
| What is a really good sounding low volume system?? I disagree re Magnepans for this situation. While the comments about their bass propagation characteristics are true, they are NOT good low-level speakers; they like to played at medium-high levels to sound fully fleshed out and to not sound very ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Classic case of "different strokes for different folks". To me, there is no comparison between the Johnny Smith and the Houston Person versions of Moonlight In Vermont. The Smith is perfect in it's restraint and simplicity and in the soloists's ab... |