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| Jazz for aficionados Orpheus10, I loved the Johnny Smith cut. What a beautiful player! Amazingly relaxed, but very deliberate and very soulful with a gorgeous sound. His feel is reminescent of Dexter Gordon's ballad playing; behind the beat but always secure and confi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, excellent and very honest post! First of all, thank you for your service. ****You get used to blunt, straight talk. No tap dancing or sugar coating. Thin skins don't survive. I have no modesty, and I cannot be offended.****I respect that; and... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, c'mon now. With all due respect, you have a way of skirting the issues. What on earth does the fact that the discussion, at one point, veered into the area of the influences on jazz other than the African one have to do with anything? How doe... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I think that it is importantly to stay on focus in these discussions. I said nothing about "formal" training being a prerequisite for anything. To understand what "form" is in a tune, and to be able to explain the rudiments of improvisation is som... | |
| Jazz for aficionados *****These folks are as far away from understanding music theory on your level, as a person can get. But they do indeed get the visceral part. To me it says, HOME.*****You would be surprised. What I described above is as rudimentary as one can get... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Learsfool, your description is excellent; no need for qualifiers. I would contribute to it only by approaching it from a somewhat different angle.There is no possible way to exaggerate the level of skill possessed by an excellent jazz musician. Th... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Not intended to imply judgment of the value of one discipline over the other, but simply to underscore my comments above. Two absolutely true stories that I have first hand knowledge about:During his tenure as conductor with the NY Phil, Zubin Meh... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Orpheus10, this thread continues to be, without a doubt, one of the most interesting on this forum. Your passion for jazz is palpable, and you and I actually have very similar sensibilities re which performers are truly capable of communicating so... | |
| Greatest Composers of All Time Not much that I can add to Learsfool's excellent posts. I would simply further stress a couple of points:The importance of Wagner cannot be overemphasized. As Learsfool points out, his influence on the direction of music was greater than just abou... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Good reading where Freddie talks about his chop problems and other aspects of life as a jazz player:http://www.shout.net/~jmh/articles/freddie01.html | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****If nothing can be perfect, then it's just FLAWLESS!**** - Rok2id re "Blues And The Abstract Truth". Well, I suppose that the fact that it was in the No.1 slot in my first response to this thread says all that I need to say about how I feel abo... | |
| When a Reviewer "likes" something Interesting. I would be more prone to respect the integrity of a reviewer that is open about the fact that he hopes to be able to buy the review unit at discount; and impression of bias be damned. That would tell me that he/she probably doesn't do... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Charles1dad, thanks for the recommendation of "Fingerpainting". Listened to it last night and enjoyed it very much. I love the concept of Herbie's music minus piano; a very daring one, IMO. The idea of trying to capture the spirit of a jazz compos... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Here's a link to Mingus' "Hog Calling Blues". BTW, my comment above should, of course, read Kirk WAS not an imposter; he passed in 1977:http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv1Yewr6Z5s | |
| Jazz for aficionados Roland Kirk is not an imposter, he is the real deal. He is one of those players who can play "free" or "outside" because he can also play inside and within the tradition. There have been many imposters whose playing consists of squeals, honks, and... |