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| Jazz for aficionados Rok, check out Elvin Jones' album "Dear John C." featuring Charlie Mariano. Absolutely killer album from 1965 in a more modern bag; one of my very favorite records. There are some cuts on Youtube, but I don't seem to be ale to download them. This ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Forget the world music stuff that he did. Start with my links and other things from the fifties. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Another overlooked great, and one of the most interesting and unusual (in sound and concept) tenor players was Warne Marsh. A West Coast player who was one of the main exponents of the Cool School and a protege of the great Lennie Tristano. His us... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Charlie Mariano, my favorite alto player, and one who slips under the radar way too often. Clearly a bebopper, he covered a lot of stylistic ground including Middle Eastern (we won't go there again, Rok) in his later recordings. But, his recording... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I appreciate the sentiment, but there are other members here who are extremely knowledgable in specific and/or general areas of music; either by way of being professional musicians (Learsfool), or having been very devoted to educating themselves o... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Actually, I have written liner notes for a handful of recordings; but, not for records discussed here, nor are they in this genre.What I find most frustrating about discussion of music in audiophile circles is that, more times than not, the subjec... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****FROGMAN: Do you write liner notes? I read some stuff thst sounds just like you. :)****I am a patient man, Rok; and I feel strongly enough about music and the promotion of factual appreciation of it to be willing to take another shot at trying ... | |
| The issue of lowballing... What does that mean? For me, Viridian and others with a similar take got it right. I also think we conveniently overlook our tendency (hipocracy?) to want the best possible price when selling, and the lowest possible when buying; that's human nature, with nothing insi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thanks for the words of support, Learsfool and Chazro. One of the more interesting aspects of being a music lover is that, ironically, since music touches the most personal parts of our beings, it also tends to make some very resistant to new idea... | |
| Jazz for aficionados OK, Rock. I'm done. You just don't get it. You are so intent on being right, that you have closed your mind to a perspective that can bring one a deeper understanding and appreciation of the music; and all music for that matter. If you care to lea... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****It is not spanish and the indians were wiped out eons ago. So what could it be?****C'mon man, let's stay focused. Nobody said anything about Indians; only as concerns the influence on the Peruvian music that you brought up earlier; and there i... | |
| Mozart Fans Only No discussion of Mozart's chamber works would be complete without mention of his Serenade No. 10 for winds in B flat major ("Gran Partita"), K. 361. Amazing music that as Salieri is purported to have said is "like listening to the voice of God". O... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****and it's so absurd. Everything with an African origin is changed to something else****I find that comment fascinating on several counts. Yes, it's true that throughout musical history (and history in general) there are many unfortunate example... | |
| Jazz for aficionados You lost me now. Or, maybe, you lost yourself with your unwillingness to be a little more openminded. Rok, at this point in the discussion we were talking about latin music or latin jazz; what you referred to as "so-called Latin stuff", and NOT tr... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Actually Rok, the Youtube link of Alfredo Rodiguez that I posted above perfectly illustrates what I am talking about. The rhythmic structure is clearly rooted in "clave" (Africa), the form of the composition and the improvisation around it is clea... |