So, a little more on my feelings about Ellington, not that any of you might or should care. ;^)
I'm not much of a fan of big band jazz in general. By necessity too much must be charted out. Yes there are solos within a number but the ensemble playing just seems to lose something in spontaneity for me. A bit of big band jazz (Basie, Herman, Ellis, Evans, etc.) I can enjoy, but most others I can easily skip. As I tried to say, that's just me, nothing negative about the Duke himself.
rok, "We are all entitled to our own opinion, just not our own facts." I was not aware I was presenting anything as fact, just stating my own position.
alex, as it happens I'm a big fan of Groucho, and have been known to quote him myself. So excuse me if I offer a slight correction to your quote, "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."
acman, I have posted a bit of Basie, but will add this, it is representative of the drive that draws me in -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc0nDETJlbY
frog, I guess my perspective on Nelson's "Blues And The Abstract Truth" was more in the sense of reduced popularity/general awareness, not that it was forgotten by the jazzbos. It was released to acclaim, then was seldom heard or talked about (outside of the dedicated jazzbos) for some time. Now with the reissued vinyl craze over the past 10+ years it became well known again. So (shudder) maybe I'm only thinking of sales.
Other candidates for rediscovered albums I'll offer are Mingus' "Tijuana Moods, two or three Julie London records, and June Christy's "Something Cool". Those were all records I heard practically nothing about for years and now with the reissued vinyl they are in demand again. That is different from other jazz albums which continued sales on CDs in the intervening years.
I'm not much of a fan of big band jazz in general. By necessity too much must be charted out. Yes there are solos within a number but the ensemble playing just seems to lose something in spontaneity for me. A bit of big band jazz (Basie, Herman, Ellis, Evans, etc.) I can enjoy, but most others I can easily skip. As I tried to say, that's just me, nothing negative about the Duke himself.
rok, "We are all entitled to our own opinion, just not our own facts." I was not aware I was presenting anything as fact, just stating my own position.
alex, as it happens I'm a big fan of Groucho, and have been known to quote him myself. So excuse me if I offer a slight correction to your quote, "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."
acman, I have posted a bit of Basie, but will add this, it is representative of the drive that draws me in -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc0nDETJlbY
frog, I guess my perspective on Nelson's "Blues And The Abstract Truth" was more in the sense of reduced popularity/general awareness, not that it was forgotten by the jazzbos. It was released to acclaim, then was seldom heard or talked about (outside of the dedicated jazzbos) for some time. Now with the reissued vinyl craze over the past 10+ years it became well known again. So (shudder) maybe I'm only thinking of sales.
Other candidates for rediscovered albums I'll offer are Mingus' "Tijuana Moods, two or three Julie London records, and June Christy's "Something Cool". Those were all records I heard practically nothing about for years and now with the reissued vinyl they are in demand again. That is different from other jazz albums which continued sales on CDs in the intervening years.