Jazz for aficionados

Ghosthouse, Its hard work, but someone has to do it. ;) 

I really don't know the answer. Maybe , you listen harder, Maybe I don't listen to everything, maybe I have heard the language, and it comes more natural, again maybe I hear the familiar and miss important stuff.

No real way of knowing, especially on the internet.

BTW, that is some great Herbie Hancock.

That's very good Ghosthouse, and that explains why I haven't bought any 'new, new' jazz. If I bought that Herby Hancock, I would be buying 'old' new jazz.

when you take listening to old records after an upgrade, that would mean having heard that record for the 'umpteenth' time, but it sounds new all over again.

I hope I'm responding to your point.

In regard to Kamasi Washington; I never even heard the name before now, but still I hear a shadow of Miles and Trane. Only time will tell how he's going to develop.

Gents - Thanks for your thoughtful replies to, what in retrospect, might have been a bit of a silly comment. I think Acman’s "maybe I have heard the language, and it comes more natural..." definitely has something to do with it. Y’all have been at this a lot longer and way deeper. I’m hearing many things for the first time so the level of concentration invested is automatically going to be greater.

O - I appreciate what you are saying about your buying practices, especially given your "style" preferences. But, if I read you right, that HH Takin’ Off seems like something you would be well served by owning. Also, I have enough old vinyl that I do appreciate what an upgrade (even if just a new cart or an interconnect) does for the listening experience. I get satisfaction holding a good sounding recording that was made 40-50 years ago. It’s like some kind of archeological find but still functional.

I’m not saying there’s no good stuff worth buying given my preferences BUT there’s mountains of the trad jazz I’ve never even heard. Even if only one recording out of ten really grabs me, it is still a TON of music. Mind boggling, really.

Here's something I meant to ask about the HH...
Does anyone else think there's something similar between "Cantaloupe Island"  and "Watermelon Man"?  
I haven't played them back to back but, in memory, when I heard that Watermelon Man it did remind me of Cantaloupe Island...and I don't think it was just the fact there are melons in the titles!  I'm curious what you aficionados might think.  

Well, it is true that men are always noticing and comparing melons 😊.  

You're definitely not imagining the similarities between the two.  First of all, they are both in the same key (F).  They are both modal tunes with few chord changes and changing in four or eight measure phrases.  Both also have a very similar rhythmic feel even WM is usually done a little faster than CI.  The Watermelon Man groove is really a Latin groove very similar to the Cuban "guajira" beat and Cantaloupe Island has a very similar rhythm.  Nice catch.