Jazz for aficionados

Badly overpriced.

Donald Harrison

Not meaning to bore anyone with personal details, but simply to make a point and (hopefully) food for thought:

I have a mole on the left side of my neck that has been there for as long as I can remember. I have always thought that it was probably the result of a couple of bad sunburns suffered during my careless younger days; or, the result of...who knows? My teenage son has a similar mole in the exact same spot on his neck; he doesn’t like the sun. Coincidence? I don’t believe in coincidences. Isn’t it fascinating and mysterious what traits are inherited from and passed on by our parents?

Nice clips of Ravi Coltrane, Acman3. Coincidentally, about three weeks ago, at an outdoor Classical music concert of all places, I met Ravi Coltrane. Nicest guy you will ever meet. Perhaps it was the simple knowledge of who he is the son of and the well documented gentleness and spiritual quality that his father possessed, but it was striking how similar Ravi’s personality is to what I know of his father’s. Physically, the similarities in facial features were also amazing; but that, I suppose, is to be expected. To say I was somewhat "star struck" (if one can call it that) as I shook his hand would be an understatement. The mentioned qualities can reasonably be expected, but the fact that his tenor saxophone playing is so remarkably reminiscent of his father’s is what amazes me; although, for me, somewhat less so his soprano playing. As has been commented on here many times there are and have been many Coltrane disciples who play great and some who carried on the Coltrane torch and extended the Trane musical language. None have had that deep sense of "calm in the eye of the storm" quality that Trane’s playing had. Just wanted to share and thanks for the clips.

Inna, everything for "audiophiles" is badly overpriced. You are an "audiophile" if, and only if you have a specified large amount to spend on such purchases, and won't hesitate to spend it.

You are not an audiophile if you hesitate to spend a large amount of your disposable income on audiophile purchases. (that goes with the new definition)

When the commodity markets were manipulated (when gasoline cost $4.00 or even $5.00 per gallon) the people on the right side of that equation ( the politically connected) made an astronomical amount of money, and they can still afford to spend a ridiculous amount of money on any thing they choose.

That equation shifted the average income down. (the price of food was manipulated too) If you had to pay more for food and gasoline, two of the basic necessities of life; that amounted to a decrease in your disposable income; ( your bank account took a big hit, now you're lucky if you have one) the amount of money left for frivolities is a lot less now.

Although many of us object to reality, that's the life we have to live; unless we were on the right side of the equation, and can afford a 100K amp.

Frogman, it's not fascinating or mysterious, just a fact of life; the same thing goes for athletes.

So much of who you are, was determined before you were born; it's a lot about "who was yo daddy". If your daddy was rich, I would venture to say you don't have too many financial problems, and even those will be reduced when he joins honorable ancestors.