*****The best known of these was his “Suite For Flute and Jazz Piano” with the great flutist Jean Pierre Rampal. *****
I have that on LP. Didn't make the cut to CD. I don't even remember the music.
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Jazz for aficionados
“Suite For Flute and Jazz Piano” with the great flutist Jean Pierre Rampal. ***** That was the most forgettable music I ever heard; I have the CD, but I don't know where it is. Some reviewer wrote that you had to work in order to hear the "new jazz". I could have responded, "I'm retired, and I would only work if I got paid, now if you are willing to mail me some new jazz along with a check for listening, I would gladly oblige". This new music is like the present generation, "It's confused"; however, there are some outstanding talents, and Liz Wright is one of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hxVXFNks40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqgocq64mwg |
I'm concerned about homelessness today; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFcSVOU1CRM I once worked (without pay) for the homeless in my city; that was in the 80's when the problem was no where near what it is today. The vast majority suffered from mental problems, or they were winos. Very few of what you would call average normal people were homeless. One woman who had a degree that commanded a high salary wound up homeless as a result of health problems. There was no way she was ever going to get hired if she put on her application that she lived in a homeless shelter; we had to give her a new place to live. We devised a plan (the head of this shelter was very influential); we gave this lady a phone number (thanks to the phone company) that would give her address as the ritzy suburbs. That number rang at the shelter; which means she also had an answering service. Since she was healthy when we devised this plan, in no time at all she was back at work earning the high salary she was qualified for. Had we not devised that plan, the woman could still be homeless, and gone wacky in the head; the two go together. |
Today's Listen: Blue Mitchell -- THE THING TO DO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXr-Jz5RBn0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv3MlbLnkXM Cheers |