Jazz for aficionados

And for Frogman!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLTY214-gI4

Rok, you and Frogman are making interesting conversation, but you both are totally wrong.

Do you recall an interview with Herby Hancock, where he stated how he goofed (played wrong chord or notes) and Miles came right behind him and made it all perfect; Miles thought that was what Herby intended to play. Improvisation is spontaneous, there is nothing predetermined about it.

Evidently, what you and Frogman can not comprehend, you must find other reasons for it's existence; I have seen jazz musicians perform impossible feats night after night; they're jazz musicians, that's what they do.

No matter how many people the concert pianist reached, the music was right in front of him and it may have been hundreds of years old; "external", outside of one's body; "internal", from the soul, that inner spirit that makes us alive, and different from every other human being on the planet; that's where the jazz musician is coming from.

In regard to reaching people, I'm sure the concert pianist reaches his desired audience. I may not hear anything when I look at a Beethoven piano sonata, but a concert pianist most certainly would when he looked at it; but did he create it?

Building blocks, nuts and bolts; I assume you are referring to the stuff that makes music; if so, all musicians use the same nuts and bolts, they just arrange them differently.

Bill Frizell, Thomas Morgan, "Subconscious Lee"; the music reached me, I didn't have to make any effort. I checked and was surprised it was done in 2016.


Subconscious-Lee is a jazz album by Lee Konitz although a few tracks were issued on 78rpm under Lennie Tristano's name. It was recorded in 1949 and 1950, and released on the Prestige label.

Now everything makes perfect sense; ever heard of "Jack Kerouac"? I don't know where Lee Konitz got his inspiration from, but it sounds awfully "Beat" to me, can you dig it?

Listing artists, not particular discs:

Carla Bley
Gary Burton 
Stan Getz
Charlie Haden
Jim Hall
Modern Jazz Quartet
Thelonius Monk 
Gerry Mulligan