learsfool
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| Jazz for aficionados Hi O-10 - first, I want to say that I do feel bad at how acerbic my post last night was. I have been very ill with a strange stomach bug, and it was bothering me, and while that is not an excuse, it is a reason the bile came out in my post. I ap... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi O-10: RE Your post of 5/7 2:08pm about Coltrane not needing to practice. Here we go again. You have repeatedly had two professional musicians on this thread tell you how incorrect your "theory" is. I seem to remember a couple of other folks... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi guys - first, to answer a question Rok posed: "If the LP is not released, how does the artist get paid or make money?" Answer: the artists are paid for their work in the recording sessions themselves - in fact, this is the biggest single pay... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Happy Birthday to Ella Fitzgerald!Enter your text ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi O-10 - as Frogman has tried a couple of times to explain to you, it is not the tune itself that sounds like elevator music. It is the cheesy string arrangement backing up the piano in that particular Previn recording that sounds like elevator.... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi O-10 - I went back and found the Andre Previn jazz piano clip you say your "controversy" is about. "Elevator music" is a pretty good description, actually. For me, the best that can be said of it is that it is very light entertainment, and wh... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi Orpheus - First, you seem convinced that I was the person Frogman referred to in that post - I am not at all sure. There could be a few others. Second - you had asked me to respond to the video you posted of Andre Previn performing and conduc... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi Orpheus - one of your recent posts reminded me of the Previn conversation, and that fact that I never did listen to that. So I just did. Previn's general reputation, both in the classical and jazz worlds, is that though he was quite talented,... | |
| Best Ways to Organize a Classical Record LP Collection ? My two cents on this - really the only reason to organize by label would be if you consider yourself more of a collector, or if you are more interested in the sonics of a recording than the performance. As a professional musician, the concept of ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi O-10 - I saw the link to Previn playing a Mozart concerto. That is interesting, as I don't believe I have ever heard his classical piano playing, or if I have it was way back when I was in school, and I don't remember. I honestly do not know ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Orpheus, in the classical world, Andre Previn is mainly known as a conductor, though he did write a few pieces. He also wrote a few film scores. I don't think I have ever even heard any of his classical compositions, let alone played them. Cert... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi Orpheus - I just saw your question about what classical music would be cool. I have been sitting here for fifteen minutes trying to decide how to respond. This is actually a difficult question, as I have absolutely no idea what you would thin... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hi Newbee - I would say that your experience is quite common. Many people that don't think they like something when they first hear it change their minds later, after more exposure to things more easily understandable. Artists, too, both compose... | |
| Shostakivich Symphony No 5 Another good performance is the St. Louis Symphony conducted by Slatkin on RCA. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Frogman reminds me that I never answered that question about what is the hardest when I went off on my mellophone rant, LOL! He is absolutely correct that each instrument has it's own problems. Among the brass, though, as I think I have said bef... |