Jazz for aficionados

Here it is, all the way live HIROSHIMA! I am 100% into this including the Tibetan aspect at the beginning.


                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxImZTT1AEY


I wanted you to see the beautiful June Kuramoto on Koto. I'm sure you can find a better picture if you like what you hear and the audio is not the best; that gal can git down on that Koto when she wants to. I saw them in the 80's at a free concert in the Botanical Gardens, and they played like I've never heard them on any records; they were feeling it, and there was a large responsive audience; that can put high energy into any group.



      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jme2Z0HIzQU

                 

  (she was more beautiful in 1980, it don't last forever)



                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU3oPGanY3I


There is nothing on you tube that will provide an example of that evening, they were feeling good and just jamming.






Enjoy the music.

Rok, thanks for your valiant effort as peacekeeper.  Those are good definitions.  But the issue is not the validity of subjectivity.  Inherent in its definition is the idea that personal feelings are part of it.  It makes my point.  I have no issue with O-10 feeling that this or that is better FOR HIM.  My point is simply that there ARE aspects of music that can be judged objectively.  But first one must be willing to learn and understand the language of objectivity that relates to music; those pesky nuts and bolts.

O-10, I am not harping on anything.  I believe it is you who is harping on the subject of objectivity.  I don't know who your friend was nor know anything about his success (or not) in music.  I don't mean to be so blunt, but concerning this issue I am afraid that you don't know what you're talking about.  Of course, every musician can go through periods of little or no practicing; but, I assure you that eventually it catches up with him and it starts to show in his playing.  And, no, Louis was not talking about his formative years.  Bird practiced incessantly, so did Trane and on and on.  In fact, as a humorous footnote; it is the bane of every hotel when a touring jazz band would/does come to town with the endless complaints from guests about the practicing in the rooms.  Yes, the creative process happens in a player's head, but the chops need to be exercised and ideas developed and translated from the abstract to the physical and executed.  C'mon O-10, you seem to have created this bubble with your own personal reality of what it's all about.  I respectfully encourage you consider that your reality needs a little tweaking if it's going to be presented as anything but just your own.  Regards.

Hiroshima Live EMMY WINNING VIDEO

In what 'category' did they win this Grammy?

Cheers

Frogman, there is no universal reality; each individual should cling to his or her reality for all it's worth, because ultimately, that is the only reality.

Rok, Emmy not Grammy; different criteria.