Jazz for aficionados

o10, and others interested in acoustic bass. I find Brian Bromberg’s playing to be quite good and this is a particularly well recorded album. At least through my speakers if not my iMac. ;^)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAWEfInjx5c&list=PLEDOkLl5hFdTk6VvtpBf_smVjUunK0aP7

Frogman, why do you insist on treating jazz music as though there is some kind of mathematical absolute, and you always have it?

Time, time, and time again, others have posted that when it comes to choices in music, in regard to your selection, or my selection, yours is way behind; this has been a pissing contest for some time, and I always piss farther than you.

The violin is not only not "simple" it is a very complex instrument that produces a very harmonically complex sound which is extremely difficult to record, perhaps the most difficult.

I couldn't care less how difficult it is to play; the fact that it's harmonically complex, makes it absolutely perfect for tuning my mid-range, which I have spent many years to get it precisely as I think it should be.

Do you remember the "Heil Airmotion Transformer"

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Motion_Transformer

It came out as a two way, and although I liked the tweeter, the whole speaker was not to my satisfaction because of the mid-range; it was not "Mello as a Cello".

Not until I talked to a crossover engineer, and he informed me that we could build one as "Mello as a Cello" and still keep the "AMT".

These speakers have evolved over many years, and the mid-range is mello as a cello, and they reproduce the complex harmonics of the violin splendidly.

Putting issues of stylistic preferences on the part of the listener aside, the truth is that Pedersen plays the bass at a much higher level of proficiency than Pettiford did.

Regardless to what proficicency he plays the bass, he is no OP and he can not "Jamm" like OP; this is "jazz" not classical.

As far as bass players who preceded OP, you can go back to sax players who preceded "Bird"; I'm sure you can find some, and I'm sure you will tell me they are more proficient, like that makes a difference in the jazz world.

Let us go to "Wikipedia" and compare Pedersen to OP.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels-Henning_%C3%98rsted_Pedersen



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pettiford

When you compare these two by any kind of objective measure, Pedersen gets lost in the shuffle.

o,

Not sure what Frim Fram sauce actually is (although there is a recipe for it on the web) but it is the title of a nonsensical song who's lyrics were written in 1945 by Redd Evans with music written by Joe Ricardel and made famous by Nat King Cole, although performed by various artists over the years since. Yes, this is plagiarized from Wikipedia ;) 

I also enjoy "Flight of the Cosmic Hippo". I saw Bela Fleck, Victor Wooten, and the other Flecktones in a small nightclub in Charlotte many years ago. It was one to remember.

Brian Bromberg's "Wood" is an excellent listen also. I recall that it was once recommended by REL to set their subwoofers' crossover and gain adjustments if I am not mistaken.

Dave