Hey Jazzbos, Happy New Year to you all!
I've been away for a family holiday visit and don't carry digital connections with me, other than a basic c-phone. So I just spent time catching up on your posts made while I was away. The dreaded "Application Error" on Audiogon continues into 2018 so hope this gets posted as I have a collection of comments.
"Sing, Sing, Sing" and the Benny Goodman concert was truly groundbreaking, and not only for being the first jazz concert presented at Carnegie Hall. Recently I read that was the first LP album release but that didn't make sense to me. I thought LPs were introduced about 10 years after that concert?
frog, speaking of genres in music, this is not exactly jazz, but blues must certainly be considered a close sibling within the family. I first saw an hour's program from this session on PBS several years ago. Then a couple of years later I found an LP with some of the numbers at an audio show. This is the first time I've seen what must be the full length video, great stuff -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPcGJahjsHY rok, the beautiful car on the Jimmy Smith cover was a Jag XK-150, the last of their 100 series and just prior to their more famous XK-E Type. That image was distorted from spreading by a wide-angle view which made it a little less obvious. Also, if the seat material was important to you, you should have bought a Chrysler with the famed "Corinthian Leather"! ;^)
Regarding Hollywood and drumming, one of their biggest sins was the distortion of the Native American beat. It was not "BOOM, boom, boom-boon" as depicted in so many Western movies, but instead a steady, even beat, replicating the human heart. A friend with Native American heritage pointed this out to me some years ago.
Lastly, this is a repeat link for me, but I couldn't resist with mention of Haitian music -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7CoJEyiSfE
