Rok, I understand your response, and that's such a horrible word, that I wont use it twice.
I only ask, from one military man to another, that you carefully examine my post; especially the link.
Jazz for aficionados
@orpheus10 Hey I know you're the author of this thread. I'm just trying to keep myself from getting mad at people I don't know who views maybe be different from mine. We are here because of our love for music and that is what brought us together. Religion, creed or ones political affiliation is not a requirement. And yes I am a black man who simply loves music and particularly jazz music. Music, Music, Music whether it's Stan Getz or Ahmad Jamal, I'm here for the music. |
Welcome to the thread bluesy41. I look forward to your comments on the music. **** I think he (OP) decides what is appropriate. **** I don’t think so. And certainly not when the comments are unrelated to the thread’s topic. That topic is the reason that readers visit the thread; not to read rantings on unrelated topics and especially when the comments are so provocative and rooted in personal agenda. This is a thread about music. Once again, in spite of all the prior commentary about how the reason that there aren’t more posters here is that we “aficionados” are somehow special and have some special appreciation for this music, here we have a new contributor who is not being welcomed. The name calling is probably next. That has also been very effective at driving new posters away. It seems that the unrelated comments surface when there is nothing interesting to say about the music. |
*****I don’t think so.***** Well, I think so, and apparently, so does the OP. Some of us can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can talk about Basie and Katrina all in the same day. Believe it or not. *****Once again, in spite of all the prior commentary about how the reason that there aren’t more posters here is that we “aficionados” are somehow special and have some special appreciation for this music, here we have a new contributor who is not being welcomed.***** Once again, here we go with the straw man stuff. No one said the posters on this thread are special. No one said Bluesy41 was not welcome. You just make this stuff up, so you can tear it down. Cheers |
Basie/Ellington. Very different bands with very different sounds and attitudes. Duke Ellington used the big band much more like the way a great composer uses a symphony orchestra. A much more varied musical palette than Basie’s sound where the emphasis was the infectious feeling of bounce and swing that pryso mentions; although Duke’s band were no slouches in that department. What do you get when you cross a Duke with a Count? : https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLw8upf1Ky3VNwKkBl2syU2en5e_l-G-iB&v=P1DKL_LE_8I |