orpheus10
Responses from orpheus10
| Jazz for aficionados They said the sets would be limited, and I didn't heed their warning, now the sets I want are out of print; but maybe if enough people want them, they'll start the presses up again.I thought I had Mingus pretty well covered, not realizing that lik... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Acman, I want to thank you very much for that link.I personally knew two Blue Note musicians who had drug problems, and they both suffered the same fate as Tina Brooks in regard to their best work not being released until after they were dead.Did ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Many times an artist's best talents are displayed as a sideman; that's when he enhances another artist's music, such is the case of "The Sermon" by that great organist Jimmy Smith.As fantastic as Jimmy Smith is, what would "The Sermon" be without ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Many people don't take into account the human beings who create the music we call "jazz"; they just consider them musicians. That's OK in the beginning, but after someone has been listening long enough to consider himself an "aficionado", he real... | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5PQS-VIonk | |
| Jazz for aficionados That was nice Acman, I'll be sure and listen to it again. | |
| Jazz for aficionados That's a very good description Pryso; I had forgotten the Swingle Singers. | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=297klwcKKmI | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw_hee-7R_o | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOvB6gUpsuk | |
| Jazz for aficionados Generations of music lovers have already determined what is and what is not, not me; that's why all of a sudden I feel foolish engaging in this foolish debate. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Yes, I am upset; I'm upset with the idea that anyone on this thread should exhibit such poor taste, as to choose that trio over the gold standard.This is not a matter of preference; this over that, but it's a matter of one thing being clearly supe... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "Well, O-10, no sense breaking the streak; since you want to keep track. The live Sarah/“Misty” wins hands down in my book."When you stated that, you threw the gauntlet down, and it was my duty to respond."The studio version...just that. Studio pr... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "That studio sound"; is that the sound of the golden standard, the one that Sarah her self considers her best. Is that the sound of some of the most incredible musicians to ever back a vocalist?Quincy Jones, Kenny Clark, and Zoot Sims, a few of t... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Conducted by Quincy Jones and His Orchestra with Zoot Sims on Saxaphone, "Misty" is a jazz standard written in 1954 by the pianist Erroll Garner. Originally composed as an instrumental following the traditional 32-bar format, the tune later had ... |