orpheus10

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Jazz for aficionados
Nobody can sing the blues better than Etta James. 
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Dianne Reeves does the best version of Afro Blue by any one ever; it paints a picture and you can see the young lovers flowing to the music, which is tops. 
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nsp, have you ever heard Dave Brubeck and the word "soul" used in the same sentence until Frogman decided to use the two over and over. I ask you why?Dave Brubeck got "soul"; how does that sound? Dave Brubeck don't got no soul; who cares, Dave's... 
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Dee Dee's Feathers;              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIxpdFcJxRk 
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I suggest we go with new vocals for a change of pace. Of course we are all familiar with Ella, Sarah, Lady Day, and Dinah, but there are relatively new vocalists that we aren't familiar with, lets focus on them.Cecille Salvant has a new album "Dr... 
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When you are talking about "Jazz", you are also talking about "Super Creativity"; that's why they have so much respect for one another. Jazz musicians are born, not made; nothing I can think of would enable a musician to get on a bandstand in fro... 
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If you really noticed "Bird", he always had a sly grin, as if he knew something he wasn't sharing with anyone; his music, it had something special and different, it was a secret that only he knew. Even today, his "Bird with Strings" sounds like i... 
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Very good links Acman, I will comment on them later. 
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Milt Jackson; "Plenty Plenty Soul";    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rch0zXwBUPE 
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Frogman, maybe you should go back to school; a word is defined by the way it is used in a sentence. 
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Frogman, you have become a "Troll"; as in a blog Troll;In Internet slang, a troll (/troʊl, trɒl/) is a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive,[1] extraneous, o... 
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The phenomenology of guist is German Soul; it's a heavy philosophy about the inner spirit of human beings, so as you say "Soul" is universal, but when referring to soul as in jazz, it has a special and very specific meaning. It carries with it th... 
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Mingus got soul;      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__OSyznVDOYBobby Timmons got soul;      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjRQo-zpKARay Charles got double soul;        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BzkiZBzcu4"Soul" is that imperceptible ... 
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I don't seem to be pleasing anybody today; I think I'm going to do what the little fellow who wandered into a New Orleans house of ill repute did when asked who you gonna please?       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di7ko6eST40&list=PLvzXX1gp... 
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Since we left Rok out of the last conversation, I'm going to try and include him along with the rest of us in this one. It's got Nawlins funk and jazz; "Dr. John, Duke Elegant";      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oae5iJCOK60&list=RDoae5iJC...