rok2id
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| Worlds Best Trumpet Player? *****Or is it just the incredible quality of the recording that makes me think that******Yep, it must be the quality of the recording.Cheers | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Mapman:Your response sounds right to me. I remember that a lot of Artist, Musicians, Poets and Writers, actually fought in the First world war. And some died. That war had a tremendous impact on Europe that is not appreciated today. And all the ca... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? *****Rok2id, I presume you've tried Berg's op. 1 piano sonata, his Lyric Suite and his violin concerto and found them lacking?******I do not own anything by Berg, except LULU. I did not like LULU, but I may grow into it later. So I am not in any w... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? ****Take Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern****I wish someone would. ******but I find their intellectual rigor and organization to be fascinating and very enjoyable.*******what does 'intellectual rigor and organization' mean?Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados *****Speaking of jazz, Rok and Frogman, why have there suddenly been no new posts on that thread?*****I have been busy entering music into my database and trying to find room for CDs in my racks. It's been a while, and they were backing up. Also c... | |
| Most underrated composer of 20th Century? "so skilled at his craft he has to be in the Canon, but really doesn't have much to say."Right on Target! Sort of like a lot of modern day 'Jazz' players / composers.And to think, some folks say he is "right up there with Mozart"!!!! Makes a body ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Recent Listens:Ron Carter & Jim Hall -- TELEPHONEJimmy Smith -- BACK TO THE CHICKEN SHACKWynton Marsalis -- THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF WYNTON MARSALISFreddie Hubbard -- READY FOR FREDDIEGot Pleasure and Solace from them all. Carter and Hall was the... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Great post Learsfool. Except for your comments about my attitude, of course. But who is perfect among us?If you don't know what to say or do, the Lord will always show the way.,While watching the tennis matches last night, I was glancing thru the ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados We had been going back and forth about Fusion and Wynton, so this unwashed brain thought, HEY, with the internet and youtube, we can hear them both, almost side by side, and then we can each say which we liked best. And why? This is not a test, ju... | |
| Jazz for aficionados *****I have no idea what a comparison between Weather Report and Wynton Marsalis' retro-jazz demonstrates or proves********hahahahahhaha Frogman, you are incorrigible man!!I bet you liked the Marsalis clip better!Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10:You are spot on about it painting a picture. I have the album by the Ray Bryant trio entitled 'Slow Freight', but I cannot find it on CD. I do have Ray on a solo piano CD etitled 'Somewhere in France'. Slow freight is on this CD, but just sol... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Some good'unshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu9RVPTpDyAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IA3ZvCkRkQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXxRyNvTPr8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi0RpNSELashttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPMhttp://www.youtube.com/w... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Let the people choose.Heavyweight Fusion Playershttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07RN1Omm_YMBackwards looking and playing wannabehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnpQZ_gGY68I will leave it others to decide.Cheers | |
| Jazz for aficionados ******I remember a comment that you made early on in this thread that has always stuck with me; something to the effect that somehow it was inconceivable that someone with a different opinion from yours might "have some insight into music that you... | |
| Jazz for aficionados *****One cannot judge art outside of its rightful historical context. Why? Because art always reflects the times; it is the RESULT of the time during which it was created. How good a job art does of reflecting the times is, ultimately, what determ... |