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- August 9th, 2013, 4:28 pm
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: Bill Evans
- Replies: 37
- Views: 11718
Re: Bill Evans
I remembered that clint did that from years ago and while I cant say that I listen to bill every day I certainly listen to bill a lot. Maybe its because when I first stated getting into jazz about 40 years ago (more actually) one of the first records I got was "Explorations" quickly follow...
- August 9th, 2013, 4:20 pm
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: Downbeat Readers Poll — 2013
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4026
Re: Downbeat Readers Poll
Im an online subscriber and never vote but when I look at the lists it always amazes me what a broad church Jazz is. Like most of us (it appears) my taste has been formed and though open to new things, my faves are well and truly established (After Bird, then who?). I did notice some people I hadn't...
- August 9th, 2013, 4:14 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Little known facts (that aren't true)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 143409
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
men who use 'product' in their hair cant play the euphonium
jazz is the preferred music of top 40 stations across the world
jazz is the preferred music of top 40 stations across the world
- July 12th, 2013, 4:25 pm
- Forum: Other Music
- Topic: Yee-Haw!!! Any fans of Country and Western music?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 40233
Re: Yee-Haw!!! Any fans of Country and Western music?
"vanilla and style conscious"? hmmm ..maybe Nashville..but whoever wrote this is probably doing the same thing to country that people do to jazz "oh its just rinky dink music". Like the Blues and Jazz, whats called country is a broad church. I'd suggest that the marketers like to...
- July 12th, 2013, 3:58 pm
- Forum: Other Music
- Topic: Live Performances that seemed to suck at the time.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3593
Re: Live Performances that seemed to suck at the time.
Dylan - Brisbane 1978 .......can remember the muddy sound of the old Festival Hall and his bobness playing with the melody, tempo and even lyrics of his songs....some were reduced to dirges and some galloping waltzes....and this despite the shithot band he had on that tour including rob stoner on ba...
- July 10th, 2013, 4:32 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Jazz Corner Posters MIA
- Replies: 66
- Views: 18969
Re: Jazz Corner Posters MIA
This place needs tim Conan nado and deep....seriously
- July 5th, 2013, 3:00 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Can album titles be improved by adding "with a boner"?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6722
Re: Can album titles be improved by adding "with a boner"
Beefheart style
Trout mask replica with a boner ....um
Bat chain puller with a boner ....er
Safe as milk with a boner ....ewww
Trout mask replica with a boner ....um
Bat chain puller with a boner ....er
Safe as milk with a boner ....ewww
- July 5th, 2013, 5:39 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Can album titles be improved by adding "with a boner"?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6722
Can album titles be improved by adding "with a boner"?
Is there any album title that cannot be improved with the addition of the words " with a boner" ? Ie Joe Locke with "lay down my heart with a boner" Christian McBride "people music with a boner" Yellow jackets "a rise in the road with a boner" And of course Ge...
- July 5th, 2013, 5:25 am
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: Who doesn't like "mainstream" jazz?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11566
Re: Who doesn't like "mainstream" jazz?
Most jazz is museum music now. Coltrane died 45 years ago, miles nearly 22 years ago. The current crowd recreate to various degrees the excitement of earlier eras. Ther are some tremors of excitement in European new classical and avant but otherwise it's increasingly played by schooled musicians ade...
- July 4th, 2013, 8:17 pm
- Forum: Other Music
- Topic: Beach Boys.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 22842
Re: Beach Boys.
There is great Doonesbury cartoon from the aids years where one of the characters was dying of aids and could finally go now that pet sounds was released on cd. I rate revolver higher than pet sounds but ps was a remarkable album, the true culmination of bw's teenage symphonies to god and one which ...
- July 4th, 2013, 6:35 pm
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: I Like Jazz
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4031
Re: I Like Jazz
I like jazz even tho' it is unpopular and most people avoid it like the plague or think its all striped waistcoats and banjos and men in funny hats or fellows in goatees pontificating like far out man I thought that cat would never leave I like jazz though most people think Coltrane is something tha...
- July 4th, 2013, 2:22 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Favorite Standup Comics - Then and Now
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5247
Re: Favorite Standup Comics - Then and Now
Lenny Bruce
Stan Freberg
And the greatest ever.....The Goons.
Current
Julian Assange
Stan Freberg
And the greatest ever.....The Goons.
Current
Julian Assange
- July 4th, 2013, 1:13 am
- Forum: Step right up and introduce yourself!
- Topic: Who I is.
- Replies: 237
- Views: 303837
Re: Who I is.
I is henry mc. I be Australian. I refuse to be labelled. I have several Wynton Marsalis recuds. I dig rock and roll music. That was a song by peter paul and mary.
