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by HenryMc
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...
by HenryMc
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...
by HenryMc
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
by HenryMc
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...
by HenryMc
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...
by HenryMc
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
by HenryMc
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
by HenryMc
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...
by HenryMc
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...
by HenryMc
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 ...
by HenryMc
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...
by HenryMc
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.


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by HenryMc
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.

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