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  1. Billboard Top Selling Jazz Albums

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

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    1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

    Thank you for that helpful and useful answer.

    Correct the decade, give it a go and see whether it works. 

    If anyone does know the answer to the original question and isn’t just trying to be  clever, I’d appreciate the input.

    Not trying to be clever, just showing how quick and simple it is to get the results you're looking for if you just put in a minimum of effort. I obtained a wealth of information in just a few minutes. Why should anyone take the time to find the answer if you can't be bothered to try yourself? And as far as "correcting the decade", you said "after 1980". To me, that means 1981, 1982, 1983 .... In other words, the 80s and beyond.

  13. Ellington in Order

    in Discography

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    44 minutes ago, Stompin at the Savoy said:

    I downloaded the hi res version of Volume 2 from Qobuz yesterday and it appears to have mastering (or distribution?) errors not found on Spotify.  For ex track 2 Diga Diga Do begins with the tune already in progress, ends, and then begins again in the middle!  Similar sorts of problems in track 3 I Must Have That Man, and others.  I am wondering who to contact about this.

    No such errors in the files I downloaded (not from Qobuz). I'd contact Qobuz. Good luck!

  14. Last Night's Jazz Dream

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    18 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    Last night I had a dream about heating a reel-to-reel tape of me practicing in college, found in a lake house, mini cyclones starting up on that lake, and secret recordings of Joe Biden phone calls involving picking his dad up at the airport on the other side of that tape.

    This is the first "playing",dream I've had in many many years. 

    Sounds like late-night tamales to me.

  16. Jim Snidero

    in Artists

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    On 8/9/2023 at 3:52 PM, sgcim said:

    Yeah, I guess it won't hold up in the Organissimo court of law. I declare this a mistrial, and find the defendant Snidero innocent of all charges. Court Adjourned!

    More like the case should be dismissed with prejudice for a lack of evidence. 🥸

  18. Jim Snidero

    in Artists

    Posted

    13 hours ago, sgcim said:

    I'm just saying what he said in the radio interview. I'm not agreeing with him.

    No. You accuse Snidero of saying something without any proof. Whether or not you agree with this false statement is irrelevant.

    12 hours ago, JSngry said:

    It's language, and all that comes with that. 

    Exactly! A language used to create a narrative. Everyone's narrative is slightly different, but these stories often contain similar themes, phrases, timing, etc. that speak to shared experiences. At least that's how I listen to the music and connect to an artist.

  19. Jim Snidero

    in Artists

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    On 8/6/2023 at 8:28 PM, sgcim said:

    Snidero is the guy who I heard interviewed on WKCR, who throughout the interview claimed he had the one secret about jazz that no one knew about (sounded like clickbait).

    He finally revealed the secret, which was that jazz musicians work out their solos beforehand. He used as proof the Miles Davis Quintet albums alternate tracks he heard, and claimed that they all played the same basic solos as the tracks used on the albums themselves. I posted about this before, and someone disagreed with me by posting another interview with him, in which he said the same thing, but phrased it differently.

    As far as in tune alto players, your friend Phil Woods was incapable of playing OOT, unless he was dying of Emphysema on his last albums.

    Gene Quill,Jackie McLean and many other alto players can't make that same claim.

    That someone would be me. Here's your original statement:

    On 6/27/2022 at 4:41 PM, sgcim said:

    ...Then you have Jim Snidero saying in an interview on WKCR that the secret to jazz is that based on his study of alternate takes of Miles Davis' Coltrane period Quintet/Sextet albums, none of that stuff was improvised. Every take had the same solos (at least by Trane and Davis) that appeared on the records. Snidero claims that this is true of all the jazz records he and his contemporaries make today. No improvisation...

    I asked you for proof that he made such an outlandish claim. You said you heard it on the radio and told me to search the station's archives for it. I did that and more and found nothing. Your comeback? "I heard it on the radio". 

    You then went on to make the same claim on another forum, and I replied with the following:

    [QUOTE=jazzshrink;1263299]You've made this same claim on other forums over the past year or so. I don't believe that's what he said and when I inquired, you couldn't provide a link to your source. So, I did some research of my own and found this recent Snidero interview in which he said: 

    "There’s often a misunderstanding when it comes to jazz improvisation, that somehow you’re making it all up as you’re going along out of thin air. I am part of a tradition established by the greatest jazz improvisors - Bird, Miles, Coltrane, Rollins, etc … - which is that there is plenty of pre-conceived material that is used when improvising. You hear it time and again on recordings of jazz greats, the same language on multiple recordings. The trick is to be in the moment, listen, react, and most importantly, be musical. 

    There will be times that you play something that you’ve played many times before, times when you’re playing variations of things you’ve played before, and times when you play something entirely new. It’s about how you put it together and how in the moment you are when improvising."

    I hope you'll agree that this statement is not the same as "the top players didn't improvise".[/QUOTE]

    Your response?

    [QUOTE=sgcim;1263478]That's not what he said in the interview. He said that they played the exact same things that they played on the out takes. He called it the "great secret about jazz improvisation". He was only referring to the Miles Davis group with Trane at the time. What you[re saying sounds more reasonable.[/QUOTE]

    So, now you're here peddling the same crap, claiming: "someone disagreed with me by posting another interview with him, in which he said the same thing, but phrased it differently." What happened to "What you're saying sounds more reasonable."?

    I don't understand you, sgcim. You're an accomplished musician, arranger, etc. Snidero's description of the improvisation process in the print interview is spot on, imo. I would think someone with your experience would recognize this, and seriously question what you thought you hear him say on the radio. At the very least, I hope it would discourage you from spreading misinformation without providing any proof beyond, "I heard it."

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