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What else is there to talk about? Feelings??

Man.

Loved him in Conspiracy Theory.

Not jazz, but I guess some of the stuff in this thread isn't jazz either:

Oh come on.

Different kind of music video, I guess, because I didn't really think anyone cared enough to take down Solomon and Weissenberg and Arrau clips. But, yeah, it happened for some reason.

Why?

Harris' solo on the title track is Quite Possibly The Worst Solo I've Ever Heard.

I wanna rain, rain, rain on your parade.

Well, anyone that thought MilesDavis' renditions of ariceffron were funny isn't allowed an opinion. Deep.

No offense to your heart, but you gotta get the Reiner version over this one. For solo piano, try the Etudes-tableaux; probably can't go wrong with Ashkenazy here.

'Brian, I know I don't speak up much, and it's really hard for me to talk about my feelings, but—' 'Why don't we start with someone more interesting? Peter?'

i enjoyed this one! I still haven't bought anything yet. I was leaning towards the Fischer and the Boulezes but then I saw that there's a cheap Bartók Dorati boxed set including it. Anyone know what the box is like? (I have the Menuhin violin concerto from it already—it's good.)

The problem is to find "decent" CD-Rs. I have had problems with dozens of Fuji CD-Rs burned in 2002-2003 that have become partly unreadable by now. At the time, I thought Fuji was a renowned brand that offered decent CD-Rs Same story here with Sonys.

crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch

As if going out with a sow on top of you would be any less embarrassing.

Man.

Man, someone hook a brotha up with this.

I saw a programme entitled Legends of Jazz listed for tonight on PBS with the info 'Footage from Eric Dolphy's 1964 tour with the Misha Mengelberg Trio'. 'Hell yeah,' I thought. I'd forgotten this article: TV Review | 'Legends of Jazz With Ramsey Lewis'. It turns out I'm watching the Terry / Hargrove / Botti installment. I have no idea how they could have got the info so heartbreakingly wrong. Does such Dolphy footage even exist?

Plus, these labels are so unfixed. I had a guy write me last night and tell me how much he liked the "smooth jazz" that I was playing and that the guitar was really lovely - I was playing Wes. Must've been Bumpin'.

Doesn't that mean there's good smooth jazz? There are some Smooth Jazz albums that fit rather better into the tradition of Soul Jazz than others. Try Urban Knights for that - of course, Ramsey Lewis does make a dfference. In general, Smooth Jazz suffers from exactly the same defects as Smooth Soul - some talented musicians and singers, but not much soul, not much conviction, no real story to tell. They probably wouldn't be ALLOWED by their labels to tell their story anyway. MG Well, it was a rhetorical question intended to show that saying that particular categories of music have good stuff just hides the aesthetic judgement in the choice of category. (With reference to AllenLowe's example: if he doesn't think any smooth jazz is good the argument now hinges on the placing of smooth jazz in the jazz category.)

Doesn't that mean there's good smooth jazz?

I want my very own doorman. I will name him George and I will hug him and squeeze him and pat him and pet him...

How do you think doormen feel having to be nice to so many self-involved assholes every day? So it's a win-win situation.