Teasing the Korean

It's ironic that listeners (assuming they listen) are so vocals/word oriented, considering the *generally* low standards of pop lyrics since the days of people like Cole Porter. Aside from the better rap lyrics, that is.

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As someone who has worked professionally as a jazz musician with a room full of jazz LPs and CDs, I would be lying if I said I never used jazz functionally - ie as background music while doing the dishes, as background music if friends were over for a drink. Of course, only certain types of jazz work in this context. And I hate smooth jazz, if that's what you're thinking. I simply don't have the luxury of devoting lots of time to serious, extended and focused listening that I did when I was younger. That's adulthood, I guess...

I understand your point, but don't you think there are people out there who "use" jazz functionally, for better or worse?

What album or CD are these tracks released on?

The 3% figure for US sales is fairly generous. I've heard it was less than that.

Ya gotta hear "Voodoo Suite" (if you haven't already) and the harder to find "Concierto para Bongo," both of which take up an LP side. "Exotic Suite of the Americas," another extended work, is less satisfying IMHO.

I don't think that most "Americans" - I'm sure the writer means US residents - actively dislike jazz; I think they are largely indifferent to it. And I don't think music in general is as important to most people as it may have been a generation ago.

Why go through the time and trouble of transferring your Styx albums when you can just go to the thrift store and pick them up on 8-track?

We will all need to buy new TVs at some point whether we want to or not. Gee whiz, could that be a motivating factor for the switch?

A stereo copy, unfortunately, of a KILLER album. If there's one thing that drives me CRAZY, it's stereo mixes with the bass off to one side, as it is here.

John Meheagan wrote a series of jazz piano instruction books, "Contemporary Styles for the Jazz Pianist" which were considered pretty good at one time, mostly for the left-hand chord voicings. A lot of this stuff is old-hat by now, but at the time this may have been the only place to read about this kind of thing. I've never heard his recordings. How would you describe his style?

Thanks. Are you familiar with Salazar or Fernandez?

Thanks for the info! Sounds like it's what I'm looking for, based on your description.

Any idea how it compares to the books by John Storm Roberts, Max Salazar, or the other book by Raul Fernandez?

Is there a rotten tomato smilie?

Is there a definitive book or two on the history of Latin jazz? Something that gets pretty indepth. It does not have to be overly academic though I'm not opposed to that. Musical analases with notation are fine too. Preferably something that can be obtained fairly easily.

I really love "Jazz Impressions of Japan" and a few oddball things like "Brubeck Plays Bernstein Plays Brubeck."

Of course. But the montage has remained as one of those options, and I was simply pointing out its conventions and cliches as it has evolved. No malice was intended toward forum members working in the film industry.

I know. It doesn't change? Of course it does. How many movies today show a denim-clad couple in the woods while a Bread song plays in the background, unless it's done ironically? I just realized I failed to mention the travel montage...

It's a section of the film. It has no dialogue, various shots, music in the background. It is used to convey things happening and time passing without boring the audience while things happen and time passes. There must be thousands of films and TV show episodes using montages. "House" has one every week and it's always the low point of the show. In 20 years, though, it may be the most compelling aspect, as it will date the show, much as ads in vintage magazines are more interesting than the "real" content.

They are often featured in Hollywood films or US TV shows.

In the late 60s and early 70s, we had the love montage. This featured a couple, typically clad in denim and cowboy boots, walking through the woods, with soft focus shots of sunlight filtered through the trees. The scene would be scored with flute and acoustic guitar, or maybe a Bread knockoff. In the late 70s and (dreaded) 1980s, we had the action montage. This typically featured the underdog protagonist trying to accomplish a major feat in an impossibly short amount of time. It was typically scored with forgettable steroid fake-rock. It was recently parodied to great effect in “Team America.” Today we have the introspective sensitive montage. It features individual characters in succession looking introspective and sensitive. It is scored with a flavor-of-the-week indie rock band doing a faux introspective sensitive song. Well, that just about does it for our montage retrospective. What kind of montage will come into vogue next?

Gimme a chance to spin my vinyl copy and we can discuss it, if you want to.

No, she had a killer voice and was a big part of the UK mod/R&B scene. She had a number of UK hits but only one in the US.