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  2. Blindfold Test #128 Discussion Thread

    in Blindfold Test

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    Good Morning,

    Download links have been messaged. Please let me know asap if there is any trouble with the download, as this is my first time using that service.

    I hope no one is put out by the length of the test. It's 29 tracks total. Some are short, some are long, but I had a tough time paring it down and just decided to include them all!

    I will be in Seattle this coming Monday through Thursday, and will likely be busy for the rest of the weekend so I won't be around for the first week of the guessing and discussion. Enjoy!

    Jon

  6. Blindfold Test #128 Signup Thread

    in Blindfold Test

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    Greetings Organissimites,

    Please sign up here for Blindfold Test #128, hosted by yours truly! I'm going to give it my all to make this one a captivating listen, hopefully include a little something for everybody, and even more hopefully have something that everyone will love yet be unable to identify.

    This will only be available as a download as I do not have a reliable CD burner at this time. The download links will be private messaged to all respondents to this thread on November 1st, and this discussion threads will be posted the same day.

    Good luck!

    joN

  7. Joe Sample 1939-2014

    in Artists

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    I've been a fan of the Crusaders since my first days of getting into jazz, and I actually started collecting the funkier stuff before even knowing that they were originally the Jazz Crusaders. That meant I got two separate periods of discovery with the group, and I absolutely love their sound in both eras. Crusaders 1 and The Second Crusade were albums I paid extra money to obtain and they're still favorites. RIP Mr. Sample, and thank you for all the great music.

  9. Tower Records - Sunset Strip 1971

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    Personally, I miss the Virgin Megastore more than any others. Their selection during the CD era was out of this world. Stopping in there at midnight on our way home from City Walk was always a blast. Such a great atmosphere. I put together the majority of my Coltrane collection from there. Often leaving with anywhere from 4-8 discs each trip.

    While I've gone the way of minimalism these days, there is certainly something to be said for the record store experience.

    The Virgin Megastore in Burbank was my own personal playground. It was a weird, magical place where I could plan purchases weeks in advance since I was almost always the only person in the jazz section (which was beautifully stocked, as were all the others). The whole store was great, though. Every genre was nicely represented.

  12. Really bizarre, embarrassing shit from The New Yorker (merged)

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

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    At first read I thought the article was by Sonny Rollins (I'll admit to being naive but won't beat myself up over it). I thought maybe he was bitter because the current music which is so popular and pays so well is utterly without the immense talent and dedication artists like Sonny Rollins have poured a lifetime into. After being informed it was satire, I just sort of groaned and thought, "oh, that author's a dick. I didn't know the New Yorker did that old Onion-type stuff."

    Then I read the piece some tin-eared goof wrote about "jazz being out of ideas" and a bunch of other crap about music being "better with lyrics." My response there was that genres don't run out of ideas, but musicians and listeners might. All it takes is a new creative personality to bring a fresh touch to any genre. If a song with lyrics doesn't have you whistling it later, its melody isn't worth a damn. If a song without lyrics has you whistling it for days on end, it's doing everything a good song can do. Lyrics can enhance a song but aren't necessary to its success. In my experience the folks who can't appreciate a song without lyrics are less sophisticated, less eclectic listeners who haven't really wrapped their ears around what makes for quality music.

  15. Horace Silver 1928-2014

    in Artists

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    R.I.P for a wonderful man and musician. Would we even have the "Blue Note sound" without Horace? So many great tunes. So much that was catchy and simply joyful. Your music will always live with me.

    My feelings exactly.

    Mine too. I love Horace.

  25. Adam Gopnik tackles Ellington and the Beatles

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

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    I read the first two pages of this article this morning before leaving for work and had the same horrified reaction as everybody else in this thread. This sentence alone...

    Ellington was a dance-band impresario who played no better than O.K. piano, got trapped for years playing “jungle music” in gangster night clubs, and at his height produced mostly tinny, brief recordings.

    ... was enough to send me careening off my mental highway.

    The only thing "tinny" are the ninny author's ears. I suspect he hasn't actually listened or had the depth of jazz listening experience to grasp Ellington.

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