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Easy on the eyes guitar face!

Somebody told her "somber and sultry is sexy" once and she bought it. She CAN smile!

And she went to the "Julia Louis-Dreyfus School of Dancing" !

DTMX: I'm with you one hundred percent!

Yeah, and Winwood!

Lionel Hampton

Terry Pollard

Joe Chambers

Jobim~!

Yes Hermeto! Dick Cary on piano and peckhorn! Wynton Kelly on piano and bass! Ornette on alto and TRUMPET!

TWO good guitar facers in one photo! (Barbara Lynn and Derek O'Brien) Jimi sure did have an expressive guitar visage though!

Hey, yeah I'm older than 17 . . . nearly older than 17 times three! Play a little piano, used to play drums, sometimes pick up a guitar and realize I can't play at all well.

Oscar Moore, yes indeed. He was celebrated when he was with the Cole Trio and boy did he do some excellent work then (and later!) A great player indeed.

Sal Savlador! This guy really had it if you ask me! Marty Grosz: so wonderful!

Give the young man a break! He's excited about jazz! Let's make him feel welcome to post.

Interesting site! I subscribed too; can get some holes plugged reasonably from this service. Did you have to pay tax as well?

Well, send some of those downloaded shows my way! I can definitely understand that; I'm in a resurgance of interest in them, but there are certainly some artists I was once very excited about. . . that I can't get interested to hear now!

WELCOME!

I've been listening to this: Okay, it's not the best thing he's ever done, but it's him alone with a piano and an audience, and I'm really enjoying my second listen to this cd, and know it won't be the last!

I really do like the SACD layer of "Blood on the Tracks"; of those I have from this box (I have about 8) it has the best SACD sound to my ears. CD layers are pretty darned good.

Man that felt nice! You're right, the man is overlooked under either name!

I'm loving my new iBook G4, and we just updated our iMac G3 to OS10 and at home we have an embarassment of riches in computers. My wife is lucky to have an all-Mac office (most of the University actually); me I have a crappo PC at work; would LOVE a Mac at work! This new item should bring more users to the field!

Well yes, I do have some recordings with Absholom ben Shlomo!

Well, I'll disrespectfully disagree with that too SD, I often feel as if Wes is reaching into a trick bag, especially on ballads, and I don't as often feel that way about Grant, though yes he did cut and paste notes and riffs etc. . . . Again I'm not saying Wes is all technique, no soul, but technnique is a larger part of his whole musical identity, and something I think he loved, and gave structure to his expression,and being "soulful" in the sense of emotional expressiveness I see as a large part of Grant's musical character. There is something BEYOND the Blue Note connection that makes Grant a guitar player that people that don't always get excited about guitar players in the jazz world get excited about. I'm not entirely sure of why, but for me it's got a lot to do with the ways he is different from many other jazz players. And in my own experience playing music I got so irritated with busy "verbose" guitarists; Grant is like a fresh breath of air in that way, and I love the way that he set up grooves with repetitive riffs and building phrases, which is firmly in the tradition of soul guitarists of all sorts of styles . . . . It's no contest for me: his playing speaks to me in a satisfying clear voice. I have similar tastes in pianist such as Tom Jobim to Oscar Peterson, or Wynton Kelly to Art Tatum. I can think all four are masterful musicians, but reach for one over the ohter many many times.

Right, Allegro lost distributorship some time back; remember all those half price Classics at cybermusicplus.com? I bought so many it. . . hurt, still hurts, yes it does.