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So how did you become interested in Jazz?

Che.

Tonym turned me onto it.

I was surfing for porn, found this site by accident, was about to leave and I then saw the word "wanker" used in a post.

My curiosity was peaked!

No real porno here, but some pretty good music recommendations.

I've been hooked ever since.

You know I am curious as to why a small group of well informed and clearly knowledgable people, continue to appear to hijack threads? with the result that the threads may not develop as they could.

This thread is about why you became interested in jazz, and yes there is room for jokes and the ocassional :rhappy::rmad::alien::g , or whatever else constitutes motivation.

But I wonder if this approach is good for the development of this board?

Che.

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When I went to University I became interested in post 60's jazz, prior to this I had gone with what my Dad was interested in. Then I discovered John Coltrame, 'Giant Steps' was the first one, and this blew my mind.

No one I new could understand why I would like this music, and I have been on a discovery mission ever since.

Che.

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I dunno. I'm drawing a wank. :g

That be funny. :lol:

Seriously che, this is how things usually go. As Lon pointed out, it is a topic that has been discussed numerous times.

No biggie, you can start a new thread on this topic as you have, or any other topic, but at one time or another you've got to expect some jokes to fly.

I don't think hurts the development of this board.

People that want to will respond to your original thread topic no matter what other silly stuff is being posted.

Wank you for listening! :g

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I went through my elder brother's singles collection, he had left that behind when he moved out. Besides Elvis Presley and Little Richard there were three jazz records among it: A Dixieland band I do not remember, a Lionel hampton Trio (vibes, guitar and bass, Vogue) and the first Modern Jazz Quartet EP. It was the latter that hooked me: I did not understand this music, but it had something that made me listen to it over and over again. I still love it. I was listening to the Beatles and all at the time, but when Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison hit the scene I found them too lascivious and started buying Jazz LPs from a sales bin at the local record shop, Herbie Mann, Cannonball's Bossa Nova, Modern Jazz Quartet .... that was it. There was (and still is) something in the music that merits repeated listening - a pop song I knew inside out after listening twice.

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But I wonder if this approach is good for the development of this board?

Please, help us develop. We're looking to go public in a year, and want the IPO to go for as high as possible so we can cash out and retire.

You have posted the most.

I doubt there is much I can tell you.

I am a simple guy, just enjoying a chat or two with people that have the same interests as me.

Jokes about sex, swearing etc do not work for me.

Che.

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This thread is about why you became interested in jazz, and yes there is room for jokes and the ocassional :rhappy::rmad::alien::g , or whatever else constitutes motivation.

But I wonder if this approach is good for the development of this board?

Che.

Che, I think that doing a board search and resurrecting existing threads on a topic (like the four provided in links by Jazzbo) for further discussion also enhances "the development of the board" -- maybe to an even greater extent than starting a new thread and asking everyone to post their story all over again without having bothered to check out their previous efforts.

Just to give you an example of the kind of story you seem to be seeking, but that has already been posted, I will take the liberty of copying this generous revelation that Wesbed posted recently (December 2004) on one of the threads that Jazzbo suggested to you: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...opic=6545&st=30

I remember taking a flight from somewhere in New Jersey to London in 1976 when I was 10 years of age. The flight seemed neverending at that age. I remember listening to the airline's tape-loop of music through the headphones. I listened to every offered channel many times through, over and over, till the airplane landed in London. There was a country channel which I was familiar with since I'd grown up on country music. There was a classical channel which seemed too serious. There was a rock-n-roll channel that made no sense to me. I knew nothing about rock-n-roll when I was 10 years old. Finally, there was a jazz channel. I knew nothing about jazz but it seemed very cool to me. Almost too cool to touch.

I remember listening to several of the jazz tunes that were amazingly appealing to me. Sometime during the 1980s I discovered that the tunes I'd enjoyed on that flight, which I never forgot, were from George Benson's BREEZIN' record.

In the very late 1970s, before I discovered the mysterious tunes were from Benson's BREEZIN, I purchased my first jazz record. I liked the cover and I liked the tunes contained within. The music made me feel 'uptown' and 'jazzy' and really happy all over. I couldn't believe I'd discovered (and owned) such a treasure of music. If was nothing like the country music I'd been raised on. This music reminded me of the great songs I'd listened to during the flight across the Atlantic ocean, but a bit different, more modern. The first jazz record I purchased was Earl Klugh's HEART STRING. I remember spending many hours listening to the tunes and staring at Earl on the cover. The way he was dressed, the feel of the environment surrounding him. I imagined he was standing in the hallway of a jazz-based apartment or hotel or restaurant or studio.

Earl's music spoke to me and said my life and the world would be okay. I was 13 years old in 1979.

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Che, I think that doing a board search and resurrecting existing threads on a topic (like the four provided in links by Jazzbo) for further discussion also enhances "the development of the board" -- maybe to an even greater extent than starting a new thread and asking everyone to post their story all over again without having bothered to check out their previous efforts.

party pooper, you!

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In all seriousness, Che, I was once the classic "casual listener," or not even quite that... I had the LPs of KIND OF BLUE, GIANT STEPS, A LOVE SUPREME, and THE GREATEST JAZZ CONCERT EVER (2-LP Fantasy set of the Massey Hall concert), and thought of the music primarily as a cool atmosphere/mood-setter. Can't really say when the light went on in my brain, but I gradually became aware that there was something very profound AND pleasing quality to the music... Early Billie Holiday drew me in, the Basie Decca material gave me a kick, and the Parker Dials sealed the deal. It's been bliss ever since. :wub: But I always tell people that it was sitting in a coffeehouse, hearing Basie's "Now Will You Be Good" with Jimmy Rushing singing on the overhead, that was my on-the-road-to-Damascus moment. (Damascus? What kind of a gratuitous political allusion is that? Better shut myself up quick...)

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I went through my elder brother's singles collection, he had left that behind when he moved out. Besides Elvis Presley and Little Richard there were three jazz records among it: A Dixieland band I do not remember, a Lionel hampton Trio (vibes, guitar and bass, Vogue) and the first Modern Jazz Quartet EP. It was the latter that hooked me: I did not understand this music, but it had something that made me listen to it over and over again. I still love it. I was listening to the Beatles and all at the time, but when Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison hit the scene I found them too lascivious and started buying Jazz LPs from a sales bin at the local record shop, Herbie Mann, Cannonball's Bossa Nova, Modern Jazz Quartet .... that was it. There was (and still is) something in the music that merits repeated listening - a pop song I knew inside out after listening twice.

Mike.

Hello again.

My Mum liked Elvis, Bill Haley, Gene Pitney etc, which I also and still do . But my dad was a blues fan.

So he would play Bessie Smith, John Lee Hooker etc all the time, and then one day the music changed. And I heard Jelly Roll Morton for the first time, it was ok but I discovered 'The Doors' and 'Crosby, Still, Nash and Young' and the 'new wave' of American music.

But I still listened to Jelly and Louis Armstrong from time to time, it was Coltrane that made the difference, well via Sonny Stitt and a little bit of Miles Davis.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Che.

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But I wonder if this approach is good for the development of this board?

Please, help us develop. We're looking to go public in a year, and want the IPO to go for as high as possible so we can cash out and retire.

You have posted the most.

I doubt there is much I can tell you.

I am a simple guy, just enjoying a chat or two with people that have the same interests as me.

Jokes about sex, swearing etc do not work for me.

Che.

Sorry, dude, don't mean to be an asshole, even though it comes naturally much of the time, frequently unintentionally (I assure you).

But surely you can see the, uh, "naivete" of somebody walking into an already existing community and wanting everything/everybody to change, seemingly just for their behalf.

The term here is "mutual respect". In the American workplace, that has come to mean that if a new employee walks into an environment and is offended by a long-standing "group culture", that they have a right to complain and get changes made, no matter how innocuous the perceived offense may be, no matter how long-standing and tightly-knit the existing culture may be, and no matter how inclusive said culture has proven to be in terms of who is/isn't accepted (truly accepted)over time. That's certainly not "mutual respect" in my book, that's one person who may or may not have a complex using policy to exert their will over many. The possibility of respecting a pre-existing culture and trying to work within its framework is apparently obsolete, as is the notion of getting to be one of the group instead of trying to get the group to be one of you.

Fortunately, this is not the American workplace. This is a jazz bulletin board.

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Sorry, dude, don't mean to be an asshole, even though it comes naturally much of the time, frequently unintentionally (I assure you).

But surely you can see the, uh, "naivete" of somebody walking into an already existing community and wanting everything/everybody to change, seemingly just for their behalf.

Nope I don't see it.

I do not want anyone to change, and I am not sure were you get this thought/idea from?

I am interested is discussion, some jokes and respect seems to me that all those that have posted over a few 1000 posts, have a dialogue that is know and appreciated only by themselves B-)

Che.

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