Blue Flamingo

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BLUE FLAMINGO

The Rotterdam record collector Ziya Ertekin loves to share his recordings by playing it. No LPs nor CDs, but "old fashion" 78 rpm recordings from his own collection. He plays his records on a 1957 Garrard RC-88 with a Fender Vibroberb for some extra amplification. His most favourite records are now reissued on a CD titled as Blue Flamingo.

Blue Flamingo

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Edited August 26, 2008 by Durium

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BLUE FLAMINGO: THE SPANISH TINGE

Maybe you noticed the Spanish Tinge in this tune, Morton says: This got so much to do with the typical jazz idea; if one is not able to put these things of Spanish and West Indies tunes into their music they will never be able to get the right seasoning for jazz; Jelly Roll Morton explains on Spanish Swat - Jazz; a melting pot of cultures.

The Spanish Tinge

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[Niko]

Jazz music seems to be not-done nowadays.... young people have their own music - Jazz music doesn't fit into their culture. Jazz music is for eldery grey men.

whenever i read a thing like that i want to say this: i have met dozens elderly men, some greyer than others, and by far the most of them didn't listen to jazz... you can't see this as a generational thing (unless maybe if you were young in the 1930s)

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Jazz music seems to be not-done nowadays.... young people have their own music - Jazz music doesn't fit into their culture. Jazz music is for eldery grey men.

whenever i read a thing like that i want to say this: i have met dozens elderly men, some greyer than others, and by far the most of them didn't listen to jazz... you can't see this as a generational thing (unless maybe if you were young in the 1930s)

You're complete right - Of course you can't read it in two directions, but if I hear traditional jazz played by a live band, most of the musicians are aged, which doesn't mean that old aged people do enjoy listening jazz of course.

Once I was at a festival with all kinds of bands together with my young nephew who plays saxophone in a funky jazz band - modern jazz - there way to express themselves into jazz. I remember I heard some great sounds at that same festival playing the music of King Oliver and when I found the band ...... it contained aged people and then I thought - isn't this weird: When King Oliver played this music with his band , he was young like his fellow musicians - it was music played by young guys ...... now you only hear this music only played by more aged people. Youngsters must think that this kind of music ought to played by people who are "old and grey".

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