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Urbie Green, 1926-2018


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On 2/5/2023 at 7:55 PM, Larry Kart said:

All of the albums in that Avid compilation are straight jazz dates, no "easy listening" or "jazz-funk fusion" stuff at all. "The Fox" is said to fall in the latter bin.

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Pulled this from the shelf, inspired by this thread. It's all very nice, but somehow this does not grab my attention as e.g. the Bob Brookmeyer Select.

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8 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Pulled this from the shelf, inspired by this thread. It's all very nice, but somehow this does not grab my attention as e.g. the Bob Brookmeyer Select.

Which I think can easily be explained by the simple notion of "different tastes" or musical preferences (regardless of whether the main instrument is the same). ;)
Happened to everyone at one point or another with this or that artist, I guess ...

Or is it a matter of apples and oranges?

 

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Brookmeyer's prickliness was on a personal, not suffering fools gladly  level; I've also heard that he got pretty prickly in his drinking days with his first wife, singer-songwriter Margo Guryan. He also could be harsh in his judgement of other musicians -- I recall him saying of French Horn player Tom Varner "this guy can't even play even eighth notes." Have never heard that Green was anything but a nice guy. If I could play the trombone like that, I'd be mellow too.

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