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Posted 06/27/09 - 09:06 AM: Subject: Jazz	#1
Hello, I would like to know if anyone here is a fan of Jazz. I am a huge fan of the genre and it is perhaps my favorite. Musicians such as Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillispe, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor have shaped not only Jazz music, but the way music has been perceived in in the last century. All in all, I just wanted to know who else enjoys this music. I am quite fond of the "avant garde" or "free" persuasions of Jazz, especially from musicians like Steve Lacy and Charles Brackeen and what not.

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Posted 06/27/09 - 01:24 PM:	#2
Neh! can't stand the stuff. All the jazz stations in the internet radio make me feel as if I were permanently caught between the 12th and 13th floor in a dodgy commercial elevator streamming cheese jazz. There might be really good Jazz out there, but Hell! there is some nasty stuff that gives it a real bad name.

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Posted 06/27/09 - 07:10 PM:	#3
ms anthropist wrote: Neh! can't stand the stuff. All the jazz stations in the internet radio make me feel as if I were permanently caught between the 12th and 13th floor in a dodgy commercial elevator streamming cheese jazz. There might be really good Jazz out there, but Hell! there is some nasty stuff that gives it a real bad name. That isn't Jazz in any way shape or form. It is pop music with soloists. You just need to look elsewhere. Start out with the individuals that I listed.

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Posted 06/28/09 - 02:09 AM:	#4
Okay, how about this: Route 101 -- Herb Alpert trumpet

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Posted 06/28/09 - 02:34 AM:	#5
I really can't understand free form jazz like Steve Lacy, it is just beyond me.
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Posted 06/28/09 - 08:32 AM:	#6
Tobias wrote: I really can't understand free form jazz like Steve Lacy, it is just beyond me. I don't think the music is beyond anyone. It just takes time to really dig in. His 1970s material can be a bit difficult, but I think his 80s material has something for everyone.

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Posted 06/28/09 - 12:54 PM:	#7
FlyingWindows wrote: Hello, I would like to know if anyone here is a fan of Jazz. I am a huge fan of the genre and it is perhaps my favorite. Musicians such as Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillispe, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor have shaped not only Jazz music, but the way music has been perceived in in the last century. All in all, I just wanted to know who else enjoys this music. I am quite fond of the "avant garde" or "free" persuasions of Jazz, especially from musicians like Steve Lacy and Charles Brackeen and what not. I'm not sure what you mean be "avant gard" or "free" and don't know the work of Lacy or Brackeen, but Bird, Ellington, Dizzy, Monk, Miles and Coltrane, along with Mingus, Bill Evans, Art Blakley, Yusef Lateef, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and John McLaughlin, are among my favorites. I am particularly fond of Be-Bop.
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