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Nov 8, 2018 - 4:14 AM
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Jim Phelps
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Of interest to perhaps one or two other people here at FSM, an episode (in better quality than the previous 'Tube upload) of the 1958 NBC TV series, The Subject is Jazz, hosted by the cooler-than-any-film-composer, Gilbert Seldes. This episode, "The Future of Jazz", features Billy Taylor, Bill Evans, and George Russell...among others.
Thanks! I don't think I know this show. Is it on DVD or Blu-ray?
George Russell has the best line--which I get the sense was set up for him to say--"If America has a future, then jazz has a future. The two are inseparable."
That used to be my "signature" on the now-defunct All About Jazz forums.
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Jerry Fielding isn't jazz.
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Dave Scott Jazz Quartet
"Why Must it Be?"
Check it out!
Brm
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Of interest to perhaps one or two other people here at FSM, an episode (in better quality than the previous 'Tube upload) of the 1958 NBC TV series, The Subject is Jazz, hosted by the cooler-than-any-film-composer, Gilbert Seldes. This episode, "The Future of Jazz", features Billy Taylor, Bill Evans, and George Russell...among others.
Thanks! I don't think I know this show. Is it on DVD or Blu-ray?
George Russell has the best line--which I get the sense was set up for him to say--"If America has a future, then jazz has a future. The two are inseparable."
That used to be my "signature" on the now-defunct All About Jazz forums.
America is well on its way to being "defunct", also.
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Nov 11, 2018 - 10:03 AM
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One of the tracks, I believe the second track on side 1, is like exotica.
In the late 70s and early 80s, these Blue Note albums were everywhere in the cutout bin. That is where I grabbed my copy of this album from. Granted, these were later stereo Liberty pressings, but for $1.99 a throw on my busboy's salary, I wasn't complaining.
By the way, all Blue Note albums from this period sound better when the stereo switch is flipped to mono. This is how RVG monitored the recordings. The stereo albums were simply a bi-product in mixing the mono. the bass and piano are higher in the mix, and the horns are more subtle. In stereo, the piano and bass can sometimes get lost on these recordings.
Last night, I got home from a trip, and while drinking Old Fashioneds - using Jim Beam Pre-Prohibition rye - and catching up with Ms. Birri, I listened to several jazz albums. These included two on Blue Note: Jackie McClean's "Right Now" and Joe Henderson's "Page One" - both stereo but played back IN GLORIOUS MONO for optimal balance.
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Jerry Fielding isn't jazz.
Of course "Joshua I. Feldman" was Jazz before "MOVIES" JF was in a band they were big-band style, bop, easy-jazz. Fielding's cross-over also had shades of jazz in particular movies, tv series.
Well Josh TRIED to write jazz for the movies...
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Nov 13, 2018 - 4:39 AM
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Jim Phelps
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One of the tracks, I believe the second track on side 1, is like exotica.
In the late 70s and early 80s, these Blue Note albums were everywhere in the cutout bin. That is where I grabbed my copy of this album from. Granted, these were later stereo Liberty pressings, but for $1.99 a throw on my busboy's salary, I wasn't complaining.
By the way, all Blue Note albums from this period sound better when the stereo switch is flipped to mono. This is how RVG monitored the recordings. The stereo albums were simply a bi-product in mixing the mono. the bass and piano are higher in the mix, and the horns are more subtle. In stereo, the piano and bass can sometimes get lost on these recordings.
Last night, I got home from a trip, and while drinking Old Fashioneds - using Jim Beam Pre-Prohibition rye - and catching up with Ms. Birri, I listened to several jazz albums. These included two on Blue Note: Jackie McClean's "Right Now" and Joe Henderson's "Page One" - both stereo but played back IN GLORIOUS MONO for optimal balance.
I'm always impressed and at the same time overwhlemed by all the technical knowledge so many FSMers possess. Me, I'm just an interested and enthusiastic listener (or reader), fixated on the imagery, sounds, and even scents that evoke that "of-the-era" atmosphere.
I intensely dislike bourbon--Jim Beam in particular--should I expect the "pre-Prohibition" strain to be any different?
Perhaps a question for another thread.
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Nov 13, 2018 - 5:37 AM
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OnyaBirri
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I intensely dislike bourbon--Jim Beam in particular--should I expect the "pre-Prohibition" strain to be any different?
Well, it's rye, not bourbon. Jim Beam Pre-Pro is one of the best for the money. Canadian Club, which makes me feel like I'm in an ad in the Christmas issue of Playboy, is also very good. Bulleit, Mr. Marshall's brand, is also very good, but they are avid Trump supporters, so I won't patronize them. (I may have broken the board rules about politics; please don't hate me.) All that said, it may be a taste that you just don't like. (I hate vodka.)
Perhaps a question for another thread.
Always appropriate to discuss cocktails in a jazz thread. 
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Josh Randall drinks rye.
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Jazz? Sure... I've got albums by people like Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Wes Montgomery, Dave Grusin, Pat Metheny, John Patitucci, Bugge Westletoft... lots of other stuff. Great music... Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker.... Miles Davis... There is of course a lot of very, very diverse music to be found under such a wide label as "jazz" (just like there is lots of very, very diverse music to be found under "classical").
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Me, I'm just an interested and enthusiastic listener (or reader), fixated on the imagery, sounds, and even scents that evoke that "of-the-era" atmosphere.
If you have the right furniture, are wearing the right clothes, drinking the right cocktail, and listening to the right record, it's pretty close to time travel.
Onya is.no doubt a student of The Playboy Advisor.
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Nov 16, 2018 - 5:25 AM
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Jim Phelps
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That old line about Playboy, "I read it for the articles" holds true, at least until the early '70s, when the models stopped holding in their stomachs.
I collect vintage Playboys. My cutoff is roughly mi-70s. Looking at these in retrospect, I love Playboy for the ads more than anything else.
Yes, the ads! London Fog, MG, liquor, books, record clubs, cologne, etc.
Whatever happened to Calvert brand liquor?
There really should be an all-purpose MidMod thread.
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Columbia Record club.
"Get six cassettes for one dollar"
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