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I play in an Irish folk band with the trombone player from the Untouchables. He's basically been with them since the beginning. I've heard lots of (horror) stories, but I'd never heard any of their music before now. -
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I'm listening to awesome songs about Liverpool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBoyhRvMWOc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sCeyqDPViE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDWfg3N4cRA -
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Jack Teagarden’s second to last album before his death (Think Well Of Me) was a masterpiece. I can’t think of an arrangement of a song that is the aural equivalent of film noir more than the one on the record for Don’t Smoke In Bed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymVgVADtSZE A modern song that... -
Gene Krupa
Nothing. I think that she was one of the best of all-time. I just meant that the other singers could do specifics better than her. For instance, Ella could scat better than her. For singing off the beat, there was none better than Billie Holiday. Yet, Billie didn't scat at all. Some would say... -
Gene Krupa
Besides being one of the great drummers, Gene was also supposedly a great guy. Anita O'day was not the best at any one component of jazz singing. However, you would be hard pressed to find a better all-around singer. -
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I think that I posted this here before (maybe even in this thread), but disco and big band music have a lot in common. They’re both communal music. Both are very powerful from within the context of a large group of people. They can both unite different factions of society. The golden era bunch... -
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Broken Bicycles/Junk Anne Sofie Von Otter and Elvis Costello doing Waits & McCartney. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_4c_vKk1M I saw Elvis perform this once himself (he wrote it). He said it was about a woman with a man that didn't deserve her. I always liked the song... -
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Speaking of James Brown: This will probably get taken down for copyright infringement soon as well. Mongo Santamaria on congas with Bernard Purdie on the trap. It don’t get better than that for groove. (Though I just realized that this must have come from a 45, as it fades out just as the... -
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My particular interest in this was Urbie Green (the greatest studio trombonist of all time), but these guys are all incredible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiBG-atBvgA -
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Getting ready for St. Patrick's day. Listening to my favorite Irish band, the Dubliners. In one corner, Ronnie Drew. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M3wr4hYSf4 In the other, Luke Kelly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x7zgIAWzuM What a band. I’m also loving the Furey’s and Davey Arthur right... -
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Just to add my two cents to the discussion….. Some people will never get jazz, period. They just aren’t wired for it. That’s just the way it is. Others can develop a taste for it. But as a jazz fan, you just have to accept that many, many people will never get it. On top of that, some people... -
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Let me put this another way. I'm not putting down overdubs as a means for creating a track (nor did I in any of my posts). I'm putting down an artist that cannot exist without technology because he doesn't have the musical goods. There have always been contrived acts in music, but never as so... -
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They didn't use a mouse to get the timing and other aspects right either. Look, my point is that using tape (or whatever medium) as a canvas from which to layer upon is different from a computer creating the whole thing for you. To you it’s splitting hairs; to me it’s not. Overdubbing a part in... -
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But the parts were being performed. They didn't piece the music together in a computer. They didn't use a computer mouse to drop this music here, and that music there. -
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The point about the Beatles is that they had live tracking (loops were used for effect, not performance). They didn’t record one bit once and then lay it out over the course of the tune like a jigsaw. You know a lot more about how modern acts are signed. I was just trying to figure out why new... -
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All of the Beatles overdubs on Sgt Pepper were carefully pre-planed; they were still only using a 4-track machine at the time. That record was never supposed to be about the performance so much as the sound-texture experience. But they still played live to the tape. Today the overdubbing is the... -
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I think that the point Chas was trying to make is that Pro Tools has taken away the performance because you can piece together music so easily now. Most music is recorded in isolated overdubs now. This is done partly because many of the performers are not up to live recording. But it’s also done... -
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Again, music means different things to different people. As I said earlier, most of the music that I like, I have a personal spiritual connection to. As much as talking about music (instead of listening to music) is an arbitrary and redundant endeavor, this is a forum for doing just that. We... -
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The topic of how we relate to each other through music is interesting. I agree that one should never be defined by their leanings in music. I also agree that one should never be ashamed of what they like. I also agree that one should only listen to what they like. I can only think of a brief...
