Jazz for aficionados

I grew with sacred  Choral music and folklore songs since birth...

Then i had gone my younger years with classical choral before Bach....

Anything else was like inferior to me... or 

He takes me decade to go further than Bach (thanks to Bruckner and Scriabin at thirty )

Then i came to like Jazz long after ... But after discovering Persian-Iranian music and Indian music  with the cd invention ...

Being poor was also  a luck:  I learned acoustics instead of buying gear...

But being poor to buy albums and books was hard...I bought a house later in life because of my investment in books mainly...

Anyway i will stop here ...

@maghister,

I didn’t have a lot of money growing up either. I would work odd jobs and use the money to buy records. All of the records I bought in high school were classical. I couldn’t stand the bubble-gum music on the radio. 

When I got to college friends introduced me to jazz and some of the better pop. I was very lucky to go to Berkeley in the mid-sixties. I saw Sunny Terry and Brownie McGhee several times, once at a party where I was sitting at their feet. Big Mama Thorton sang on the bar in a joint I went to. I went to San Francisco to hear Pharoah Sanders in person. I went to the Fillmore Auditorium to hear Mary Wells and Otis Redding. Plus other interesting rock groups like The Dead. 

I met a girl and she introduced me to the Beatles. I would have danced with her to anything. I introduced her to Stravinsky. Music has been woven through my life since I can remember. 

So they remastered Trio In Tokyo,  Michel Petrucciani, Steve Gadd & Anthony Jackson.(1999, 2025). And if you’re a fan of Petrucciani and piano trio’s, this one is a good listen.

@mahgister 

Growing up, all I had was the radio and top 40 music. I’d sleep with it on and before long, I knew every tune, every word.  It wasn’t until the seventies that I was able to explore Jazz, Blues, Classical.  And my window into Jazz was mostly Weather Report, The Yellow Jackets and The Rippingtons.  My first five Jazz records that I bought with my own money those three groups and Herbie Hancock. My knowledge of all the people we talk about here is all within the 2000’s, so I’m still catching up.☺️

@frogman 

Thanks for your comments on Farrell vs.Tabackin and Jazz flute. I’ve seen Tabackin just once, with the T. Akioshi - L.Tabackin Big Band in the mid 70’s at U.C.S.B. 

I asked because never really enjoyed Jazz flute until I heard Tabackin, whose tone, as you undoubtedly know, is often described as "Orientalized". 

I wasn’t aware of "Inferno (Live)".  I’ll have to try to track that one down. 

@mahgister 

I bought a house later in life because of my investment in books mainly...

You must be quite an expert!  

The Blues was the first genre I really connected with as an adolescent, albeit indirectly, through Stones, Cream. Hendrix, J. Joplin. I didn’t hear any authentic  Blues until Iate in high school. One of the highlights of my junior year was seeing Freddie King. 

@curiousjim 

Interesting. I never would’ve imagined that particular rhythm section paired with Petrucciani. 

@stuartk @mahgister 

In 1970, when this song was first released, I was 14. I don’t think I could’ve related to the sentiment or handled the emotional intensity at that age.

What? Sure you could’ve. You didn’t get your heart broken when you were a freshman in highschool like so many of us did? It was and is a part of growing up and life. The love songs I listened to in highschool and tugged at my heart then are still some of my favorite love songs to this day.