Jazz for aficionados

@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.

@frogman @stuartk

As it relates to Farrell, Tabackin and Jazz flute. They were not the flutists I was introduced to at a young age. I was introduced to Hubert Laws, and he was my point of reference of flutist at those early times in our lives. Along with this petite young girl who could blow, named Bobbi Humphrey.

@tyray, @frogman, @stuartk

I used to love the flute. I had a wooden flute I played on the road while hitch-hiking half way across the world. (Got from Berkeley to Afghanistan.) I know I have many jazz flutists in my collection but haven't listened to them for many, many years. I'll pull some out and reevaluate. I know I have a few Hubert Laws albums. 

Love songs pulled at the strings of my heart in middle school. In high school I used to wear a Beethoven sweatshirt. In college I liked to party, so whatever people partied to I liked. Now I like just about everything but rap. It was the misogynistic lyrics that drove me away. I do like a number of hip-hop artists, though. And jazz, of course.

i am here to be educated in jazz... I did not always answer but i take note...

 Each story is a novel...

@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.☺️