Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

@mahgister 

Music can be many things to different people. I don’t think any one experience has more value than any other. If someone enjoys music or gets a deeper spiritual experience from it, that’s all good. So few people really listen to music and enjoy it. I have it on all the time, so it’s different things for me at different times.

What you just said is common sense and self evident...

But if i come here  and recommend some music, i generally  use the music exemples that move me the most and what move men the most, are what transform them for other reason  than killing times with little pleasure or nostalgia..

I enjoy many thing for example i listen Bob Broockmeyer orchestra  just right now and in the last week...( i like some of his albums)

But it is not of great interest for most, save for me, my taste at the moment, it is some good big bang jazz music  thats all ...I did not feel the urge to communicate  at all cost that i listen Bob Broockmeyer especially ....Or Cosmo Sheldrake  i quoted above only to answer and made an echo for  Cat Stevens and welcoming a new participant in this thread...

 But Beethoven quatuor no 3 which i discovered not long ago that it evocate a fractals, this merit to be communicate to others because i was stunned by this listening and understanding i never enjoy before ..

is this makes me a "snob" ?

No, an attentive listener ... 

And many music pieces all along history awaken some spiritual insight in me which i could communicate to others..

 

Why i will not communicate about  the most erotic female singer that i ever listen to today ?

Because it has no interest for almost anyone...

I will prefer to describe my astonishment when i discovered Hildegard the Bingen a self made universal genius in music and other fields in the 12 th century ...It matter most for me in the long term than my lust for the most erotic singer i ever encounter...This encounter is anecdotal ... Bingen encounter  is life changing as the pianist Yudina was...

 Am i snob because of this preference for an order of priority?

/=

 

 

@mahgister 

I see no reason why you shouldn't mention Bob Brookmeyer. Somebody who has never heard of him might like him. I also listen to Dave Grusin. 

I did want to mention, though, that every now and then I have those elevated moments. Last night was one of them. I streamed an album of Horowitz playing Scriabin. I liked it and appreciated Horowitz's musical intelligence and ability. But I agree with you that the people you recommended had their own inner musical timing and also allowed the music to become ugly at times where it needed to be. I would say in this comparison we're making that Horowitz did not allow his music to become ugly enough. It is difficult for performers trained in the art polishing music into gleaming beauty to delve into the uglyness of composers like Scriabin or Schumann. 

So tell me again who are the two best pianists who play Scriabin. Thanks

@bernadie5317 

Yes, I can see where those pieces lift the spirit. I have the Chicago album with that song. I'll have to pull it out and play it.

@mahgister 

I want to know who the erotic female singer is. I can't even imagine pulling that off (pun not intended). I think the most erotic female singer I've ever heard is Donna Summers, and it doesn't hurt to look at her or at least her photo on the album.Janet Jackson did try to be erotic, but I always thought she was trying too hard.

But I agree with you that the people you recommended had their own inner musical timing and also allowed the music to become ugly at times where it needed to be.

 

I dont understand your use of the word "ugly" is it a joke ?

You must had use the word "expressive" ...I dont like ugly playing even in ugly music ...

It is difficult for performers trained in the art polishing music into gleaming beauty to delve into the uglyness of composers like Scriabin or Schumann.

There is no "uglyness " in Scriabin or Schumann. Is a poet like you lacking words so much  to describe expressiveness  going into the depth of the soul you must be constrained to use the word "ugly" ... ?? 

 

i cannot even listen Donna summers 5 minutes... It sound like manufactured product...

 

 

This is a real erotic singer with a style of his own ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tPFW88Yso&list=RDq0tPFW88Yso&start_radio=1

And listen to this homemade concert with no money :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2XUrySbdUE&t=61s

This is not Lady Gaga, Madonna, Donna Summer  fake eroticism or fabricated  singer...

pure sex from a Goddess..

I dont listen anyway  popular singer, female or male in pop rock  at all save very few exceptions..

Tanérelle stop me in my track because she is "natural"...

The others are not ...

It is not even music by the way...She used music ...She always sing the same song which is the sound of his erotic aura ringing like a bell...She is herself at least and not a fabricated pop singer ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI9i5Jalue4&list=RDGI9i5Jalue4&start_radio=1

 

 

 

I see no reason why you shouldn’t mention Bob Brookmeyer. Somebody who has never heard of him might like him. I also listen to Dave Grusin. 

I dont see the point to speak about any musician i can like at some point in some day while i am doing something else as background music..

If i dont admired deeply a musician over the crowd of good musician i am not moved to speak about him with passion enough to convince people he deserve it...

I like Brookmeyer like hundred of others musician so what ?

I prefer to speak of those who moves me in other dimension and whom i cannot listen casually when reading news etc

An exemple in jazz ?

 Try the duo Sun-Ra and Walt Dickerson...

Two geniuses who work together for two totally original and stunning music albums like there is not so much example in jazz :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ9bs4F4EVo&list=PL2wbRK7VPoLCqB7lF6bxy8IH2PCRH81qB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yql5cToVoAw&list=RDYql5cToVoAw&start_radio=1

This is pure musical jazz genius...

I own 20 albums of Brookmeyer i like him but it is not genius...

 

Something i dislike on music thread is when people put a name a title album and said they like it...

 When we recommend something we must explain why it moves us, clearly and with details...

I had nothing to say about the excellent Bob Brookmeyer...

But i can explain with "words"  why Sun Ra and Dickerson playings is pure genius..

 

I dont see the point  also to recommend the same hit parade of musicians...

Above i recommended Beethoven, a common place  of classical music, but i explained why...