frogman
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| Jazz for aficionados Rok, I could continue the silliness and ask you to point out one single statement that I have made that is not defensible, but I will let your ridiculous comment pass and simply say that it is time, once again, for me to take a break from trying t... | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? Macrojack and others of a similar opinion. While there is value in being "realistic" in one's outlook on any given subject, sometimes this "realism" is nothing more than cynicism and counterproductive negativity masquerading as pragmatism if one c... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Not clear at all, Rok; especially given some of your other comments. Anyway, this is, once again, a case of "Mars and Venus"; some things are irreconcilable.No one is trying to "impress". I nor Learsfool (I am confident in stating) need this forum... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****Why not submit a list, for us aficionados, of GREAT Jazz players, who were great, BECAUSE, they went to Juilliard.****I am almost speechless. I have no idea how or why you arrived at the conclusion that anyone has ever suggested this. All I ca... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, c'mon. We don't have a habit of misquoting you nor of shooting down anything. The truth is that when discussing these topics you are not a particularly good communicator via what you write. Example:****Nuts and Bolts is a term I use to reflec... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Learsfool, I am glad you chimed in about that. I was going to after first reading the comment about Juilliard, but frankly I was almost in a state of disbelief at the comment and all I could muster was my "retort" about Wynton having also attended... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****Miles went to Juilliard*** His first mistake. I knew there was something wrong there.****Hmmmm, so did Wynton. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Absolutely! That, the skill level of their respective conductors and, as an extension of skill level, the stylistic identity of the players and hence the orchestra. Eventhough the traditionally strong stylistic personalities of the various orchest... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Ok, are you referring to the score in terms of the music (notes) written in it, or in terms of the visual APPEARENCE of the notes? If you mean the music, yes they would be identical. Berlin, being a major orchestra probably owns a set of score and... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Interesting segue!I don't understand the question. The score is the score and the music is the music as the composer intended it; no more, no less. Rok, truly no disrespect intended, but unless I am missing something in your question, that is a ra... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, I fully expected a response along these lines. My impression is that when there isn't unequivocal agreement with your assessment of an artist there seems to be a knee jerk reaction in the negative instead of a substantive discussion of the pa... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "Nuts and bolts" is not irrelevant in any genre of music. If you really believe that then you don't understand what is meant by the expression.****but I never heard anything that remotley sounded like this.****Well, as my 11yr old likes to say: Du... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, Regina Carter's main influence (by her own admission) was the great Stephane Grapelli, and probably the reason for your astute observation about her tone. In addition to that it is possible that her violin is slightly larger than typical. No... | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? Meaning, IMO, that many (operative word) kids today have little and, arguably, insufficient appreciation of one of the most important life lessons: the value of "process". IOW, what it takes to achieve true understanding of and insight into proble... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thanks, Dgob. That has been at the top of my audio "to do" list since you first commented on it a while back. |