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dreadpirateroberts 
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 Topic: Hi Jazz fans!Posted: 06 Jul 2011 at 8:06am |
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Greetings,
I'm jumping over from PA and am pretty excited to see a similar place here (thanks to Sean Trane for the suggestion) I'm from Australia and I've only been listening to Jazz for 6 years or so, but I'm trying to expand my listening from the heavy hitters then work out. I do like some fusion and most hard bop and some free. Some obvious favs for me, Hancock, Coltrane, Miles, Hubbard and Jarrett - also really enjoying a west meets east kinda album by Australian trumpeter Peter Knight at the moment - Old Grooves for New Streets. Looking forward to some good chats and hearing about some great music. dpr |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2011 at 8:43am |
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Aargh, welcome aboard matey.
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Posted: 06 Jul 2011 at 8:49am |
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....
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Posted: 06 Jul 2011 at 11:06am |
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dreadpirateroberts
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Posted: 06 Jul 2011 at 9:47pm |
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Thanks for the welcome!
Just struggling with scheduling lessons at the moment, trying to learn piano properly and my teacher and I (we work at the same school) cannot meet regularly at this point. It sucks, as what meager skills I have are slipping while I'm not practicing enough. Time for me to fix up my discipline, I think! Just got Bill Evans' 'Portrait in Jazz' so that might prod me into action! |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2011 at 9:47pm |
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Welcome to JMA. Please enjoy it. It is welcomed to contribute of course.
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dreadpirateroberts
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 7:45am |
Thank you, Kazuhiro! Just posted my first review - keen to work on more, but time is my enemy!  http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/empyrean-isles--review.aspx?id=233657 |
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 8:19am |
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Thank you, dpr,or Roberts.
A wonderful review of Herbie Hancock that you submitted will become one of the indices for people who visit the site.
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 8:28am |
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Nice review, and you're right, that album almost has to be genre tagged per song.
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 9:59am |
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Thanks for the support!
 Cheers, snobb, and thank you Kazuhiro - hope people find the review helpful. js, I think you're right. It's an interesting album in that sense, one genre per song - an impressive effort, because to me, it still sounds quite cohesive, they all fit. In a sense, a concept album? He's quite a composer, huh? And now for one more while I'm going (I should really be sleeping) : http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/first-light--review.aspx?id=233659 Having a good time - but damn all the proof-reading! It's hard but fun work! Might try one more album (trying for my favs first, which are also albums without reviews where possible) |
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 10:19am |
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^ I consider Herbie one of the top composers in modern jazz, many of his solos are compositions in themselves.
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 12:58pm |
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Posted: 21 Jul 2011 at 10:27pm |
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^ Yeah, he's one of my all-time jazz heroes, if I could be permitted to gush a little more!
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