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greenfox
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« on: 20:46:08, 21-12-2007 »
Well, it changes. One time it was Bud. Then Blakey. Then Rollins hit my radar. Then Monk....then currently, Chet Baker and Art Pepper, with a constant lovely side room of comfy squashy sofas and the fabulous Holiday. Yep, sometimes da man is actually the dame.

Fox: yeah she's a bit cliched.
Librarian: I don't care. She's amazing!
Fox: I know, she's fabulous!

Merci beacoup pour le bilbiotheque dans Manchester, et le jazz CD! Et la bibliotheque madame avec le passion de Holiday!

Etc, notes on a postcard c/o Greenfox, and I recommend the Friday Night R3 Alyn Shipton show.

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BobbyZ
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« Reply #1 on: 21:25:33, 21-12-2007 »
Maybe a related question...what sound do you think of when you think of the term jazz ? It's going to vary for everyone and I do wonder what goes through the mind of non fans when I mention an interest in jazz to them. Do they think of Louis Armstrong or Miles ? Or Acker Bilk or Ellington ? Oscar Peterson or Ornette Coleman ? Jamie Cullum ???This thought occured to me when listening to Alyn Shipton's show last week. On hearing the Rollins track with Coleman Hawkins, that was the reflex sound that my mind associates with "jazz". Not in anyway saying that is the "best" or the "only", just that my initial pre-programmed response conjures up that sound world. 
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greenfox
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« Reply #2 on: 21:36:21, 21-12-2007 »
Yes I don't really know.
I can certainly comment on what it means to me, which is that for a period of a few years I heard some great jass and some other stuff I didn't really like, making me feel jass was an oddity about which I knew nothing and which was difficult to get to grips with.

The great stuff, I then discovered, was possible to follow up by which I mean find more of it. As a genre, with a counterpoint to mainstream music - its always been that way - I've found it a colourful and rewarding exploration, which is not yet over.

Nothing has yet crystallised in the sense of I like THIS and THIS is jazz, though I certainly have some fond discoveries and some ideas about the latter.
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