3 Essential 60s Albums Pt. 5
The Giant Brain
Vince Guaraldi - Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
Mamas & Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
Michael Black
Come on, if you're going to put Vince Guaraldi on a list,
the album has to be the soundtrack from the Charlie Brown Christmas
special. After all, it's put jazz into the heads of little kids for 44
years, they didn't even know it was jazz.
Michael
50s
"Pea Brain" doesn't have a clue.
The Giant Brain
"Michael Black" <et...@ncf.ca> wrote in message
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My selections are not mutually exclusive.
I agree, the Charlie Brown album is excellent.
blanny
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> Frank Sinatra - A Man and his Music
> Vince Guaraldi - Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
> Mamas & Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
If you're gonna put a token jazz album on the list, then it's gotta be John
Coltrane (My Favorite Things or A Love Supreme) or something from Miles
prodigous output; both giants in their prime.
The Giant Brain
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"A Love Supreme" may well be the worst "music" ever recorded. Despite its
acclaim, I think it is absolute garbage.
Music Listener
> "A Love Supreme" may well be the worst "music" ever recorded.
ok, i just stopped taking this guy seriously.
50s
You mean you WERE taking him seriously before?
jughead
>> unless you classify Airplane that way, that's a pretty dubious subgenre
>> for me. you can have it. and i've never heard even one QMS track i liked.
>I'd like to suggest that you get a life...
>PLONK
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> "A Love Supreme" may well be the worst "music" ever recorded. Despite its
> acclaim, I think it is absolute garbage.
I'd like to suggest that you get a life...
PLONK
Music Listener
shrug. he was simply listing favorite albums, some which i like, some
which i don't. no crime there. just because he likes Quicksilver
Messenger Service and i don't isn't going to make me fly into a silly
snit and declare him beneath me or 'plonked.' but the above sort of
hyperbole is just stupid. swaggering for its own sake. it's now clear
that he (and his "giant brain") are just here to congratulate himself.
Gunslinger
> "A Love Supreme" may well be the worst "music" ever recorded. Despite
> its acclaim, I think it is absolute garbage.
>
Although I would have probably picked "Giant Steps", I surely can't see
where "A Love Supreme" is anything short of brilliant. And I'm not even
much of a jazz fan.
Gunslinger
Michael Black
Too many people don't listen to jazz, and then when they do, it sounds
"too foreign".
I only started buying jazz albums 12 years ago, when I got a CD player.
I decided it was time to start buying jazz records, I wanted things that
were longer. The first thing I bought was Coltrane at the Village
Vanguard, and there wasn't a moment when I didn't like it. The only jazz
record I'd had before was Dave Brubeck's "Time Out".
"A Love Supreme" is wonderful.
I figured twenty years of listening to the Grateful Dead set me up to
be receptive to Coltrane, because I needed nothing to make the leap.
Oddly, I don't find anything particularly interesting about Miles Davis's
records.
Michael
DCar...@aol.com
Coltraine is like watching a slam dunk contest.................ho
hum!!
I'll take Paul Desmond's white boy two handed swishes from three
point land any day, baby!!!
Dennis C from Tennessee
blanny
So for someone who likes "jam" band music and psychedelic noodling records,
Coltrane is too out-there? So you pick the Charlie Brown jazz guy instead?
LOL.
Michael Black
Well, "A Love Supreme" is a slow album, while Charlie Brown is much
faster, as is most of the Grateful Dead that would classify as
"improvisational".
Michael