AudioNervosa
Music Ward => Music Discussion => Topic started by: WEEZ on June 03, 2007, 06:55:34 AM
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I grew up listening to jazz and classical (dad played records all the time).
The genre that gets the most play at my house is blues; jazz; and 'fusion'. It all started when I heard Paul Butterfield; Michael Bloomfield; Corky Siegal; et al. Chicago style :)
WEEZ
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I grew up listening to bebop, almost to the exclusion of anything else. I got saturated and disillusioned when it all tanked in late 1980s when the masters started dying and the new cats breathed a sigh of relief. Free at last to torment the public with tonal relativism.
Now I like Russian classical symphonic composers, old hard bop recordings , old bebop bigband recordings, talk radio, rosie o'donnell on the view, and new jazz recordings - in that order :wink: hehe
I guess I play a lot of Beethoven (Carl -> :roll: ) since my 4yo girl can sing 9th symphony without the record. Might be time for intervention soon.
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Jazz/Blues, 60's/70's 'protest rock', strange things (zappa, tubes, etc.)
Bryan
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I like a wide variety of music, Jazz , Hard Rock,Progressive Rock, anything acoustic based from Michael Hedges to the Dixie Chicks to the Man in Black. Frank Zappa was a Rare Genius as a composer and he was an amazing Guitar player as well. Tori Amos, Kate Bush and similar artists are also among my favorites.
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forced to listen to country as a child-and it was totally legal :twisted:
at night when the pig farmers were sleeping i would turn on my little transistor radio and listen to w o l f my cousin worked at the station so i would listen to her-she is the reason that devil music/rock and roll is now in my soul :shock:
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Great responses...
Rich, surely you don't listen to talk radio or Rosie on the stereo....or do you? :lol:
Even though 'fusion' blues/jazz gets the most play at my house...I like bigger bands; Maynard Furguson, especially. Hey, remember Bill Chase?
Hey Rosco...what about Hank Jr? A country boy CAN survive, you know..
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Oh yeah - Bill Chase, Ferguson, Tower of Power, Ides of March, Passport - grew up on that stuff.
Bryan
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strange things (zappa, tubes, etc.)
I've been on a Zappa kick lately, Joe's Garage, Over-nite Sensation and Apostrophe. Whacky stuff, but the guy was a genius.
Good sound quality too for the times.
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I don't exactly have a single favorite, it depends on my mood. I might go a few weeks listening to almost nothing but alt rock & indie stuff, then a couple weeks of nothing but jazz. Lately it's been almost entirely classical, especially opera.
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WEEZ, I do listen to Rush on the stereo, but I avoid Rosie whenever possible. Maybe I was a bit too harsh on the new jazzers. I do put on RadioioJazz internet station for background music, but it is an endurance contest, how long I can stand the same song/solo over and over.
You've mentioned Maynard before, but I didn't know you were a devotee. Do you have the LP "Trumpet Rhapsody?" It's a great one. Only ever saw the one copy that I bought, nobody seems to ever have heard of it. Want to hear it?
Rob, you are hard core with that opera. I try but not quite ready yet. It'll come.
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Rich,
I've got 15 different Maynard recordings, but not that one (unless the tunes are on some of my others). Can you list a few of the tunes?...I can check....
Bryan, my all time favorite Bill Chase number was (is) "Bochawa" from the 'Pure Music' album. (i've got two copies of that lp...'cause, well, you never know.. :) )
Rob,
I know it's not 'Opera', but I really like to listen to Andrea Bocelli. The 'Romanza' album is killer; as is his duet "The Prayer" with Celine Dion. I tend to like Italian Opera...Paganini...
mca, an old friend of mine (who now lives in Minnesota) has the most complete Zappa collection that I know of. He worships the guy.
And I don't listen to Rosie at all. Even in mono. :lol:
WEEZ
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Maynard's Trumpet Rhapsody (http://www.mp3fiesta.com/album64900/?partner=1711&subaccount=1) Samples
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Hey thanks, Rich. I had (2) of the (7) cuts...one of them twice.
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I'm with Rob...my mood determines what I'm capable of sitting down and listening to. About the only genres that I can't tolerate are rap (which I don't consider to be music) and a lot of the 'old-timey'/twangy country...otherwise I enjoy most other forms of music.
It's kinda sad to think...that as much as I like music...the only thing I can play is my stereo ::)!
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I prefer jazz and world (so called) music, and the fusion of the both. I like experimental music, so often the music I listen to defies a category.
THen there are times when my mood may call for classical or old school rock or the music I grew up with, funk.
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I was reading this thread during my lunch break and I am trying to think what is my favorite music. I really don't have a firm favorite. Depending on my mood I like modern country (Brooks & Dunn, Carrie Underwood, Mont. Gentry), modern Jazz (Rippingtons, Kenny G & Richard Elliot ), Southern Country Blues Rock (Alman Brothers, Kenny Wayne Shepard, Govt Mule) and sometimes good old hard rock - AC/DC.
Ken
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Its Staight Ahead Jazz for me with some Classical in th mix. Acoustic rock; Cat Stevens, America, etc.
rollo