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Lionel Mandrake

(4,076 posts) Sat Mar 30, 2013, 02:26 PM Mar 2013

Jazz ballads by some great musicians

Previously I have posted bluesy, funky, upbeat music. This is the other kind of jazz. Try it; maybe you'll like it.

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Jazz ballads by some great musicians (Original Post) Lionel Mandrake Mar 2013 OP

Now that was MUSIC ! olddots Mar 2013 #1

Still is, Lionel Mandrake Mar 2013 #2

I used to rush to the record store to buy the newest Bill Evans album aint_no_life_nowhere Mar 2013 #3

Thank you. Lionel Mandrake Mar 2013 #4

Record stores changed in the 60s. Lionel Mandrake Mar 2013 #5

olddots

(10,237 posts)

1. Now that was MUSIC !

Reply to Lionel Mandrake (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 02:35 PM

Mar 2013

Sketches of Spain

Lionel Mandrake

(4,076 posts)

2. Still is,

Reply to olddots (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 03:47 PM

Mar 2013

thanks to the miracle of audio recording.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)

3. I used to rush to the record store to buy the newest Bill Evans album

Reply to Lionel Mandrake (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 04:53 PM

Mar 2013

when I was a kid in the 60s (I was a weird adolescent). Love these guys. Thanks.

Lionel Mandrake

(4,076 posts)

4. Thank you.

Reply to aint_no_life_nowhere (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 05:45 PM

Mar 2013

Interestingly enough,, the first few bars of Coltrane's "Naima" and Chick Corea's "Windows" seem to be the same tune.

Django Reinhardt's "Nuages" (clouds) has become a jazz standard. As have some other tunes of his.

John Lewis wrote this tune as a memorial in the 1950s:

Lionel Mandrake

(4,076 posts)

5. Record stores changed in the 60s.

Reply to aint_no_life_nowhere (Reply #3)

Sun Mar 31, 2013, 04:25 PM

Mar 2013

Old style: You could take an LP into a booth and listen to it for a while, to see if you really wanted to buy it.

New style: The booths were gone; you had to decide by looking at an LP whether you wanted to buy it or not.

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