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Topic: Favorite Swing Artist
Posted By: aqualung28
Subject: Favorite Swing Artist
Date Posted: March 29 2005 at 21:12

Who's your favorite?



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"O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love
'n you should have us all
O' you should have us fall"
"Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart



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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 29 2005 at 21:20
Originally posted by aqualung28 aqualung28 wrote:

Who's your favorite?

 

You on drugs Aqua?

 



Posted By: Metropolis
Date Posted: March 29 2005 at 21:22
No, he just has different tastes from you KE9, you've got to learn that this isn't necessarily a character flaw

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Posted By: aqualung28
Date Posted: March 29 2005 at 21:58

Nothin wrong with swing, just like there's nothing wrong with ELP (except for love beach)



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"O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love
'n you should have us all
O' you should have us fall"
"Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart


Posted By: aqualung28
Date Posted: March 29 2005 at 22:05

and in response to the drug question, I have only done salvia and that was one time. And we were listening to The Rotter's Club



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"O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love
'n you should have us all
O' you should have us fall"
"Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 29 2005 at 22:08

Listen to your evolved prog bands people. The last two Supertramp albums ' Slow Motion" and 'Somethings Never Change' have tons of Swing.

My vote goes to Supertramp...er not on the list!



Posted By: aqualung28
Date Posted: March 29 2005 at 22:11
yay! a semi-on topic response

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"O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love
'n you should have us all
O' you should have us fall"
"Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart


Posted By: Glass-Prison
Date Posted: March 29 2005 at 22:18

well... I suppose I shall attempt to post... an opinion...

Count Basie has the coolest name of the lot!



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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: March 29 2005 at 23:24

You guys need some schooling.

Benny Goodman played the clarinet like a man possessed. Incredible. He's my pick, although many of the others progressed music throughout the middle of the last century.

Learning some history of jazz will help proggers understand the evolution of Bee-Bop and eventual development of jazz-rock fusion and progressive rock.

Check out the drumming of Gene Krupa and guitar playing of Django Reinhardt.



Posted By: aqualung28
Date Posted: March 29 2005 at 23:55
Woooh! another vote for Mr.Goodman

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"O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love
'n you should have us all
O' you should have us fall"
"Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart


Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 11:26
Cab Calloway for his great songs, though Benny Goodman's clarinet is an extremely close second.

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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom




Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 13:21
Big Bands? eh. To me, big band era is to bebop and post-bop jazz as psychedelic rock is to prog. It always has me on edge... "oh man, its almost good! its almost good!" and never gets there. My problem with big bands is that the music is too formulaic. Although guys like Count and Duke wrote some really diverse arrangements, the style is just very tiring. You've heard one swing tune, you've basically heard them all. Its still an interesting style of music, its just too limited by its own definitions as i see it... I think that the real creativity in jazz burst out in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. 

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Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 13:22
Cab Calloway always makes me think of the Minnie the Moocher scene in the Blues Brothers. 

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I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die.
"Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend


Posted By: goose
Date Posted: March 30 2005 at 14:16

Originally posted by Sweetnighter Sweetnighter wrote:

Big Bands? eh. To me, big band era is to bebop and post-bop jazz as psychedelic rock is to prog. It always has me on edge... "oh man, its almost good! its almost good!" and never gets there. My problem with big bands is that the music is too formulaic. Although guys like Count and Duke wrote some really diverse arrangements, the style is just very tiring. You've heard one swing tune, you've basically heard them all. Its still an interesting style of music, its just too limited by its own definitions as i see it... I think that the real creativity in jazz burst out in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. 

If I have any right to air an opinion on something I know very little about, then I agree.




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