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I think he's confusing it with "Get Back".
Which pretty much sums up my musical interests outside jazz - Beatles Just joking.
I also love classic American rock with a folk/country infuence - think the Band, Travelling Wilburys, Los Lobos. Anything from New Orleans and Dr. John in particular.
I like contemporary Classical music a lot - not constantly, but regularly.
I play a lot of classical guitar and find myself going back to the mid-20ct masters, especially Villa-Lobos. However, I don't listen to classical guitar records for pleasure much, mosly for education.
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04-14-2023 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by docsteve
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Blues, jazz, real country and western minus the bro BS. Soul and RnB not F'ing music. I like Hawaiian steel guitar and some pedal steel driven stuff. My wife listens to a lot of bluegrass. I enjoy the Kody Norris show.
I don't like very much rock music at all and I especially don't like the beatles, pink floyd, and a few other bands every boomer long hair seems to make a religion out of.
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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Whenever I'm feeling down, I watch K-Pop.
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Originally Posted by James W
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Originally Posted by CliffR
The worst thing about it is it probably a better instrument than the equivalent Fenders.
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Besides jazz, I listen to birds singing in the forest.
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Originally Posted by kris
As for other kinds of music besides jazz; mostly British invasion music, with most of that being Beatles and Kinks (which is also 90% of the rock I play when I do play rock).Last edited by jameslovestal; 04-14-2023 at 03:19 PM.
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^ I also like doing things with quiet. However, on my daily dog walk I always listen to a jazz Hammond pandora station. That way I get some listening on my focus every day.
The styles I like other than jazz are rock and some pop. I like styles besides that but it's usually jazz, rock, or pop.
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Hania Rani.
This piece is sublime.
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My record* collection goes back to the LPs from my parents' 1958 record-club memberships and my personal acquisitions in college. Interest in pop diminished dramatically in the 1970s, though I probably at least recognize the kind of hits/sounds that have become unavoidable. After the 70s, I kept back-filling every category that caught my attention: classical (medieval to c. 1950); jazz (swing-centric, trailing off in hard bop, OK with straight-ahead); every flavor of American and European folk; American-standards singers (especially if they're usually identified by first name/nickname**). Special obsessions: bagpipes, accordions, guitars, violins. (The last three means musette, Hot Club, klezmer, and western swing get a lot of shelf space.) Hawaiian music. String quartets. Haydn. JSB--I think I want one of the cello suites played at my funeral. Also some slack key.
I can't count the numbers of LPs and CDs, but the LP shelving is probably 40-50 running feet and CDs about the same.
* There's a demographic giveaway right there. The midden-heap now consists of LPs, cassettes, reel-to-reels, CDs, MP3s, and live-recorded DATs and Minidiscs. No 8-tracks, though I do have a stack of V-Disk 78s my father liberated from decommissioned ships in 1946. The big challenge is maintaining the playback devices--my reel-to-reel decks need complete overhauls, and I have only one functioning DAT deck and two MD recorders. Format migration is a Necessary Thing.
** Frank, Ella, Tony, Louis, Keely, Rosie, Billie, Sassy. . . . Not to forget instrumentalists: Zoot, Bucky, Django, Steph, Louis (again).
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Originally Posted by James Haze
it's violins, oboes, cellos, pianos, orchestras. Bach is the largest
part of my classical collection. I'm on a jazz forum because I am
a jazz guitarist who likes hearing what others think and discuss.
About 1980 was an inflection point when delusion of adequacy
took hold as an acceptable motivation for the substance of new
music, whose departure in which I have no interest whatsoever.
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Originally Posted by kris
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The birds are cool and all but they keep ripping off Messiaen
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Originally Posted by James W
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I listen to Latin big band (salsa) on a radio show every Sunday afternoon; Eddie Palmieri, Ray Barretto, etc...The arrangements are very hip, and there's a lot of improvisation.
I also like the Bossa nova music of the 60s and 70s with music by Manfredo Fest, and other jazz-oriented musicians from Brazil.
Otherwise, I listen to anything but hip-hop, rap except for Domi and JD Beck.
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metal … carbomb, meshuggah, mastodon, slayer
contemporary music … Dufourt, Saarhiaho, Torvaldsdottir, Lachenmann
idm aka autechre, aphex twin
creative music … AACM, Steve Lehman, Matt Mitchell, Tim Berne, Muhal Richard Abrams
everything that kicks ass…
and of course miles, coltrane, wayne and parkerLast edited by mheton; 04-14-2023 at 03:13 PM.
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Jazz is the huge majority most of the time. But I go back to the music of my youth (90s/00s) often. A lot of "emo" and indie rock like The Get Up Kids, Weezer, and much lesser known bands.
I also listen to a lot of American. Wilco is probably my all time favorite band. And I'm going to see Lukas Nelson next week.
So I listen to a lot of good jazz, bad rock from 25 years ago, and alt country. I'm lame.
EDIT: Listening to jazz is different for me. Listening is the activity...it's hard to have on in the background. When I want to just veg out or when I'm working I'll put on other music. Listening to jazz is an exercise for me that should, conceivably, work hand in hand with the practice time when I'm actually playing. I have a hard time listening to jazz that I love and not getting carried away with it. The other genres don't do that to me.
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I'm 90s/00s too lol.
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Originally Posted by James W
Two other memorable purchases in my teens were albums of Indian sitar virtuoso, Vilayat Khan and a Nonesuch release of Javanese court gamelan music. As for your composer list, I'm also a big modernist music fan. In fact, at various times during the '80s, I met both Messiaen and Boulez, interviewed Richard Barrett and had dinner and an incredible night of conversation with Brian Ferneyhough!
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Classical and Middle Eastern. I love Omer Faruk and Jocelyn Fook. This music transports you to a different place. Very powerful stuff.
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Originally Posted by pcjazz
We saw Dudamel conduct the latter at the LA Phil, and it was simply spectacular. I mean it when I say - you don’t see that every day.
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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Originally Posted by Jazzjourney4Eva
Julian Lage Trio, Amsterdam, April 17 2024
Today, 02:19 AM in The Players