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When the classical music army seems to have me surrounded ... I call up my jazz/big band rhythm boys on CD to purge the system ... blow the stuffy cobwebs away.
At the moment I'm on cloud 9 listerning to "Oscar Peterson and Friends" playing amongst others Vincent Yeomans "Tea for Two" George Gershwin's "A Foggy Day" Irving Berlin's "No strings" and Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life"
Oscar doesn't hog the limelight but lets Barney Kessel's electric guitar chase out a distant theme with his inimitable panache, Ray Brown on bass, Stan Getz on tenor sax, Lionel Hampton on vibraphone, Buddy Rich on drums and even Ella Fitzgerald doing a vocal.
Feel much better now ... anybody else need the occasional purge to clear the exhaust pipe?
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i dislike jazz and won't want to listen to it even if i want something alternative to Classical. i might want to listen to a few Beatle's though...
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I made a playlist on Rhapsody I call "Guitar Rockers." It opens with Yngwe Malmstein and Eric Johnson and progresses through Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Neil Young (his Crazy Horse stuff), Yes, Rush, Pink Floyd (Comfortably Numb), Blue Oyster Cult, and culminates in Hendrix's rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Listening to that at top volume purges me of just about everything.
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Originally posted by Monica Kern: I made a playlist on Rhapsody I call "Guitar Rockers." It opens with Yngwe Malmstein and Eric Johnson and progresses through Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Neil Young (his Crazy Horse stuff), Yes, Rush, Pink Floyd (Comfortably Numb), Blue Oyster Cult, and culminates in Hendrix's rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Listening to that at top volume purges me of just about everything. I used to wake my kids for school with Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner, loudly, very very loudly
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When I can no longer stand my playing, I listen to a CD I bought for my granddaughter that my son insists we keep at my house.
Cannot say in words what "Wheels on the Bus" can do to improve my outlook on my playing.
It brings a new level to "bored out of my skull", making whatever I am playing/learning at the moment seem so much better.
"There is nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." Johann Sebastian Bach/Gyro
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Jimmy Hendrix...,Beatles, old Pink Floyd and I'll play bass to Bluegrass. Ahhhhhh.
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Well, the only time I am completely surrounded by classical music is on Sundays. We play classical all day long then (until hubby starts making dinner- then he likes a little more up tempo stuff). Otherwise, there is always music on here, unless I am practicing, of course. We have 2 big CD changers (300 and 400 dics) and we use a computer program to mix up most of what we have so it plays quite a mix of stuff. I often will start the AM with New Age, just to ease into my day, then a mix of jazz, blues, rock, pop, Broadway, and some stuff that is hard to classify. I have listened to: Genesis, Styxx, Vital TechTones, Peter Gabriel, Manhattan Transfer, Jon Anderson, Antonio Carlos Jobim among others so far today... Keeps me in a good frame of mind musically to mix things up like that.
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--------------------------- When life hands you lemons, throw them back and add some of your own. Stupid life.
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Thanks for the input guys ... whatever works for you.
Signa might listen to The Beatles ... Monica ends her CD purge session with a deafening Jimmy Hendrix blast of the Star Spangled Banner ... Naught winds up the volume to the same patriotic song to roust her sleepy children ... gmm1 has a family joke CD which makes even his piano playing seem better ... while Irish Mac likes a mixed bag of popular favourites to ease her into the day (Jobim gave us the smash hit "The Girl from Ipanema).
Thanks again for letting off steam.
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btb, nice to see a local on here.
I used to love jazz, then I got sucked in by classical. The jazz im still very much in love with is Oscar Peterson. He rocks.
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Hi gilad, I went to Rondebosch Boys High ... lived in Newlands ... but now stay in sunny Pretoria ... where are you based? ... glad you like Oscar Peterson ... yesterday's blow-out cleared my system well enough to champ at the bit to get into my latest delight ... Chopin Nocturne in C minor (1827) post.
When you say "sucked in" by classical music ... I hope your student lifestyle doesn't oblige you to be limited to a menu of Baroque, Classical and Romantic Era masters.
At your age I was into George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue", Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine", Benny Goodman's "sing, sing, sing and Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade" ... to name a few.
Slowly the classical gig guns made their presence felt ... Beethoven became twice life-size until the likes of Bach, Mozart and Schumann found a slim niche in the Ludwig monopoly ... however, in time each of the composers found a high place of honour ... strangely Chopin came much later as did Debussy ... but always there has remained a huge respect for the music of Tin Pan Alley.
From my experience the most well-rounded people find a valued apace for all the composers ... any musician is the poorer for not keeping an open mind ... whether jazz or classical.
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Funny you guys mentioned Oscar Peterson. I just bought Oscar Peterson plays Cole Porter CD, and arriving in the mail shortly will be the Louis Armstrong/Oscar CD as well as the Oscar plays Gershwin CD.
A great purge song: The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again."
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Im in Johannesburg btb. hehe, yes chopins nocturnes are incredible, they really are. Im not a a music student, I wish I was, Im actually a bcom student:) I was very keen on jazz. I went with a friend oneday to cd wherehouse to buy some jazz discs as per usual. By chance I decided to checl out some debussy cds. I think my friend was very upset with me i think, it was the last joint jazz consumer outing we ever took:). SO I went from debussy to all the romantic stuff, mainly best ofs,then I became enchanted by chopin and beethoven, and of gershwin and Prokofiev and Shoshtakovic and bach and hadyn etc etc. I think the clean crisp and neat sound was real new to me after listening to much Miles Davis and herbie Hancock, Mccoy tyner, Mathew Ship etc. But I still do love jazz, Im just very busy exploring classical music. And yes, so true, there are only two kinds of music, good music and bad music. They can be found in across all genres and styles. All good music really does it for me.
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