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Reply #30 posted 06/16/08 4:38pm

jonylawson

DiamondGlove said:

For smooth jazz

Kenny G - Duotones
Just for "Songbird" alone.
[Edited 6/15/08 10:39am]


lol
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Reply #31 posted 06/16/08 4:49pm

DiamondGlove

jonylawson said:

DiamondGlove said:

For smooth jazz

Kenny G - Duotones
Just for "Songbird" alone.
[Edited 6/15/08 10:39am]


lol


That's what he was doing when he sold more than all of those musicians put together.
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Reply #32 posted 06/16/08 8:57pm

FuNkeNsteiN

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DiamondGlove said:

jonylawson said:



lol


That's what he was doing when he sold more than all of those musicians put together.

Since when were sales an indication of talent or the quality of the music? lol
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Reply #33 posted 06/16/08 8:58pm

jonylawson

oh my friend.....you werent joking were you???? eek
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Reply #34 posted 06/16/08 8:58pm

jonylawson

FuNkeNsteiN said:

DiamondGlove said:



That's what he was doing when he sold more than all of those musicians put together.

Since when were sales an indication of talent or the quality of the music? lol


just bopught my first grover washington jr cd-!!
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Reply #35 posted 06/16/08 9:02pm

jonylawson

DiamondGlove said:

jonylawson said:



lol


That's what he was doing when he sold more than all of those musicians put together.


wow-i just reread that..... eek eek eek confused sad
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Reply #36 posted 06/16/08 9:19pm

FuNkeNsteiN

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jonylawson said:

FuNkeNsteiN said:


Since when were sales an indication of talent or the quality of the music? lol


just bopught my first grover washington jr cd-!!

Grover is the bomb! fro
What album did you get?
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Reply #37 posted 06/17/08 10:17am

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FuNkeNsteiN said:

DiamondGlove said:



That's what he was doing when he sold more than all of those musicians put together.

Since when were sales an indication of talent or the quality of the music? lol

Dude, that's the new artistic paradigm...Sales = Quality.
Where've you been the last few decades?

I'm sure if he was alive today, John Coltrane (and other practitioners of the old Music = Art crowd) would've been one of its leading disciples. wink



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Reply #38 posted 06/17/08 10:27am

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theAudience said:

FuNkeNsteiN said:


Since when were sales an indication of talent or the quality of the music? lol

Dude, that's the new artistic paradigm...Sales = Quality.
Where've you been the last few decades?

I'm sure if he was alive today, John Coltrane (and other practitioners of the old Music = Art crowd) would've been one of its leading disciples. wink



tA

peace Tribal Disorder

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lol
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Reply #39 posted 06/17/08 7:37pm

jonylawson

FuNkeNsteiN said:

jonylawson said:



just bopught my first grover washington jr cd-!!

Grover is the bomb! fro
What album did you get?


the winelight....the album released in 1980 feat."the 2 of us"

i gotta be honest and say i didnt dig it that much-any other grover recomendations?
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Reply #40 posted 06/17/08 9:05pm

FuNkeNsteiN

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jonylawson said:

FuNkeNsteiN said:


Grover is the bomb! fro
What album did you get?


the winelight....the album released in 1980 feat."the 2 of us"

i gotta be honest and say i didnt dig it that much-any other grover recomendations?

Get Mister Magic and Feels So Good, those two are his best work.

Here's a little preview,

From Feels So Good, Knucklehead


From Mister Magic, Mister Magic (Short version)
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Reply #41 posted 06/17/08 11:05pm

WillieDynamite

Madhouse
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Reply #42 posted 06/18/08 3:22pm

jonylawson

madhouse.....hmmm cool,but hardly" a love supreme"

on the prince tip tip-try THINGS LEFT UNSAID by ERIC LEEDS

this album is fuckin brilliant and unfairly gets tarnished by the prince associates brush

what do the jazz heads think of this?

funkn? theaudience??

and for jazz/rap/funk-try the brilliant BROOKLYN FUNK ESSENTIALS-MAKE EM LIKE IT
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Reply #43 posted 06/18/08 7:26pm

tricky2

DiamondGlove said:

For smooth jazz

Kenny G - Duotones
Just for "Songbird" alone.
[Edited 6/15/08 10:39am]

OH HELL NO!!!!!
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Reply #44 posted 06/19/08 5:55am

jjhunsecker

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I think one the best entry points into Jazz for someonewho listens mainly to pop, R&B, or Rock, will be this Rhino compilation: "Masters of Jazz: Jazz Hit Singles". It's very accessible stuff, before you delve deeper in Coltrane, Monk, and Miles:

http://www.amazon.com/Mas...893&sr=1-1
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