Was there ever anyone more suave

I always thought that..., posted on November 5, 2009 at 10:46:11
edbeefhart@yahoo.com Audiophile Posts: 120 Location: pittsburgh Joined: July 13, 2008	Robert Palmer was too. That boy sure knew how to wear a suit and handle himself in front of a microphone!

RE: Was there ever anyone more suave, posted on November 4, 2009 at 13:09:07
lord addleford Audiophile Posts: 336 Location: new england Joined: July 5, 2005 Contributor Since: April 11, 2006	you want "suave"? dig Johnny Hartman (bryan ferry ia a nouveau way.) la

RE: Was there ever anyone more suave, posted on November 5, 2009 at 18:04:30
caspian@peak.org Audiophile Posts: 386 Location: Oregon Joined: January 12, 2008	"dig Johnny Hartman (bryan ferry ia a nouveau way.)" But then, Bryan Ferry was Tony Bennett in a nouveau way!

Well now, posted on November 4, 2009 at 18:33:56

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Never a huge jazz buff ...unlike my dad who was a HUGE jazz (and blues buff) I had never heard of JH. Went and listened to a few tracks and yep, another suave cat. So, I need to get some of this good stuff.
Would this pictured CD be a good place to start?
Thanks for any pointers....
How about Nat? Damn suave if I say so!
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RE: Well now, posted on November 4, 2009 at 20:23:04

lord addleford
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i am continually drawn back to to the astounding coltrane/hartman album. dont think you can go wrong on any of his stuff. so very cool. the phrasing, diction, vocal timbre.can you imagine growing up in nyc, chicago, wherevercity usa and being able to hear so much damn great music every night of the week. we had our time - the '60s - and would not give it back for anuthing. but to have been able to be old/young enough to span the decades. ah ah ah.

take care mr. lwr.

Eternal youth...not yet--time travel?, posted on November 4, 2009 at 20:41:59

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as far as the play button on your music box. I listened to the Coltrane /Hartman stuff onUutube and it sure is sweet...I will opt for that and the collection.
My dad probably had him in his stash...when dad passed we gave his 78RPM collection to the Library of Congress, figuring that all 20,000 78's were pretty much a National Treasure.
Louie was a regular at the house when dad and he were both alive. Many test pressing with handwritten notes from Bing and Louie. Probably would have bought me a Ferrari if I had kept them...
They were only in my custody, they never really belonged to me.
So, because of this post of yors I slide slowly into a bit of my dad's world.
You gotta love it.
You take care too my friend...
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RE: Eternal youth...not yet--time travel?, posted on November 5, 2009 at 04:09:35
lord addleford Audiophile Posts: 336 Location: new england Joined: July 5, 2005 Contributor Since: April 11, 2006	slipping into your dad's world has its own surplus value. your bit of 'seepage' re your dad and music let's me know that you come by your passion for music honestly amd organically; it was in the air, part of your warp and woof. little do we know about such matters as we 'grow up! oh, lucky man.

It started with the blooze!!, posted on November 5, 2009 at 06:53:29

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Dad was a huge collector of not just jazz, but he liked the bluesmen of the 40s alot as well. Seems there was frequently the sound of a wounded black man shouting his pain or disappointment, usually involving a woman that was no good in the music room. It took some time before I figured out that ALL women could produce that emotion in a man and make him wanna shout it out. That was about the same time I found out just how good they can be for a man as well and make him shout a whole different song! Ahh, the sweet bird of youth, wasted on the young I say!
You have no idea what it was like in the flat in San Francisco (507 Hugo st to be exact). All the walls were lined with both records stacked knee high or on shelves made with bricks. Every room. The long hallway as well. If not records, then it was books. I got the books when he passed, almost all first editions of the great writers and authors.
We had a 1946 Pontiac that Dad and I would drive to the Arizona desert where the Saguaro cactus grew. There we would pluck the needles off of them and that is what he used as a record needle back home. That was where the sound of those black men would issue forth from...
He frequented all the record stores that were in the black parts of SF and Oakland in search of his elusive discs, it was where I bought the very first record I ever owned, he bought it for me cause I asked for it....John Lee Hooker. Much later in life, in the 80s I had some friends who played in Hook's Coast to Coast Blues Band and another friend who lived at Hookers house in San Carlos and later in Los Altos Hills where he could afford to live once his albums with Santana and Van etc came out and he finally got wealthy. The C2CBB played at a bar called the Emerson St. Bar & Grill on weekends that they were not on tour with Hooker. Finally, after decades had passed I was introduced to JL and as he dropped in to jam at this dive bar with maybe 10 customers in it. This happened almost every Saturday night. I told JL about how my dad had bough his first record for me when I was a wee lad and how that record set the course I had been on my whole life and how happy I was to sit with him on Saturdays nittes and drink whiskey. One of the high points of my life, here is a photo of JL I took....

John Lee Hooker-Jan 1979-Keystone Palo Alto

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RE: It started with the blooze!!, posted on November 5, 2009 at 13:16:10
lord addleford Audiophile Posts: 336 Location: new england Joined: July 5, 2005 Contributor Since: April 11, 2006	you are one lucky guy. seems to be time to put some graphite down on the paper. "thanks for the memories". such priceless stuff to share,

Well, it is nice to ercall those times, posted on November 5, 2009 at 15:09:45

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and the memories forged so long ago...Dad was a cop in SF, secondly...firstly he was a jazz and blues cat.It was a home with music, just what a young kid like me needed apparently, it seemed to work.
Another shot of JLH backstage at the Keystone Palo Alto-1979

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RE: Well, it is nice to ercall those times, posted on November 6, 2009 at 02:12:42
audioAl Audiophile Posts: 915 Location: So. Texas Joined: December 16, 2007	Lucky man, indeed! Thanks LWR! Vista Ultimate 32bit/Diamond XS Dac/ Sterovox coaxial line in to Insignia Amp/Cambridge SoundWorks& Infinity RS 1001 Speakers

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