In Reply to: Stick to geniuses. posted by mwhitmore on July 5, 2012 at 10:18:08:
"Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus."
Great list. The only one of those geniuses I could never get into is Duke Ellington. To this day, I remain mystified as to why is he so revered as a jazz genius. True, he was very prolific, but most of his tunes sound to me half-baked. Some of his pieces are even overly ambitious to the point of sounding contrived. Can someone enlighten me?
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- RE: Stick to geniuses. - magiccarpetride 10:57:48 07/05/12 (8)
- RE: Stick to geniuses. - Hi-Fidelity 07:19:38 07/07/12 (1)
- I second Blues In Orbit - Teresa 18:11:35 07/07/12 (0)
- If it makes you feel any better and helps you branch out from your limited genre thinking... - musetap 15:12:33 07/05/12 (4)
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- RE: If it makes you feel any better and helps you branch out from your limited genre thinking... - photok 20:50:13 07/05/12 (0)
- RE: Stick to geniuses. - soulfood 14:34:21 07/05/12 (0)