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Apr, 2009
Jaco
I spent a couple of hours searching for jaco pastorius clips on youtube this morning I remembered… the feeling when as a 17 year old his solo cd came out, and my musician friends and I sat dumbfounded listening to Donna Lee- it was a once in a lifetime moment- and then I saw him [...]
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Apr, 2009
Encores and Random thoughts
Can someone tell me why jazz bands always get asked to do an encore in Europe but rarely in the US. It really is a good feeling (even if they are pretending in Europe, which I trust they are not) Nels Cline’s new solo cd lays down the gauntlet. Any solo record is a devilish [...]