O/T The Music Thread

I have thousands of vinyl LPs (and 45s for that matter), but I rarely play them anymore because I have gotten lazy with YouTube.  There are very few songs I can't find there.  Yes, "Sketches Of Spain" is one of the classic jazz LPs for sure.

So glad to see you mention Stan Getz.  For the most part my musical taste wasn't cosmopolitan enough to appreciate modern jazz in my youth, but Getz I liked even as a teenager for his Bossa Nova work with Jobim and Gilberto.  Metheny and Corea are brilliant, saw them both live in LA and NYC.  Lovers of bebop and hard bop are not always easy to find.  For me, Thelonious Monk was the accessible gateway -- "Straight No Chaser" and "Round Midnight" for starters -- to others who I came to appreciate, especially John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and so on.

Getz's sax hero was Lester Young, another giant, and Coleman Hawkins is in there too with the pioneers.  Even though Stan was born in Philly (my home area) and raised in NYC, he is still associated with the West Coast Jazz of Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond.  Those guys to me are more readily understood than some of the other boppers.

Our great forum polymath Rizzuto is a big fan of Oscar Peterson, another off-the-charts gifted jazz pianist.  So by all means do not hesitate to throw in some jazz thoughts from time to time.

Rock of course.  I doubt there was a Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys, Yardbirds, Byrds, Kinks album in the 60s that I didn't get within a few days of its release.  I'm a little off-kilter here in that I was also scarfing up 45s as a little kid in the 1950s so I'm all in on Elvis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, The Everly Brothers, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, any kind of urban doo-wop or Sun rockabilly.  And I can't even get started on 60s-70s R&B, soul, funk, Motown, Memphis or I would spend the rest of my life on this keyboard.

Thanks for bringing up these names Lauren!

Sketches of Spain and Kind of Blue were two of my favorite study albums in college.  The red and blue greatest hits albums of the Beatles were two of my first record purchases when I was around 14 years old.  I was a big Police fan and had all five of their albums.  

My first purchase was a Beach Boys LP. I was around 10, I think it was The Beach Boys Today. 

I got my first record player when I was 14. It was a big gift for our family, we had little and spent less. When Christmas came I saw several obvious record albums under the tree, dreaming of contemporary rock music in this packages.

When I opened them they were old, like really old country music that I had never heard of. The kind of stuff you get on the discount rack after it gets discounted again after not selling for a few years. It showed me once again that no one in my family even knew me at all.

I tried playing them, but they were vomit inducing. Jews harps, and corny lyrics about bird moving south in their yellow under wear. Not a raspy voice to be heard. Only nasally drones.

It probably took me two years to get six (decent) albums… When I got Rod Stewart’s “A Nod is as Good as a Wink (to a Blind Horse) the rest of the household was cussing and bitching about the s—- it was listening to. “Turn that sh— down.”…That’s when I knew I had found the right stuff… 🤓

I didn't do much purchasing as a teenager. However my brothers and I like similar stuff. I recalled one of the earliest purchase a 45..'Up On The Roof" The drifters.
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