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  May 20, 04:30 AM

  

  :-) it would be exalting
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  Jan 26 2008, 07:17 PM

  Re: anonymous posting. A music professor once told me that jazz recordings decreased in quality when they could record for longer than three minutes at a time. My point is, great art is always restrained in some way or another. There's a reason it's an insult to call an author logorrheic. The same goes for music. The confinement to the song genre also makes his music more accessible for folks like me who can't listen to free melodic experimentation for hours on end. Oh, and Stephane Gra... More... Re: anonymous posting. A music professor once told me that jazz recordings decreased in quality when they could record for longer than three minutes at a time. My point is, great art is always restrained in some way or another. There's a reason it's an insult to call an author logorrheic. The same goes for music. The confinement to the song genre also makes his music more accessible for folks like me who can't listen to free melodic experimentation for hours on end. Oh, and Stephane Grapelli can have my attention from time to time, and should have yours.
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  Sep 25 2007, 08:31 PM

  Too bad Bireli's interpretation of "How insensitive" (on "Blue note plays Jobim") is not available here - it's truly awesome.
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  Sep 13 2007, 03:28 PM

  ohh thats probably because he plays GOOD music. Sorry that its not metal or something. Most of songs are Django songs anyway.
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  Aug 09 2007, 12:18 PM

  I hate that all of his songs are "songs". I hate that about all the gyspy jazz guitarists. Why can't he just let loose and rip it up from the get go every once in a while; no amateur bass lines or violins scraping for attention, no boom-chick boom-chick guitar accompaniment, and no melody to confine his ideas? Ah well.