burris (10/20/82)
#R:pur-ee:7100006:ihlpb:6900010: 0:171 ihlpb!burris Oct 19 8:49:00 1982 You may also want to check out the Bloomington, Ind. scene. They occasionally have good jazz acts at the Bluebird & Jakes. Dave Burris ihlpb!burris BTL - Naperville
rjk (10/22/82)
Hear, hear! Let's hear about Spyro Gyra, Stanley Clarke, and even Chicago's `Software'! Great to code by in the evening... Randy King ..we13!rjk
floyd (10/22/82)
I LIKE JAZZ 2. But not the soft stuff like Klugh or Bob James. To me they're boring. My jazz experience started with Sam Rivers, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Miles Davis. Then I worked my way back thru Sonny Rollins, Roland Kirk, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Bird & ~e ~e whoops, no "mail" interface. Anyway, I touched the John McLaughlin and Chick Corea types at their time but they didn't stick as well the "classics" of jazz. I asked Dizzy Gillespie about five years ago what he thought of the renewal of interest in jazz. He said "well, the word 'jazz' has certainly become more popular." He was right. In the past, oh 8(?) years there have been many new styles of music that, for lack of catagories, were considered to be jazz. I'm not saying that's wrong, it's just that when someone says "i like jazz" it doesn't mean very much. On the other hand, if you listen the variety of "jazz" that exists it could mean a lot. So, I gave up a while ago on trying to organize my record collection (>600) by musical genre.