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The little ascending synth melody never gets old. 5 stars.

Alto sax mainly, though I've tried my hand at the other three major saxes. A combination of picking up the sax for school band, listening to classic rock radio, and playing guitar hero is what got me into music in the first place actually.

Star Wars is my favorite movie of all time! Happy birthday! There's not a bad line in this film! Bring on Episode 8!

It's the 25th where I'm from, lol.

I saw this on the Jimmy Fallon show and I thought it might make a hilarious topic. Choose a name (real or made up), and list three things it would be a name for. For the first of those things it should be a fitting (good) name, for the second it should be an unfitting (bad) name, and for the last it should be a hilariously accurate (great) name. I'll start. Rush good name for: a roller coaster bad name for: a yoga instructor great name for: Dirk, Pratt, and Lerxst! :D

I think they all definitely still do sugar. Sugar is a drug kids. Stay in school.

Out of curiosity, what is it about Miles that gets him appreciation from fans of other genres, but other huge jazz musicians (like Coltrane or Herbie Hancock for example) don't seem to have the same crossover appeal?

What's some of your fav fusion stuff?

Ever listen to David Sanborn or Dave Koz?

Sorry, jazz the genre and Jazz the album are both deserving of their own threads, but I thought jazz the genre might be a more inclusive discussion.

So welcome to TRF's very own official jazz thread. As I am using this summer to practice my jazz playing so I can hopefully make jazz band next year, I thought it would be a cool idea to have a place to discuss this wonderful music in as little or as much detail as is wanted. To start things off, I've been listening to Maynard Ferguson's MF Horn 4 & 5 (Live At Jimmy's) today. Awesome stuff! Love the amount of alto on this thing as well, and I even found a cool interview with the alto player from a few years later. Anyone else love this record? Have any recommendations for similar records/players? Here's that interview: https://www.nationaljazzarchive.co.uk/stories?id=5

Top 3: Neil Peart Roger Taylor Phil Collins 7 more honorable mentions: Charlie Benante Etienne Bowler Steve "Machine Gun" Smith Taylor Hawkins Joey Kramer Dominic Howard Sam Woodyard

Yo Segue, Toto - Hydra Kansas - Song For America Styx - Crystal Ball all on vinyl

Took your advice, got Spreading The Disease for five bucks. The first three tracks were good but didn't thrill me...everything else so far is driving me "metal thrashing mad," in the best way possible. I love Anthrax. Odd that you couldn't get into the first three songs. They're great and beloved by the fans. AIR and Madhouse are the two songs they play live most often from the album. I know you like Anthrax a lot for their melody and those three songs are full of it. I listened back to them again after I finished the album and I liked them a lot better. I think I just needed to hear something like SSC to kick my brain back into metal mode, I'd been listening to a lot of indie-pop yesterday.

So when Gung-Ho came on I was like "oh no they're gonna end this album like full on Slayer and I won't care much for it," but then there were hooks and things, and then the ending thing reminded me why I love Anthrax while I put up with Slayer. The sense of humor is so necessary, and it's so perfect. Not my fav song from the album, but when Anthrax sound better at doing the Slayer thing than Slayer (to my ears), it's a song that's worth my time. I think my fav though was S.S.C./Stand Or Fall; that's where the record started really talking to me.

Took your advice, got Spreading The Disease for five bucks. The first three tracks were good but didn't thrill me...everything else so far is driving me "metal thrashing mad," in the best way possible. I love Anthrax.

Misterwives - Connect The Dots this is the greatest thing I've heard all year, bar none.

The whole album is amazing! I just got it! Please do check it out!!!!!

Too close.

Which big band leader (and which big band) do you prefer? As a saxophonist, Johnny Hodges tone gives me a stellar argument for Ellington, but Marshal Royal was a heck of lead in Basie's band as well.

Yes. Nirvana doesn't sound like anything else called grunge. They sound like just a poppy punk band to me...honestly I think they're closer to Green Day than Alice In Chains.

hm...disagree. hm...don't care. lol, that's fine, agree to disagree then. Apologies, my young friend. I could have chosen a nicer way to say that. I know you love Freddie. s'all good. I love Journey too. :)

No. In another thread it was suggested, seriously it seems, that Mercury is an objectively better singer than Geddy. I don't believe there are objective ways to measure how well someone sings. There aren't objective ways. However, if one is looking at things from the perspective of a classically trained and educated vocalist, someone who went to school for voice performance, there are objective indicators of better and worse singing. Freddie meets nearly all of those indicators, Ged doesn't. Doesn't mean Ged is objectively worse, but he isn't classically as good as Freddie, which means something to some people. Me, I hear more music in Freddie's voice than I hear in any other singer. That's all I care about. What are those indicators? Tone, control, vibrato, pitch control, etc. On second thought, they aren't objective in the way that math is, but they are widely agreed upon as to how these subjects should be approached and executed among trained vocalists. Freddie wasn't "trained," but he sang like he was because he picked up the trained style from listening to opera and other great singers. Emphasis on great, as in universally acclaimed. Wouldn't Perry get the nod over Mercury then? What, was Perry a trained vocalist? Is being trained one of the indicators? No, but I thought that's what you were referring to. I don't think Perry has better pitch control and tone than Freddie. Especially tone. Perry is a great vocalist, but in his heyday he had a very nasally tone and he often reached for higher notes with an "eeee" sound (see Lovin', Touching', Squeezin'), which isn't good technique. There's the illustration of my point. Perry's voice sounds more powerful to me. Better range too. If people love Mercury, that's great. I don't understand the need to believe that there's some scientific proof that his voice was the best in rock history. Don't see how I illustrated your point. But I'm not going to try to prove to you Freddie has the better voice, that would be wrong of me. I believe he does, and I believe he's more classically "correct" in his style and voice and such, but that doesn't have to mean anything to you. If Freddie had a one octave range and still sang with as much music as he did with four octaves, I'd love him no less.

Ever listen to the drums in Don't Stop Believing? Neil Peart would've murdered that song. Steve Smith makes it live while stealthily putting his stamp on it.

No. In another thread it was suggested, seriously it seems, that Mercury is an objectively better singer than Geddy. I don't believe there are objective ways to measure how well someone sings. There aren't objective ways. However, if one is looking at things from the perspective of a classically trained and educated vocalist, someone who went to school for voice performance, there are objective indicators of better and worse singing. Freddie meets nearly all of those indicators, Ged doesn't. Doesn't mean Ged is objectively worse, but he isn't classically as good as Freddie, which means something to some people. Me, I hear more music in Freddie's voice than I hear in any other singer. That's all I care about. What are those indicators? Tone, control, vibrato, pitch control, etc. On second thought, they aren't objective in the way that math is, but they are widely agreed upon as to how these subjects should be approached and executed among trained vocalists. Freddie wasn't "trained," but he sang like he was because he picked up the trained style from listening to opera and other great singers. Emphasis on great, as in universally acclaimed. Wouldn't Perry get the nod over Mercury then? What, was Perry a trained vocalist? Is being trained one of the indicators? No, but I thought that's what you were referring to. I don't think Perry has better pitch control and tone than Freddie. Especially tone. Perry is a great vocalist, but in his heyday he had a very nasally tone and he often reached for higher notes with an "eeee" sound (see Lovin', Touching', Squeezin'), which isn't good technique.