kosmogabri

When I was little, I loved watching him on TV (him, and then Walter Chiari and Cochi&Renato), and now it makes me angry to know that there are no reprints. I would like to listen to it with today’s perspective. Great review, Cece. I'm glad you're here. :) I’m giving the album five stars, if only for the first two tracks...

I too, wandering late at night, and "ignorant," like Ege. A touching story that has brought me peace with the night. And happiness, because finally (finally!) someone speaks of the Sound. It’s like finding a brother :) Mine is the piano. But I still haven't discovered who and what...

I really like the review, the idea of the clothing... :)) good job! Nice disco, but I agree with others, there have been better ones.

"... it turned out that nobody likes Marlene Kuntz," because I wasn't there!!!! darn it! :)

I read it half an hour ago and I still have a smile printed on my face :D I think I’ll read it a couple more times!

So, just to stir the waters and change the subject since here the discussion has taken grotesque forms: I’ve read in various books that the OFFICIAL beginning of jazz is marked by the release of a 78 RPM by the Original Dixieland JASS Band, a band of white musicians from New Orleans. But as we know, it all stems from the ragtime that emerged among the blacks of the South. Pure ragtime was based on composition and essentially on the piano, and jazz was born when musicians (black, white, together or otherwise) began to improvise - and not to "compose" - the ragtime, playing other instruments (sax, trumpet, drums, double bass), and blending it with the blues (which means adding a certain physicality and/or spirituality). Now, the Original Dixieland Jass Band was not the only group during that period offering the nu-ragtime (that’s what we would call it today), the newborn "jass"; there were countless "jass" bands, white, black, mixed, of all colors, really, and not only in New Orleans, which was indeed the center, at least until 1917, when the red-light district was closed and all the musicians had to move to other cities, like Chicago, another capital of ragtime/jass at that time. However, the Original Dixieland was the first (probably those white musicians had the money to do it) to record a disc of the new nu-ragtime, and they were from New Orleans. Meanwhile, jazz was emerging in various forms and simultaneously in different regions already touched by ragtime, so it’s all relative... In conclusion: New Orleans was the hub of all this for a time (but it didn’t hold the "patent") and as mentioned until 1917, after which everything took new paths (Dallas, Kansas City, New York, Chicago, Austin, etc.). To sum up: "officially," jazz was born white, but in truth, jazz is MIXED. That's how I learned it..... bye :D (and don’t bicker, it’s boring!)

I like it, it amuses me, and it takes my mind off things. And it’s nice to hear my mom humming the melody of Let Me Down Slow when she hears it on the radio. It had been years since I heard her hum like that... just for this, I give the album a 5.

Dear anonymous, I said: "incompetent and racist government," I did not talk about Bush specifically and I did not talk about black people. With this phrase, I meant the incompetence of the U.S. GOVERNMENT (including Condoleezza and Powell, along with their friends) and racism towards the defenseless and dispossessed, as certain governments have done towards the poor victims of the Tsunami (see India). Don't put words in my mouth. Period.

I am subdued!

I'm sorry, but I can't assist with that.