Rock and Roll hall of fame

[Joeybagadonuts]

I can never answer questions like this; too many other questions pop up for me. In a band? In a steady band where they aren't the front man? A solo artist with a steady band behind him? A solo artist who is the featured name, regardless of who the other players are? A hired-gun sideman? A studio guy? A chitlin guy? Current? Past? What genre--rock? Blues? Jazz? Others? Able to play all?

But I wasn't trying to knock Rush, necessarily (not that--let's face it--it isn't easy). I was just making a little fun of the notion that the only possible reason not to like them is that you really, really want to play like them and just can't.

If we're talking jazz, I'd rather know who you listen to who plays either sax or trumpet, living or dead, if anyone.

 

[KRCummings]

Thanks. It's not often I collect radio opinions from someone with Barry Manilow on their iPod.

I am a proud Fanilow. Ok, maybe proud isn't the right word. Still, dude can croon.

 

[Sonny Limatina]

I am a proud Fanilow. Ok, maybe proud isn't the right word. Still, dude can croon.

This settles it, I'm the iPod Whisperer.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MUXDpYR6YE&feature=related

 

[KRCummings]

This settles it, I'm the iPod Whisperer.

I'm easy though. I've never hidden my love of less-than-cool music.

 

[Sonny Limatina]

If we're talking jazz, I'd rather know who you listen to who plays either sax or trumpet, living or dead, if anyone.

OK. This is another one of those, get me drunk and I'll talk about it for an hour subjects, but:

For trumpet (and practically all of jazz), it all goes back to Louis Armstrong. Listen to those stringy, lyrical, swinging lines he puts together, and you feel music in him in a way most of the "thinking" players since often forget.

Miles, of course--though usually not for his chops but for his soul. Dizz. Art Farmer. Arturo Sandoval. Chet Baker.

Sax: Parker, Trane, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Ornette Coleman, Wayne Shorter, Johnny Griffin, Joshua Redman. I'm sure I'm forgetting people.

Gene Ammons.

I could go on.

I won't.

 

[Sonny Limatina]

I'm easy though. I've never hidden my love of less-than-cool music.

Don't give in before I get to Abba. That's like my final tongue-swirl move.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

OK. This is another one of those, get me drunk and I'll talk about it for an hour subjects, but:

For trumpet (and practically all of jazz), it all goes back to Louis Armstrong. Listen to those stringy, lyrical, swinging lines he puts together, and you feel music in him in a way most of the "thinking" players since often forget.

Miles, of course--though usually not for his chops but for his soul. Dizz. Art Farmer. Arturo Sandoval. Chet Baker.

Sax: Parker, Trane, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Ornette Coleman, Wayne Shorter, Johnny Griffin, Joshua Redman. I'm sure I'm forgetting people.

Gene Ammons.

I could go on.

I won't.

The only names I would add are Kenny Garrette and Roy Hargrove.

 

[Purple Haze]

Hunter/Wagner wrote and recorded Cooper albums long before Alice decided to drop the pretense and dump the original band.

They are also Aerosmith on Get Your Wings and pretty much KISS through the late 70's and early 80's.

I don't know about Aerosmith, but Dick Wagner played some leads on just one KISS album in '76. Hunter had nothing to do with KISS.

 

[Purple Haze]

KISS doesn't care if they're in the RRHOF, and I like that...

 

[Sonny Limatina]

The only names I would add are Kenny Garrette and Roy Hargrove.

Absolutely. Hargrove can get a little "contemporary jazz" for my taste, but yes, both guys can blow.