I applaud your interest in jazz, particularly at your age. I wouldn't necessarily get hung up on instrumentation or tempo, as that can confine your understanding and appreciation of a genre that is now 100+ years old. In order to really 'get' jazz circa 2006, you have to understand where it came...
Yeah, Clifford.
Fats Navarro
Booker Little (!!!)
Clark Terry
Joe Newman
Blue Mitchell
Freddie Hubbard, prior to his 'accident'.
Lee Morgan
Woody Shaw
Diz
Pops
Chet Baker (!!!)
Miles, in the fifties.
With all due respect, weird post. It's Maurice GIBB, BTW, if you you feel compelled to pray for him.
But there's really no point in prayng for the dead, is there?
If the assurance of salvation rests on the capriciousness of human behavior, we have very little to hope for indeed. And assertions here that a true Chrisitian would be incapable of 'this or that' are simply naive. Anyone here think Satan isn't working overtime to cause believers to fall?
Why...
I have often wondered what kind of contemporary Christian songs we would be enjoying today if people like Cole Porter, Fats Waller, Gershwin, etc. had been Christians. Those folks really knew how to write great music.
Hello Brother Rick,
Yes, your hypothetical poses fascinating...
God doesn't seem to show favoritism when doling out talent. That was hard for me to contend with when I was coming up. God-fearing UncleFud would spend hours in the woodshed, and godless savant 'x' would walk in and hand me my behind, without breaking a sweat.
I was encouraged by a composition...
Oh, yeah. Opened for him once at the Cabooze in Minneapolis. While he was playing, I was in the green room, and, well, nabbed the butt of the cigar he had been smoking as a souvenir. Still have it, many years later.
I'm not certain I can answer the question, but let's take a look at some common characteristics found in hymns:
-They are harmonized in traditional SATB harmony, thus eliminating the necessity of even keyboard accompaniment for performance (provided the congregation can sight sing.)
The...
The lyrics to our beloved "Amazing Grace", were written by former slave trader and inventive blasphemer, John Newton. The melody is said to be a tavern tune. As was the case with Luther's "A Mighty Fortress."
Hello everyone, and thank you for allowing me on board. After a long haul and fall in the world, that still, small voice beckoned me back home.
Now, to the Lord's work. Blessings to y'all.