Your golden moments in listening .

[Damon Rondeau]

Originally Posted by Paul Warburton

Trane's solo on Blue and Green is solid gold for me.

PW, I think you might have meant to type "Blue IN Green" on your fretboard, er, fingerboard, er -- dammit!! -- keyboard?

[David Kaczorowski]

Paul had a Golden Age Moment.

[Paul Warburton]

**** you, the bof of you's.
I been tryin' to hip you TWO fer neigh onto 6 years now. This is the thanks I get??
ONE leetle mistake, and I gotta deal with this ****?
Sweet Mother Mary and her dear son....I'm busted. Why, I never...

[Damon Rondeau]

Originally Posted by Paul Warburton

**** you, the bof of you's.

Ah yes, like a ray of sunshine, that is... The world is good!

[Manticore Guy]

As cliche as this probably is, I have to say that 5 years ago as a young 12 year old beginning electric bassist, my head was blown when my dad played me Jaco on Donna Lee.
From that day on I became aware of the possibilities of the bass.

Though even now I am much more of an upright player, I still vividly remember the feeling of being amazed at what was coming out of the speakers.

[emilio g]

The first jazz I ever heard was probably Ellington as played by a really respectable high school big band, which I loved instantly.

After that, more or less chronologically:

Nine Inch Nails and Tool. Since I don't really play rock music (or electric bass) unless I'm being paid for it, these two surprise all my music school friends every time. For whatever reason, I still love these two bands.

David R. Gillingham- Concertino for Percussion and Wind Ensemble

The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps (from about 1999 to 2004ish)

Anything that Mingus wrote I was into in a big way

Kind of Blue. This with my prior Ellington experience made me want to play jazz.

The first Jaco album...(and word of mouth which I didn't check out till college)

Bill Evans-Sunday at the Village Vanguard.

The Bach Cello Suites

The Rite of Spring, Petrushka, Firebird, etc...I had a massive Stravinsky phase. Now I just stick to week long binges.

Bartok, Bartok, Bartok. My relationship to Bartok is like my relationship with Stravinsky

William Walton's Symphony No. 1: The best well known symphony that most Americans have never heard of.

Anders Jormin's Alone

The Strauss Tone Poems. I still listen to some portion of Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, or Ein Heldenliben almost daily.


Really really incomplete list, but that's what first came into my head.

[Ike Harris]

Several "moments". One of the 1st - Clark Terry came to our little college's jazz band festival my freshman year. I'd never heard live jazz before, but I'd seen CT on the Carson show and knew he was a good player. He not only played with our school's band, which completely floored me, but there was a jazz clinic where he listened and commented on other bands for several hours. Very illuminating. I started playing bass the following year(tuba major) and eventually got into that band. Then I moved in with a guy who had a pretty damn good record collection and remember sitting for hours on end listening to everything. The CTI guys, Ron-Hubert-Freddie-George-Stanley, etc. My first Ray Brown(Oscar), Night Train, Maynard, Quincy w/Ray & Chuck Rainey - those Sansui woofers were dancing! Dizzy, Duke, Mingus, the whole nine yards. Listened to the Evans Vanguard record and couldn't grasp it, until much later after I discovered the Portrait album, then it made sense. Jaco I of course. One of my first road trips was to DC, where I caught George Mraz with two chicks in a trio. I knew him from the Thad/Mel band, but got a nice taste of that big dry sound of his. No amp in sight! John Clayton did a cool feature with Basie - Bro. John, I think. Lately, constantly inspired by Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny on Missouri Sky. I know there's more, but will quit for now. -ike