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Double Bass Todd Coolman continues to impress...

#21
Ok now I think we are getting shallow. :hmm:

I think you mean mathematically not possible-meaning you got 800. Bully for you son. (There's a genius among us, fellas. Have some respect :eyebrow: Unfortunately here you have start walking all over again...

But imp-SATirically speaking so far.. (scores notwithstanding) this conversation is beyond dumberer. Somebody quick. Some one y'all fine me a le-yid pap back thar..
Or at least a bong

Boorring!.... :rolleyes:

Hoo lawd....Huckaboom.. Get me some rags and rolls and whoo ha ha :D

hewww lawd
 
#22
Tbeers said:
I don't think you understood, Johono5. By not possible, I meant... empirically not possible. Not that it will ever matter, I was just making conversation.
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No, I heard you loud and clear. You were letting us know you got an 800, or perfect score, on the verbal section of the SAT. I was amused that you would throw down like that; but, as the possessor of equivalent accomplishments and accolades in my youth, I understand the compulsion to publicize such fleeting glories (don't worry, it fades quickly upon entrance to the less-myopic world beyond high school). Of course it isn't quite true that it will never matter--it matters right now, to you, in where you go to college and how much scholarship money you get and maybe even whether or not you have to take the stupid freshman english writing/literature classes; and it's an accomplishment to be proud of. But bringing it up, especially as a rhetorical device or as a rejoinder in a debate, generally only serves to breed ill-will. Or, in my case, amusement expressed in the voice of Stewie from "Family Guy" (I was watching it on DVD last night--ah, that'll erase all that fancy book-learnin'!). I'm sure you dig this already, though; you're a bright dude, which I say with no condescension (hard to tell on a web forum sometimes...).

Back to the matter at hand: a partial answer to my own question--the "selected discography" from Coolman's website:

With James Moody: Something Special, Moving Forward, Sweet and Lovely
Honey- all RCA Novus,
Young at Heart, Moody Plays Mancini- Warner Bros.
Homage- Savoy

With Ahmad Jamal: Live in Paris- '92- Birdology

With Terry Gibbs: Chicago Fire, Holiday for Swing- Contemporary

With David Newman: Blue Head- Candid

With Bobby Watson: Advance Bop- Enja

With Lionel Hampton: Made in Japan- Glad Hamp

With Hal Galper: Invitation to a Concert- Concord
Live in Port Townsend- Double Time

With Jody Sandhaus: A Fine Spring Morning- Saranac

With Libby York: Sunday in New York- bluJazz

With John Campbell: After Hours- Contemporary

With Rob Schneiderman: Radio Waves- Reservoir

Anybody heard any of these? I'm sure there's some good stuff in there.
 
#23
I won an award for "Best Dressed Camper" when I was 8...

Anyway, I haven't heard any of the records,but I have heard Todd with Moody and it sounded great and really straight ahead. Hal Galper speaks very highly of the records with Todd, that may be a little looser in terms of approach (Hal writes innerstin tunes).
 
#25
Johono5 said:
No, I heard you loud and clear. You were letting us know you got an 800, or perfect score, on the verbal section of the SAT. I was amused that you would throw down like that; but, as the possessor of equivalent accomplishments and accolades in my youth, I understand the compulsion to publicize such fleeting glories (don't worry, it fades quickly upon entrance to the less-myopic world beyond high school). Of course it isn't quite true that it will never matter--it matters right now, to you, in where you go to college and how much scholarship money you get and maybe even whether or not you have to take the stupid freshman english writing/literature classes; and it's an accomplishment to be proud of. But bringing it up, especially as a rhetorical device or as a rejoinder in a debate, generally only serves to breed ill-will.
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What? I would like to take this chance to remind y'all that some of our readers are from Kentucky. For this reason, please restrict all words to three syllables or less. Thankee!
 
#28
Ed Fuqua said:
Always wear under wear?
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Yessir. Or, at least, "always where under where," but you 'uns get the joke in english 'cause of the pseudonym, or homophobe, or whatever it's called. My high school Latin teacher's idea of a joke, and naturally that's all I've retained. That and the slide of the 2,000-year-old mural from Pompeii where the dude has like a two-foot schlong and he's weighing it on a scale to impress...Italian heritage!
 
#29
Chris Fitzgerald said:
What? I would like to take this chance to remind y'all that some of our readers are from Kentucky. For this reason, please restrict all words to three syllables or less. Thankee!
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Here's to Kentuckiana, the state of mind I call home...no shirt, no shoes, no problem!

But the weather sucks right now--I was playing an outdoor gig two weeks ago, and the upper half of the g-string happened to be in full sunlight (unbeknownst to me). Halfway through a tune, the g-string suddenly dropped in tuning by about a minor-third, and no matter how much I tried to tune it up during the tune it kept dropping, stretching like taffy. But, Spirocores being the king of all workingmen's strings, I got it in the shade and after about five minutes it tuned back up and has worked just fine since. And it sounds GREAT with the bow now! (I think I must have put like six months of playing time on it in one minute.)

There, now we're nicely off-topic. Proceed.
 
#30
Tbeers said:
You know, one of the things that I found amusing and impressive at the concert was the ability of the trained jazz musicians in the combo to play a rap song with perfect believability.

Near the end of the set, Jon Faddis started rapping to the audience about Dizzy Gillespie or something (it was very silly) and he had the group playing a hip-hop groove behind him. And I thought to myself, damn, Todd Coolman is this white guy who can play perfectly convincing ghetto-type rap grooves. you would be very very suprized at the number of white guys who are involved in the production of said "ghetto-type rap grooves
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#31
nypiano said:
The writing persona. That fuqua can get kind of snippy. Kind of a pompous ass sometimes. Don't bother trying to best him in a war of words. His English SATs are probably higher than yours. Who else would use the word avuncular on a message board? :D
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Johono5 said:
But bringing it up, especially as a rhetorical device or as a rejoinder in a debate, generally only serves to breed ill-will.
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I didn't bring it up.

Whatever, I'm done with this thread. From now on I am not going to start threads maybe, it seems like the only way for me not to have my head bitten off is to sit timidly in a corner and reply to other people's topics.
 
#32
Technically, no, you didn't. But nypiano was just BS'ing about someone ELSE's SAT scores, and for all he knows Fuqua was home-schooled or went straight into the Merchant Marines or, god forbid, took the ACT instead. Taking the bait was the puerile part of it.

But there might be something to be learned here, and I think Ed's (and my) reaction to your first little faux pas can be informative if you look beyond the antagonism. Here's the thing: if you continue on with music, you will work your ass off to develop a personal voice and to create art, to make something new and special every time you perform. Then, inevitably, some dumbass is going to come up to you after a particularly spectacular/effective/evocative/moving performance (as has happened to me, and probably to Ed too) and say, "Hey, your band sounds swell, but why don't you guys smile a little more? Work on your stage presence? Wink at the audience? Program material that I've heard on the radio? Why do you make funny faces? Keep your eyes closed? Move around like that? Appear as if you're emerging from a dream after a song instead of immediately bowing and scraping so I know to clap?" You will want to strangle this person. You will want to tell them to remove their head from their ass and open their ears. You will want to explain to them that the sound traveling through the air is the important aspect upon which to focus, not everything else--that you aren't Wayne Newton or Christina Aguilera, Diana Krall or Boney James, that this show is about the music and not the spectacle. But you can't really do that.
Not every kind of music is like this--there's nothing wrong with any of the four artists mentioned above (well, except for Boney James). But I promise that Renee Rosnes is coming less from the "spectacle" side of things and more from the "soundwaves=art" kind of thing. So a criticism of her facial expressions and a request that she smile seems grossly out of place to someone like, apparently, Ed, and to me. And if it ever happens to you someday (and it likely will, if you keep playing jazz), you'll know exactly what we mean. That's all, nothing more to it.
 
#34
Tbeers said:
I didn't bring it up.

Whatever, I'm done with this thread. From now on I am not going to start threads maybe, it seems like the only way for me not to have my head bitten off is to sit timidly in a corner and reply to other people's topics.
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It's not good to be so sensitive. If you find it hard to take criticism from others, then don't play music, especially not jazz. If you pursue an education in music, all you will get is criticism from others (if you're lucky enough to have good teachers) because they have a higher standard. Anyone who tells you how wonderful you are is either stupid or lying.

It's good that a guy your age seems to be getting into all the right music, but you're probably a big fish in a very small pond in your school/town. When you leave there, you'll realize that there are a thousand other guys out there just like you except ten times better. This is why you should listen to the "older" guys on this site and take advantage of the invaluable resource presented here, instead of copping an attitude everytime someone calls you out for saying something juvenile. You'll be better prepared for the real world if you do so.

Remeber, jazz musicians are the most bitter and jaded of them all. They delight in making younger guys on the bandstand feel miserable...
 
#35
Don't forget -- and I think we're all probably guilty of this (including me) -- that we are in the entertainment industry. Unless you're selling insurance and stacking up all of your compositions in the corner of your bedroom. I'll offer up as examples: Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Nat Cole, Dizzy Gillespie.
 
#36
Congratulations T! You made it through that real good.
You're actually lucky, I think, because most people on the board know you and like you...myself included.
When I first joined up, Ed was on a TBDB vacation. I'd heard all the stories and was ready for him when he showed back up. Problem was, I always agreed with him.
As much as I like you, I agree with what he says about the visual thing. It is only about the music.
Take me, I can't stand to watch Charlie Haden...I love his playing, he just looks like he's choking an anaconda. Then, he rocks back and forth, taking a chance of bumping that beautiful Vuillaume of his. I just close my eyes...I know I can't learn anything from watching his choking left hand.
Listening to him is another story.
People have said that I make a pretty ugly face myself.
Anyway, I don't think you'd look too good while you were having sex....
Hang in, Man
 

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