tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post4783308529725688082..comments2024-02-20T07:06:18.516-05:00Comments on Brilliant Corners: Top Ten Reasons Why "Best of" Lists SuckSteve Provizerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757505876939504133noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post-65142356661108335502013-07-16T08:09:42.520-04:002013-07-16T08:09:42.520-04:00Ms. Scott, I hope that you're a real person an...Ms. Scott, I hope that you're a real person and not spam, because I relish getting human compliments. SteveSteve Provizerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09757505876939504133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post-53666285300794464652013-07-16T02:34:30.803-04:002013-07-16T02:34:30.803-04:00I've been browsing online more than 3 hours la...I've been browsing online more than 3 hours lately, yet I by no means discovered any interesting article like yours. It's beautiful worth enough for me.Personally, if all site owners and bloggers made good content material as you did, the web might be a lot more useful than ever before....<br /><a href="http://www.lotushairstudio.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">hairdressers Edinburgh</a><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03225152258170553425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post-82449845307068293952010-06-24T14:35:49.485-04:002010-06-24T14:35:49.485-04:00Agreed, but usually the list auteur seems to have ...Agreed, but usually the list auteur seems to have little psychic investment.Steve Provizerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09757505876939504133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post-8408250565902574672010-06-24T12:04:13.383-04:002010-06-24T12:04:13.383-04:00Top ten lists are only useful when they betray the...Top ten lists are only useful when they betray the reasoning of the compiler because then they comprise an argument and it makes it more fun to respectfully agree to disagree.Ian Thalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15348768867561450314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post-26982524227445971372010-06-01T15:41:56.173-04:002010-06-01T15:41:56.173-04:00That seems to be the way we all did it. Cooks bles...That seems to be the way we all did it. Cooks blessed mom got him a deadbeat subscription when he was still in Junior High but we started to notice it sucked early on. <br /><br />My earliest music finding was based on listening to Steve Elman on WBUR before NPR became its current quasi travesty. <br /><br />I'd wait for set breaks with a pen and paper and write down the things I liked and then go find them. Or my friends at Discount Records would play things in the store and give me in store play copies for free.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18394197995097602185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post-4459628415904098572010-05-31T23:23:23.915-04:002010-05-31T23:23:23.915-04:00Yea, that's the kind of work I'm talkin...Yea, that's the kind of work I'm talkin' about... If you're gonna make lists, at least admit that there's no real altruistic-deepen-people's-investment payoff here. <br /><br />The fact is, you listen differently-more intensively and with more personal investment-when you are aggressively following a musical thread of your own devising than when you say: "he liked this, so I'll get it. And she liked this, so I'll get that..."Steve Provizerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06970532291417480963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post-66050033268091372812010-05-31T22:21:50.871-04:002010-05-31T22:21:50.871-04:00I discovered my favorite jazz recordings the old f...I discovered my favorite jazz recordings the old fashioned way. If I liked a sideman I heard for the first time on a particular record, I'd seek out his work on different records and/or as a leader.<br /><br />It was amazing how quickly doing this took me in and out so many different eras and sub-genres.Boston Craphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02569284967928878528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post-30098184173048127652010-05-31T18:54:18.796-04:002010-05-31T18:54:18.796-04:00List mania is strange although it pleases some fol...List mania is strange although it pleases some folks I like and I indulge it in the same spirit that others put up with my numerous lapses.<br /><br />I did find a more interesting assertion of sequence last year but haven't done much with it.<br /><br />CD's are almost like tarot cards and you can shuffle them. <br /><br />So one day I pulled a whole bunch of things in a rough one year stretch from September 1963 til November 1964 and made a chronology of them.<br /><br />Damned if it wasn't an unusual period of activity. Bill Dixon convened his early ensembles, Dolphy recorded Out To Lunch and joined Andrew Hill on Point of Departure. <br /><br />Tony Williams recorded Life Time.<br />Betty Carter recorded Inside and George Russell was busy. Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones recorded with Sonny Simmons and Prince Lasha.<br /><br />All in all it was an unusual time frame. And that is just some of the work I have laying around.<br /><br />Here's a better game, do one of these sequences and play a year, whatever falls into it in what ever sequence naturally occurred and muse on what else must have been going on then.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18394197995097602185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post-49750350216727497342010-05-31T18:43:54.532-04:002010-05-31T18:43:54.532-04:00No. The first is "What's My line?" T...No. The first is "What's My line?" The other is "I've Got A Secret."Steve Provizerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06970532291417480963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post-39790210432748445852010-05-31T18:28:07.737-04:002010-05-31T18:28:07.737-04:00reifying the experts: is that like ragging the cla...reifying the experts: is that like ragging the classics?rob chalfenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09456519158892216145noreply@blogger.com