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post #16 of 24
8/9/09 at 6:24pm
I wanted add another song by CSN&Y, "Wind On The Water", its about the whales.
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post #17 of 24
8/9/09 at 7:11pm
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Don't forget show tunes like Porgy & Bess, Music Man, Oklahoma!
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post #18 of 24
8/10/09 at 12:05am
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Originally Posted by SungTong View Post
Doesn't all - well, mostly all - music have historical significance? I really don't understand why you need us to tell you this. Music, after all, is sparked by emotion, and almost all major historical events have greatly influenced young minds, and therefore the music those young minds were creating. Just look at the 60s, with the whole hippie movement. Would woodstock ever have happened without Vietnam? I just don't understand what you're aiming to find here. All music has some sort of historical significance, depending on how you want to look at it. Even Miley Cyrus could be looked at as "Well, society today is pretty damn corrupt, and a few disney execs want to exploit such a beautiful thing like music in order to make money while simultaneously spoiling the minds of our youth." See? Not hard.
What? This isn't really what we're talking about at all. Emotion, potential for influence, and actual historical significance are not the same things.

This needs some more explaining, I feel to make any of this applicable to what we're talking about. Also, this thread isn't really for debate as much as it's for examples.

So, to contribute again: It doesn't really need an introduction, but if I'm educating my kids, Kind of Blue is going to be a big one..making sure they can understand his sense of phrasing through improv, the importance of what's "between" the notes, and how it falls into the jazz timeline in general.
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post #19 of 24
8/10/09 at 6:55pm
never forget the great duos of composership: rodgers and hammerstein, gilbert and sullivan, even simon and garfunkel. Cause two heads are better than one. Unless you're fighting a two-headed dragon.
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post #20 of 24
8/10/09 at 7:30pm
I thought of another one that would be worthwhile, Harry Belafonte at Carnagie Hall. Recorded in October 1959 his performance is amazing and contains songs I think kids would get a kick from. The recording is top knotch, you'd be hard pressed to find a better live recording, even by todays standards.

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post #21 of 24
8/11/09 at 2:45am
Stan Getz

Jazz Samba and Getz/Gilberto
The records that made Brazilian bossa nova and samba into global phenomena.

If you want to hear what bossa sounded like before jazz musicians got hold of it, try straight early João Gilberto:

Chega de Saudade and O Amor, O Sorriso e a Flor
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post #22 of 24
8/12/09 at 12:43am
They could easily spend their lives trying to assimilate Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. Many of our greatest popular musicians have. The Wikipedia article on this monumental work is very good.

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post #23 of 24
8/12/09 at 12:05pm
Honestly, anyone who's gone their whole life without hearing Dark Side of the Moon has not experienced life. That's why Van Gogh cut his ear off, because he was so pissed that he wouldn't get to hear DSOTM as it wasn't scheduled to come out for another 100 years.
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post #24 of 24
8/13/09 at 1:01am
Money Jungle
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