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"Shake Your Money Maker" - Elmore James

Rip Hilton Valentine. Here is my favorite cover of the Screaming Jay Hawkins song... I Put A Spell On You - Animals

Halloween Spooks - Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross

I'm OK with the Bee Gees, and I'm also OK with silly foolishness.

Un-break my Heart - Toni Braxton (I like this song)

And at least a dozen rock/pop songs 'borrowed' melodies from famous classical composers like Bach, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Gliere and others. A lot of contemporary country music is so rock n roll that I don't call it country anymore, instead I just call it Nashville. Music. A lot of music called jazz today is simply instrumental rock n roll. A lot of rock leans towards jazz. Genres are for people who sell music. The lines between the genres are definitely blurred. But IMO there is no such thing as a jazz chord. Insights and incites by Notes

Sounds like the same song to me as well, and did when my big sister was controlling the radio. "Build Me Up Buttercup" - Foundations

Or the Eee Dees (groan)

Q. What do dentists call their x-rays? A. Tooth pics

What Bruno said ^^^ Those who are arrogant and smug in any genre of music forget that what we are doing is supposed to be fun. We are supposed to be playing, and that's why what we do is called "PLAYing music". When I hire musicians, attitude is more important than technical chops. School can teach you technique, but it can't teach you talent (soul, it factor, or whatever you call what turns the notes into music) There are people who have monster theory chops and consistently come up with jazz that moves the listener's soul. I'm thinking Stan Getz, Jimmy Smith, and Stanley Turrentine to name just a few. It's melody, not just scales and arpeggios. There are others who can play all the right notes over all the right chords and many technically competent but uninspired music. I won't mention any names here, but I have a couple in mind. It's best if you have the soul and the technique, but I'd rather listen to one with the soul and less technique than someone playing a lot of empty notes. And that goes in all genres of music, not only jazz. And what makes jazz is not so much what you are playing when you are improvising, but how you are playing. Insights and incites by Notes

"Flat Broke Love" - BTO

You've got a point. Sliced and wrapped in plastic is better.

I guess he figured if he painted that, he'd be in the dough.

Jelly Jelly Jelly - Bobby "Blue" Bland A nice rendition of this old classic. Bobby was at his peak, the arrangement is nice, and the musicians were in very good form.

Hollywood Madness - Richie Cole with Eddie Jefferson and The Manhattan Transfer (full album)

Hmm, I've played ninths in rock, pop and blues and occasionally in a country song. I guess that means there is a lot more jazz out there than I thought. I've played a John Coltrane song that had nothing but triad chords in it. So without a 9th, is 'Trane not jazz anymore? People sometimes also call archtop electric guitars "jazz boxes", but one of the most iconic solid body guitars ever made, the Les Paul was made to be a jazz guitar, and I've heard plenty of rock played on an archtop electric. Jazz is group improvisation, but so is rock, country, blues, and dozens of other pop music genres. To me jazz isn't the chords, jazz isn't the instrument, and jazz isn't anything but the player and his/her method of interpreting the music. Insights and incites by Notes

St. Peter in Heaven is checking ID’s. He asks a man, “What did you do on Earth?” The man says, “I was a doctor.” St. Peter says, “Okay, go right through those pearly gates. Next! What did you do on Earth?” “I was a school teacher.” “Go right through those pearly gates. Next! And what did you do on Earth?” “I was a musician.” “Go around the side, up the freight elevator, through the kitchen…..” ---------------------------------- What’s the difference between a rock guitarist and a jazz guitarist? The rock guitarist plays 3 chords for 1,000 people, the jazz guitarists plays 1,000 chords for 3 people. ----------------------------------- What do you call someone wearing a "Make Jazz Great Again" hat? A Trumpet Supporter Insights, incites, and a little silliness by Notes

I like old music (partial sampling): Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Dvorak, Shostakovitch, Ellington, Count Basie, Andrews Sisters, Sinatra, Stan Getz, Stanley Turrentine, Jimmy Smith, Mark Murphy, Bobby Bland, Celia Cruz, King Curtis, Lester Young, Elvis Preslay, Beach Boys, Aretha Franklin, Beatles, Kinks, Zombies, Jethro Tull, Zeppelin, Santana, Queen, Aerosmith, Prince, Springsteen, Diana Krall, Eliane Elias, Alicia Keys, Amy Winehouse, Eva Cassidy, Emily Remler, Ariana Grande, and some newer ones that will be old in a few years. Actually, there are only two kinds of music: (1) Music that I like and (2) Music made for somebody else. Insights and incites by Notes

I think the bacon squeeze bottle should look like a pig, but be careful which end the bacon comes out of when you design it.

What goes with Jelly? "Peanut Butter" - The Marathons This from my older sister's era.

Baba O'Riley - The Who Because many people think the name of this song is "Teenage Wasteland" and simply because I like the song.

Diamond Music (1st movement) - Karl Jenkins

Piggies - Beatles