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Very nice---and I have the same feelings about the soprano sax
Here is another for you. I have to confess--I saw Joe sample in concert at least twice, I have some of his CD's and until I just went to youtube I didn't realize his race
Sadly Mr. Sample isn't with us anymore--he went to the big concert
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Joe Sample is another new artist to me. Fine piano. In listening to some of his other YouTube postings, I particularly liked "Street Life" with female singer Randy Crawford with whom I was also unfamliar. Excellent —
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xJDFBOrwWBU
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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I was lucky enough to enjoy one of his concerts with Ms Crawford as well--- she is really first rate. Her voice can transport you to a smoky cabaret when you are sitting in a concert hall
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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I especially want to share this work. This is a compilation by Yo-Yo Ma on cello and the composer, John Williams on piano, playing three selections from the music to the film Memoirs Of A Giesha, a beautiful movie, but enhanced greatly by the score. When I saw the film, I was enchanted by the visual, but it was the music that thrilled me. Still does. This compliation I have only found on YouTube and is just audio, but what an audio. The middle section is the piece called "A Dream Discarded" @4:04-6:48. The mastery of Yo-Yo Ma is exquisit! The movie soundtrack album, which I have enjoyed these many years has a suburb rendition of A Dream Discarded, but this one is even better, I think...slower...more evocative, as if such a thing possible.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uOyFl5mB70I
As a curiosity, you might play from the side bar the 1962 video of Leonard Bernstein introducing the seven year-old prodigy, Yo-Yo Ma, playing for President Kennedy. The promise was realized...
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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