Yo Yo Ma
Charlie Parker
Roland Kirk
Miles Davis
Jaco Pastorias
Jerry Garcia
Bela Fleck
Who are your favorite musicians?
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Lightning Rod
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Where to begin? I'll try to limit myself:
Pink Floyd (Roger Waters, Dave Gilmour, Nick Mason, Rick Wright, and earlier Syd Barret)
Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham)
The Who
Flogging Molly
John Cage
Igor Stravinsky
and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (on the composition side)
Bob Dylan
Cat Stevens
The Ramones
Pink Floyd (Roger Waters, Dave Gilmour, Nick Mason, Rick Wright, and earlier Syd Barret)
Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham)
The Who
Flogging Molly
John Cage
Igor Stravinsky
and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (on the composition side)
Bob Dylan
Cat Stevens
The Ramones
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Bill Evans ( jazz piano) for true pianistic poetry.
Keith Jarrett ( jazz/ classical pianist, composer, solo improvisational pianist/ musical innovator)
Chick Corea ( jazz pianist and composer)
Joe Henderson ( jazz saxophone)
Sonny Rollins ( jazz sax)
John Coltrane ( jazz saxophones/ composer, musical innovator)
Andras Schiff ( classical piano) for his Haydn sonatas.
John Williams ( the Australian guitarist) for consummate mastery of the guitar-- for reviving the music of Barrios. And for thousands of beautiful musical moments.
Don Stiernberg ( great jazz mandolin)
Andy Statman ( ditto mando, and great Klezmer clarinet)
Thelonious Monk
Charles Mingus ( jazz bassist/ composer)
Miles Davis
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong ( esp. before 1940)
Frank Sinatra
Tony Bennett ( jazz/pop singer)
Richard Rogers ( musical theater/film composer)
Lucia Popp ( soprano) for her interpretations of Mozart and Slavic music
Carmen McRae ( jazz singer)
Sarah Vaughan ( jazz singer)
Jim Hall (jazz guitar)
F. J. Haydn ( composer)
Mozart (opera composer)
Beethoven ( favorite classical/ romantic composer)
The Tokyo Quartet ( for their Beethoven Quartets/ for their Bartok Quartets)
Charles DuToit ( Canadian conductor/ for his French orchestral music interpretations)
The Emerson Quartet
The Quartet Mosaique ( for the interpretation of Mozart Quartets)
Franz Schubert ( composer)
Radu Lupu ( Hungarian pianist, for his interpretation of Schubert, Schumann, etc..)
Nicolas Harnoncourt ( conductor/ musicologist/ music educator)
Daniel Barenboim ( conductor/pianist)
Leonard Bernstein ( conductor, composer, music educator)
G. Mahler
Richard Strauss ( yes, I know he was too friendly with the Nazis . . .)
Alfred Brendel ( classical piano/ music writer) for his incomparable cycle of the Beethoven sonatas.
Martha Argerich ( fiery Argentine pianist-- the equal of any man who touched a keyboard for power and poetry of interpretation-- for her Chopin especially)
The Rolling Stones
Dire Straits
The Beatles
Frank Zappa ( for extraordinary musical imagination with a sense of humor-- for extraordinary musical craftsmanship).
David Grisman ( mandolinist/composer, musicologist) for his superb musicianship and for bringing so many artists into the repertoire/ reviving their music
Jerry Garcia ( guitarist, singer, composer, painter and draftsman) for remarkable soul in his folk/blues/roots acoustic performances. For great rock music.)
( no relative merit is implied by this list nor the order in which its names are compiled. I just considered who I listen to most often and why.)
Zlatko
Keith Jarrett ( jazz/ classical pianist, composer, solo improvisational pianist/ musical innovator)
Chick Corea ( jazz pianist and composer)
Joe Henderson ( jazz saxophone)
Sonny Rollins ( jazz sax)
John Coltrane ( jazz saxophones/ composer, musical innovator)
Andras Schiff ( classical piano) for his Haydn sonatas.
John Williams ( the Australian guitarist) for consummate mastery of the guitar-- for reviving the music of Barrios. And for thousands of beautiful musical moments.
Don Stiernberg ( great jazz mandolin)
Andy Statman ( ditto mando, and great Klezmer clarinet)
Thelonious Monk
Charles Mingus ( jazz bassist/ composer)
Miles Davis
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong ( esp. before 1940)
Frank Sinatra
Tony Bennett ( jazz/pop singer)
Richard Rogers ( musical theater/film composer)
Lucia Popp ( soprano) for her interpretations of Mozart and Slavic music
Carmen McRae ( jazz singer)
Sarah Vaughan ( jazz singer)
Jim Hall (jazz guitar)
F. J. Haydn ( composer)
Mozart (opera composer)
Beethoven ( favorite classical/ romantic composer)
The Tokyo Quartet ( for their Beethoven Quartets/ for their Bartok Quartets)
Charles DuToit ( Canadian conductor/ for his French orchestral music interpretations)
The Emerson Quartet
The Quartet Mosaique ( for the interpretation of Mozart Quartets)
Franz Schubert ( composer)
Radu Lupu ( Hungarian pianist, for his interpretation of Schubert, Schumann, etc..)
Nicolas Harnoncourt ( conductor/ musicologist/ music educator)
Daniel Barenboim ( conductor/pianist)
Leonard Bernstein ( conductor, composer, music educator)
G. Mahler
Richard Strauss ( yes, I know he was too friendly with the Nazis . . .)
Alfred Brendel ( classical piano/ music writer) for his incomparable cycle of the Beethoven sonatas.
Martha Argerich ( fiery Argentine pianist-- the equal of any man who touched a keyboard for power and poetry of interpretation-- for her Chopin especially)
The Rolling Stones
Dire Straits
The Beatles
Frank Zappa ( for extraordinary musical imagination with a sense of humor-- for extraordinary musical craftsmanship).
David Grisman ( mandolinist/composer, musicologist) for his superb musicianship and for bringing so many artists into the repertoire/ reviving their music
Jerry Garcia ( guitarist, singer, composer, painter and draftsman) for remarkable soul in his folk/blues/roots acoustic performances. For great rock music.)
( no relative merit is implied by this list nor the order in which its names are compiled. I just considered who I listen to most often and why.)
Zlatko
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zlatko - why not just name everybody? (jokes)
judih - although dylan is one of my faves, i didn't include him in the musician category, although one can argue Blood on the Tracks was a symphony (moreso in its original open-D tuned version - the New York version)...also i agree with your lou reed selection, and forgot him
judih - although dylan is one of my faves, i didn't include him in the musician category, although one can argue Blood on the Tracks was a symphony (moreso in its original open-D tuned version - the New York version)...also i agree with your lou reed selection, and forgot him
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Zlatko Waterman
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Dear LR:
Thanks for the invitation!
I saw "Grateful Dawg" when it was released. Then I watched the DVD several times.
Some of my old bluegrass music pals from the SF Bay Area and Berkeley are in it.
I met Grisman once, when he and a quartet of old picking pals played at the Jabberwock. He was sullen and virtuosic and thin. Now he's sullen, more virtuosic and fat.
At the time I saw the group, a friend of mine, Rick Shubb ( inventor of one of the most original guitar capos in the world):
http://www.shubb.com/
was playing banjo in the group. He's one of the world's finest, though relatively unknown. I had never laid a pick to an instrument at the time and was playing acoustic string bass in a "businessman's bounce" background pop trio.
Grisman is one of the many musicians I admire whom I would not want to know personally. Garcia too, though he was a little looser with other people. The film you watched was made by David's daughter, and is a little love poem to her dad and Garcia. I like it and had fun watching it, particularly the sequence in which David plays the mandola.
It's fun to watch the two of them liking each other and the music they play. The super-heavy dopesmoking Berkeley aspect of the film reminds me too much of my own adolescencee, both in time and place. Though that certainly can't be blamed on them or the film. Grisman and I are just the same age.
David Grisman is a great musician, but he has a weird track record with some old friends of mine who play acoustic music.
Example:
A friend ( Eric Rawlins and David Gans) made a cd of their original country songs with some covers.
http://www.well.com/~woodman/hbm/hbm.html
Grisman agreed to play on the record for "a bag of dope." DG arrived, performed on his tracks, and left, barely saying anything and hardly acknowledging my friend ( Eric)-- at right in the picture on the website). Grisman's performance is flat and dull and lacks any zip.
What a cheery idea--LR and Z listening to favorites together . . .
Zlatko
Thanks for the invitation!
I saw "Grateful Dawg" when it was released. Then I watched the DVD several times.
Some of my old bluegrass music pals from the SF Bay Area and Berkeley are in it.
I met Grisman once, when he and a quartet of old picking pals played at the Jabberwock. He was sullen and virtuosic and thin. Now he's sullen, more virtuosic and fat.
At the time I saw the group, a friend of mine, Rick Shubb ( inventor of one of the most original guitar capos in the world):
http://www.shubb.com/
was playing banjo in the group. He's one of the world's finest, though relatively unknown. I had never laid a pick to an instrument at the time and was playing acoustic string bass in a "businessman's bounce" background pop trio.
Grisman is one of the many musicians I admire whom I would not want to know personally. Garcia too, though he was a little looser with other people. The film you watched was made by David's daughter, and is a little love poem to her dad and Garcia. I like it and had fun watching it, particularly the sequence in which David plays the mandola.
It's fun to watch the two of them liking each other and the music they play. The super-heavy dopesmoking Berkeley aspect of the film reminds me too much of my own adolescencee, both in time and place. Though that certainly can't be blamed on them or the film. Grisman and I are just the same age.
David Grisman is a great musician, but he has a weird track record with some old friends of mine who play acoustic music.
Example:
A friend ( Eric Rawlins and David Gans) made a cd of their original country songs with some covers.
http://www.well.com/~woodman/hbm/hbm.html
Grisman agreed to play on the record for "a bag of dope." DG arrived, performed on his tracks, and left, barely saying anything and hardly acknowledging my friend ( Eric)-- at right in the picture on the website). Grisman's performance is flat and dull and lacks any zip.
What a cheery idea--LR and Z listening to favorites together . . .
Zlatko
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