Mora's Modern Rhythmists versus Barbara Morrison

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Kyle · #16 Post by **Kyle** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 3:06 pm

warning, his new CD is "different" intentional, but just not like the other ones. i find it more traditional than the others. still kick ass, but not the same

CafeSavoy · #17 Post by **CafeSavoy** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 3:13 pm

Kyle wrote:
Greg Avakian wrote: but to me Barbera's music is more alive, filled with feeling and emotion.
comeon now greg, that is an unfair statement to make. just listen to some of mora's stuff, itis just as alive and full of emotion as barbara's is. IMO you comment should have contained the discalimer that it is a "different" emotion. or maybe that barbara adds more emotion than artists in her vein of music. ????

dean mora music is full of emotion?

Kyle · #18 Post by **Kyle** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 3:14 pm

not in the same way that makes you want to hump something, in a different way

it is very emotional for me. i get really excited when i hear it. the trumpet sends chills of joy and excitment when they let it out. its great

CafeSavoy · #19 Post by **CafeSavoy** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 3:16 pm

GemZombie wrote: I like all Jazz,

except miles and trane and diz and ...

CafeSavoy · #20 Post by **CafeSavoy** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 3:20 pm

Kyle wrote:not in the same way that makes you want to hump something, in a different way

emotion is something that makes you want to hump something?
i thought that was an urge not an emotion.

Kyle · #21 Post by **Kyle** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 3:22 pm

hahaha

yeah, like "triumph the comic insult dog"

for me to poop on!

CafeSavoy · #22 Post by **CafeSavoy** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 3:30 pm

Kyle wrote: the trumpet sends chills of joy and excitment when they let it out. its great

although i do like the way they play with excitement on "a viper's moan"

KevinSchaper · #23 Post by **KevinSchaper** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 3:42 pm

Kyle wrote:warning, his new CD is "different" intentional, but just not like the other ones. i find it more traditional than the others. still kick ass, but not the same

Yeah... I was just listening to the samples, and thinking how much the singing reminded me of that Stanley Crouch chunk on Ken Burns Jazz makin fun of how people sang before Louis Armstrong..

Greg Avakian · #24 Post by **Greg Avakian** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 4:01 pm

Kyle,
That what the words "to me" mean -at least to me.

Kyle · #25 Post by **Kyle** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 4:15 pm

sorry, i must have read over that, my bad

Mr Awesomer · #26 Post by **Mr Awesomer** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 4:25 pm

Emotion does not come through all that much on Mora's albums, and I think this is mainly because they are sitting in a studio. Barbara's primary album (with the dancers) is all LIVE with an excited audience to feed off of. However, if you listen "Night Ride" off the 2nd release, you can get a better sense of what emotion MMR's can have. Get them all into a tiny club where they are smack in front of your face and you'll feel it as well (ala Derby.)

Greg Avakian · #27 Post by **Greg Avakian** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 4:56 pm

I agree that Dean Mora definitely lacks emotion in the studio. The band is tight, but maybe a little too tight. As in... they could definitely loosen up a little.

I'd like to hear them live and I know that their fans rave about them.

I only have Barbera on her own CDs and on the Johnny Otis CD. The problem with the Otis CD is the redic reverb. She doesn't need it at all.

GemZombie · #28 Post by **GemZombie** » Sun Feb 16, 2003 9:01 pm

CafeSavoy wrote:
GemZombie wrote: I like all Jazz,
except miles and trane and diz and ...

Dude, what are you talking about?

I love Miles. I said I don't dig bebop that much... which translates that I don't go ga-ga over it like I do other Jazz sub-genre's.

Also, to take my quote in context.... I have very specific sub-genre's that I find dancable... much of Morrison isn't my dance thing.

CafeSavoy · #29 Post by **CafeSavoy** » Sun Feb 16, 2003 9:44 pm

GemZombie wrote:
CafeSavoy wrote:
GemZombie wrote: I like all Jazz,
except miles and trane and diz and ...
Dude, what are you talking about?

I love Miles. I said I don't dig bebop that much... which translates that I don't go ga-ga over it like I do other Jazz sub-genre's.

Also, to take my quote in context.... I have very specific sub-genre's that I find dancable... much of Morrison isn't my dance thing.

must be tough having to determining the sub-genre of song before knowing whether you can dance to it.

GemZombie · #30 Post by **GemZombie** » Mon Feb 17, 2003 2:05 am

CafeSavoy wrote: must be tough having to determining the sub-genre of song before knowing whether you can dance to it.

Guess when I look back on it, it does sound that way. It's not so. Thanks ever-so-much for pointing that out for me, it's spiffy of you to do so.

When discussing, I can analyze like anyone else. When listening/dancing, I know what I like and what I don't, and what makes me want to dance, and what doesn't. It has nothing to do with time/era/style... just what I feel.

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