>I think I see my mom in the audience of the third Bill Evans link :

We really did wear coats and ties to concerts ... of course so did the Beatles at *their* concerts at the time <g>

Do check out the Kind of Blue clip. That album was probably one of the great jazz albums of all time. Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Wyton Kelly - very special.

I grew up on jazz and motown. That's why I am convinced hip hop was a plot by the Klan.

Seriously, I grew up listening to the trio. Nice. :o) It was interesting having my mom's music playing in one room while my sister listened to hers in another (her music later changed to include the Grateful Dead). Strange to think that everyone wanted a turntable (record player) for their birthday back then... :o)
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>>>Ok, not classic rock and not from the 80s, but still cool :o)
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>>Can't help it. Just thinking about those magic moments when you realize there is such a thing as transcendence.
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>>When I was a sophomore in college we hitched to NYCto hear Bill Evans at the Blue Note :
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>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mt4DQLg5pc
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57HnHX-BlRg&feature=related
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p_dHE5hQIA&feature=related
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2LFVWBmoiw&feature=related
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>>And this was the Jazz album of the year in 1976 and I remember the night a friend put it on and we sat transfixed through the whole thing without saying a word - and then played it again.
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>>The Koln Concert - Keith Jarrett
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>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzqMJWlKMsY&feature=related
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV8Fg6dSbRQ
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>>Oh yeah - and I will forever hate hiphop and all its works for artistically derailing the culture that gave us Kind of Blue
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>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEC8nqT6Rrk
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>>There were changes we could believe in.

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