Just a few pretty tracks

I liked the Herbie Mann tune, Ive always enjoyed his music. What album is that from?

I think John's right, as a youngish site we have less votes on polls, but more discussion - definitely a plus. And I too liked this post in general, Logan - especially Janko - been saving him for my next big Amazon order, very keen to get a hold of that album (among others you posted!)

No need to justify yourself, I'm not mainstream in jazz and I feel fine with it

No sarcasm here, just observation of reality.
seven out of ten reviews on front page are jazz related rock

What, you mean like my  Mwandishi related albums poll?  I don't really care about attendance.  That may have got twice as many votes as this one, but it also has less posts, and I care more about posts than votes, since I make polls to talk about music with people.  I also responded to a lot of other topics here in a short time since I like and know a lot of the music being discussed at this site.

I was just hoping that more would enjoy this kind of music (it's hardly the only music I listen to).

I don't want to talk about Fusion that much here -- generally I'd rather talk not rock related jazz, because I belong to a  progressive rock site where I talk about jazz-rock Fusion often and don't need replication of the same kind of music and topics I'd talk about more there here.  At this site I'm hoping to learn far more from jazz aficionados than I  would at a site full of philistines ;) who tend to listen to more rock than jazz..  This community happens to share a lot of the same members as that site, of course, and I said the last sentence with my tongue-in-my-cheek.

Anyway, just for fun, maybe I'll try this poll at the allaboutjazz forum. 



Edited by Logan - 18 Nov 2011 at 1:44pm

 I don't really mind -- I was only very mildly disappointed.  I think many more people must have seen this topic than posted since I have seen a  fair amount of activity here (though mostly before in the What Are Listening To? thread) and there weren't a lot of new topics to bury this one -- though i guess not everyone like me keeps their eyes on the new posts section).

 I wouldn't expect many people to bother with it.  It's hardly a riveting topic title, nor did I choose exciting pieces, I went for quite lovely with the poll choices, and such lovely music is a dime-a-dozen.  Not everyone would like to take the time to check out random youtube tracks by some kinda new forum guy, or by anyone. 

Still, I do appreciate the interest of those who have posted in this topic and don't mean to belittle my appreciation there.

I'm a bit disappointed that only two people liked any of the music enough to vote over several weeks.  Like any other musical forum, I'm obviously going to be very much in the minority here as well -- though at least here, I do love the big jazz names.

Some people might say that the well-known cult favorite soundtrack to the Lesbian Vampires movie is similar to Raphael's work, but I think Raphael's music is much more sophisticated and less campy than Lesbian Vampires.

tanks

We just added Mirouze. What is Raphael's full name?