I posted this in the thread about a beautiful Gretsch round badge set in red pearl. Upon reading this response to Drum Bob's comment about "Modern Jazz", I realized that my post was out of place there. So, here's a new thread with that comment which i removed from the Gretsch drum wrap thread.
"Modern Jazz" what the hell is today's version of modern jazz? I have been listening to satellite radio in both of our cars for many years now. My wife and I will listen to one of several music stations when making short driving trips to the grocery store, etc. We listen to audio books for longer drives. The Sirius add-on radio that was installed in our older car developed a problem that led to a constant drain on the car's battery. After replacing the battery four times in a year and a half, the culprit was identified. Long story short......I uninstalled the old Sirius radio. After searching through all AM and FM stations in the Houston area, I found a few stations that were not Limbaugh bulls**t vehicles, preachers trying to rescue me from evil and my money, Mexican music of several different styles that are nice, but not for me, some Asian and Arabic language stations, or shouting sports babble fraught with lame catch phrases unique to each of the shouting people. One of the few other stations is the jazz station from a local traditionally black university. I thought that this would be good to listen to until I installed a new satellite radio receiver. WRONG! Every time I turned on that station, I could swear that they were playing the same tune in either its faster or its slower tempo version. Here's what the music consists of: (1). a rhythm track that has to be a drum machine playing a Latin-flavored ticky ticky beat of maybe a Bossa Nova derivation (2). One or more electronic keyboards playing a mushy brass ensemble with nauseating reverb alternating with a synthesized Rhodes piano sound with even more reverb (3). A solo horn--usually alto sax--alternating with medium tonal range solo trumpet or flugelhorn (4) an annoying bass line with boingy-sounding nasal tones that might be left hand keyboard. Every once in a while there is a vocal with some woman shrieking as if she's the designated screamer in the Edwin Hawkins Singers for "Oh Happy Day" or a guy poorly channeling Al Green. Thank goodness, within a few days, I bought a new XM radio add-on unit. My default channel is the 40's channel that features a lot of big band music.
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