Posted on 11/17/2025 8:07:14 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan
Older adults who regularly listen to or play music appear to have significantly lower risks of dementia and cognitive decline. The data suggests that musical engagement could be a powerful, enjoyable tool for supporting cognitive resilience in aging.
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I’ve read that also. Jazz is just awesome. One cd I’ve been listening to recently is with Larry Carlton and Lee Ritenour, Larry & Lee. I had the pleasure of seeing Charles Mingus and Elvin jones in N.Y. about 2 years before Mingus died. What a performance they put on!
BACH is great!
Fire up a doobie and crank up the Doors.
I remember that video! Heart warming!
“I keep a personal chart of my Top 10 favorite songs.”
I like to sing my favorites (if I can sing them well enough) at my gigs. My current favorite is “Sharing the Night Together” by Doctor Hook and the Medicine show. Really nice arrangement and sentimental vocals. It’s going over well with the crowd. Dr. Hook didn’t write it, though he did write a lot of their stuff.
An Olds 455 bored & stroked out to 476, two 4 barrel carbs, ported heads, solid lifters, crower cam, & open headers. God, I wish I still had that ‘70 442. Sounded like thunder when I first started it up in the garage when I finished the engine work.
I’m well beyond the start of losing my hearing but hearing aids have saved me for now. Really lucky to still be playing and singing in my mid 70’s. My hearing doctor says music is probably part of my loss but my hunting days (no ear plugs back then) are probably how the worst of it happened. He can tell by where in the range my dead spots are.
Fire up a doobie and listen to just about anything. But “Roadhouse Blues” has always been one of my favorites.
I'm not sure about that, I had to quit going to a favorite Mexican restaurant because of the horrible Mexican Polka music they kept playing in the background.
Thanks, I want to take my bass out and try this. Need a little battery-powered amp. Lots of domestic and wild animals around here, including wild horses.
I tried hearing aids. My problem is a very tiny opening in my left ear. The damn thing kept falling out. So now my favorite word is “WHAT?”.
To me The Pat Metheny Group’s “San Lorenzo” is the greatest piece of music I’ve ever heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RrUS2N2MyI
“...crank up the Doors.”
Just ran across “Ape Man” the other day, sang it long ago. It’s great and funny because it’s so old but could have been written today.
Heh, to each his own. That’s the beauty of it.
If you have one and can play an upright you won’t need an amp. I saw Charles Mingus years ago, the sounds he got from that behemoth instrument were incredible.
The right specialist might have a solution for that, worth a search, good luck.
I suck on piano, they’ll have to take bass or guitar.
I had the pleasure of seeing him and his band at the Montreal Jazz Fest in 2005. He closed the fest with about 2 hours of jamming, and the did the whole “The way up” album. There were about 250k people, and my son and I were only 50 feet from the stage. One of the best concerts ever.
I was on the road with Pat Metheny’s ex-soundman back in the late 70’s-early 80’s. Ran across him accidentally a few years ago, he was doing sound at the Boulder Theatre in Boulder, CO.
I saw that tour too.
Little did I know at the time, it was the last time I would see Lyle. :(
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