Great clip, and your point re the politics of it all is well taken; a real shame. To use this musical term again, your post is a perfect "segue" to the Duke Pearson posts (accidental?...I don’t believe in "accidents"). Why a perfect segue?
When I went to YouTube to listen to "The Right Touch" the first tune from the record that I listened to was "Scrap Iron":
[URL]https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLyLUr7irfgtjwhmQXyJPV7bskqAPS2yei&v=0l-C1TeyeYA[/URL]
When I first heard it the first thing that came to mind was: "its a slower tempo *Freddie Freeloader* from Miles’ KOB":
[URL]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RPfFhfSuUZ4[/URL]
What do the tunes that Pepper plays on the interview/clip (and Freddie Freeloader) have in common? They are modal. KOB, is the acknowledged most important introduction of modal music to jazz. Much has been made on this thread (and everywhere else) about whether KOB deserves all the credit it gets. Believe me it does; there are no accidents.
BTW, another reason that your clip is so fascinating to me is that I had never heard Pepper play so "hard" before. I mean the intensity with which he blows into the horn as opposed to the lighter approach of most of his playing on record. Yet another bow to the influence of Cannonball and even Coltrane (KOB)? No accident.
When I went to YouTube to listen to "The Right Touch" the first tune from the record that I listened to was "Scrap Iron":
[URL]https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLyLUr7irfgtjwhmQXyJPV7bskqAPS2yei&v=0l-C1TeyeYA[/URL]
When I first heard it the first thing that came to mind was: "its a slower tempo *Freddie Freeloader* from Miles’ KOB":
[URL]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RPfFhfSuUZ4[/URL]
What do the tunes that Pepper plays on the interview/clip (and Freddie Freeloader) have in common? They are modal. KOB, is the acknowledged most important introduction of modal music to jazz. Much has been made on this thread (and everywhere else) about whether KOB deserves all the credit it gets. Believe me it does; there are no accidents.
BTW, another reason that your clip is so fascinating to me is that I had never heard Pepper play so "hard" before. I mean the intensity with which he blows into the horn as opposed to the lighter approach of most of his playing on record. Yet another bow to the influence of Cannonball and even Coltrane (KOB)? No accident.