Well, I was curious and couldn’t wait.
So I listened to both those other tracks...The 1958 Newport Performance by Jimmy Giuffre "The Train and The River" (with valve trombone and guitar). That’s another odd little track. Sounds very modern to me...like something Phillip Glass might have composed. Minimalism is the term, I think. Enjoyed it.
Also enjoyed the Gerry Mulligan, "I’m Gonna Go Fishin’ " I bet seeing that jazz band live would have been fun.
If this is West Coast jazz it definitely has a different feel than a lot of the stuff I’ve heard that seems more related to Miles and Coltrane. These examples of West Coast jazz are great music but seem to be missing something by comparison. Almost a little to sanitized; missing some grit...a little less heart or soul. Definitely doesn’t seem to have the drive of be bop, hard bop, post bop....whatever! You said it was mellow and I guess I can hear that.
There’s a place for all of it, I suppose and the West Coast sound does seem to provide a nice change of pace from the hard charging, non sop breathlessness of "???-bop jazz". Or so I think.
So what else you got, O? :-) And thanks yet again.
So I listened to both those other tracks...The 1958 Newport Performance by Jimmy Giuffre "The Train and The River" (with valve trombone and guitar). That’s another odd little track. Sounds very modern to me...like something Phillip Glass might have composed. Minimalism is the term, I think. Enjoyed it.
Also enjoyed the Gerry Mulligan, "I’m Gonna Go Fishin’ " I bet seeing that jazz band live would have been fun.
If this is West Coast jazz it definitely has a different feel than a lot of the stuff I’ve heard that seems more related to Miles and Coltrane. These examples of West Coast jazz are great music but seem to be missing something by comparison. Almost a little to sanitized; missing some grit...a little less heart or soul. Definitely doesn’t seem to have the drive of be bop, hard bop, post bop....whatever! You said it was mellow and I guess I can hear that.
There’s a place for all of it, I suppose and the West Coast sound does seem to provide a nice change of pace from the hard charging, non sop breathlessness of "???-bop jazz". Or so I think.
So what else you got, O? :-) And thanks yet again.