Jazz for aficionados

Hello Mr. F-
Thanks for comments on Takin’ Off and that Pitchfork review. On the former (and prior to reading your comments) I went over to the current "Best Debut Album" thread and added that one to it. The more I listened last night the more it impressed me. On the latter, your comments about the "KW - The Epic" review are appropriate. While it’s likely a number of different reviewers covered the recordings you list, the "cultural context" the KW/Epic reviewer works in has to be suspected of influencing their "appreciation" of it.

To O and all...
I check out some of the links and recordings recommended here - certainly not every one. Even so, the content is overwhelming. How do the regulars here...Orpheus, Alex, Frogman, Acman & Rok LISTEN! to all of that stuff? Very often, just one of those albums is like a full Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings. It takes a long time to "eat". I don’t have the capacity to digest things that fast...I’m still listening to stuff listed here from months ago and now will be chewing on Takin’ Off. I personally can’t keep up (not that it is a competition or race - I get that) but for me, if nobody recorded one new thing ever again, there’d be plenty for me to last another couple of lifetimes.

Just felt I had to share :-)

O-10,

I had already been thinking about how some musicians need to constantly change, while others are fine with 3 loud chords.

I think it is just how they are wired as people. I have about 30 guys who work with me. Some want to work on the same thing everyday, and quite literally freak out, when given something challenging, while others get a bad attitude when they go to the same job site , or do the same job, two days in a row. It is just who they are.

Ghosthouse, Its hard work, but someone has to do it. ;) 

I really don't know the answer. Maybe , you listen harder, Maybe I don't listen to everything, maybe I have heard the language, and it comes more natural, again maybe I hear the familiar and miss important stuff.

No real way of knowing, especially on the internet.

BTW, that is some great Herbie Hancock.

That's very good Ghosthouse, and that explains why I haven't bought any 'new, new' jazz. If I bought that Herby Hancock, I would be buying 'old' new jazz.

when you take listening to old records after an upgrade, that would mean having heard that record for the 'umpteenth' time, but it sounds new all over again.

I hope I'm responding to your point.

In regard to Kamasi Washington; I never even heard the name before now, but still I hear a shadow of Miles and Trane. Only time will tell how he's going to develop.