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Jazz for aficionados
Orpheus - No problem that you didn’t care for the MMW. I am a bit surprised but can handle differences in taste AND always appreciate getting a politely delivered alternative point of view. I don’t listen to hip hop on any regular basis. If that groove on Track 1 of MMW’s Friday Afternoon is typical of hip hop, maybe I need to start listening more! From your exchange with Rok it sounds like you and he are more traditionalists with respect to your jazz music preferences. As a general rule I have to agree with your assessment of contemporary music/jazz and would extend that to a LOT of modern art. I don’t we are evolving. I think we are DEvolving. Good stuff is the exception to the crap that seems the norm these days BUT exceptional good stuff is out there. Jafant - saw your one liner re Medeski, Martin Wood. New to you? or familiar with their stuff?? Very good musicians I think, even though some of their compositions can be a challenge listening-wise. Salve all. |
I'm listening to John Coltrane and my present references are to "Kulu Se Mama". Juno Lewis is doing African vocals, and percussion; it's on the Impulse label. Although this is pretty far out, it's within musical bounds (according to me, and my definition of "musical bounds") This was recorded October 14, 1965, two years after I saw him live. I make this point in time to establish a couple of things; although I heard what can best be described as "free jazz" after he played "My Favorite Things" as far as it would go, so far he has not recorded this "free jazz". "Kulu Se Mama" gets 4 stars, I like it. There's another point I want to make; Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner are with him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryMLO7Ed4d8 Now we go into a time when Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner are not with John Coltrane. In 63, when Trane went so far out, that McCoy Tyner looked at Elvin Jones, who was already looking at him, as if to say "What now"? and McCoy Tyner looked down at his piano, as if to say "just follow me". What I'm doing right now is duplicating that moment in time without McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones. I'm also saying something that's never been said, great musicians of the stature of McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones don't like to be left in mid air in front of a live audience, and evidently what I saw in 63 was happening quite often; they looked silly for an instant, and the audience was looking at them with a quizzical look because they were not with Trane musically. This is from "Infinity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3jaJDr8zKA Frogman, can you be musically and politically correct? The reason I make this statement is because you always choose to be "politically" correct. What is your assessment when comparing "free jazz" to what I consider is within musical bounds. This is definitely out of what I consider "Musical bounds", what say you frogman? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjDrkTmqxQk Enjoy the music |