Jazz for aficionados

You know visiting this thread is like dropping in on a friend living in an apartment with thin walls whose neighbors are a loud and dysfunctional family. Kind of interesting, odd and funny all at the same time. Just sayin’....

Houston Pearson.

Houston Person is off the charts.

Rok, I'm going to write my swan song for you. This can be corroborated on page 129 05-19-2016 12:11 AM

Sunday, August 28.
APPROXIMATELY 30,000 EVACUEES GATHER AT SUPERDOME WITH ROUGHLY 36 HOURS WORTH OF FOOD [Times-Picayune]


Monday, August 29
— KATRINA MAKES LANDFALL AS A CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE [CNN]

7:30 AM CDT — BUSH ADMINISTRATION NOTIFIED OF THE LEVEE BREACH: The administration finds out that a levee in New Orleans was breached. On this day, 28 “government agencies, from local Louisiana parishes to the White House, [reported that] that New Orleans levees” were breached. [AP]

11:13 AM CDT – WHITE HOUSE CIRCULATES INTERNAL MEMO ABOUT LEVEE BREACH: “Flooding is significant throughout the region and a levee in New Orleans has reportedly been breached sending 6-8 feet of water throughout the 9th ward area of the city.” [AP]

The White House was notified that 6 to 8 feet of water was surging throughout the 9th ward in New Orleans. The Governor of Louisiana requested help from the White House and Bush went to bed without responding.


"I never knew the political chain of RESPONSIBILITY ran directly from the 9th ward to the white House."


That was Rok's response; people are drowning in the 9th ward from a natural disaster, and Rok doesn't think the president has any responsibility, even after the Governor of the state has requested help.

Could it be because the people in the ninth ward are BLACK? That the president doesn't have any responsibility for them? Living in New Orleans they ought to know how to swim, because it's below sea level is the inference of one of Rok's statements.

Eight months before "Katrina", this is what was sent half way around the world.

           
        http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/135288/amc-aircraft-people-support-tsunami-r....



Am I suppose to close my eyes to the clear indication of what this series of actions says?



          https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392


This is a little quotation about when they came for the Jews I did not speak, and when they came for me, there was no one left to speak. When the worst happens where you live, there may be no one left to complain about not getting the necessary help you are entitled to as a citizen of The United States Of America.

Most people are smug in the consolation that their white skins will save them from anything like the people in the ninth ward suffered, but what's saving so many with white skins from poverty?



Enjoy the music.

1977:

The Brecker Brothers release the timely (for this thread) titled "Don't Stop The Music".  Michael Brecker plays another of his impossibly virtuosic funk solos:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=geV8ExTfORc

Pat Metheny's second solo record "Watercolors" is very impressionistic in overall vibe.  New Age with musical substance and meaning?:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-qIfGZCDpUw

Just as Metheny's music and beautifully delicate guitar sound was a harbinger of the soon to come, insipid and dreadful (how do I really feel?) New Age Music wave (but without the substance), Dave Sanborn's sound would change the way that countless young saxophone players would play the alto saxophone in the new (and mostly dreadful) Smooth Jazz wave; but, without the grease and soulfulness that Sanborn brings to the table:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8ci3cQo986k

Steve Grossman, another Miles alum, releases "Terra Firma"; very intense post-Coltrane tenor playing in some of the most aggressive jazz-rock fusion of the period.  Acman3, this has your name on it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHmRfE0P9Q

Poland is not the first place one thinks of as a place for interesting fusion.  Urszula Dudziak is a very interesting and virtuosic singer who often worked with electric violinist Michal Urbaniak.  An acquired taste; but very interesting:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nS0a_yc2aUU

So where did all the grease and soulfulness in that unique tone that Sanborn has come from?  Before he was the megastar that he would become this is where he paid his dues.  A victim of polio, he lost one of his lungs and his doctor told him that he should pick up a wind instrument to strengthen the remaining lung:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B4GNci5koi8