The Dregs have officially said they are having a reunion tour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slkd-jIIPjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vULLZVpxSRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slkd-jIIPjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vULLZVpxSRE
Jazz for aficionados
The Dregs have officially said they are having a reunion tour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slkd-jIIPjI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vULLZVpxSRE |
Appreciate the comments about the Bill Connors. To that by the ever-gracious and incisive Inna "...it’s Manhattan restaurant music.", I’ll add "and very well served, not to mention delicious." O - Glad you noted the piano. On a number of tracks, I was struck by the quality of solos on that instrument (Bill O’Connell the pianist as credited in the All About Jazz writeup). https://www.allaboutjazz.com/return-bill-connors-tone-center-review-by-john-kelman.php Frogman - In line with your comments, I thought Connors was very generous with the space allowed his sidemen. O - About the introductory bass figure that Horace Silver enjoyed using, it’s not exactly the same thing BUT I think I hear something of a similar tendency in his Song for My Father. This one is of interest to me because as I only recently discovered (probably the last human on earth to learn about it) Fagen and Becker "borrowed" Silver’s intro virtually intact for "Rikki Don’t Lose that Number" (single from their Pretzel Logic album). On the off chance I wasn’t last, you might be amused to hear their use of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQjNHzaxfQc&ab_channel=SteelyDan-Topic Want to say, in partial agreement with Inna...I don’t completely "get" Joe Zawinul. I like the first 2 Weather Report albums and admire his work as a sideman (e.g., on In a Silent Way), But later Weather Report? the more I listen to those various albums the shallower they seem to get. The Zawinul Syndicate video...mad mad percussion and rhythm talents but Z riffing over some chord changes doesn’t seem that wonderful to me. Maybe I didn’t listen into it for long enough. Apologies to any that are great fans of JZ, I do not wish to offend and don’t expect my O-pinion does anything to diminish his standing (nor would I want it to). Just expressing my "bewilderment" (too strong a word, really). OK - that’s my sermon for this Sunday. |
Ghosthouse,check this album with Zawinul.... 'Soulmtes' from 1963.with B.Webster https://youtu.be/iiSX0fsE-Pg |