Jazz for aficionados
Bobby Timmons 'Workin out'album is a great one, and there he plays with Johnny Lytle. I will use the opportunity to point at couple of his albums as well. Timmons: http://youtu.be/ovPCAhzEvgw http://youtu.be/u58QYljKcf4 J.Lytle http://youtu.be/Hm5cXBulyaY http://youtu.be/PL5YmGFap-U http://youtu.be/VLddG-fDDuw |
Thanks for the clips Alexatpos. Bobby Timmons was a great player with a great time feel and a kind of unassuming way with his style that always feels right and often surprises. O-10 is probably correct; but, if Bobby Timmons was the most underrated player in jazz, then Johnny Lytle was the most overrated. I just don't get it, and I would love to know the story behind his appearance on many of these records; there's always a story. He was featured in this thread a while ago and my reaction is still the same: a player comfortable in the simplest of jazz forms, the twelve bar blues, with a very undeveloped improvisation ability. He plays the same blues scale over the entire twelve bar progression, and seems to ramble without a clear sense of shape in his solos; some of his solos border on being b.s. in their lack of coherence and purpose. Even his time feel is unsophisticated with the notes on the upbeats being too close to the downbeats the way a young player plays when he tries to "swing". To my ears there's always a sense of relief when Timmons follows one of his vibes solos; "aah, that's what it's supposed to feel like". One man's opinion. |
