Jazz for aficionados

Yiippeee!!! I won the "how long will he stay away" betting pool. I selected less than 24 hours!! My prize? I won all, and I mean ALL, of the OP's Kenny G collection.

A suggestion to The Frogman, if I may be so bold.

You should submit music that you like, tell us why you like it. Daily. In English. From a pro's perspective. Examples of, sort ot thing. You seldom do this. Mostly, you react to, and comment on what others post. If you did this, communication would be greatly improved.

Keeping in mind, telling us that a piece is great or not great, does not mean we will agree. I am still pissed over the short shrift given the Bey sisters. An absolute outrage!

Welcome Back.

Cheers

Rok, in the process of looking for my favorite recordings on the "Windham Hill" label, I discovered that "Shadowfax" disbanded in 1995. The group formed in 1972 and disbanded after 1995 when Lyricon player and leader Chuck Greenberg died of a heart attack. Having lost their signature sound, Shadowfax's members went on to other projects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv1YtAjgKzo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQY0rA5W574

I have both of these albums. I must have acquired them about the time I began to diverge from exclusively buying albums that fell under the "jazz" genre. When it comes to current music I disregard genre altogether, meaning I just listen and let it happen. If the music resonates with my inner self, I buy it, if not, I leave it lay. I think that's about as "subjective" as I can get.

Frogman, could you explain how, and in what way: Mapman, Acman and Chazro are at a disadvantage?

Enjoy the music.

Rok, I may never stop laughing over your win of all my "Kenny G." collection.

O-10:

Shadowfax:
Excellent!! Enjoyed them both. I vaguely remember the name, but I don't own any of their stuff on CD.

This is legitimate music. If these cuts are representative of the entire CDs, I will look them up on Amazon.

I still don't understand the apparent need for visuals. These tunes stand on their own merit.

Re your Kenny G collection: What size U-Haul truck will I need?

Thanks for the Shadowfax clips.

Cheers

"New Age", now there's a genre we have not touched on at all. I stumbled on this when I began buying music without knowing or caring what the genre was; that's after I got fed up with all the "fusion". Andreas Vollenweider caught my attention in a big way; he looked so "Cherubic", behind that big harp, and he even sounded it. After catching him live, I was really hooked on his music.

He was at a big opera house that was seated to capacity, which was an indication I wasn't the only person hooked on Andreas's music. We had a mezzanine seat that put us right in the middle; it was like being in the middle of a gigantic speaker. I had two pair of binoculars so I could see the whole group or focus on any one musician; the percussionist for example had more chimes, gongs, and ancient drums than I could name. Andreas even had two harps and a koto (that's a Japanese harp that lays flat). Every musician in the band had more than one instrument.

Here are the musicians:

Andreas Vollenweider: Harp
Christoph Stiefel: Keyboards, Synthesizers
Pedro Haldemann: Bells
Walter Keiser: Drums
Jon Otis: Percussion
Max Laesser: Strings (Arranged the Silver Symphony Orchestra and Choir)
Matthias Ziegler: Woodwinds

Here is "Dancing With The Lion"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEtu9ZJtE0M&list=RDFEtu9ZJtE0M#t=115

"Down To The Moon"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me6aASTOglE

Enjoy the music.