Jazz for aficionados

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.

O-10:

Andreas Vollenweider:
Both tunes nice and catchy. Both could have been played on regular Jazz instruments. I guess the ideal was to be other worldly. Nothing as common and earthly as a Tenor Sax. I liked his harp playing, in spite of myself. :)

Worth noting that their first performance was at a 'Jazz' festival. When they can't classify it, they throw it in with the Jazz music.

Your list of player credits, failed to give credit to the guy on Water!!

Nice atmospheric stuff. I consider it purposely manufactured. Since they call it "New Age", I can't complain about folks calling it Jazz.

Cheers