Jazz for aficionados
Joni Mitchell was a close friend of Mingus's, and the record was a tribute. BTW, Ms. Mitchell is an excellent guitarist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6k-_xNi0e8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnpyCEUESEw |
Beautiful clips. Not only is she an excellent guitarist (self taught, btw), she is one of the greatest songwriters of the rock generation. She writes songs with a sophistication and (sometimes) complexity that go well beyond her folk/rock roots. I love her songs and singing. Btw, that is Wayne Shorter on soprano on the Pork Pie Hat clip and Michael Brecker with a smoking tenor solo on "Dry Cleaner"; the great Jaco Pastorius on both. For the record, it was Mingus who invited her to collaborate on a project around the poems of TS Elliot. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aCnf46boC3I https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w5782PQO5is https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=igj20M84hbo |
Frogman, Is it me, or did Jaco decide not to lay back in support of Brecker, but to solo over Brecker's solo? If you could explain why Max Roach's use of poly rhythms helped the soloist, from a soloist point of view, it may help explain why Roach was so important to Jazz, although he was important in other ways too. I once saw Roach take 4 or 5 kids and teach them to play a simple pattern, each different, then he sat down and played the first pattern , and added the other patterns one by one until he was playing them all, those young drummers, and I learned a lot that day. |
