Jazz for aficionados

Rok, I want the low down on whatever you've finished listening to.


Enjoy the music.

You guys are killing me!  I've been working 10-12 hours a day for the past couple of months.  I come home, land here, listen to music and go to bed.  Geez, o10 cost me almost 45 minutes with one post. (Trilok Girtu)

Thank you all.  I've been listening to all the recent clips; found some new stuff I need to buy and visited some old friends, (Cecil Taylor). 

Saw these guys at around this time, they started the gig like they'd been rehearsing for days.  It was off the charts and the first time I was lucky enough to hear Bill Summers. 

Herbie Hancock, Spank a Lee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWgrzmF-34Q

-- Bob

***** Rok, I want the low down on whatever you've finished listening to.*****

I played  Mavis Staples first.  It's hard to listen to Jazz while watching the game, thought this one would be easier.

One of the few CDs I have purchased in recent memory that was totally unsatisfactory.   I hate it.  This woman needs to enter the 21st century.   She is still whining about picking cotton.  Good grief.  Not that she has ever been within 100 miles of a cotton field.

"Down in Mississippi where I was born" a line from the opening track.  But, wiki says she was born in Chicago.   She is self absorbed.  It's all about her.  She sings a lot of traditional songs, but she sings them as if they are HER life story.  Not the story of a people.

Hard to get into songs that insinuate that Katrina was the fault  of white people.  I guess primitive uneducated people think white folks have unlimited power.   They control nature.  I think that's the preserve of The Good Lord.  They should be praying The Lord does not send Katrina 2.0 to finish them off.

Well recorded, but the effort was wasted of this claptrap.  I recommend this strictly for Kool-Aid drinkers.

Cheers

Sorry for the rant, but I take all things Mississippi personally.

BTW, were any white folks affected by Katrina?  I know, Bay St Louis, Mississippi, where Katrina made landfall was completely destroyed.  Nothing left.   Nothing.  No one seems to be aware of that.   Guess they didn't whine loud enough.

Ghosthouse and jzzmusician, thanks for the clips.  I enjoyed the Andy Summers clips and I always enjoyed his work with The Police.  I look forward to more clips from you.

jzzmusician, I love that Herbie Hancock clip.  I posted that very clip about two years ago (!); thanks for bringing it back and for keeping the timeline.  Two years ago, I seem to recall that the only response it got from the clu......ahem....purists, was a comment about Herbie's shoes.  Personally, I dig Bennie Maupin's suspenders the best 😊.  Maupin is one of the funkiest saxophone players ever; deserving of more recognition.  

I must say that I find it very ironic, but not surprising, that the entire genre "fusion" is being panned by some, yet what is being posted is newer Santana with its cheesy synth sounds and formulaic compositional and production values, and New Age (!!) Shadowfax (!!!!).  Seriously?  To each his own I guess; no point arguing about it.  Importantly, as I knew was the case and contrary to recent assertion, there is much more than zero interest in fusion.  

Ray Brown:  good jazz players.  But, geez, how many times does a person need to hear those same tunes.  What are these guys saying that hasn't been said a thousand times before?  My definition of (and to quote our resident New Age aficionado) "stereotypical jazz".  I am left with the question, why?

1975 next.

*****   But, geez, how many times does a person need to hear those same tunes.  What are these guys saying that hasn't been said a thousand times before?  *****

Strange comments from a Classical player.  Remember it the next time you play Mozart, or Beethoven, or Bach, or............    well you get the drift.

Cheers