Jazz for aficionados

Rok, you have a very poor memory, SANTANA is not fusion, nor was that intended to represent FUSION, I like Santana, and Shadowfax better than some fusion OK. (or maybe it is fusion, ask Frogman)


Enjoy the music.

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

Actually, Rok, it’s not a strange comment at all. It’s a comment heard often among players and would be heard even more often if ALL that classical players were to play were music from one period; one of the reasons for musical diversity in orchestras’ programming. What makes the difference is that orchestras program not just Mozart, Beethoven and Bach, but also Stravinsky, Bartok, Schoengerg, Lutoslowski, Adams.......well, you get the drift.

What perhaps I wasn't clear about and what I meant with ****what are those guys saying that hasn't been said a thousand times before?**** is that it's not just the tune choice but how they are being played.  Of course, its always possible to play a very familiar tune and a new and unexpected way.  In that sense, Kleiber's Beethoven's 5th is completely different from Klemperer's.

Czarivey, glad you enjoyed those clips.  ECM is a fantastic label with some of the best production standards.  Amazing catalogue of well recorded and very interesting music.  More to come.

@frogman
As requested..
A link to Andy’s very good "Earth + Sky". Unfortunately not the entire album - something of a playlist mix - but you can tell the tracks that are from E+S by the album cover. I hold Andy’s post-Police solo work in high regard. Piece by piece collecting a good bit of that portion of his ’oeuvre’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28plEPacLZs&list=PL8F0DF9DDF60D2980

Unlike Green Chimneys and Peggy’s Blue Skylight, that are interpretations of music by Monk and Mingus, respectively, the compositions on E+S are Summers own.

By the way, I certainly agree with your favorable opinion of the ECM label...as you say, interesting music and typically very well recorded - great sonics. My first experience with ECM was a Ralph Towner LP I borrowed from the local library years ago. Knew nothing about him or the label at the time. Fortuitous. My buying habits lean mainly to CDs but I enjoy looking for good condition, used ECM vinyl.

Hope you enjoy Earth + Sky.

I never knew the political chain of RESPONSIBILITY ran directly from the 9th ward to the white House.

Now, we all know the local politicians were stupid, criminal and totally incompetent.  But, the locals knew that when they voted them in office.  They were good at being liberal pawns and good for blasting conservatives on TV, and fooling the poor folks in New Orleans into thinking they were working for them,  but totally useless in a crisis.

Where were the cops and the firemen and the local emergency personnel. Right, It was every man for himself.  It was, and is, a very CORRUPT city.

Who told all these people to go to the Super-dome?   What provisions were made there?  Why weren't they evacuated before the storm hit?   Where was the Governor and the Louisiana National Guard?   Natural disasters are right up their alley.

Katrina didn't just fall out of the sky one clear and beautiful day.  Everyone had plenty of warning.  Every forecast listed New Orleans as a possible target.  What did the local 'leaders' do to prepare?   They put ten school buses on 'standby'!!!!  You may now laugh or cry.

Some real facts:
New Orleans is still 10 feet below sea level.
The Gulf Of Mexico is still there
Hurricanes still form every year
Katrina made landfall in Mississippi as a cat 3 storm, it just slapped New Orleans on the way to Mississippi.

If a cat 5 storm hits New Orleans head on, there will be no more New Orleans.  When that happens, all the locals can do is hope a Republican is in the White House, so they will have someone to blame.

BTW, It seems as if Local politics have taken a new direction since the people realized how they were played.  Good For Them.

Cheers