Jazz for aficionados

Another Paco:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_gjadQuUQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hEabYzXXhVA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TvVW0grBYkM

Flamenco is a great example of the "fusion" of different musics: Arab (Moors), Jewish, Gypsy and native Spanish (Andalusian).

I can't for the life of me understand how the Jesse Cook clip can be felt to be anywhere near as "spectacular" (to use your definition) as any of the recent piano trio recordings. I wish I could say I was "neutral" to it. To my sensibilities it is bland, derivative and (almost) totally pointless music.

Frogman, that statement is an indication of how bland and pointless your taste in music is; that's why I never liked it, but I didn't want to offend you.

Since I am diametrically opposed to your taste in music you will understand why I don't like it. As I stated earlier: Our minds are computers that contain a record of everything we have experienced in our entire life. How those computers respond to music depends on that composite record. If the music does nothing to elicit a pleasurable response, it's thumbs down on the music; consequently, our take on the music is determined by us, and not the music.

The things your computer has recorded are so different from mine, that what your computer considers spectacular, mine considers bland and tasteless; it all makes perfectly good sense now.



I started with "Jesse Cook" this morning and he sounds better than ever. This is "La Rhumba D'el", it makes me wish I could dance;


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnVa_rJiGm4


let me tell you a little about Mr. Cook, He has recorded on the EMI, E1 Music and Narada labels and has sold over 1.5 million records worldwide. That means there are 1.5 million people who disagree with you.

One of Cooks teachers was himself a student of the great maestro Andrés Segovia, and this is according to the man himself:

"My strange way of playing guitar is a hybrid of styles. I was a classical guitarist as a kid, and I studied flamenco and then I studied jazz. So there are three musical and guitar traditions in my background. And one of the forms I use, rumba flamenco, is itself a hybrid created in the 1800s when sailors were coming back to Spain from Cuba, having heard these Cuban rhythms. And here I am, 150 years later, taking it and mixing it back with modern music and seeing where it takes me. Music is a constantly evolving thing.

Frogman, your call on this man's music is not an indication of his music, but how poor your taste is.


            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWjgyFvZ2OA


His music incorporates so many genres of music I like, that I might listen to it all day.


Enjoy the music.

Thanks for the Paco everyone. I will have to dig my LP's out this morning to see what I have. Not enough!

Aargh!  Here we go again; good one, O-10.  Friendly suggestion: never worry about offending me; no chance of that happening.  In the meantime, if you care to try and keep things remotely productive, I would only point out the obvious fact that my comments were about the one Jesse Cook clip that you posted and nothing else.  I would, of course, encourage you to consider how the recently posted clips of the "Pacos" differ and compare to Jesse Cook's music and why some might consider the differences important; but, well......Less importantly, I could point out that it was you who first opened the door of criticism of someone else's music posts.  All this would, of course, presume appreciation of the act of being reasonable; a tall order I'm sure.  I will not be responding to any further posts about this idiotic matter; so, feel free to fire away but don't expect a response (unless, of course, and as I tell my kids, there's a different attitude).  I would also seriously consider Newbee's most recent post and how that relates to blanket statements.  Enjoy your day; beautiful here in NY.

As is almost always true, our comments about others, say much more about who we are.