Here is an interesting artist that's new to me, and I wanted to share his music.
Jon Batiste is a musician Rok just introduced me to. From the first notes he played, I knew he was from Louisiana, with out knowing anything else about him.
Here's his bio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Batiste
This is the tune Rok submitted;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCC1EEmJlo4
It was one I will eagerly add to my collection. I thought I would share this with other music lovers seeking new artists.
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Louis Armstrong, Charley Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie, are three of the most renowned names in jazz; two trumpets and one sax, no piano. We hear of "Concert pianists", but that's in another Genre of music. I like long piano solos, but that's as far as it goes. A solo piano all night long grates on my ears; eventually they begin to sound like "Schroeder"; that's the kid with the toy piano in Peanuts. Your ears are specially tuned to pianos, which is why you like them so much. My ears are more tuned to sax and trumpet. That being said, I wouldn't even want to hear a solo sax or trumpet all night long, no matter who played it. It just boils down to; "Different strokes for different folks". |
But on the serious side, my ears are way out of whack compared to the experts when it comes to piano. As an example Cecil Taylor, and Andrew Hill are very highly rated pianists that I could live without an abundance of them in my collection, maybe you have a different view. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EstPgi4eMe4 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=andrew+hill+spiral |
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