frogman
Thanks for all your insightful posts this morning. You must have a few days off for the holidays (I don’t recall you ever posting this much material in such a short span of time).
Some reflections of mine.
Herbie Hancock was, and still is, a boundary stretcher who dove seamlessly, barely missing a step, into the world of electronic keyboards.
Chick Corea as well. Both of them started out in the "old school jazz" rooted in blues, as our OP likes to call jazz in the period from 1920 - 1965. I think it was the 65 - 75 period when a lot of jazz musicians started to stretch the boundary’s of "old school" into Avant Guard, Fusion, and whatever one considers the "correct terminology" for these relatively new genres.
Art Blakey was a bebop/hardbop drummer (much more of the latter) and would stay in his driving lane. I love the way he propels his bandmates in his "school of hard bop", which is the title of an Art Blakey book I read. I have over 50 Blakey discs both live and studio (almost his complete catalogue with him as a leader) and I love them all. The only time Art would change lanes were his African themed albums. Art was Art and that is what made him special to me. He had so much enthusiasm and energy and it rubbed off on all of his "students" of which all of them wrote the majority of his songs.
Tony Williams, a drummer you have mentioned in many of your posts, along with Billy Cobham, were the 2 drummers (that I can think of right now) who were able to change lanes in and out of genres seamlessly and both, as well as Blakey, should be in the drummer hall of fame if there was such a thing.
BTW, when Tony Williams was 17 years old he played his first studio gigs on the Blue Note label first with Herbie Hancock on his "My Point Of View" recording (19 March 63), and then with Kenny Dorham less then 2 weeks later (1 April) on the Uno Mas recording
By listening to these albums you can already hear Tony Williams unique style of playing which evolved rapidly. 17 years old!! SMH!!
With Herbie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ERBkTeTeQ4
With Kenny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dxoLesUB5M
Thanks for all your insightful posts this morning. You must have a few days off for the holidays (I don’t recall you ever posting this much material in such a short span of time).
Some reflections of mine.
Herbie Hancock was, and still is, a boundary stretcher who dove seamlessly, barely missing a step, into the world of electronic keyboards.
Chick Corea as well. Both of them started out in the "old school jazz" rooted in blues, as our OP likes to call jazz in the period from 1920 - 1965. I think it was the 65 - 75 period when a lot of jazz musicians started to stretch the boundary’s of "old school" into Avant Guard, Fusion, and whatever one considers the "correct terminology" for these relatively new genres.
Art Blakey was a bebop/hardbop drummer (much more of the latter) and would stay in his driving lane. I love the way he propels his bandmates in his "school of hard bop", which is the title of an Art Blakey book I read. I have over 50 Blakey discs both live and studio (almost his complete catalogue with him as a leader) and I love them all. The only time Art would change lanes were his African themed albums. Art was Art and that is what made him special to me. He had so much enthusiasm and energy and it rubbed off on all of his "students" of which all of them wrote the majority of his songs.
Tony Williams, a drummer you have mentioned in many of your posts, along with Billy Cobham, were the 2 drummers (that I can think of right now) who were able to change lanes in and out of genres seamlessly and both, as well as Blakey, should be in the drummer hall of fame if there was such a thing.
BTW, when Tony Williams was 17 years old he played his first studio gigs on the Blue Note label first with Herbie Hancock on his "My Point Of View" recording (19 March 63), and then with Kenny Dorham less then 2 weeks later (1 April) on the Uno Mas recording
By listening to these albums you can already hear Tony Williams unique style of playing which evolved rapidly. 17 years old!! SMH!!
With Herbie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ERBkTeTeQ4
With Kenny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dxoLesUB5M