Jazz for aficionados
Rok, the effects of psychology, sociology, and economics are intertwined in a fashion that only highly educated people who have studied these things understand. Most people now days start off with answers before they ask questions, and politicians have answers that benefit them personally, which many people believe. My short answer is to begin with economics and proceed from there. One can use "google" for that purpose. |
Greetings earthlings. Pardon the interruption for some music. As periapsis is approached on an increasingly eccentric orbit around your domain, the following seemed worth sharing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfVCCsgbX14 Not only a superb drummer (playing with Miles at 18!) but an excellent composer as evidenced by every single track on his recording “Civilization” recorded with the post-fusion, hard-bop quintet he put together after returning to acoustic jazz and Blue Note (thank you All Music Guide). Difficult to understand why it is out of print. Never the less, many tracks on YouTube and, so, something to sample here. You will not mind how far up in the mix the drums are. Tony was not shy! :-) Hope you enjoy it as much as I have. Ciao. We must be on our way. |
Ghosthouse, I got into jazz in the Summer of 1956 when I lived with my older cousin on the South side of Chicago. That's when the "Southside" was like a city unto itself, and a Mecca for jazz; you could just walk down a neighborhood street and hear the sounds of jazz coming out of open windows. (No AC's; walk peacefully down streets) My cousin purchased the best available current jazz every week. That was my introduction to jazz. The reason I mention this is to illustrate how long I have avidly been listening to jazz. After listening to so many great jazz musicians for so long, a lot of what has followed sounds "Stereotypical" to me; meaning that it sounds like so much that I've heard before, even when it's very good, and what you presented was very good. Tony Williams is a fantastic drummer, but the music sounds like so much jazz that I've heard before. Somehow "Ahmad Jamal" manages to quite often get past sounding like what I've heard before. Ironically, he headed the house band, exactly 3 blocks from where I was living on the South Side of Chicago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOAepSLbohs |
