Frogman, fantastic Grossman clips, thanks! At least I’ve known about him for ages,
unlike Berg. I appreciate your
never-ending willingness to share great stuff with members here. I would say the “educational” balance is: gain
for JFA members +95%, gain for Frogman +5%.
Two different reactions:
- In all five clips, Grossman’s playing is
seductive and frenetic at the same time.
Not an easy feat. It begs the
question as to the balance between drugs and sheer creativity. How many music giants were deeply into drugs? What is in there? We’ll never really know.
- Because Grossman stays in the lower octaves (and “husky”), I find him more listenable than Coltrane when he went on his screeching journeys. Love JC of course, but I can’t listen to some of it. My aversion to frenzied soprano or alto (and preference for rich tenor) has/have become more pronounced as I’ve aged. Then again, I’ve always been turned off by ear-piercing upper-fret electric guitar “noodling.” I figured my sensitivity to high frequencies would wane as I got older. Not yet.