Jazz for aficionados

I take a relaxation break from Russian jazz and from Billy Harper magic...😁

I just listen today to Wes Montgomery Riverside collection...

A must have astonishing 12 cd box ...

I just add another modification to my self amplified small speakers by the way ... I am amazed...

i ask myself why people throw so much money in gear and not so much in music albums...

An audiophile system nowadays cost peanuts if we know what to buy and how to embed it... i am mystified by people who want to invest a fortune in a dac... 😊

Anyway.... I listen music not so much to sound , except these last month because i tweaked my new small speakers to their optimised acoustic treshold ...( with bundle of straws in the rear porthole to increase the bass driver chamber volume and i use a cardboard empty paper roll fixed around the tweeter to increase the focus and separation from the other driver : results is imaging better and better timbre and better bass extension ... Cost peanuts.;.. 😁 Nobody can believe this for sure... Most people believe in money not in acoustics...

For casual listening many hours a day i use my small astonishingly good speakers now in my basement acoustic corner ... But for a sacred more dedicated listening hour nothing beat my AKG K340 headphone...It would need a costly set of speakers in an acoustic room...

 Pat Martino  and Wes Montgomery are really guitar geniuses...  Grant Green too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnXDKcOHYms&t=2019s

Afrodisian Orchestra,   Satietismos.

Alan Pasqua Anti Social Club

For example the "fusion" of Bach with jazz by some Jazzman...Or the encounter between Ali Akbar Khan and a jazzman... They are more musical encounter event  and interesting , more than the development of "a new fusion genre" as such  ... the event will not be repeated on a long term creating a new language replacing the two which fusionned for an album..

I once attended a concert that featured Ravi Shankar with Bud Shank, Dennis Budimir and various other LA Jazz players but was not that impressed. To me it sounded like two traditions moving in parallel. 

On the other hand, I very much enjoy the Indo-Jazz "fusion" of Shakti, which seems to me more Indian than Jazz, overall. John McLaughlin seriously studied the Vina. In fact, he said he was falling in love with it to such an extent that at one point he had to ask himself whether he wanted to make it his main instrument and give up guitar. He's also  studied the Indian system of keeping time or Tala. So, he's done much more than just  "dipping his toe" into Indian music.  

My parents had some recordings by flautist Jean Pierre Rampal and Andre Previn  that attempted to fuse Classical with Jazz but I never cared for them. It was all too polite and safe. 

Vocalist Savina Yanatyou has some recordings on ECM that attempt to bridge Jazz with traditional middle eastern music. I like them but they don't sound very jazzy to me. Oudist Anouar Brahem has attempted something similar with his ECM releases. 

I'm left with the impression that a true fusion is rare. Ironically, the fusion of Rock and Jazz may be the most successful to date, even if some of us don't find it that compelling. A lot of Fusion records sold during the genre's heyday, for whatever that's worth. 

McLaughlin playing solo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NljjReNLQ_w&ab_channel=VladanStanojevic