blossomchris
I feel better than James Brown
Would I be correct in thinking there is more than one style going on here?
Anyway it will get further listens
Would I be correct in thinking there is more than one style going on here?
Anyway it will get further listens
Anyway this little ditty should put everything into orbit!
I think the problem with the Berlin CD is the recording not the playing. I don't know if you've seen the recording which I think put's the playing in a totally different light. To my ears and eyes Murray is carrying the torch. Seems like the BBC are the only ones who know how to record live jazz.
Braxton and Zorn are charlatans. Oh dear, this thread has gone off the rails.
Certainly both could be accused of uninspiredness at times, perhaps even laziness, but charlatans, WTF. Zorn is one of the greatest living composers. I don't like all of his output by any means - I find some of his soundtrack series a bit tiring, but clearly the man knows more about music than the majority of other people alive today.
Inspired by the discussion on Zorn, I managed to find this excellent concert footage of one of his Masada groups. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arCDeEv_nHw
On of the most accomplished groups he has ever had. Zorn doesn't play his horn in this group. The entire band is his instrument. Ribot's and Baron's performance is riveting and exudes passion and joy.
If you can't 'get' this, then no one can help you...
I am thinking maybe a dislike for trumpets or other instruments used solo/lead instrument in jazz. I need to investigate more music and be more aware of why I do not like it, thus saving a lot of mental anguish
Listen....
I am also running out of time(62) and
The beating up will be starting shortly as my wife has become enraged at hearing snippets of jazz over the last couple of days
Chris
That reminds me that my breakthrough into appreciating jazz was using headphones. Well it was The Mahavishnu Orchestra !
I may well have connected with a Miles Davis record that I recently heard on an unknown radio station.. No idea of the title, only caught the last couple of minutes of a Soul/funk track.
Any clues as to which possible album please.
Bloss
The problem is it could really be anything from In A Silent Way of the late '60s right through to his final mid-80s Marcus Miller fusion stuff on Warners. A few more clues would be useful. The stuff from Bitches Brew through to Agharta/Pangea is wonderful extended, dark, powerful, visceral funk, the stuff from 1980 onwards (We Want Miles excepted) far more restrained, controlled and lightweight, and for me personally of far less interest.