Not my favourite, FLT [but I do like it]. And remember, it's Kool with a K. Hey, but let's not get down on it:
Funk Soul music is happy stuff. It is the antithesis of the Blues, yet fundamentally born out it. I resisted being a fan, but it won me over.
On this day in 1966 a supergroup is born. Former Yardbirds guitarist Eric Clapton teams up with bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker of the Graham Bond Organization to form Cream.
Jazz a Vienne . The commercial acts were Mary J Blige, Deluxe, Jamie Cullum, Larry Graham, Leanne La Havas, etc. For me the best music was the Cuban night which included a closing set by Roberto FOnscea but he was eclipsed by Angelique Kidjo who was terrific. The blues night was pretty good too although the best jazz was Jean Liuc Ponty's trio with Birelli Legrene. I liked pharaoh Sanders and Archie Shepp but both are well past their peak even if the Katter had Jason Moran on piano who is a a bit of a hero for me. Herbie Hancock was also good although nearly eclipsed by his guitarist Lionel Loueke. Not too impressed by Donny McCaslin who seem intent on living off his David Bowie associations as opposed to the decent music he was producing in the late 2000'. not too sure if the festival organisers have got a grip of the contemporary scene and seem to equate it with more electronic inspired acts as opposed to the freer / outside stuff I prefer.
Currently listening to my favourite radio show - Trevor Nelson's Rhythm Nation. 8pm, Saturday evening, Radio 2. I'm ashamed to say that I'd never listened to it until travelling back from the Saints game last August and I've recorded it every Saturday since because it's just SO good
It is also available on the replay button for a week. You should check out John Osborne's soul show on Jazz FM between 5 and 7 on Saturday, or try the catchup facility. I prefer the delivery of guys like Jeff Young and John Osborne on that particular station to any of those on Radio 2.
I just dropped in to see what was happening...lots of talk of jazzzz. A group of musicians all playing different tunes at the same time, as if just coincidentally on the same stage as far as my uneducated ear can tell. I'll come back when it's gone away again
What you are talking about is called polyphony and this is something which is not necessarily unique to jazz and first evolved in the Late Middle Ages. The curious thing about jazz is that people may appear to be playing things that are different at the same time but there is nearly always a harmonic connection in jazz until you arrive at people like Ornette Coleman who developed a process he called "harmolodics" and which has never been adequately explained. It is always bizarre for me that people who dismiss jazz often do so without really realising the influence it has had on musicians or music they might enjoy whether you are talking about funk, bands like Earth, Wind & Fire, Jimi Hendrix, Prince (who used the jazz arranger Clare Fischer to write his charts) , Frank Zappa or even Classical composers like Steve Reich, Gavin Bryars or John Adams. Like it or not, jazz has been the most persistent and dominant force in music in 20th Century having outlasted all other movements other than the Blues and continues to remain relevant simply because it acts as a sponge regarding changes that happen elsewhere in both popular and serious music,
Trotted this lady out before and I'm going to do it again. Please don't tell me the story about when you liked Oh Superman. I've heard it. This is two tracks in one video. I'm glad someone has finally decided to make this because the track Let X=X runs into the next track, It Tango. They are a pair and are incomplete without each other. I first heard Laurie Anderson very soon after the album came out in 1982. I was on holiday in Cornwall, listening in a tent, on a Walkman, to the tape I'd made. It immediately struck a chord with me and its association with rural Cornwall was deeply set. Nowadays, if I head off westward I keep the my Big Science [and Mr Heartbreak from 1984] mp3s for when I get there. The nostalgia and romance I feel is palpable. I love it. Anyway, watch the record go round. Nice pickup arm and AT carttridge:
