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Jun 18 2013
10:17PM |
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What are you listening to now?
What music are you listening to now?
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Jun 18 2013
1:01AM |
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Please Take Me Back Pat, One Last Time!
I’m not sure what year it was but it was in the late 80’s at “The Strand Theatre” in York PA when I was sitting in the audience awaiting my first Pat Metheny concert to begin. The lights didn’t dim but yet I heard the sounds of snare drums. I looked behind me and marching down the aisles were band members pounding away. They marched up on stage and began to play “Forward March”. Then I believe, just like on the album right in to “Yolanda, You Learn”. I vividly remember “Last Train Home”, “The First Circle”, “Tell It All” and “(It’s Just) Talk”. Then it gets blurry from there. Please Pat, do one last tour doing all the old classics for us old heads.
Can you recall your first Pat Metheny concert?
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Jun 17 2013
4:58PM |
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Nelson Mandela
As we all know, Nelson Mandela’s strenght is diminishing. His health situation has been going back and forth these days. Let’s hope he will, but he might not make it this time. Well, he has the age of the very wise. He is very very wise. Nelson Mandela is one of the heroes of our time, of any time. Just think of what he endured during so many years and what he has achieved after that. All for justice, all for peace, all for mankind. He is truly a hero. I believe that when we die that’s it, no afterlife, no heaven, no hell for that matter (there’s enough hell in real life for many). We just kick the bucket. Well, let’s keep Nelson Mandela in our thoughts for as long as we live. May his spirit live on. But for now, let us keep our fingers crossed he will stay on this earth a little longer.
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Jun 14 2013
12:34PM |
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Semi-OT AAJ Review: Trilok Gurtu, Spellbound
A review of Trilok Gurtu’s Spellbound, today at All About Jazz.
For his latest release, the veteran Indian percussionist (who has played with everyone from Joe Zawinul and Jan Garbarek to Pat Metheny and Ralph Towner) returns to more decidedly jazz-centric fare on a celebration of the trumpet. Gurtu-penned ributes to artists like Don Cherry, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis are balanced by songs written by these seminal jazz trumpeters, with guests ranging from Nils Petter Molvaer and Ibrahim Maalouf to Paolo Fresu and Mathias Schiefl.
Closer to jazz it may be, but it’s also filtered through Gurtu’s decidedly Indo-centric filter, making tunes like the "Jack Johnson/Black Satin" medley (on which Molvaer guests) groove hard, but with tabla and konnakol adding a fresh variant, while an irregularly metered look at "All Blues" (featuring Matthias Höfs and Ambrose Akinmusire) swings in a very different kind of way.
One of Gurtu’s best, review here.
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Jun 14 2013
12:34PM |
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OT AAJ Review: Bill Frisell, Big Sur
A review about which I thought some of you might be interested:
My review of Bill Frisell’s Big Sur, today at All About Jazz. Recently signed to Sony Masterworks’ revived Okeh imprint, Frisell’s debut for the label is as auspicious as could be hoped for. A marriage of his 858 Quartet and Beautiful Dreamers trio - meaning 858 + drummer Rudy Royston - this commission for the Monterey Jazz Festival is an ambitious collage of groove-driven textures, ranging from the skewed harmonies for which the guitarist has become known, to the unerring interpretive instincts of his group, which also includes violinist Jenny Scheinmen, violist Eyvind Kang and cellist Hank Robertson. It’s also a significant return, after his John Lennon tribute (All We Are Saying (Savoy Jazz, 2011)) to Frisell the composer, and a most welcome one at that. Review here: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=44603
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