That used to be my favorite album by Billy the Frizz, and maybe it still is. Great road trip music when driving through the desert or the mountains. Lately, listening more to Blues Dream and the Charles Lloyd and the Marvels albums featuring Frisell. (Along with all sorts of other Charles Lloyd stuff). Ah, yes, this one. I agree it is among Dolphy's best, although hardly referenced as such. I enjoy Booker Little's role as a counterpoint to Dolphy on these dates.
Hello all. I'm sorta new to this thread, but am going to start reading through it as well as searching within the thread. In the meantime, I thought I'd share my Jazz playlist on Spotify. I created the list mostly as a way to help myself discover more jazz that I like. I listen on shuffle, and continuously add and remove for various reasons. It was mostly constructed by doing a lot of listening, reading of jazz reviews and threads, and attending live performances. You'll find most styles represented from the Boswell Sisters and King Oliver up through current artists like Ari Hoening and Sons of Kemet, along with a lot of European Jazz, Gypsy Jazz, and some usual world music influenced jazz. Please enjoy, and feel free to share: jjaazzzz, a playlist by pgoonghang on Spotify
IMO Volume 1 is a bit better as they get more "out there", which is what I assume is what you're looking for if asking about Dolphy. His horn sounds hilariously like a bicycle horn at a few points. The band is good and it is nice to hear Booker and Eric trading ideas.
When I think of Metheny, I tend to think of albums like Offramp (my favorite Pat Metheny Group or anything Metheny-related album), Watercolors (w/ Lyle Mays before the Pat Metheny Group moniker took on a life of its’ own), Question and Answer, and Bright Size Life (still one of his most incredible albums). I think the problem with a lot of his PMG work is it does have a tendency to veer off into a more orchestrated sound-world instead of maintaining a rawer jazz sound. I think he’s still one hell of a guitarist and he gets into some areas that Lee Ritenour would never venture into like for example the album Song X (w/ Ornette Coleman) or the solo album Zero Tolerance for Silence nor would Ritenour perform Steve Reich’s piece for electric guitar Electric Counterpoint. Anyway, my point is Metheny is a searching musician and always on the lookout for new avenues of expression whereas I believe Ritenour is more associated with that smooth jazz LA-style sound, which is okay in moderation, but doesn’t inspire nor impress me very much.
I say check out his earlier work on ECM and with Paul Motian for a completely different kind of Frisell. Also, the short lived group Power Tools contains some Frisell’s best playing.
I gave this try on Youtube and wow! Feels like Miles really did changed Jazz multiple times before his hiatus.
He really did, but On the Corner remains my least favorite Miles electric period album. I greatly prefer Get Up With It --- the piece He Loved Him Madly alone is one of the best things he’s done in his electric period. Have you heard this piece? It’s one long ambient type of work that makes Eno’s ambient experiments sound like the work of an amateur. Sorry Eno, but you know it’s true!
Whoa, now that you mention it, this is crazy i've ever heard from Miles. I've never expected to ambient experimentation with Jazz.
Miles was had his hands in so many musical pots, my friend. Although I prefer his work with the ‘Second Great Quintet’ and back the most, I still am constantly surprised by the level of inventiveness that happened in his electric period. Bitches Brew is one of my favorite albums of Miles’ and I’m still awestruck by this album.
I've seen both Metheny and Ritenour live in the last year, and I think in blind test I can pick out Metheny easily. I don't consider Pat Metheny "smooth jazz" like Larry Carlton or Lee Ritenour or Rippingtons. I like Metheny a lot more, but I can also enjoy the smooth jazz guys.
Merci pour ta réponse. I was born much closer to that year (1957) than you, my friend. Gives me an advantage.
LOL! (Well, not TOO loud, it's late up here.) Thanks, vinylsolution. You gave me the answer. (Not enough Beatles references on this doggone thread. )
Herbie Hancock: DEATH WISH OST (1974) Surprised how much I liked this. Not sure I "lost masterpiece" liked it, but there would be some little ideas that made for a potent taste, and they weren't allowed to wear out their welcome. I guess I am not recommending it, but especially the early portion of the record sounds pretty great. I don't remember having a high enough opinion of the film to try it again soon for context, though apparently Christopher Sorrentino goes long about the film in a monograph written for Soft Skull Press' Deep Focus series (longform filmcrit for 'downmarket'/cult/respectability-challenged films). Also THRUST and HEAD HUNTERS, both pleasurable but not as much as they were when I first heard them. Parts of THRUST in particular still make me giggle, I think as collections of small bits they are wonderful as proto-breaks etc.
