How attitudes change How musics fortunes fluctuate . A
1950s Har;lem photo celebrating 57
Jazz musicians back to
1920s achieved prominence. among a wider public. Given todays sparse jazz presence ~
Eureka~ just spotted a forlorn soul from new cottage industry ~Jazz.~ surely not~
Point is .Could a similar photo happen nowadays? Unlikely
.. Still with jazz ~ increasing irrelevance , definition difficulties profile problems all conspire against a healthy future .
Uber serious jazz pianist
Brad Mehldau busting at seams with cerebral inclinations may yet pack his bags Await the day ~Jazz What's that ?~ Doomy souls . suggest jazz has completed its life cycle .
Consider that in 1950s some strict adherents of everything jazz bridled at the incursive influences of
European music deeming jazz already in decline . The avant garde free jazz was yet to happen
Harlem photo caught prominent jazz faces different jazz styles from traditional to 1950s modernity.
Busy peregrinating ? some personalities
Sarah Vaughan missed the Harlem photo shoot. 57 showed inc tenor saxist
Coleman Hawkins who could fit into various jazz styles not disturb the scenery.
Born 1901 blues shouter
Jimmy Rushing and greater later eminence
Thelonious Monk central to the musics story .
Hands up all confessing to never hearing
Monk's jazz standard
Round Midnight "
Get Out" repeat " Get Out"
Ricky Gervais hilariously tart expostulation Not
Thelonius Monk that's too easy, instead for your penitential stodge get hip with caterwauling Chapman
Report alto sax solo(
Bud Shank?) more febrile than an acme of modern alto
Cannonball Adderley occupying
1960s niche as jazz tilted towards a
1970s tailspin and beyond. For Ifcopod this alto solo was the verisimilitude of wailing hipness
Hey Ifcopod is there a
Shakespearean method to this madness what are you driving at?. Inflating lungs Ifcopod delivers this response
Cantankerous music lover ~ the following " in late 1950s early 1960s such was vibrancy of multilayed transgenerational jazz overseen by the musics newest innovators
John Coltrane ,
Miles Davis Jazzers could afford moment of po faced uppitiness
.. .Mention strings upstanding jazzers requested the paper bag
. .Listening to this classic
Hollywood jazz I have on good authority only minuscule numbers did .. Some spurned ~ Noisy sawn off jazz with no soul? Noisy sawn off jazz sans soul? That's me boss guilty as charged
Energy excitement stuff of great symphonies over blues and soul every time. .Murdoch press cautions ~
It's that sexy brass what did it gov.
Stravinsky's
Rite of Spring still the best soulless jazz that wasn't jazz. Ifcopod a soullness hard rocker? guessed as much. Are you chuffed "our man
Ritchie"and
Deep Purple buddies finally made it to the
Rock hall of fame? yes but less chuffed official
Paddy radio assiduously avoids mention of the grit Brit five. ~
PURPLE keyboardist
Don Airey not really hard rock too many colourful flourishes
Settle for his brand of prog rock .
Ritchie Blackmore could usefully do personality swop with nice guys
Don Airey.
Steve Morse . Ritchie's claim to fame?~ greatest of all hard rock guitarists. April
Hall of fame ~ All show if only on zimmers .Deep Purple last of great groups? . .U2? Mid tempo
Hibernian heavies cant sprint weak on spontaneity ~ I'm not wide awake ~ less bawling earnestness irredeemably establishment .
Goldeneye a versatile raunchy take on
James Bond Passengers is v good .
Queen? More like it Rarely has pop music had such a a palpable sense of excitement and danger . Sadly Rock come full circle lost its rebel mojo .
Looking at omnipresent happy smiley faces Did someone say
Ed Sheeran ?
Deep Purple beloved of classical music duffers and young rock fogeys ( just jesting) boasting substantial family file like humpty dumpty may not quite get together again. Like ifcopod's daily porridge
Gillan will need honey aplenty on his vocal cords. Can they rise unfettered recapturing a music of four decades ago ..My head is elsewhere my heart is with Gillan
Glover Paice Don Airey Steve Morse impassively enduring unnecessary deal for sake of group's unity at last getting hall fame recognition minus presence of lamented hard rock keyboardist Jon lord. Should
peace break out How about two contrasting lead guitarists trading phrases ~almost standard today ~ lighter brilliant untroubled
Morse ~ darker turbulent
Blackmore This started about 1962 Chapman Report music if you haven't been seduced You're on the wrong U
Tube channel. Incidentally the Harlem photo mentioned above like everything these day is on the net
- published: 09 Dec 2015
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