Flor de Toloache Tribute to Linda Ronstadt
Yeah, those guys are good.
So are Gypsy Kings. Singers voice is full of that sadness that is flamenco
Bending the arc a little
Moving on to jazz now? At the risk of irritating the youngsters who think rap is music, here’s one of my favorite horn blowers. When I first heard Pharoah Sanders, I thought “Oh, he is copying Coltrane” with the occasional emotional screeching. But as it turns out, it was the other way round. It was Coltrane that was influenced by Sanders. Coltrane adopted that style after having Sanders join his group.
Stanton Moore on drums
Charlie Hunter on 8 string guitar/bass
Skerik on sax
Mark Benevento on keyboards
Mike Dillon on vibes
And then ask yourself
Is That Jazz
Tedeschi Trucks covers this song. I'll take the original myself but here's TTB
I’m not a jazz historian, either, by any stretch. When I looked into it years ago, I couldn’t find any recordings by Coltrane “overblowing” until Sanders joined his group. On the other hand, I can’t say for certain that Sanders was the source of that, although I believe I read Coltrane acknowledged that Sanders influenced his work.
So maybe I overstated it, but always willing to have someone correct my BS as needed.
I'ma stay in my lane here
I guess I would submit that Trane was already headed in the experimental/atonal/overblow/multimodal direction before he started playing with Sanders.
From 1961
And 1965
Sanders just added some spice and likely fed off each other
‘Trane was also doing a lot of interesting stuff at the same time, like two drum kits, two basses
And… my education continues. I swear I’m not on drugs.
While I am at, enjoy one of my favorite videos:
Dude just cooks!!!!!!!
Last edited by schindlerpiste; 07-25-2022 at 11:13 AM.
“How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world? I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher”. — Jimi Hendrix
You say that like it’s a good thing?
I’ve also read a lot of comments about Sanders influencing Coltrane. No doubt he did. There was an explosion of creativity during that period. Some say LSD was involved…
Likely they were both influenced by Ornette Coleman?
I never got his music, but he definitely had an impact.
And for muted reborn, The Godfather of Rap
^^one of my musical heroes
"gangsta lean" mention in another thread made me thik of
^^ Got the right artist name this time!
If we are allowing non-music (rap), then let me post this:
One of mine too. A spoken word genius that ended so sadly
A quick aside re: gangsta lean. My dad was a motorhead, in particular a Lincoln lover. Owned them from 1947 on…
At one point he had a ‘71 Mark III in root beer brown. Put shiny chrome mags on it.
Dad, my brother and I were in the car stopped at a light one day, in an area of PDX with a higher than average percentage of POC.
Black guy in a root beer brown ‘71 Mark III, with shiny mags, pulled up next to us. Guy had one of those broad brimmed pimp hats and a fur coat.
He looked over at us and tipped his hat.
Did I mention my dad was a racist? More like broadly bigoted, but still.
My brother and I had a great time with that, for about a month. Kept ‘gangsta lean’ on a tape and would leave it in the deck so it started playing whenever he started the car. Even bought him a pimp hat.
Then a Mark IV showed up in the driveway. No mags.
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