Jazz.... strange term. I got into jazz when I moved to
Paris at the age of 15 and my best friend Luc Bellon
at the Lycee de Sevres, hipped me up to a Louis
Armstrong and Ella recording of Gershwin's Porgy and
Bess. I listened to it non-stop wallowing in the sheer
niceness. Then I checked out Grover Washington's
Winelight (he he he) that got me into Weather Report
esp. the Jaco years. After that was free jazz which
saved me from trouble in my late teens as I searched
for purpose and rhyme. I then had an ECM phase, a
Monk/Coltrane/Miles Davis period, a blue note phase
(blakey, sonny rollins, freddie rice), then a soul
jazz phase (blue note...), I was really into
soundtracks and CTI last year...
Heavy influences
John Coltrane Africa (Impulse)
Heavy jazz biznes!!! Still blows my mind everytime,
amazingly moving, totally evocative, total experience.
Also Crescent, Ballads, Chin chin cherry, The album
with Duke (someone should give Bob Thiele a nobel, a
hug or something... he could see beyond the surface).
Archie Shepp - Mama Rossa with Niels van Hoft
CHeck out, Contracts if you can find this pearl,
trippy mind expanding stuff, infinity, infinity!
Sonny Rollins - Live in Copenhagen (or stockholm???)
It has Pete La Roca on drums and Jimmy Grimes? on bass
bad kick ass bop!!!! tight boom baf! Lyrical and
witty.
Keith Jarrett trio - Still Live (ECM) Goose pimples,
storytelling in a mesmerizing way. You feel he is
telling you about something abysmal in meaning, the
human condition is all in there every drop of it.
Monk and Coltrane- Maaaaaad! nuff said. Misterioso!!!
Miles- Agharta and Panghea .... I could go on and
on...
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