Archives for the 'Music' Category
Why Recorded Music Stinks
Recorded music stinks, and it stinks on many levels. When we listen to recorded music, what we want and think we are getting, is a reproduction of what the musicians sound like in person. This goal is frustrated on so many levels as to make it easier to find the hold grail.
The first hurdle is [...]
Search For The New Land
Search for the New Land was recorded at the same time at The Sidewinder, Morgan’s wildly successful album that solidified his hard bop / latin influenced style. The Search for the New Land was held back and not released for a year after The Sidewinder. It represents a possible alternate future for Morgan’s work and [...]
Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy
Louis Armstrong and the All Stars recorded “Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy” in 1954, in honour of Handy’s 80th birthday. Handy is the best known blues composer, (to me anyway ), the father of the blues. He is one of the pivotal figures of modern popular music.
Many people think that this is the best album [...]
The Oscar Peterson (half)Hour
I’ve always wanted to do a radio show on the CBC called “The Oscar Perterson Hour”, in which I would play nothing but Oscar Peterson cds, and wax lyrical about the life and times of this jazz giant. I was even going to affect a low raspy voice like Ross Porter, who does a program [...]
Blue Train
This is the first John Coltrane album that I have purchased in a while. I used to own 2 or three, I think. I was initially impressed with his sound as part of the Miles Davis Quintet and so I bought one then another, and another CD.
The last Coltrane CD that I purchased, many years [...]