What are you listening to?

[Syt]

[The Minsky Moment]

Weather Report was basically a jazz version of a supergroup, with Shorter and Zawinul collaborating.  They broke into the mainstream when Jaco Pastorious joined (Heavy Weather album), then fizzled out along with the fusion genre more generally.

[Valmy]

The times are a changin' for sure. Just in a much stupider way than in the 60s.

[Savonarola]

Gary Burton - Hotel Hello (1974)

This one really wasn't my thing.  It sounds like it's written to be background music and I'm really not much a fan of the vibes (Burton's principal instrument.)

[The Minsky Moment]

Gary Burton - Hotel Hello (1974)

This one really wasn't my thing.  It sounds like it's written to be background music and I'm really not much a fan of the vibes (Burton's principal instrument.)

That's the classic ECM sound; where jazz goes to become ambient.

For something in that general sense, Crystal Silence - from the year before with Chick Corea - was a better offering IMO.

Even better would be Bobby Hutcherson, who had lots of good output in the 1970s. Cirrus was released in 1974; it also has peak Woody Shaw on trumpet.

[Josephus]

Jethro Tull.  Rock island. Follow up to their Grammy Award winning Crest of a Knave, this one was much maligned. Listening to this for the first time in years, there's much to like. More bluesy than anything since their debut, to me this is a worthy entry in the band's catalogue

[mongers]

Jethro Tull.  Rock island. Follow up to their Grammy Award winning Crest of a Knave, this one was much maligned. Listening to this for the first time in years, there's much to like. More bluesy than anything since their debut, to me this is a worthy entry in the band's catalogue

I should dig that out.

Just found an old Philips MP3 player with a pile of flacs on it, not bad sounding, just listening to 'Songs in Red and Gray' by Suzanne Vega.

[Syt]

For some reason this song showed up in my feed. I guess I'm some kind of watch list now.

[The Minsky Moment]

Speaking of 1970s and 80s era music, I heard Al Green was tossed out of the building yesterday during Trump's speech.  Which is unfortunate because I can't think of a venue more in need of his message.

[Valmy]

Speaking of 1970s and 80s era music, I heard Al Green was tossed out of the building yesterday during Trump's speech.  Which is unfortunate because I can't think of a venue more in need of his message.

This Al Green spent the 1970s being a lawyer instead of a musician.

[Valmy]

Going back to what I was saying before, my son is big into rock n roll and just this afternoon he is grooving along and I walk by and am like "hey that's the Traveling Wilburys." And he responds "oh yeah they are really good." "Hey did you know Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and George Harrison were in that band?" "Who are they?"

It is amazing how these kids just find stuff online, without being introduced to it by me or anybody else. And it is entirely divorced from its cultural context or the fact these people are rock stars or whatever. It is 100% just about the music. It's interesting because when I was a kid if my parents didn't have the album, it didn't come on the radio, and it wasn't on MTV I wasn't going to hear it. So everything I got was culturally curated in someway. Where as they are getting it in this state where things are coming to them from an algorithm entirely based on their own tastes isolated from everything else.

It's kind of beautiful but also kind of odd.