I wrote previously that I don’t prioritise jazz http://terrapinlistens2.blogspot.com/2008/07/jazz-library-bbc-radio-3-tim-berne.html, and then I didn’t listen to any for over 2 months, which proves the point. These are a few random downloads from All About Jazz. I didn’t enjoy two of them but the other more than made up. One out of three ain’t bad, I suppose.
“Silence” by piano/guitar duo Itmos is gentle, pretty and slightly sad, the sort of music you might play when your cat has died. Not my cup of tea.
Also NMCOT was “Slap” by Hallo Gen. Rainer Theobald’s band talks a good game – their MySpace site boasts an unfeasibly large array of influences including Stockhausen - but this sounds like standard issue fusion, and I don’t like fusion. (It’s comforting to find, at long last, a musical genre or sub-genre I really don’t like. Though you are welcome to try to convince me otherwise if you think fusion is the best thing since sliced bread.)
Much better is the beautifully subtle “Such Fruit”, from Sam Sadigursky’s second collection of poem settings (sung by Becca Stevens). There is an especially good moment when the rhythm shifts and the whole song seems to open out.
Download at http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/jazzdownloads.php.
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