Something Else

Cannonball Adderly - Alto Sax
Miles Davis - Trumpet
Hank Jones - Piano
Sam Jones - Bass
Art Blakey -Drums

Cannonball... Now there's a nickname.

Island Jazz Comp
 

It's been my impression that any album with Art Blakey ends up being pretty special. I have two Jazz Messengers LPs, but not that one. I'll have to check it out.

Corea and Hancock on 1 album. Sounds cool. Somewhere I have an MP3 file of a record put out by Fender Rhodes to promote their Electric Piano. Herbie Hancock guides the listener through all its features. Way cool. You could buy all sorts of distortion devices for that piano, kida like the same as for the electric guitar (fuzz, etc.).

If some other folks don't chime in, we're gonna have to go to our next choice.

The best way I can describe this album is that it doesn't even sound like a group of people consciously playing "parts" on instruments. It just sounds like... sounds... happening... organically. There are these little themes and subthemes that rise and fall so seamlessly, it's mesmerizing. It's perfect.

Organic Music
 

I always argue with my father about that concept. He just can't stand Jazz for it's improvisational qualities. He's strictly a fan of the "long hair" music, if you know what I mean. And I ain't talkin about Ratt.

When I taught contemp. humanities I always compaired it to punk.

Skid Row>Ratt>Whitesnake (Sykes)>GnR>Whitesnake (Vai).

Ratt can go anywhere in the middle, actually. Their lyrics were stupid as hell. But DiMartini was and is godlike. Sooo fluid compared to the guitarists in the other bands. Lay It Down is the perfect intro and solo. Not the flashiest, but the most fist pumping.

Actually, I wanna change Whitesnake to somewhere near the top -- I just watched the DVD of a recent tour, and they kicked so much ass I almost grew a spontaneous mullet. They were better than any other thing I've seen this year -- David Coverdale looks like someone's great aunt, but he is an awesome showman. Reb Beach from Winger was playing 2nd guitar for em. The lead guitarist was someone I've never heard of, but he was fucking phenomenal. Reb just kind of hung back for most of it. When he did a solo or two, it was standard Reb pwnage, but whenever he plays it sounds like a Winger solo.

Dang.

K.

Whitesnake>Skid Row>Ratt>GnR (who doesn't really fit in this category for me. They were kind of late-ish)

We now return you to your regularly scheduled big band thread.

Blah, that Whitesnake album with Vai was so bland I sold mine. Vai is great but if the songs are boring not even he can save them.

Passion and Warfare is what Vai is all about, to me.

Real Illusions: Reflections is better by far.

Nah, it's mostly nostalgia. I get stuck on certain albums.

WTF
 

I have the pleasure (regret?) to say I have no fucking idea about Whitesnake or Skid Row. Have I missed something, or should I not worry?

But I will stand by Lemmy and Motorhead any day.

Dont worry... this thread has drifted so way off-topic that whatever you say will be meaningful and relevant.

Heh, usually I don't try to get threads off topic but almost every thread here seems to go off topic. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Labelling music by genres is overrated. Too many things cross over and drift away from any established idea. My friend played me an album that was classified as "armageddon metal" I didn't pay attention much after that, except for the vaguest classifications. But in truth, I am not really one for hair metal... like jazz though.