Re: The AJ Seed-60's jazz

Tony Reid (t-bird@salata.com)
02 May 96 12:20:28 -0800


t> if you listen to some herbie hancock or horace silver from the early 60's,
i
t> think you'd modify your "point of view".

gl> I disagree. I've listened to most of Hancock's early 60's stuff and
gl> it doesn't seem that out of line with waht everyone else was doing at
gl> the time.

that's if you're listening to the funky/hard-bop of the period, which is what
i was trying to get at (e.g. "my point of view" feat. "blind man, blind man").

there were other things going on though, coltrane, dolphy, miles/gil evans...

gl> It wasn't until albums like _Fat Albert Rotunda_ anf the
gl> like where I can see a lineage between and modern AJ.

by then it was more in line w/what pop music was doing. i find the earlier
stuff holds up better.

gl> As for Horace Silver, I've listened to fewer of his albums, maybe you can
point me
gl> to a specific album I should check out.

i'll get back to you on the horace silver stuff...

t-bird

... the hardest thing in the world is to play like yourself-miles davis