With Goodbye Porkpie Hat I really think it should be thought of as a
Mingus song, but that is just my opinion. I think it is great everyone is
talking about the Mingus album, Because i feel that it is Spanktastic.
Speaking of other Jazz,
I just picked up this Pharoh Sanders record, "KARMA" it is quite
interesting. SOrt of like John COltrane's "OM" but a bit more fucked up.
That period of late sixties-early seventies really harvested some
interesting music, whether you want to call it Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock,
Complete Shit, INnovative, whatever, It was great IMHO. Everything from
Miles Davis's "In a Silent Way" to "Get up with IT", early Weather Report,
Donald Byrd's Black Byrd, Coltranes latter Sax freakouts like "INterstellar
Space" and "Meditations." The list goes on and on. Most people would rather
listen to earlier Jazz, which I love just as much and can understand why
they would rather ignore the efforts past 1964 or so. I just am really fond
of the experimentation that went on during the said period albeit if it was
a bit naieve or over-the-top for the jazz medium. Much of the music turned
out to be very influential on eletronic music of today. I think the Herbie
Hancock Headhunters albums were big influences on the Chemical Brothers and
DJ Shadow. But, that is enough from this peanut gallery.
BLair (who has been in lurk mode for awhile)
NP: Pharoh Sanders: "Colors"
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