Cubdriver

Nope I haven't lost my mind! Great music transcends designation, proof of which Bobby Caldwell never got anything else but this 1978 contribution into the jazz-soul music culture 35 years ago where it remains his only contribution. You could see it as a weakness on the one hand, or as proof of its importance.

Cubdriver

Cubdriver

The struggle with art is one of the most important struggles in a developed life, if only because it is comprised of the struggle of the heart against itself within the context of self-doubt. One finds out what he is made of from art, or at least I did; and I found the greatest beauty along with the greatest weaknesses contained within the heart. You can't find it unless you work for it and sincerely want to know it. But to know such a thing, that is the highest goal, yet I can't really say I really know much about it.

Fly Girl

[QUOTE=Cubdriver;1526989]Nope I haven't lost my mind! Great music .. Bobby Caldwell.



Great song! One of my fav's.

I was also looking back through the posts... 2012 pics are simply beautiful..

Cubdriver

Thanks madam. Now, bear in mind not all jazz is good jazz. To illustrate my point, here are some examples. Spot any difference?

Fly Girl

The first one hurt my sweet ears!! Independent woman was easier to listen too.. The difference was I could not listen to the entire song.. Very painful...

Cubdriver

John Coltrane was a pivotal figure in jazz history mainly for his pushing past the standard song form of the early sixties to make a wider approach technically called modalism, where the improviser enjoys a less cluttered and therefore freer access to tonal regions than was possible under a more regimented chord scheme. In so doing, Coltrane tasked the navigation of tonal regions more to the improviser and less to the song form which was only possible using a very strong sense of artistic and expressive motivation, more than most musicians of the time really had in their possession. Coltrane was "heavy" as the saying goes and he needed an outlet that was not yet available at the time.

A breakthrough piece for him was this Impressions which was loosely based on a Miles Davis piece called So What, where the improviser trots to the edge of traditional chordal tonality and then using the simple modality of the stripped down song form, flirts with chaos within a somewhat organized context to see what can happen. It works, it really works in the sense that before you step off a dark ledge you might toss a rock off and see how long the echo takes to come back. For me personally, this is the best of Coltrane and the period that I most identify with in his history.

Fly Girl

This is a great song and I wanted to share.

Chubby Checker – Changes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIP...e_gdata_player

Cubdriver

Thanks FG- Chubby Checker was a great and unique talent.
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Anyone without a spot for the late Johnny Cash is missing at least a little something. Simple maybe, but the heart in essence is really a simple thing after all.



Freddie Hubbard, one of the greatest trumpeters of all time.

Cubdriver

Nice cover song from the movie "In the Electric Mist".



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Nancy Wilson and Julian Adderly (alto sax).