Clifford Jordan Quartet ‎– Glass Bead Games

Last edited by Babbling Brooks (2017-12-04 15:11:44)

Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNR7822K_40

GoGo Penguin - Hopopono

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UtAV_azaBc&list=PLnwJSCpTBctrR7VJJE_6iILOeSne9GlJ_&index=14

I imagine heated comments about whether or not the new school guys can compete with the postwar greats. Imo they can't in general but at their best I'm sure they have their moments.

Personally I view 99% of today’s musicians, particularly rock/pop acts, and for that matter the overwhelming majority of all contemporary cultural output including literary authors, ‘artists’ albeit gallery or ‘street’, even DJs as being 21st Century Morris Dancers trying to keep the tradition of a previous century alive and producing facile nonsense  – i.e. we’re almost two decades through this century and it’s produced nothing unique and hasn’t really added anything of interest to the existing cultural structures. Technology has played a large roll in this, there is no longer anywhere that isn’t ‘connected’/’socially networked’ for artists & scenes to gestate in isolation, generations now who don’t have the attention span to learn to play a triangle let alone ‘chops’… It doesn’t bode well for a society which can’t produce great unique art… We are now Debord’s society of the spectacle.

Apologies if the Morris Dancer analogy gets lost to Americans.  I’m going to the pub.

I couldnt imagine a world that stopped turning out great bits of music and art, and what we often see as the sign of our times is typicaly gratingly annoying and novel or a greyish mainstream mush.

Theres loads of good stuff out there, the human spirit is as strong as ever and still wants to be meaningful, you just have to go out and find it, and anything new normally has someone doing it well among the hordes of copycats. Were all still going to die thats as good an impetus as any to spur people on.

Last edited by Babbling Brooks (2017-12-20 10:46:14)