Van der Graff Generator - To He Who Am The Only One
Is this jazz? I reckon it might be.
I disagree with you there, Jim. How is VDGG jazz??
It's got the edgy jazz feel to it, not always but often enough to make me think jazz and not rock. But then most "progressive" rock has always sounded like jazz to me.
Van der Graff Generator - To He Who Am The Only One
Is this jazz? I reckon it might be.
I disagree with you there, Jim. How is VDGG jazz??
It's got the edgy jazz feel to it, not always but often enough to make me think jazz and not rock. But then most "progressive" rock has always sounded like jazz to me.
The stiff rhythm playing on most prog rock is what divides it from jazz, to my ears. It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing :-"
Strangely enough, so do I. The feel of the rhythm section. I believe it's why my teenage tastes were never quenched by my friends' tastes in prog music. There wasn't much of the jazz, funk and soul that I really like from the 70s around at Wilson's Grammar.
My 'black' music tastes really clicked into place in my 20s, when I suddenly realised what I listen to in music. It's also why I make the decisions I do about the hi-fi I own.
Strangely enough, so do I. The feel of the rhythm section. I believe it's why my teenage tastes were never quenched by my friends' tastes in prog music. There wasn't much of the jazz, funk and soul that I really like from the 70s around at Wilson's Grammar.
My 'black' music tastes really clicked into place in my 20s, when I suddenly realised what I listen to in music. It's also why I make the decisions I do about the hi-fi I own.
Interesting. I really can't explain why I like certain music and often I'm not sure if I know. I have loads of criteria. Sometimes it's the voice or the way the guitar sounds or the sound quality etc etc. If it grabs my attention and holds on to it then I usually end up liking it and it get further air-play here.
Yeah. My rhythm foibles can rule out all sorts of stuff - Indie rock, where the drummer often just can't play; Country & Western; a lot of folk; most Classical music...
Yeah. My rhythm foibles can rule out all sorts of stuff - Indie rock, where the drummer often just can't play; Country & Western; a lot of folk; most Classical music...
Paal Nilsson-Love and Ingebrigt Haker Flaten of The Thing fame, in a more conventional quintet setting. It's on Spotti, but you can't play it in the UK :-(
Actually, not the Ronin band, but as the title says, solo piano.
@Jim. If you've still got jazz piano-itis, you should give Bartsch a listen. He has a pretty unique approach to the instrument and to improvised music.
Free System Projekt 'Moyland' (2005) Part of the retro electro scene influenced by Tangerine Dream I discovered a few years ago. Great live, epecially when I saw them in a church a couple of years ago.
I will post something in the Electronica section over the weekend. Nearly ten years ago when I discovered the Tangerine Tree bootleg project (condoned by the band), someone sent me some recordings of bands from a small music scene influenced by them. I now have a healthy collection of such bands, and have seen a fair number of gigs too. You do have to have a beard to attend though!
I will post something in the Electronica section over the weekend. Nearly ten years ago when I discovered the Tangerine Tree bootleg project (condoned by the band), someone sent me some recordings of bands from a small music scene influenced by them. I now have a healthy collection of such bands, and have seen a fair number of gigs too. You do have to have a beard to attend though!
I like Wolfgangs Vault, but the audio is a bit compressed, however their Led Zeppelin T-shirts, poster and mugs are excellent. They deliver internationally very quickly too.
The best place for uncompressed bootleg/session/etc. recordings on the web is the torrent site Dimeadozen, very strictly policed for quality and allowed content. Bands can request to be removed from their site, other requset to be allowed. All uncompressed, although some digital sources are allowed now.
Unfortunately they are nearly always fully subscribed, you have to bookmark their join page and hit F5, and hope a new account comes free, there are apparently around a dozen each day, but far more people than that trying.
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It's got the edgy jazz feel to it, not always but often enough to make me think jazz and not rock. But then most "progressive" rock has always sounded like jazz to me.
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Interesting. I really can't explain why I like certain music and often I'm not sure if I know. I have loads of criteria. Sometimes it's the voice or the way the guitar sounds or the sound quality etc etc. If it grabs my attention and holds on to it then I usually end up liking it and it get further air-play here.
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I'll check this fella out.
Free System Projekt 'Moyland' (2005)
Part of the retro electro scene influenced by Tangerine Dream I discovered a few years ago. Great live, epecially when I saw them in a church a couple of years ago.
Have you seen this mate?
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/
Loads of concert recordings. I know of at least two more but can't remember what they're called
The best place for uncompressed bootleg/session/etc. recordings on the web is the torrent site Dimeadozen, very strictly policed for quality and allowed content. Bands can request to be removed from their site, other requset to be allowed. All uncompressed, although some digital sources are allowed now.
Unfortunately they are nearly always fully subscribed, you have to bookmark their join page and hit F5, and hope a new account comes free, there are apparently around a dozen each day, but far more people than that trying.
There are a few similar sites around to.
Time for bed.