Lately, I've been listening to a mix of jazz, folk, new age and blues. I've been looking for a sound or a song that blows the top of my head off and makes me want to tell everyone about what I heard. A few albums have been really good and deserve a quick listing and a good listening:
David Darling: Prayer for Compassion Probably the best New Age Cellist around,
David Darling is worth giving a listen to. He has worked with everyone from the Paul Winter Consort to Steven Halpern and was an early contributor to Hearts of Space. He can be very New Age, accompanying poets and zen teachers or way out there with some of his earlier ECM recordings. He brings jazz, classical, country, pop, and new age music into his playing and compositions.
Darol Anger: Heritage Darol Anger is fiddler who's played with everyone and has a big recorded library, this is his tribute American historical folk music. Allmusic has this to say: "as a key member of new-acoustic pioneers the David Grisman Quintet, whose blend of folk, bluegrass, and jazz virtually defined the new acoustic genre, as well as advancing the harmonic and instrumental frontiers of traditional musics; as a member of the Turtle Island String Quartet in the late '80s and early '90s, Anger also helped bring virtuosic improvisation and boundless eclecticism to what had been an essentially classical, strictly composed musical format.
Chick Corea & John McLaughlin: Five Peace Band Both
John McLaughlin and
Chick Corea played with Miles Davis during his electric period and they've brought back some of that energy. This is electric, live and not for the faint of heart.
How about an oldie for the blues - I dug out an old box set called
Chess Blues on Chess Records out of Chicago. Spanning 30 years from 1947 to 1967, these discs have all the blues songs from all the original players. Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf - they're all there. I want to spend a little time some other post discussing the influence that these guys had on all of us old rockers from the 60's, when we got the blues from the British Invasion that was let by the Beatles, Stones and Animals.
David Darling: Prayer for Compassion Probably the best New Age Cellist around, David Darling is worth giving a listen to. He has worked with everyone from the Paul Winter Consort to Steven Halpern and was an early contributor to Hearts of Space. He can be very New Age, accompanying poets and zen teachers or way out there with some of his earlier ECM recordings. He brings jazz, classical, country, pop, and new age music into his playing and compositions.
Darol Anger: Heritage Darol Anger is fiddler who's played with everyone and has a big recorded library, this is his tribute American historical folk music. Allmusic has this to say: "as a key member of new-acoustic pioneers the David Grisman Quintet, whose blend of folk, bluegrass, and jazz virtually defined the new acoustic genre, as well as advancing the harmonic and instrumental frontiers of traditional musics; as a member of the Turtle Island String Quartet in the late '80s and early '90s, Anger also helped bring virtuosic improvisation and boundless eclecticism to what had been an essentially classical, strictly composed musical format.
Chick Corea & John McLaughlin: Five Peace Band Both John McLaughlin and Chick Corea played with Miles Davis during his electric period and they've brought back some of that energy. This is electric, live and not for the faint of heart.
How about an oldie for the blues - I dug out an old box set called Chess Blues on Chess Records out of Chicago. Spanning 30 years from 1947 to 1967, these discs have all the blues songs from all the original players. Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf - they're all there. I want to spend a little time some other post discussing the influence that these guys had on all of us old rockers from the 60's, when we got the blues from the British Invasion that was let by the Beatles, Stones and Animals.
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