analogsurviver
Headphoneus Supremus
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Funny I thought this thread was about jazz. Oh well, time to start a new thread.
It is - about jazz, that is. I just thought to present a song of originally prog band that obviously can be adapted to something like "standard" in jazz. - after seeing a remark that King Crimson should be ignored. I do not subscribe to strict or even elitist division of music according to the genre(s) - music is either good or bad. Now I can see an ardent follower of punk rock is probably unlikely to attend a classical concert - and vice versa - but jazz and classical have much more in common than what divides them, for example. An increasing number of jazz musicians have a VERY solid foundation in classical upon which they build/improvise/create new stuff . And there are elements of both classics and jazz in prog - sooo...
IIRC, I did write "somewhere on head-fi" about what I witnessed with my own eyes ( and ears ) : Paquito D'Rivera being asked during a break between two sets by a #1 clarinetist of the Montreal Symphony, who was in the audience an evening prior to "his" concert, "how on earth can he play that ? ". And Paquito shortened his prescheduled interview to a minimum, we waited a bit longer than normal for the second set, the time in between has been used by the both clarinetist to "good effect" - what else one might wish for ?
Here Paquito D'Rivera from roughly the same time as this uncommon lecture during a break of the concert in my hometown took place :