Old message # 430
all of the trio recordings with dejohnnett and peacock have set
a new post bill evans piano trio standard. open your ears whacky, its right there up front, blatant and easy to hear.
i suspect that you may be one of those who will not truly appreciate an artist until he is dead?
jarret has his own voice on the piano. he doesnt all of a sudden
put on a wig and change the color of his hair when he plays the blues. he does not all of a sudden try to sound like otis spahn
or gene harris when he is playing the blues. so many musicians
think when you play the blues you have to be like a top 40 musician about it and copy things note for note. nope jarret does it right.
he plays the blues. he does not try to pretend he is someone else playing the blues.
thats how i play the blues too, and when i have played with cats from the "house of blues" they dont like that. they want to hear piano players lay down the same old tired shit. you throw your own voice in there and they start giving you dirty looks.
george carlin put it best in one of his comedy routines.....speaking of the house of blues and its musicians...
"lame white motherfuckers" ... "they ought to burn all those places down."
i love how otis spahn plays the blues. but i have no interest at
all in hearing keith jarret attempt to copy him. i dont have any desire to spend a lot of time copying him. and i certainly have no
desire to go to the house of blues or any place like that and hear a bunch of "lame white motherfuckers" pretend to be him.
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