Jazz Music for Night Owls

saxplorer · Nov 21, 2015

Any Tull-heads out there?

I bought "Thick as a Brick" as a teenager, and it's never fallen out of favour with me: I still find something in it every time I listen. Saw Tull a few years ago, and of course Ian Anderson's voice is not what it used to be, but it struck me that over the course of decades, his music has brought me more pleasure than, well ... his music has given me hours and hours of happy listening. And really, what a debt we owe to those, like him, whose music gets under our skin and becomes part of who we are. Eh, who can even imagine life without that kind of music ...

So whether Tull is to your taste or not, here's to all the minstrels out there.

And if you can excuse the silly costumes, and clowning, and the whimsy in the lyrics, there's some damn good playing going on here. (thank you, Martin Barre coming in after 2 mins)

And why not this as well... it still does it for me ... "a heavy horse and a tumbling sky, brewing heavy weather": a beautifully constructed song.

Pixie · Nov 24, 2015

saxplorer said:
Any Tull-heads out there?

I bought "Thick as a Brick" as a teenager, and it's never fallen out of favour with me: I still find something in it every time I listen. Saw Tull a few years ago, and of course Ian Anderson's voice is not what it used to be, but it struck me that over the course of decades, his music has brought me more pleasure than, well ... his music has given me hours and hours of happy listening. And really, what a debt we owe to those, like him, whose music gets under our skin and becomes part of who we are. Eh, who can even imagine life without that kind of music ...

So whether Tull is to your taste or not, here's to all the minstrels out there.

And if you can excuse the silly costumes, and clowning, and the whimsy in the lyrics, there's some damn good playing going on here. (thank you, Martin Barre coming in after 2 mins)

And why not this as well... it still does it for me ... "a heavy horse and a tumbling sky, brewing heavy weather": a beautifully constructed song.

I do like a bit of whimsy

Pixie · Nov 24, 2015

View: http://youtu.be/Yi3Ry75UYkc

Jeanette · Nov 24, 2015

I came across this unexpectedly, it will definitely be on my late night listening list

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz6LgtdNTuA

Jx

trimmy · Nov 24, 2015

Jeanette said:
I came across this unexpectedly, it will definitely be on my late night listening list

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz6LgtdNTuA

Jx

I've seen him play live three times over the last four years, great player
When he plays Liverpool my tutor asks him for a lesson, she rates him very highly !

trimmy · Nov 24, 2015

Not as chilled as Lonely Woman but here's Alan guest appearing with Phil Shotton Swingshift Band ( MD of MWO)

View: http://youtu.be/oFFd9_TL7o8

saxplorer · Nov 28, 2015

Something tonight reminded me of this piece: Steve Reich's Different Trains

From Wikipedia:

During World War II, Reich made train journeys between New York and Los Angeles to visit his parents, who had separated. Years later, he pondered the fact that, as a Jew, had he been in Europe instead of the United States at that time, he might have been travelling in Holocaust trains.
Steve Reich's earlier work had frequently used tape, looped and played back at different speeds. However, Different Trains was a novel experiment, using recorded speech as a source for melodies.