Veggie Dave
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Ambient jazz?
What is this genre and who else practices it?
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Where does the 'someone' work?
On the reception desk at Dignitas encouraging the relatives to sign up while they are waiting?
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Brian Eno :- Ambient 1: Music for Airports, comes to mind.
Jay Alansky :- Mercy Street, Reminiscent Drive, Ambrosia.
Blue Six - Beautiful Tomorrow - (but not the dance stuff) They use wind instruments along with the synth sounds.
Start with those names and you'll start to find more.
Jay Alansky :- Mercy Street, Reminiscent Drive, Ambrosia.
Blue Six - Beautiful Tomorrow - (but not the dance stuff) They use wind instruments along with the synth sounds.
Start with those names and you'll start to find more.
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AND . . . as far as Saxophonikers are concerned Jan Gabarek has been mentioned.
If I might add Andy Sheppard to that list.
If I might add Andy Sheppard to that list.
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Weather Report is one of those bands that I missed when they were active, They just didn't seem to feature on the 'John
Peel show' on Saturday afternoons while I lay in the bath listening to the show and letting my morning Rugby injuries dissipate. I keep meaning to listen more but I don't. So I've heard Weather Report members mostly on other tracks. No one else plays fretless bass like Jaco did. And Wayne Shorter played on some great recordings. My Big Bands still play a couple of Joe Zawinul's compositions.
Peel show' on Saturday afternoons while I lay in the bath listening to the show and letting my morning Rugby injuries dissipate. I keep meaning to listen more but I don't. So I've heard Weather Report members mostly on other tracks. No one else plays fretless bass like Jaco did. And Wayne Shorter played on some great recordings. My Big Bands still play a couple of Joe Zawinul's compositions.
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I find it hard to see past 'well-structured and well-played nothingness'. Each to their own. Guess it depends how much credit you give to pathfinders and creators stylistically. Prefer them individually with others. Steps Ahead seems like a natural follow-on to this, but with more direction and energy. Only really knew one album back in the day - was it this or Punk Jazz...? Sorry for being a neigh-sayer... personal taste and all that...
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I never listened to Weather Report ,Joe Zawinul wrote some good stuff "stuff" that's a useful word,. I happened to post one the other day.
Here's a different version of Mercy Mercy Mercy
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Did she just say it got to number 11 in the American pop charts
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Maybe similar to what John Klemmer was doing in the mid 1970s...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ItF91RPOc
Sometimes John has been referred to as the "father" of "Smooth Jazz", "New Age" "Ambient" whatever those labels actually mean...I've always loved his tenor playing and his improvisation skills...
Check out John's tenor solo with his Echoplex on Steely Dan's track "The Caves of Altamira" on "The Royal Scam"...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4yXhuwQRQs
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Sometimes John has been referred to as the "father" of "Smooth Jazz", "New Age" "Ambient" whatever those labels actually mean...I've always loved his tenor playing and his improvisation skills...
Check out John's tenor solo with his Echoplex on Steely Dan's track "The Caves of Altamira" on "The Royal Scam"...
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The 8.30 live album is a good way in to Weather Report. A good spread of what they did.
So...John Klemmer...another one that passed me by. It's surprising how stuff you thought was so original only sounded original to you because you hadn't heard what it was derived from. I can hear so many weather report tracks in there. The crew I used to hang with in the 70's would have been so impressed with him. I still love an electric piano. Steely Dan...not so much
So...John Klemmer...another one that passed me by. It's surprising how stuff you thought was so original only sounded original to you because you hadn't heard what it was derived from. I can hear so many weather report tracks in there. The crew I used to hang with in the 70's would have been so impressed with him. I still love an electric piano. Steely Dan...not so much
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The 8.30 live album is a good way in to Weather Report. A good spread of what they did.
So...John Klemmer...another one that passed me by. It's surprising how stuff you thought was so original only sounded original to you because you hadn't heard what it was derived from. I can hear so many weather report tracks in there. The crew I used to hang with in the 70's would have been so impressed with him. I still love an electric piano. Steely Dan...not so much
Yeah I'm a bit of a sucker for the electric piano...whether it's a Wurlitzer, Fender Rhodes, bands like The Zombies, Supertramp, Ray Charles or Stevie W or Garth Hudson playing the clavinet...once a week I set up my 20 year old 76 note Yamaha electronic keyboard and play silly buggers with the various electric piano sounds on it...
Dave Grusin playing electric piano on the John Klemmer track with the ubiquitous "Mr 335" (a.k.a. Larry Carlton) on acoustic guitar this time...I also have a copy of the John Klemmer Songbook with play along CD which covers the albums " Touch" and "Barefoot Ballet" albums...and everybody needs to listen to Weather Report with various great drummers they had and Jaco on bass...
Greg S.
I toured with John Klemmer in 1975. He may well have been a part of the transition to smoother sounds in jazz saxophone back then.
Weather Report brought jazz to the average music listener's consciousness like Led Zepplin and Clapton brought blues to them. Their contribution is laudable for that alone, but the music will and does live on.
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The first Jazz record I bought was called 5 Birds and a Monk,. Don't know what happened to it,. John Klemmer was on it playing Round Midnight, this is a different record but I imagine it's the same recording
That's odd as this release is dated 1981. John must have gone "back to the roots" as it was easy listening when we played his stuff.
I recall Paul Lagos, drums, Eric Lindner, keys, Ron Johnson electric bass, and a Puerto Rican percussionist, Hector whose name may eventually come back to me. As far as I can see, none of the musicians he toured with recorded with him as he used more famous people like Carlton, Harvey Mason, Grusin...
Found this about him, which tells a lot more than I knew:
I recall Paul Lagos, drums, Eric Lindner, keys, Ron Johnson electric bass, and a Puerto Rican percussionist, Hector whose name may eventually come back to me. As far as I can see, none of the musicians he toured with recorded with him as he used more famous people like Carlton, Harvey Mason, Grusin...
Found this about him, which tells a lot more than I knew:
Romance - The romance of John Klemmer - John Klemmer bio.
The biography of the legendary contemporary jazz artist, composer and recording artist, John Klemmer.
www.johnklemmer.com
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It would have been around then when I bought it, I had no idea what I was buying but i was very pleased I did.
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You kept some good company. What sort of venues were you playing back then? Was John considered a ‘big name’ or ‘just’ a sax player or jazzer? Hotels good? I’ve heard Marienthal talk about the Chick Corea Electric Band saying that they flew 1st class in the ‘80’s and all that. I know that Herb Alpert played stadiums (I think!) in the ‘60’s I guess. Amazing for instrumental music. I’m recalling Chuck Mangione now too...
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