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Jazz-rock legacy of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McLaughlin (age 75 at the fourth dimension of this blog post) is retiring from touring.

Many of u.s. musicians accept known John as an esoteric monster on the strings. His departure from mainstream songs to introspective dash has been instrumental (no pun intended) in providing for insightful creative considerations of arpeggiated themes in playing styles.

The article below mentions some fun highlights of McLaughlin's final functioning in Los Angeles at UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance at Royce Hall in December 2017.

Appreciations for John's input in our wonderful world of music!

Jam On!
Ron

(credit given via: Richard Due south. Ginell released in sfcv.org)

Article December 12, 2017

Read more about this John's adieu tour hither…

https://world wide web.sfcv.org/reviews/none/guitar-legend-john-mclaughlin-retires-with-an-incendiary-farewell-concert

Many recall that the double bass drum set-upwardly was started by the Pilus or Metal bands of the eighties, still…

It actually started with 'jazz' legend Louie Bellson, a gifted musical schoolhouse kid @ 15 in '1939 !' who sketched out a double bass drum kit for his fine art grade. That drawing earned him a high grade and served as a vision of what he would get… the most famous and arguably the very commencement double bass drummer.

So, the history of the double kicker goes fashion dorsum further than one might expect. Now of course, you can utilize double kicker foot peddles to achieve the aforementioned affect (merely not the same await) on a single bass trap.

Jam On!
-Ron

Here with his Rogers set-up…

For those among us musicians that loves the keyboard player in the band… I for one, take ever appreciated the great sound and jams that, Emerson, Lake and Palmer laid-down. Unfortunately, Keith has passed… yet, he has left us with a great legacy for our reference of his wonderful keyboard rock style.

Equally noted on ELP's Wiki, regarding Keith… "Keith Emerson was the co-founder of one of the most pop and commercially successful progressive stone bands in the 1970s!… "

"Their musical audio included adaptations of classical music with jazz and symphonic stone elements and was dominated by Emerson's flamboyant use of the Hammond organ, Moog synthesizer, and pianoforte."

Let the Keyboard player in the band live forever!
Jam On!
-Ron

Michael Putland, Getty Images

( – via UltimateClassicRock.com)
As this article notes: "Keith Emerson, the outsized co-founding keyboardist in Emerson Lake and Palmer has died. Long-fourth dimension bandmate Carl Palmer said he passed last night (March ten) in Santa Monica, Calif. ELP later on confirmed the news. No crusade of decease has been mentioned; Emerson was 71."

"Keith was a gentle soul whose love for music and passion for his performance as a keyboard actor will remain unmatched for many years to come up," Palmer said. "He was a pioneer and an innovator whose musical genius touched all of us in the worlds of stone, classical and jazz."

Learn and read more about Keith's death, hither ->
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/keith-emerson-dies/

Information technology was the belatedly 30s' and there was a pulsate cat named, Kenny Clarke. This dude could swing! Little did I realize that he created a very cleaver fashion (amoungst many other insightful trap notables) to use the ride cymbal as the one-beat out.

Nigh drummers in those days struck the bass on every beat in the measure, a technique known as 4-on-the-floor. For some of the faster songs dorsum then, it was nearly impossible for drummers to continue-up this style.

Instead, Kenny kept the pulse going on the cymbal, using the bass and snare to 'cut the time up'.

Now, with the appearance of double bass and drums and pedals, the 4 on the floor is an pick for trap players.

This article talks more virtually the history of this patriarch of drumming in modern jazz.

Jam On!
-Ron

(by: Michael J. West via: NPR.org)

Spang-a-lang was only part of Clarke's innovation. Marking time on the ride cymbal with his correct manus — previously, jazz drummers employed the bass drum with the right foot — gave his left hand and feet the freedom and sonic space to play thundering accents ("dropping bombs") at irregular intervals…

Read the rest of the commodity here…

https://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2014/01/08/260769892/the-drummer-who-invented-jazzs-basic-crush

On June 28, 2015 at the young age of 67, later on a battle with leukemia, the rock band 'Yeah' (and unfortunately for the music manufacture) lost it'due south founding member and very influential bass histrion, Chris Squire.
A quote from this article mentions… "Despite their critics, 'Yes' clearly belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their omission is one of the greatest injustices. They were on the voting listing in 2013 but didn't get in."
Oh how the Rn'R H of F is missing out on one of the greatest rock bands of all. Anyway, I'm sure their board will come up to their senses and finally include Yep in their deserved position.
Jam On!
-Ron

by Larry Atkins via: theHuffingtonPost.com

"In describing the sound of Aye, Peter Keepnews of The New York Times said, "Yep, formed in 1968, was known for its blend of rock, jazz, folk and classical influences and also for its complex time signatures and pristine vocal harmonies. One of the showtime of the so-called progressive (or prog) stone bands — among the others were Male monarch Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer — it went on to become the almost successful and longest-lasting."…

Read more here…
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-atkins/the-sorry-passing-of-chris_b_7707798.html

Jazz at the Lincoln

Wow, hard to imagine these cats take been around this long to celebrate their 25th already… Rock/Jazz On!
-Ron

NEW YORK (AP) — Wynton Marsalis has taken his Jazz at Lincoln Heart Orchestra all the style to Cathay and Russia, but the trumpeter says its electric current ''Abyssinian: A Gospel Celebration Bout'' is the near challenging in the band's 25-year history…
More Hither ->
https://www.boston.com/ae/music/2013/ten/22/jazz-lincoln-center-orchestra-marks-years/UyKjBysR16WTTiFZ1OGubK/story.html?army camp=rss:ae&dlvrit=834313

the Bad Plus

I just knew that someday a (capable) Jazz group would return a Classical motility justice. In this instance… the Bad Plus has taken it upon themselves to really encapsulate the works of Stravinsky. Now, there are a lot of considerations when taken-on a task of this magnitude.
For example: the very idea that a modernistic-day audio-visual Jazz trio could even approach the powerful scores of Stravinsky's orchestral may seem a tad silly, until y'all consider how interestingly enough the composer's other works sound in similarly to existing sounds of the Bad Plus' 3-piece jams.
Ron-

Listen to the entire motility of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' by the Bad Plus here ->
https://youtu.exist/DdE49jdfn6Y

AND… read an in depth review in Chicago Tribune
( by: Howard Reich October 22, 2013)
"Stravinsky'south orchestral score – with its convulsing rhythms and shattering dissonances – will exist delivered by the blank-bones instrumentation of Ethan Iverson's pianoforte, Dave King'south drums and Reid Anderson's bass. While they're trying to capture the vicious intensity of Stravinsky's original, a serial of abstract videos volition play on two screens, just equally an orchestra 100 years ago accompanied members of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes during that notorious premiere of Vaslav Nijinsky's provocative choreography…"
Read article in its entirety here ->
https://www.chicagotribune.com/amusement/music/chi-jazz-stravinsky-reich-20131023,0,4995862.column

Often regarded as one of the most important recording engineers in music history, Van Gelder has recorded several thousand jazz sessions, including many widely recognized as classics, in a career spanning more than half a century…
per Wiki: Rudy Van Gelder
A great interview regarding insights thereof…
– Ron

Rudy Van Gelder'southward name appears on more jazz albums than any other engineer, producer or musician. In all Rudy has recorded thousands of records for Blue Annotation, Prestige, Hank-mobley-a-caddy-for-daddy_5024Impulse, Verve, A&M, CTI and other labels—which means he has been personally responsible for a sizable chunk of post-state of war jazz history…
More Here -> https://www.jazzwax.com/2012/02/interview-rudy-van-gelder-role-i.html

Learning a little background on the history of (New Orleans) Jazz tin can be insightful…
Ron-

(By Jimmy Maxwell – via Artipot)

All styles of traditional jazz (swing, Kansas City, dixieland, Chicago, w coast) are unique for any number of reasons, but New Orleans is oftentimes idea of as get-go and foremost in the genre. This is mostly because New Orleans is where it all started…
More Here ->
https://www.artipot.com/articles/1637268/new-orleans-jazz-a-brief-history.htm#chitika_close_button

Associated with the Cool Jazz Period of the mid 50s, Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mulligan had a 'absurd' thing going… and lucky for us a re-mastered edition has been released, inclusive of a bonus studio track. Absurd, man.
Ron

(By David Bowling – via BlogCritics)
Pianist Thelonious Monk and baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan came together in 1957 to tape Mulligan Meets Monk. That anthology has now been reissued as a role of the ongoing Original Jazz Classics Remasters Series…

read more than almost this release here ->

https://blogcritics.org/music-review-thelonious-monk-and-gerry-mulligan-mulligan-meets-monk-remastered/

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