Three Tune Tuesday: Jazz (with a Blues in the Middle) for the Mid-Winter Mood
Photo by the author, Deeann D. Mathews, December 5, 2016
While I was working on last week's post and still thinking about the blues because I talked with @nickydee, I found some other tunes ... a mid-winter connection ... it's still winter both ways ... it's dark, and cold, and damp ... but still, it can be so beautiful ...
Winter nights are long and cold ... but if you follow Thelonius Monk to the end, you will see, a long way off, but there ... sunrise ... and a glimmer of the coming spring ... but 'round midnight, and 'round mid-winter, things get real...
It's early February and spring is nowhere close, and whoever we left behind last year that represented love and warmth to us is STILL GONE ... sometimes on these winter days, when the color of the autumn leaves is all gone, it hits with deep blue!
You can literally hear the rain coming down with the brush strokes ... and yet in the morning's light there is silver flowing along every street, and every tree's winter filigree of empty branches is beaded with diamond drops ... such a beautiful connection between Miles Davis, Bill Evans, and John Coltrane here for a mid-winter day, after that long, blue midnight is over!
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Catching up on the music around here as was traveling
Hello!
Listening now. This is a bit more gentle for an ignorant ear :D
I just finished listening to @qwerrie 's #ttt
I reckon you'll appreciate it too! Sons of Kemit are great!
The experimental jazz blew my brain a bit! Whatcha think?
Now THAT was a ride ... Sons of Kemet harks back to some very, very ancient things in a very modern way... Mingus of course ... always a stunner ... and Sun Ra, as ALWAYS, is an experience -- thanks for drawing my attention to @qwerrie's post!
Like the Coleman one here 🔥 But I do enjoy them Blues.
So I've now been listening to Jazz / Blues or influenced by for the last half an hour or so and I'm really taken with the sensitivity of the musicians.
They sound so connected and in it when they play together ❤️
The Sons of Kemit instrumental piece as well as the Miles Davis one here. You get a lot of ego coming through bands in other genres but these musicians seem to step forward and back with the sound and volume of their instruments, depending on where they're taking the music.
It's a journey, really. Isn't it? More a sound journey than a track or song...
EXACTLY ... when done right, it's not about the egos ... it's about where that music can take everyone together...