tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6395909822324046048.post1790940029763157640..comments2023-10-16T03:16:22.832-06:00Comments on Wrath of the Grapevine: Pat Cloud - Higher PowerThe Irate Piratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11424429160753219350noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6395909822324046048.post-49832651808591980772009-07-04T13:12:09.958-06:002009-07-04T13:12:09.958-06:00Just posted "Buddy Emmons/Buddy Spicher: Budd...Just posted "Buddy Emmons/Buddy Spicher: Buddies" feat. Lenny Breau (Flying Fish, 1977)<br />and "Gary Burton: Tennessee Firebird" feat. Chet Atkins, Buddy Emmons, Roy Haynes etc. (RCA, 1966) and linked to your blog. I've also quoted from your comments on bluegrass and jazz:<br /><br />http://guitarandthewind.blogspot.com/2009/07/buddy-emmons-buddy-spicher-buddies-1977.html<br /><br />http://guitarandthewind.blogspot.com/2009/07/gary-burton-tennessee-firebird-1966.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6395909822324046048.post-31874347322202698522009-07-01T14:06:50.940-06:002009-07-01T14:06:50.940-06:00thanks a lot for another profound answer!
i must ...thanks a lot for another profound answer!<br /><br />i must admit, i feel caught. i have a fairly similar perspective as the article's author - and i'm a European jazz fan :-) <br /><br />From my point of view it makes as much sense or non-sense to speak of a tradition called country music that became popular with Jimmy Rodgers and the Carter Family and incorporates artists as diverse as Hank Williams and Earl Scruggs as it makes sense or non-sense to talk of a tradition called jazz music that starts with Buddy Bolden or better Louis Armstrong and includes a spectrum from Benny Goodman to Albert Ayler (and beyond). <br /><br />I'd feel unable to give an objective definition of what 'jazz' or 'country' is. I must admit, i use these terms more on a gut level. <br /><br />But i accept that for a closer look at the phenomenom it would be helpful to define the genres and it's borders. But that would surely extravagate my blogpost (and my time). <br /><br />Based on your points i will rewrite my initial post and try to formulate it more careful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6395909822324046048.post-78399173652084773032009-06-28T14:30:35.550-06:002009-06-28T14:30:35.550-06:00Many, many thanks for sharing your thoughts on the...Many, many thanks for sharing your thoughts on the issue with me over at my blog. Would you mind if i quote parts of it in my planned post on jazz/country? <br /><br />Here's a very interesting article about the issue you might be interested in. It comes to some of the same results as i did, plus a lot more interesting aspects:<br />http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a769862538~db=all~order=page<br /><br />It also mentiones Gary Burton who's album 'Tennessee Firebird' was my original reason to research and reflect the whole issue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6395909822324046048.post-91618923726633176782009-06-28T05:14:59.734-06:002009-06-28T05:14:59.734-06:00Thanks a lot for this wonderful album.
I'm ver...Thanks a lot for this wonderful album.<br />I'm very fascinated by the meeting of jazz and country/bluegrass and planning a comprehensive post for my blog guitarandthewind. <br />Here's a few first thoughts:<br /><br />For years these two styles seemed like the opposite endings of the musical spectrum with only a few exceptions of musicians that crossed the border, like Jimmy Rodgers recording with Louis Armstrong or the 'western swing' of the 1930s/40s. <br />Seems like the country players had lesser fear to try their hands on jazz than vice versa (see Hank Garland). If jazz players played country it was only as a novelty (Sonny Rollins for example). And jazzers didn't try to merge the styles, they just took the theme and added improvisation just like they'd do with a Gershwin standard.<br /><br />The folk movement of the early 60s opened up the doors a little bit but only since the 1970s with the rise of 'new grass' and people like David Grisman have we seen a new approach. <br />In the jazz camp we heard a new aesthetic with the appearance of the ECM label. Jazz musicians that were coined by the 60s had a different attitude towards country music since it became 'hip' with Dylan and the Band, The Byrds, Grateful Dead etc. <br /><br />Now jazz was no longer exclusively 'urban' music, a 'rural' aesthetic emerged on the albums of Pat Metheny and many European jazzers. A development that culminated in recent years in the albums of Bill Frisell and others.<br /><br />A fascinating issue on wich i'd love to hear more opinions!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com