Real music/Miles, Bach, etc...

Acouple of comments...Kraig mentioned Bach's music in the context of hearing it in the environment it was composed for; I went to Hungary this summer, and in Ezstergom I heard Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor played in a huge church by the house organist, and I tell you it was an astonishing experience. The guy was a great player to start, and the sound was unbelievable...it was a transcendent moment for me, I'll never forget it. And, I've always liked "Live-Evil" cause it's very raw, not very polished...you can hear electronic hums from the amps at times, Keith Jarrett's keyboard had a bad key or two, and the solos are really exciting to me cause they sound so spontaneous, like the players are really coming up with stuff on the spot...which improvisation should always be, of course, but this session has an immediacy that I like a lot...talk about jam bands, this one is hard to best...best...HHH

> Acouple of comments...Kraig mentioned Bach's music in the context of
>hearing it in the environment it was composed for; I went to Hungary this
>summer, and in Ezstergom I heard Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
>played in a huge church by the house organist, and I tell you it was an
>astonishing experience. The guy was a great player to start, and the sound
>was unbelievable...it was a transcendent moment for me, I'll never forget
>it.

Though in some sense the organ was Bach's principle instrument (pun
intended), he was also a master of the orchestra (Mass in Bmin, for
example) and voice (cantatas and motets), the harpsichord (the WTC),
of the cello and violin (unaccompanied works for those), and even of
music for which no instrumentation is specified (Musical Offering and
Art of the Fugue).

I think VoxBox is probably still selling the organ book stuff with
Anthony Newman (recorded when he was a young man). It's two volumes,
two discs each. To this day the definitive Bach organ recordings,
and I picked them up for like $10 each in the mid '90s. Great for
your next acid trip.

-Carl

>And, I've always liked "Live-Evil" cause it's very raw, not very
>polished...you can hear electronic hums from the amps at times, Keith
>Jarrett's keyboard had a bad key or two, and the solos are really exciting
>to me cause they sound so spontaneous, like the players are really coming up
>with stuff on the spot...which improvisation should always be, of course,
>but this session has an immediacy that I like a lot...talk about jam bands,
>this one is hard to best...best...HHH

This, I would like to hear!

-Carl

Live-Evil is one of my favorite albums ever. Blew my mind when I was in junior high, along with The Inner Mounting Flame (Mahavishnu Orchestra) and Talking Book (Stevie Wonder).

- Dave

Carl Lumma wrote:
>>And, I've always liked "Live-Evil" cause it's very raw, not very >>polished...you can hear electronic hums from the amps at times, Keith >>Jarrett's keyboard had a bad key or two, and the solos are really exciting >>to me cause they sound so spontaneous, like the players are really coming up >>with stuff on the spot...which improvisation should always be, of course, >>but this session has an immediacy that I like a lot...talk about jam bands, >>this one is hard to best...best...HHH
> > > This, I would like to hear!
> > -Carl

At 01:34 PM 9/25/2005, you wrote:
>Live-Evil is one of my favorite albums ever. Blew my mind when I was in
>junior high, along with The Inner Mounting Flame (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
>and Talking Book (Stevie Wonder).

These last two I have.

-Carl

Right on! I second that.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Neil Haverstick"
<microstick@m...> wrote:

> And, I've always liked "Live-Evil" cause it's very raw, not very
> polished...you can hear electronic hums from the amps at times, Keith
> Jarrett's keyboard had a bad key or two, and the solos are really
exciting
> to me cause they sound so spontaneous, like the players are really
coming up
> with stuff on the spot...which improvisation should always be, of
course,
> but this session has an immediacy that I like a lot...talk about jam
bands,
> this one is hard to best...best...HHH