yeah its...ive said that like 5 or 10 times today, its insane, incomprehensible...dont really know what else to say. its the 20th century musical library of alexandria burning down because of poor work safety laws
I may borrow that metaphor when discussing it with people because it's perfectly apt. We don't even know what we'll never know because of it.
Brutal. A complete legend. Also terrible: went top Spotify with a list of 3 albums I wanted to pick from in memory and none of them are there.
And yet I can't tell you how many articles I've read calling me a hoarder for having physical music because "everything ever made is on Spotify".
Currently find myself falling through a jazz fusion wormhole and I have no idea where it’s going to take me
I spent a lot of last year digging into early fusion, Tony Williams Emergency, Larry Coryell, Gary Burton, early Charles Lloyd. There's some good shit hidden in pre-Bitches Brew fusion land
I follow Vernon Reid on twitter cause he's always talking music, and he's mentioned Tony Williams repeatedly. Makes me think I need to listen.
Absolute legend for his work with Miles and Herbie and others and in early fusion. He had a trio album with Jaco and McLaughlin too
If I want to talk about crooners, would this be the thread for it? Or would you rather have that separated into its own thread?