06-12-2023, 02:06 PM
Adam Neely is indeed on my radar, as is his drumming partner Shawn Crowder. Sungazer do seem to be into making Music For Musicians from time to time, which is fine as far as it goes and leads down some garden paths I personally find interesting, but practically I can see where it would leave some people scratching their dangly bits.
Of course I'm also following Rick Beato, and then there's the more esoteric stuff like Venus Theory, S1gns of L1fe, and Benn Jordan for overtly ambient electronic strategies, and more from a studio technical standpoint I consult Present Day Production (Monty Python meets Alan Parsons) and Dan Worrall. These content creators are good primarily for purposes of triangulation.
Open Studio is a decent resource for more straight-ahead jazz 411, the vids I've seen seem to lean kind of heavy on bebop piano language but it's presented as though anyone who wants to learn to play like Bud Powell can do it with knowledge of the right scales and the requisite practice. I don't get that much of a sense of the ivory tower from their content — I say much because the ivory tower is pretty much baked into the entire mindset to a degree.
Side note, I gave Cecil Taylor a few minutes for the first time in decades to see if my mind had opened to the point that I could understand and even dig what he and his quartet were doing. It hadn't. I tried Sun Ra a few days ago and the Arkestra was a bit more accessible, but they were, um, fairly shambolic on the night, to the point that you can see where P-Funk copped some of their moves, and that may be an understatement.
Jazzers versus surfers: yeah, you have a point. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard reviewers and critics liken a particular jazzer's lines to mountains or waves, especially in context of a force of nature like, say, Coltrane.
Of course I'm also following Rick Beato, and then there's the more esoteric stuff like Venus Theory, S1gns of L1fe, and Benn Jordan for overtly ambient electronic strategies, and more from a studio technical standpoint I consult Present Day Production (Monty Python meets Alan Parsons) and Dan Worrall. These content creators are good primarily for purposes of triangulation.
Open Studio is a decent resource for more straight-ahead jazz 411, the vids I've seen seem to lean kind of heavy on bebop piano language but it's presented as though anyone who wants to learn to play like Bud Powell can do it with knowledge of the right scales and the requisite practice. I don't get that much of a sense of the ivory tower from their content — I say much because the ivory tower is pretty much baked into the entire mindset to a degree.
Side note, I gave Cecil Taylor a few minutes for the first time in decades to see if my mind had opened to the point that I could understand and even dig what he and his quartet were doing. It hadn't. I tried Sun Ra a few days ago and the Arkestra was a bit more accessible, but they were, um, fairly shambolic on the night, to the point that you can see where P-Funk copped some of their moves, and that may be an understatement.
Jazzers versus surfers: yeah, you have a point. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard reviewers and critics liken a particular jazzer's lines to mountains or waves, especially in context of a force of nature like, say, Coltrane.