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| Irwin Klepowski [left, eyeglasses] demonstrates early Dime-Ola©, Chicago, 1941 |
IoF© Official Shrimp Boat Hostess™ Babs recently posted The Rite Of Strings [left - Ed.] in a comment, which I only this morning gets around to flappin' th' lugs at (after stomping her bloated flacs down to 192), and gee! is it ever swell! Something of a surprise - all acoustic, with a vibe not unlike McLaughlin's gorgeous My Goal's Beyond. It's gone straight into my Aural Essentials Collection®, along with some cotton buds and a pair of (zircon-encrusted) tweezers. So here it is again, for them of youse bums what missed it or think, like je, that flac files are responsible for climate change.
Elegant Gypsy [right - no, just kidding, left - Ed.] is a gateway drug for his more rock-adjacent work, and one that I've never gotten beyond. Return To Forever leaves me cold (shuddering with it, in fact) and Chick Corea - the Richard Clayderman of jazz - gives me the creepies. "I had to maneuver through a lot of Scientology crap that was thrown at me from those guys," Al grins ruefully.
Di Meola (the name comes from his father's Dime-Ola© Jukebox Corp. "It's more musical than Klepowski", he grins) is someone I admire rather than get into, and maybe a little more jukebox and a little less conservatoire [Fr. - greenhouse - Ed.] might have made his work a little more toothsome.
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I love all things Dimeola ! Ned
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After reading you final sentence, it occurs to me that you might like "Scenario" from 1983. It has plenty of guitar heroics, but it's also very melodic. With Jan Hammer on keys, Tony Levin on bass and Bill Bruford and Phil Collins on drums it's probably my favourite album of his.
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Ta ever so!
DeleteSplendido Hotel is my favorite of Al's albums. Les Paul puts in a guest spot, as does the "Richard Clayderman of jazz" (I laughed).
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Farquhar - While we're on the subject of the "Richard Clayderman of jazz", I've always had a "Jones" for 'Tones for Joan's Bones'. Hard Bop from '66 (released in '68), with Joe Farrell, Woody Shaw, Steve Swallow and Joe Chambers.
This is not (as my father used to say) Crap-Ola, give it a listen.
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Aye theng kyew, Babs! Looking forward to hearing all the music linked to in the comments. Right now I'm occupied with something that will appear tomorrow, unless comet impact rocks the earth off its axis, when all bets are off.
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