Subj : Re: Sunday Night Music
To   : Blue White
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Apr 11 2023 06:56:00

-=> Blue White wrote to Nigel Reed <=-

 BW> That is how it has become for me in recent years.  In the not so
 BW> distant past, I would listen to it as a more primary activity and play
 BW> a Pink Floyd album all the way through, or some Miles Davis or big band
 BW> or, if I was feeling more lively, maybe Herb Alpert & the Tijuana
 BW> Brass.  :)

 BW> I would like to get back to a point where I feel like doing that.


It's sad that recently, when I listen to one artist like that it's been
an artist whose work I've loved who's passed away. Rush, when Neil Peart
died - I've gotten back into old 2112/hemispheres/permanent waves/moving
pictures again after years.

Even though it wasn't one of my favorites before, "Spirit of Radio" is
one of my favorites now.

Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away recently, his soundtrack work from "The
Last Emperor", "The Remnant" and his performance both acting and scoring
"Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" were incredible. Yellow Magic Orchestra
set the stage for a cohort of synthpop bands in the 80s - and his
ambient work is haunting.

Don Grolnick passed away some time ago - he was a prolific session jazz
pianist with a couple of beautiful solo albums with a group of his
friends playing along with him - Will Lee on Bass, Peter Erskine on
drums, Hiram Bullock (another musician who left too soon) on guitar. I
went to find some more recent work of his, went to Wikipedia and noted
the past tense in his bio.



.... Omens are there to be broken.
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