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In Reply to: I think I finally know the answer posted by Mike K on January 19, 2022 at 09:49:33:
When I was 19 'In a Silent Way' was released and the local FM station (underground FM in those days) played it constantly. I had two FM radios, one on each side of my bed and although this wasn't real stereo, since they each had different frequency responses the bass would come out from one and the treble from the other: pseudo stereo.
Anyway, I had no idea what was going on with IaSW, but I found it fascinating and compelling and started to really like the music. It inspired me to search other albums by MD and his band mates. Eventually, I abandoned the jazz/rock idiom of MD and found early 1950s MD, Weather Report, Freddy Hubbard, and Mingus much more stimulating and exciting.
Fast forward 35 years and I bought 'The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions' three-disc box set. It was a nostalgia buy, of course, since IaSW had introduced me to jazz. But I was absolutely horrified by what I heard. It is simply three hours of noodling, meandering and jamming. It is a miracle that Teo Macero found 40 minutes of somewhat coherent music within all that meandering.
As for KoB, it is one of those albums that if I never heard it again in this lifetime, that would be fine with me. Again, it is pablum intended to introduce the R&R audience to jazz. In that regard it is truly masterful: insipid melodies that anyone can understand with good solos that will not offend those whose sole criteria for a guitar player is being adept at playing repetitive notes at a lightning pace.
So I place KoB right up there with 'Hotel California' as the album I would least like to hear again.
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Follow Ups
- One of those albums that if I never heard it again in this lifetime that would be fine with me. - Palustris 09:16:32 01/20/22 (8)
- Jeez. I sure don't care that you never wanna hear KOB again. But..... - Rick W 13:16:56 01/20/22 (7)
- RE: Jeez. I never wanna hear KOB again. - Palustris 09:14:33 01/21/22 (1)
- "I personally have moved on in the last 50 years." - Dave Pogue 13:09:29 01/21/22 (0)
- George Russell's "New York, New York", for one. But I believe he championed the idiom. mt - viridian 14:19:10 01/20/22 (4)
- Also released in '59 and his system is based on one mode, Lydian. Good point though. nt - Rick W 14:43:43 01/20/22 (3)
- Recording started in '58 but continued into '59. Do you think.. - viridian 15:04:18 01/20/22 (2)
- Ya got me. I think he was always a respected guy among musicians. nt - Rick W 17:16:24 01/20/22 (1)
- Thank you. nt - viridian 19:43:19 01/20/22 (0)
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