LL/PSL: Pat Metheny/Sonny Rollins: Ramped Up Bridge!

[Spock!]

Evening all. I’m not stopping… I’ve just played a bit of it. I’m not really a saxamaphone fan. But hope you’re all well and have a fun listen.

Hope you're well too - there's some great guitar, drum 'n bass too...






Have a fun evening too.

[kath]

That stop and start intro going into the fast jazz beat was nifty.

Doob!!!

dooooooooooob

[C]

John S is a tip of the hat to John S. Wilson, jazz critic for the New York Times and a major Rollins fan.

Thanks John

John Wilson was also the man who played tubs in Taste.




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[pcqgod]

It's such a cool album cover too






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Very striking.

[kath]

go awnnnn percussivity

[Spock!]

Go man go!

[kath]

i know i don't have the language or knowledge about this music, but it sounds sooooo together

[C]

When you listen to that guitar it is so effortless you feel like one could go up and replicate it oneself - it is so 'easy'


I love the double bass throughout - what an instrument

[Zap announced today he wants to abandon double bass and start the cello. More expense]





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[C]

It makes you wonder when you here the clarity of this 1962 recording how Yessongs could have been so bad....!!





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[kath]

When you listen to that guitar it is so effortless you feel like one could go up and replicate it oneself - it is so 'easy'


I love the double bass throughout - what an instrument

[Zap announced today he wants to abandon double bass and start the cello. More expense]





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zap wishes to expannnnd, c. lovely zap

[pcqgod]

go awnnnn percussivity

That pattern of full band jamming followed by explosive little solos on the drums is at least half of the appeal of jazz to me.

[LMG]

I am in for the duration of the album, now I have my glass of iced tea with a slice of freshly sliced lemon.

Unless that Neil Jung is going to be hanging about - has anyone heard from him...?

[kath]

It makes you wonder when you here the clarity of this 1962 recording how Yessongs could have been so bad....!!





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mwhahahaHA. much truth in this.

yessongs sounded like mud. and i've loved yes since i was a brat.

[Spock!]

Onto The Bridge, a revitalization of the I Got Rhythm changes.



The actual Bridge

[C]

The title track is a belter!!!




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[kath]

go awnnnn percussivity

That pattern of full band jamming followed by explosive little solos on the drums is at least half of the appeal of jazz to me.

it's wonderful. they seamlessly move in and out of it. so impressive

[C]

Onto The Bridge, a revitalization of the I Got Rhythm changes.



The actual Bridge

How do you know that John - more detail please



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[pcqgod]

Title track is INSANE rhythmically.

[LMG]

wikipedia: "the recording was declared by Inkblot Magazine to be "one of the greatest albums from one of jazz's greatest musicians".[10] It is one of the albums for which the long-active and prolific Rollins receives his greatest praise."

"The actual Bridge"

From:

https://www.jazziz.com/sonny-rollins-the-bridge/

"On this date in 1962, saxophonist Sonny Rollins wrapped the recording session for his album The Bridge at RCA Victor Studio B in New York, laying down two final tunes — “Without a Song” and “The Bridge” — before stopping the tape for good. The album was his first release after a three-year, self-imposed sabbatical, which he took as a corrective against his sudden and dizzying rise to fame. Its name comes from one of Rollins’ peculiar practice habits during that time. As legend has it, the saxophonist would take his horn to the Williamsburg Bridge to play in solitude for up to 16 hours per day, serenading only himself and the wind."

[kath]

Title track is INSANE rhythmically.

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiild