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Post by BiteUrLip on Feb 15, 2020 19:00:02 GMT
Music: Elton John, Bernie Taupin
Piano: Elton John
Bass: Kenny Passarelli
Drums: Roger Pope
Electric guitars: Davey Johnstone, Caleb Quaye
Synthesizers: James Newton-Howard
(instrumental)
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Post by BiteUrLip on Feb 15, 2020 19:01:20 GMT
Although this instrumental isn't very good, it's at least interesting, and that's why I'm giving it four stars. It has grown on me. Bernie Taupin as one writer of the music is probably wrong, but I wanted to keep it the same with eltonography.
4 stars.
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Post by newloneranger on Feb 15, 2020 20:03:10 GMT
Good instrumental. Very catchy.
5 stars
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Post by dougs on Feb 16, 2020 0:35:14 GMT
"Out of the Blue" from BLUE MOVES:
Elton recorded BLUE MOVES at Eastern Sound Studio in Toronto during March of 1976. This was a particularly tough period for Bernie who admitted to drinking every day "before" he even got out of bed. He was writing lyrics which were often depressing and even "hateful" prompting EJ to say "I can't sing that!" about some of the lyrics. Fortunately BLUE MOVES had 3 instrumentals to offer a diversion including "Out of The Blue" which blended blues, jazz, and rock into an almost progressive rock track. "Out of the Blue" was used commercially as the end-credit music for "Top Gear" which was a British car TV show.
The beauty of BLUE MOVES was that its double-album length offered the opportunity to stretch musically and include less conventional tracks like "Out of the Blue." Apparently keyboardist James Newton Howard used one of the few polyphonic Moog synthesizers available at the time for "Out of the Blue." Both Davey & Caleb lead the song on guitar, Roger's drumming is superb, and then Elton & Ray come in on piano and congas, respectively, at about the 4 1/2 minute mark of this 6 1/2 minute instrumental. Kenny plays some of his best EJ bass work ever on this track. The song gradually builds instrumentally as it goes along. This was one tight band.
Rating: 5 stars
Doug
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Post by nix on Feb 18, 2020 12:38:01 GMT
2.5 interesting... and annoying
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Post by Commodore Orpington on Feb 20, 2020 1:55:28 GMT
Brilliant, beautiful, one of the peaks of his career.... except that it's really a joint project of the whole band. I heard that this track has gained some stature among some jazz fusion musicians.
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Post by nix on Feb 20, 2020 17:12:41 GMT
Brilliant, beautiful, one of the peaks of his career.... except that it's really a joint project of the whole band. I heard that this track has gained some stature among some jazz fusion musicians. Jazz 'musicians' are arrogant and talentless quasi intellectual buffoons. Anything they say that's good I would not even try to listen.
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Post by Commodore Orpington on Feb 21, 2020 10:03:12 GMT
Obviously you shouldn't look to anyone else to determine what you like. I do like the fact that what was accomplished here is starting to get some recognition, though.
Jazz musicians are talentless? Wow.
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Post by nix on Feb 21, 2020 23:23:54 GMT
Obviously you shouldn't look to anyone else to determine what you like. I do like the fact that what was accomplished here is starting to get some recognition, though.
Jazz musicians are talentless? Wow. Not all of them. Only 90%. -Stewart Copeland declares jazz to be, “the last refuge of the talentless.”-
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Post by Commodore Orpington on Feb 23, 2020 10:58:00 GMT
Wow.
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Post by nix on Feb 23, 2020 17:46:37 GMT
Stewart Copeland: 'It's a fun party trick, but I am allergic to jazz. I was raised to be a jazz musician, my father was a jazz musician and I was steeped in jazz from the moment my ears blinked open, which is why I am immune to jazz. And my main reason why I love dissing jazz is jazz musicians. The problem with jazz musicians is that they are all crap. It's sort of like jazz is the refuge of the talent-less. If you really want to be a musician and you are prepared to really work hard at it, but you don't have the gift and you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do; because all you need to do is just spend hours training your fingers to wiggle very quickly and you'll be a hero in the jazz world. Not so in blues. In blues you need talent, you need X factor, you need heart, you need to have lived a life, you have to have something to say, you need to be an actual musician to play the blues. Jazz, any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.' There you go. Jazz sucks and I agree with every word he said. Not all jazz sucks... there is that great old jazz like dixie, swing etc. that 'jazz purists' don't even consider to be 'real' jazz. Modal and free jazz is mostly horrendous disaster and 'Kind of Blue' is not only the most overrated album ever, but the album that is really boring and quite bad. If I had to choose, Coltrane's 'My Favorite Things' is much much better, but still not something I would listen to. In its best jazz is only some annoying background noise while drinking coffee in a pub. I like jazz elements incorporated into other music like pop songs etc. but some horrible jazz noodling is really for people without soul. I also noticed that almost all jazz fanatics are some of the most obnoxious people I have ever met. Their egos are simply drowned in the delusional intellectual superiority. Yes, they actually believe that music exists for intellectual reason and not to express some emotions or bring you interesting atmosphere or exciting chords, harmonies and melodies to listen to. God I hate those people. The only way they can talk about music is to trash-talk EVERYTHING that isn't jazz.
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Post by Commodore Orpington on Feb 24, 2020 10:13:29 GMT
Extreme over-generalization. The noticing of a flaw or weak point encountered once in a while, and extending it to everyone and everything in a genre.
All blues songs sound the same. It's one song.
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Post by nix on Feb 24, 2020 11:43:25 GMT
Extreme over-generalization. The noticing of a flaw or weak point encountered once in a while, and extending it to everyone and everything in a genre. I didn't say everyone. I said 90% and since there are millions and millions of jazz musicians, 10% is big number of decent and not extremely sucky musicians Yes, that's true.
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Post by newloneranger on Feb 28, 2020 20:10:52 GMT
This doesn't sound like jazz to me.
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