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Post by JamaicanJazz on Apr 8, 2004 1:00:12 GMT -5
Has everyone heard this album? I checked it out from the library (and burned it of course) , and i just cannot stop listening to it. This is definitly one of the best things I've heard for a long time.... What do you all think of it?
Also I'm new to the board, and it looks very awesome from what I've seen. Nice job to the person who set this up.
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mahayana
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Post by mahayana on Apr 18, 2004 8:15:33 GMT -5
Hey, JJ. My real name is Andy. Contacting you as the last person to post anything here. Have you read through any of the discussions here yet? I've been a member for an hour, this looks like a ghost town. Not that that's terrible, I've spent uncounted hours with a Mickey Baker book from the early sixties. Anything you get one new idea from is cool.
So, McGlaughlin. I'll see if BMG Jazzclub has it, so I can listen to the intros. He is an amazing musician, truth.
Are you into goofing with reggae, as your name suggests? Rasta music? I have a buddy who lived with the guitar player from African Dreamland in Nashville for several years. That was his thing, the odd rhythms and off beat vocals. Do you sing, play other instuments? Tell me what you're into.
Peace and salutations, mon.
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Jaml
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Post by Jaml on Dec 8, 2004 11:28:17 GMT -5
That is a very good album [released 1969].
McLaughlin plays quite abstract, 'free', at times. He also uses unusual time signatures.
His approach to chords is unusual too, sometimes using droning open strings in a flamenco influenced way.
His writing is interesting - take the head of the tune Spectrum.
The sax playing of John Surman is good too. The bass player on the album was a stand-in for Dave Holland who had left the UK to join Miles in the States [McLaughlin would soon follow him of course].
The drummer on the album, Tony Oxley, said he was asked to do the album because he understood the unusual time sigs used [such as the 11/8 of Arjen's Bag].
However, Oxley has since disowned the album, saying it is a "pop record".
This is partly due to McLaughlin's disassociating himself from the British free jazz scene, and finding fame and fortune with jazz-rock, while the likes of Oxley remained relatively poor and obscure.
I wonder what straight ahead jazz players think of Extrapolation though?
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Jaml
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Post by Jaml on Dec 8, 2004 11:35:15 GMT -5
P.S., Just to add, McLaughlin used a Gibson L4 with a Charlie Christian pick up for the album.
The picture of him on the original cover, using a Gibson Hummingbird with a DE Armond pick up was taken in the USA after he had joined Tony Williams' group.
He used the Hummingbird on Tony Williams' Lifetime 'Emergency!' album, but he did NOT use it on Extrapolation.
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