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Re: Re: Ritchie Blackmore looping



On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Art Simon wrote:
Loved that Akkerman song when it came out in 1977, and I still do. Great groove, great guitar. The live album at the Montreux Jazz festival around that time is excellent as well.

There is a moment at 1:30 where Akkerman does a very hip harmonic thing.........and the bass player just
bursts out into a grin at how clever and unusual his phrasing is.

There are a few moments like this that I've seen (or experienced) where a musician is so into what
their compatriots are playing that they 'lose it'.

I think , particularly, of Jeff Beck's bassist, Tal Wikenfeld, losing it when Vinnie Coliauta plays a particularly
hip fill in "Since We've Ended as Lovers"  (at 0:34 in this vid clip,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejgqyEviSyk)

or when I saw the sax player in Brian Blade's Fellowship band start to cry in the middle of the aching beauty of his fellow sax players solo at a recent phenomenal Kuumbwa Jazz Center show I saw.


This is when music really hits the highest of peaks and when I feel proud that we've all chosen
this particular path in the world.

Thanks for posting this. Akkerman is amazing and to think I only knew of him, previously, from "Hocus Pocus" a particularly weird and funny moment from prog/fusion history.

Rick Walker