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Awesome clip Rick, the playing there is just jaw dropping. Hadn't heard of Tal Wikenfeld! On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote: > 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 > > > -- Art Simon simart@gmail.com