From jeff salamon Sent Sun, Jun 20th 1999, 15:06
From jeff salamon Sent Sun, Jun 20th 1999, 15:06
Tom Millar wrote: > > Yeah, Ben Neill is another one of those dudes who takes the similar > underpinnings of jazz and electronic music in directions it was never > meant to go. It's like hey, this track is kind of cool- and then he > comes in with his damn trumpet again. ARRGH. I never liked the trumpet > anyway- It's BUGLE 2.0- just as cloying and nasal as the original > regimental wake up call, now with three buttons for greater melodic range! > > Tom hmm. not sure that someone who "never liked the trumpet" is in much of a position to say what direction jazz was "meant to go." after all, if louis armstrong hadn't put glorified bugle to mouth 3/4 of a century ago, jazz quite possibly would have never gone anywhere. not to mention the non-cloying, un-nasal music miles davis, dizzy gillespie, lee morgan, don cherry, jon hassell, wadada leo smith, kenny wheeler, dave douglas and a host of others have created on the instrument since then. and oh yeah -- i think ben neill is swell. jeff