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Awesome clip Rick, the playing there is just jaw dropping. Hadn't
heard of Tal Wikenfeld!
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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
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