All other versions of 'Clouds' aren't as good. She wrote it, after all. I didn't know the Hendrix connection. Thank you for that, it makes so much sense. (And that would have been a sonwriting partnership of interest.) Excepting possibly 'Angel', LW is his most astonishingly poigniant musical work: it floats like a butterfly and seems to have no direction but...step back and listen, and structure and form float into place - real castles in the air. I hate Clapton's take on it for that very reason - it is leaden, lumpen; floats not, and is no butterfly, but a squat toad-like performance on top of chords that need more than just playing. An impassioned vocal can't make up for messing with a thing of rare beauty.
Miles yes, Duke yes, but the Strayhorn years, for me, are the best. Don't forget Parker, and 'Trane too. I'm big on French composers at pres. Debussy, Faure, Saint Saens, and Berlioz being current faves. Glorious minor 9ths etc litter Debussy. Also Sibelius is becoming a constant, as Bach and Beethoven have proven to be over the years. BBC Radio 3 is the best music station in the world, and it has no commercials, so I listen to it, which is why I only hear other music(s) in other people's company.
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Re: Oh, Joni.
Date: 2007-01-12 03:06 pm (UTC)I didn't know the Hendrix connection.
Thank you for that, it makes so much sense. (And that would have been a sonwriting partnership of interest.) Excepting possibly 'Angel', LW is his most astonishingly poigniant musical work: it floats like a butterfly and seems to have no direction but...step back and listen, and structure and form float into place - real castles in the air.
I hate Clapton's take on it for that very reason - it is leaden, lumpen; floats not, and is no butterfly, but a squat toad-like performance on top of chords that need more than just playing. An impassioned vocal can't make up for messing with a thing of rare beauty.
Miles yes, Duke yes, but the Strayhorn years, for me, are the best. Don't forget Parker, and 'Trane too.
I'm big on French composers at pres.
Debussy, Faure, Saint Saens, and Berlioz being current faves.
Glorious minor 9ths etc litter Debussy.
Also Sibelius is becoming a constant, as Bach and Beethoven have proven to be over the years.
BBC Radio 3 is the best music station in the world, and it has no commercials, so I listen to it, which is why I only hear other music(s) in other people's company.