(blog) Mr. gregsmusings. Jazz CD suggestions and commentary on life its ownself

Name:Greg Kline

Location:Champaign, Illinois, United States

"All I know is what I like and what I do not like." -- Henry Wiggen via Mark Harris. I'm no music expert and don't play one in commercials, or elsewhere. This blog is about my thoughts on music, mostly jazz, that I'm listening to and other stuff, when I feel like it. It's mostly a record for me. I may post tomorrow, I may not. If you don't like that, que sera sera. If you can use it, great. Peace in any event. Also, never eat anything bigger than your head.

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New flamenco sketches 2
I saw Chick Corea and the group of largely Spanish musicians he's been playing with, and is calling Touchstone, at the Ravinia Festival outside Chicago last summer. It was one of the best sets I saw in 2005. The improvising was strong, the musicianship outstanding and the musicians clearly sympathetic. While founded on Spanish themes and the flamenco, rhumba and tango forms in particular, the music was less overtly influenced by them and wider ranging than, say, Jerry Gonzalez's "Los Piratas del Flamenco," which I liked anyway. When Corea said they had a recording in the process, I knew I would be buying it.

I've given the two-CD "Rhumba Flamenco" two listens and there are two things I like about it. It reminds me of the Ravinia concert musically. ("Touchstone," the song not the band, lasts 22 minutes and includes some great interplay between Corea, Jorge Pardo on flute and Carles Benavent on electric bass.) And I bought the disks directly from Chick Corea's Web site, which is the only way to get them at present. No scummy Sony or other big record companies involved, which is fine by me.

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