Imagine if all new forms of art or music was just given a once over and then tossed to the side as garbage. Sometimes things must be looked at or listened to by many angles. Better yet, some perspectives should be viewed as an acquired taste.

An example of this for me was new age jazz. You may have come across this form by chance while just turning the old dials on the radio. You more then likely persevered it as being people just banging pots and pans around and anything else that they can get their hands on and calling it music. That is what I thought at first take.

It took me many, many years to get a grasp at this new form of jazz. No matter how many times I tried to take it apart and analyze it, the less it made sense to me.

Then one day driving somewhere and deciding to give it another go. It finally hit me like a ton of bricks. I was looking for the traditional toe tapping beat with a ketchy phrase thrown in but that never happened.

What I had to do was to listen for each hit/bang or tone of the instrument that was in the forefront and let it lead, everything else was just counterpoint. Just give it a while if you are interested, it does take a lot of time though to get the understanding of this genre of jazz.

I suppose I should just give Mr Ashley Holt another listen to. Maybe he was just the flavor of the times back then I just don’t know.

While watching him and the band live I must have been missing something, anything! I guess I’ll have to listen a little harder this time around.

Keep on Jammin’

i hope i dont stumble with this not so good singer anytime as i visit too many parties..