One characteristic of jazz and blues fans that I find particularly attractive is their interest and respect for the pioneers of both genres. I suspect that only classical music beats blues and jazz in its attention to dead composers; for instance, here on MB, members not only mention, but enthuse about Robert Johnson, Scott Joplin and Son House, etc.
Blarrobarg`s reference to Oscar Peterson, above, is another example.
I thought I might apply that same spirit of curiosity about the past to MB itself, and recently trawled through the earliest pages of this forum. Some of the recommendations I found were for artists that aren`t much mentioned today; neither pioneers nor hitting today`s headlines, they seem to have fallen somewhere in between. Here are two worthy but apparently forgotten acts who,to my knowledge, have not yet been honoured with having a video clip posted on their behalf. So I thought I might do that here, and invite anyone to comment on these performers, who are completely new names to me.
Back in 2006,
Sneer opened a thread that was mainly about Phillious Williams :-
http://www.musicbanter.com/jazz-blue...dark-folk.html
Although most of his Youtube clips have pretty bad sound quality, this one definitely caught my attention:-
Next up is a band that
333 was enjoying in 2009:-
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Originally Posted by 333
I've been listening to a couple newer jazz bands including performers Skerik, Charlie Hunter and Stanton Moore. They were originally in Garage a Trois, I think and dispersed to do their own thing. Though I'm unsure of the whereabouts of Skerik, Charlie Hunter and Stanton Moore both have their own trios. I am uneducated on the differences between acid jazz and jazz fusion, so I'm not quite sure what to label them, but Outre Mer by Garage a Trio is a great album to start off with just to get a sample of the three. Skerik is an amazing saxophonist. The guy does wonders with air.  Charlie is on the guitar and Stanton is usually on the drums. |
So what do you think - are these people still active, or best forgotten ?