Keyboardist and Master of the synthesizer, Joe Zawinul composed five of the eight tunes (63%) on this album. As a composer, Zawinul was very creative and, in my opinion, a genius!!
This music is totally reflective of time space reflection interactions and feelings of a lifetime 10:55 of observation musically , a historic Musical Chronicle of three decades a struggle interpretation and acceptance of the truth!
You can see the result of underfunding black education was beneficial in them producing great music without rude lyrics produced by modern rap music. We should have never burdened them with white people's language.
I just can,'t understand how this gem could have escaped my attention. I am in jazz since 1955 ( I was sixteen then now I am close to being 85l and I thought I knew our music quite well since it's beginning in New Orleans, but I se many things have escaped me including thodcsplendid album. Many thanks for the upload .it is five am here and I could not sleep so I looked for jazz on RU-vid and found this and other Ellington albums zi had never heard or forgotten. Many thanks indeed.
Why is it that so many jazz CDs speed up the original recording? Even by a micro-second it distorts the music, making it sound like something played by robotic puppets. I'll take my 60-year-old LP over this disappointing transfer.
I know a very sweet and nice, kind person who becomes angry and nervous if you play this kind of jazz to him. how can it be that good music makes someone go so crazy? what is the purpose of the chaotic music???? someone?
