Yup, I'm still alive. Just been really busy. Of course, I had to post this. Yet another jazz musician playing live in downtown Modesto. Besides the fact that Jazz is a mish-mash of musical styled from all around the world, it's also somewhat of a Teriyaki Donut that the Brubeck Jazz Institute Quintet (possibly one of the finest young quintets in the nation) would play in a country town like Modesto, California and draw a standing-room only crowd. Country meets jazz. Go figure.
4 comments:
Why's it weird, didn't Brubeck have ties to both Mills College and UOP?
Don't know about Mills College. But I wasn't commenting about Brubeck, rather that a progressive jazz band can draw a standing-room-only crowd in a country-and-western town like Modesto. Ok, so they have hyphey music too. But it doesn't really expand beyond that.
Modesto was the town that inspired American Graffiti....It can't be country music. I still see car hops, wolfman jack transmitting from Mexico, and Suzanne Somers in the pink T-bird.
Brubeck studied at Mills under Darius Milhaud. A lot of his ventures into odd tempi, ethnic melodies, etc. and I think to a certain extent his percussion approach to the instrument can be traced to his time at Mills even though Brubeck went to UOP as an undergrad.
I wish this were a rock and roll town. All of the radio stations here play country or fake-country (i.e., lots of The Eagles and Journey). I think Lucas' movie stresses the rock and roll because it focuses on the teen culture at the time. Currently, our teen culture in Modesto is really into Hyphey music - a new type of ganster rap from the Bay Area. But outside of that circle, it's pretty much all country here.
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