coolermaster

Frankly, reading certain comments makes me wonder where some people live... within my family, which I wouldn’t really consider the classic average "neighborhood" family, they think Diana Krall is a UNICEF commissioner (probably) and those rare times when we dine "all together" we end up playing the latest chart-topping anthem from the usual pop starlet à la Britney Spears...
Yes, okay, I can agree that Simone, and especially (IMHO, especially when talking about emotions) Billie Holiday were something else... and just recently I fished out from my collection the sublime "Songs for Distinguè Lovers" and I was almost moved to tears... okay... but Krall is anything but cold... Sure, in the long run, I prefer a Cassandra Wilson or the underrated and Extraordinary (always IMHO) Patricia Barber... No, it’s not the voice... it's the genre... Krall sings that "salon" jazz, that "cool" jazz (in the sense of stylish, not the subgenre :-))) useful for relaxation... and to quote a great one from the internet who wrote a long time ago a Prosopopeia (the best) about the Macintosh (the computer)... Diana Krall rightfully belongs to a playlist that must be called "Music for Coupling"... and I believe that many couplings can be made with her voice, that clean jazz, made of brushes and caressed notes rather than violated...
After all, even Mancini and Bacharach used to horrify purists or intellectuals in their time... today a little less... Only time will be the best judge...
Regards

Well, as someone wrote, "THE SAINTS" should not be touched... Focus on reviews, maybe I'll get to tell you about Santana or the Stones, but Miles NO! He is not to be touched...

Listen, maybe there's something that's not clear to you, for which I would refer you to appropriate studies. Miles Davis is not just some "random jazz musician"... Miles Davis is THE jazz!! And beyond that, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Does Doo Bop sound old today? What about in 1991? And the Beastie Boys, dear, how do they sound today? And a whole infinite series of bands that made music around the '80s-'90s? Are we kidding? Do you want me to curse??? Then let's curse!! You're talking about things being dated? Overrated?
Listen to some "fusion" tracks from the same era as Return To Forever, and I'm sorry to say even from the highly celebrated (rightly so) Weather Report... But come on... I find Diana Krall's latest album more dated than Doo Bop!!

I completely disagree! Lights is like a ray of sunshine in the winter darkness... The sound interlocks, electronic deviations, and non-derivative contamination make this album another precious gem set in the crown of this London band... The evolution of the band from Londinium has been courageous, sought-after, radiant... Regards

One single word. Inhuman! As it doesn't seem to have been conceived by human beings, but by otherworldly entities that have taken over the musicians. Magniloquent, resplendent, experimental, fundamental... Every attribute is not enough for this work that will mark a turning point, a break, indeed I would dare to say a fracture with the... "other jazz"... Then almost 20 years later arrived John Zorn... but that is another story.

A milestone in the history of Jazz, just like Miles' "Kind of Blue"... and Take Five finally made it acceptable in the high-bourgeois radical chic living rooms... and white ones! And that's no small feat... Anyway, "Blue Rondò..." and "Kathy's Waltz" are true masterpieces...

I agree with rpimiballi, beyond the infinite sympathy I have always felt for Chet, also, certainly, for his human story... Chet was perhaps the only jazz musician with a rocker's face... and the first (because he was white... let's face it!) who rose to the rank of (rock?) star: a handsome and damned (and also damned talented) man who played the trumpet like Nick Drake played the guitar and moved and posed like James Dean from Rebel Without a Cause, both of them children of an America that, if it hadn’t yet "invented" rock, had already embraced it wholeheartedly in its mentality, attitudes, and especially its anxieties... Chet's body, marvelous and classic, like Marlon Brando's, did everything to mar his own image, leaving only the trumpet in the end, that melancholic and unmistakable sound to look at, feel, and touch for him...
Only in the notes of his "Flugelhorn" from the '60s onwards would Chet continue, living and suffering from that incurable ailment that only true poets, true artists have: the pain of living.
Best regards.

1 to the review because it's poorly written, not because I don't share the words... I mean, I absolutely DO NOT share them, and just the thought of comparing the (semi) God Miles to the Beastie Boys makes all the milk from every cow (including human ones) on the globe spill to the ground!! Doo Bop is a seminal album, from a genius (misunderstood only a few times, and this was one of those) who was, as always, restless, always in search of something new... I mean, guys, I don't want to say, but find me one of the pillars of 20th-century Jazz who, at almost 70 years old, decides to make Hip Hop! This album contains absolutely acid, I would dare to say lysergic pieces, with Mystery standing out, featuring that trumpet, that trademark that still moves me... He always dared, while his illustrious colleagues ended up recycling themselves: the courage shown in "Sketches of Spain," "Miles in the Sky," and "Doo Bop" belongs only to the greats... to the Gods. I believe it will take another 20 years for Miles' testament to be recognized by everyone as a Landmark, another landmark in the career of one of the greatest composers/musicians of the 20th century... Best regards.

One of my favorites from Genesis, the one that strikes my soul the most... Legend has it that in the '70s in Italy, Trespass wasn't mentioned by many fans because it was considered "fascist"... Thanks to the story of "white mountain," which I want to highlight as one of the first "esoteric" anthems in a time when esotericism had not yet been musically coded... The Knife probably irritated some communist student not very good at English... The fact remains that for years, the first album by Genesis was considered Nursery Cryme, also due to the historical lineup that started performing from the latter... But I adore Trespass, yes, also for the aura of "cursed album" that it carries with it... and when I hear the intro of White Mountain, I feel an arcane emotion... like few other works by Genesis provoke in me, perhaps only "The Musical Box." Immense.

Haha, congratulations on the review: it mentioned Christian Bale's "monologue" in "American Psycho," right before he started accepting his coworker!!