I’ve been listening to songs from West African, nylon string, jazz guitarist, Lionel Loueke this morning. There are some streams from his new record “Karibu” (a Swahili word meaning welcome) at his website. I saw a Herbie Hancock thing on cable a few months ago that featured Louke and I was struck by his chord voicings and tight, fluid syncopation. This guy is a polished player. He played on Herbie’s album, “River: The Joni Letters”, a tribute to Joni Mitchell which won the Grammy for “Album of the Year”. Hancock, by the way, plays scorching piano on the song “Seven Teens” from the “Karibu” set. Wayne Shorter plays on the album as well along with Loueke’s trio.
If you haven’t heard Lionel Loueke, you need to. This is not “archivist” jazz, it’s fresh sounding, vibrant and intensely musical.
Report from the Middle:
In the Pribek sidebar is a random posts feature, that is in its own way like a Google adsense generator. It is in probability as effective as the “attempted intuitive adsense from Google,” as Pribek’s Randoms catches my eye about one in ten times; while adsense looks interesting about one in a hundred times. That said; I clicked and followed it to this June 6th post.
Two things come to mind — [first] Jack’s review here of Mr Lueke from June ‘08 does not have a youTube attached. [Second] his evaluation is making me listen to the dead on jazz, but from the artist’s “website” Real Player…
I increased use of youTube lately in my blogs. “How has youTube changed the way we all blog?” Maybe with audio visual at our fingertips, we actually share the “event” with our reader.. no? I get much reward seeing again a special TV presentation from my long lost past. Bands seen “live” in the ’60’s like the Byrds, or the moon landing.. were events we planned on watching on the boob tube as if we had purchased tickets to the events. We planned our whole week around sitting down with the family to watch history unfold.
And, now that said, what is a website if not a fading relic? I think that the recent “evolution” of blog technique is noteworthy. Web-based social development is sped up with major social events. For instance: Is it fair to say — youTube’s spurt in “social networking” comes after June this year, since in 2008 we had both the Beijing Olympics, followed by US Presidential campaigns, conventions, melees, and election?
As always, Pat. Pend. overstating the obvious… at your service.