xenawarrior,
I will avoid giving you the obvious but here are a few that tend to be overlooked that have coincidentally meant much to me....lol
Blues
Fenton Robinson
- very underrated and solid blues guitarist. Try the CD, 'I hear some Blues downstairs'Mike Bloomfield
- white, middle class and dead, but played the Chicago blues to perfection. Check out his solo's on the Butterfield Blues Band - 'East West', favorite - 'I have a mind to give up living and go shopping instead'.Terry Smith
: A phenomenal guitarist, mainly Jazz but plays the blues like a local even though he is from London. Spans a long career, playing with the best. Never heard a Gibson Jazz guitar played with quite the skill of this man. A good mate also. Should have reached the top but slipped through the cracks along the way.Jazz
Mike Westbrook -
Get to hear 'Marching Song' before you die. John Surman's soprano sax solo on 'Celebration' has been a favorite piece of mine since it was first recorded in the late 60's. It still raises the hair on the nape of the neck over thirty years later.John Taylor
- Jazz pianist. Overshadows Keith Jarrett with little trouble, and actually just about any player who struck ivory. 'Blue Grass' shows him well, though I suspect he has never played badly in any piece.Pat Metheny
- What can you say? The boy from Kansas who owns the world. Taught me more fretwork in ten minutes than I taught myself in ten years.Rock
Laura Nyro
- Finest female songwriter of her time, now sadly deceased. Sleep well Laura.PFM
- Italian rock at its best. Together since '67 and still as fresh as ever. I would sell my soul to play guitar like Franco Mussida. Check out 'Live In The USA' - 'Alta Loma Alta', twenty minute solo worth paying for. Pete Sinfield wrote the lyrics on their first few albums, masterful lyricist.Curtis Mayfield
- I was one of the only two honky's at a performance in NY in '69 that he recorded and made into 'Curtis Mayfield Live'. It was recorded just after the '68 race riots in a small club in Greenwhich and the atmosphere is electric. 'We People Who Are Darker Than Blue' and 'We Have Only Just Begun' are highlights.Classical
Darius Milhaud - French composer with an impressionistic bent. Reached the world of Jazz before even he realized it.
Caludio Arrau - Brahms - Concerto No. 2 in B Flat. Tenderness and simplicity the two requisites of a fine pianist are welded in this mans playing.
Paul Tortellier - Brahms ( again ) Double Concerto in A minor - with Christian Ferras - Tortellier could reduce Mike Tyson to tears with his graceful style.
Best of luck, more music than years to tune in to - HS
Edited by - hillary_step on 2 October 2002 22:45:57
Edited by - hillary_step on 2 October 2002 22:47:47