Prog goes Jazz.

In a little late today as I had to wait for the postman. He duly arrived with my new CD purchases from Play.com, and now I just want to clear off home again and listen to them. Still, it’s a Thursday, which is games night, which means I leave early. Hurrah!

The CDs awaiting my attention are, in order of priority, King Crimson Songbook Vol. 1 by the Crimson Jazz Trio, an occasional outfit founded by ex-Crimson and sometime 21st Century Schizoid Band drummer, Ian Wallace. Eight Crimso tracks given the jazz treatment:

21st Century Schizoid Man
Three Of A Perfect Pair
Catfood
Starless
Ladies Of The Road
I Talk To The Wind
Red
Matte Kudasai

Of that lot, Red is the one I’m having most difficulty imagining, being the heaviest track on the heaviest album made by the 1972-74 line up. The other tracks (pace perhaps Starless) contain jazz riffs to varying degrees in their original forms anyway. But Red?

The other CD is The Jewel by Pendragon a semi-orchestral electric prog outfit about whom I know approximately nothing, save the fact that a friend of mine played me a couple of tracks a while back and they were bloody magnificent.

I tell you all this by way of a public service announcement. I am full aware, that with three or four honourable exceptions, many of the people on my friends list have the most appalling musical taste.

Prog goes Jazz.

In a little late today as I had to wait for the postman. He duly arrived with my new CD purchases from Play.com, and now I just want to clear off home again and listen to them. Still, it’s a Thursday, which is games night, which means I leave early. Hurrah!

The CDs awaiting my attention are, in order of priority, King Crimson Songbook Vol. 1 by the Crimson Jazz Trio, an occasional outfit founded by ex-Crimson and sometime 21st Century Schizoid Band drummer, Ian Wallace. Eight Crimso tracks given the jazz treatment:

21st Century Schizoid Man
Three Of A Perfect Pair
Catfood
Starless
Ladies Of The Road
I Talk To The Wind
Red
Matte Kudasai

Of that lot, Red is the one I’m having most difficulty imagining, being the heaviest track on the heaviest album made by the 1972-74 line up. The other tracks (pace perhaps Starless) contain jazz riffs to varying degrees in their original forms anyway. But Red?

The other CD is The Jewel by Pendragon a semi-orchestral electric prog outfit about whom I know approximately nothing, save the fact that a friend of mine played me a couple of tracks a while back and they were bloody magnificent.

I tell you all this by way of a public service announcement. I am full aware, that with three or four honourable exceptions, many of the people on my friends list have the most appalling musical taste.