From: Here's to the People ; Year: 1991; Genre: Cool Jazz/Jazz Fusion Most into jazz and associated genres are most likely aware of the passing of jazz giant Sonny Rollins a couple of days ago. It is just so mind-blowing to think of all the music, musicians, and history he experienced in his 95 years on this Earth, let alone all of the decades he was active. To think, that he took a large part in and saw all the new forms of jazz and the people he played with. It is a rarity to see an active musician touring for so many years, especially in jazz live so long. He definitely will be missed and then some. Anyway, I had a lot of music from many eras to choose from for this song pick. My thoughts went to the '60s or '70s, but then I have noticed that jazz, overall, at least here in the U.S. was kind of in the background by the 1990s, so I checked out one of his albums from the early part of the decade. I have to say, I am overjoyed that I did so. This one in particular I found a...
What a coincidence, I listened yesterday to this song for the first time. I am reading Necromancer by Gordon R. Dickson and thought there was another novel by the title, looking that up on wikipedia I discovered there was a Rush song. I believe Caress Of Steel is the only Rush album I never listened to.
ReplyDelete"Caress of Steel" is not a popular album, even among Rush fans, but it is far from a bad record in my opinion, just not their best. It definitely has a certain charm about it; I listen to it every now and then.
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