This Sunday Music Muse Day finds that winter has took a holiday, it's still the first week in March and it's 74º, sunny, but with extremely high winds. Lisa and I started to take walk and changed our mind because so much stuff was being blown around. So, instead I listen to these two selections, both outside of my jazz comfort zone. First up, David Grisman Quartet Dawgwood. I have other CDs by mandolinist Grisman and his drummerless acoutic groups. His music is hard to catagorize, I think of it as Americana blend of folk, swing, and jazz. Grisman just calls it "Dawg Music". Just dawg on good foot tapping music. Worth a listen.
My second selection is Oregon 45th Parallell, with Ralph Towner on 12 string and classical quitars, piano nand syntheszers, Trilok Gurtu on percussion, Glen Moore on bass, and Paul McCandless on saxopne and windwoods. Oregon is another group that is not easy to catagorize. As a instrumental group the music you could think of them as playing world folk-fusion. Three of the members, Towner, Moore and McCandless have their roots from the Paul Winter Consort of the 70's, and all have established solid solo careers, which is testiment to musicanship. Oregon over the years his had several changing line ups, but the music remains fresh and enjoyable.
Hopefully the wind will die down and we can enjoy a litte of the warmth of the day, before forecast of snow, again, in day or two. Enjoy
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