I was looking for a certain song on YouTube whose name (I thought) was
'Together'. I didn't find the song that I was looking for, but I did find
something else with the same name, something far far better. I had stumbled
across the trumpeter
Matthew Halsall, who as his website puts it
is redefining spiritual jazz for the next generation... His
thoughtful and refined style draws on the foundations laid by greats like
Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.
As it happens, via another connection, I have been listening on and off to
Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders: I like some of their music, but the
noisier parts of Sanders' music don't resonate with me. So at least I can
understand the reference.
As hinted above, the first track that I heard by MH was 'Together', which is a beautiful piece of slow music punctuated here and there by an
unobtrusive accompaniment. First a saxophone plays a solo (not knowing that
MH is a trumpeter, I thought that this was him), then a trumpet and finally
harp (that's the Alice Coltrane connection).
This is very much midnight music, and as there don't appear to be many
tunes, it serves as excellent background music while I am working.
This is not to denigrate this beautiful music.
This music - at least for me - is much much better than that Miles Davis
character, although I suspect that if I play this for any 'real' jazz fans,
they won't appreciate its beauty. If this is jazz, then I'm all for
it!
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