Hi Bob: >Very cool that you heard "Steadfast" on the >radio, Kakki...such a haunting piece of music. >Brian Blade has created a specific 'sound' >which is even more noteworthy considering >that he's a drummer!
Thanks to Paz who sent me "Perceptual" when it was just released. It is haunting and very gorgeous. It struck me as a new wave 21st century kind of music. I was on a business call when it came on today and actually put the guy on hold to alert my co-worker that it was Joni singing!! She is not the music freak we are but she dropped her jaw and thought it was amazing, too. On to the very good notes on Fred Simon's collboration with Kurt Elling from the new album ~ "Flirting With Twilight" closes with Chicago-based songwriter Fred Simon's alluring theme "While You Are Mine," to which Kurt has attached stunning lyrics. I like the way it sounds. the simplicity of it," he states. "It speaks in a certain way, in the same way as the Charlie Haden thing. At the time I wrote the lyric, I was reading a lot of [poet] Kenneth Rexroth, so it's kind of a Rexroth homage. He was always aware of the passage of time, how much is irreplaceable when it's gone, how much of life you have to get now. Now, today, baby, make it real now, esspecially with romance. That makes everything so sweet and bittersweet, even at the moment of the most profound togetherness." Listening to Elling is like falling into the greatest love while drinking the best martini you ever tasted - Sigh.......;-) Kakki
