Our own Dick Heath's ALT2 Radio show Returns

 

BTW Hi Dick, Hi Rico

 

'Trash jazz' sounds even better than 'punk jazz ' here!!

 

 

 

Not half!!!!

I first heard him in the mid sixties while at University, and it was mostly his work with tape that inspired me, though, as i mentioned, his other stuff sounded very fresh and original too, at the time.

 

Glass didn't really get started until the late 60s - 70s, i believe and didn't become truly known until the mid to late 70s when he was doing film scores.

 

i find Glass to be a giant YAWN, actually - though some of his later stuff has some interest. Riley's music has an innocence and ambient aspect which i think harkens more to Indian music and the Fluxus aesthetic than Glass's more repetitive and static pop approach. (IMHO).

 

also i think Glass doesn't really consider himself a minimalist  - i'd agree he's more a REPETITIVIST

structurally and harminically boring (which can work in the context of visuals, though).

 

Steve Reich - now there's a very musical example of the style, i think. his form of "minimalism" is quite deceptive, with formal and harmonic interest as well as a certain motoric aspect which works for him as a sort of minimalist mode.

 

all my opinions of course - except for the facts...

 

Virtually can't go wrong with the albums he did with Hellborg - but they are not all jazz rockl

 

Night , thanks for the company , back next week?

 

 

This one? Actually I like his  Janschology - his Bert Jansch tribute album - a lot. Does Black Mountain Side/Slide to remind it is a Jansch arrangement not a Page composition.