Lately I've been listening to a band called
Oregon and especially their album
Ecotopia. During the 1970-ies and 1980-ies I did listen the group alot. How can the band's musical style be described? Non-Mainstream-Jazz? Modern Concert Music? Acoustic Etno Jazz? Anyways there is alot improvisation involved.
Ecotopia is quite a bit RockJazz oriented because the original
hand percussionist
Colin Walcott had a few years earlier passed away in a car accident and he was replaced by an other masterful percussionist
Trilok Gurtu who on this particular album plays ordinary drum-set on some tracks. I used to have a dream that some day I'd play the mixture of
many acoustic musical styles - the kind of music that Oregon performed...
Juha H.
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