Oregon

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.