The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

I know that there are vanishingly few jazz fans here, but a great musician has died.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/12/arts/ ... l?ref=arts
Do yourselves a favor and peruse YouTube. I also suspect that WKCR will feature his music from 2 to 7 pm tomorrow. I`m not the programming director so I don`t know, but tune in/log on.

For the one or two of you interested, the tribute is on until 9:00 p. m. Monday
http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/

Yes Blair, there's still a few jazz lovers here. Another jazz great who recently joined that now very overcrowded jazz club in the sky is pianist, bandleader and composer Horace Silver. I suspect that Burt must have been a fan via his well known love of bop and latin rhythms. Of course, Horace Silver also had a knack of composing memorable tunes - 'Song For My Father', 'The Preacher', 'Doodlin', and 'The Cape Verdean Blues' among them. I think that this is probably the best known Horace Silver track and fans of Steely Dan will recognise it instantly!:

I`m astonished by the number of hits on this topic. I wonder how many resulted in listening to KCR over the weekend. At any rate, people should know that the station devotes five hours each Sunday to a particular jazz musician`s career, starting at 2:00 pm Eastern US time.
Check out their other programming, too.

Very nice appreciation by Jeff StClair up on CounterPunch today: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/25/ ... liberator/
Too bad he didn`t mention more of the Impulse recordings with Jarrett, Redman, and Motian.