So when i'm not getting my official ATV license on a sleepy Sunday mid afternoon, i sit and a listen to all sorts of music.

I think it is very obvious how much music is a force within my life. That can not be underscored enough. One of the great inventions (or worse) to my generation is you tube. Which as a matter of fact i think is full of the most obnoxious and least interesting garbage. Kids who suck at guitar and everything else in the world trying to mimic or claim to be better then the greats. For a time there as well it seemed that these were the only videos i could find, hoping to tap into the global Internet to see some videos of the true greats.

It is finally shifting for Yesterday during my hours long researching of new music i discovered Ahmad Jamal playing "Darn that Dream" over youtube:



I feel in love with the light handedness of this mid fifties trio, in a room surrounded by people admiring this young and spry piano player. I went on to listen to more of his records and proved to be a nice break to some of the more mental and grad piano jazz record. Like "Mingus Plays Piano" and "Monk Alone" two of my most favorite records.

This year i really fell into a love for the minimal jazz piano, with little acompianment the intracacy of the keys has always been one of my favorite insturments to listen and watch being played. Ahmed is no exception and he is still living! Unlike Mingus who really played bass and hated the world. Or, Thelonious whos carreer was damponed by the likes of the hot air blowers such as Davis and Coltrane.

Ahmed still plays and with the light hearted ways of the bop era coming through. A more free feeling then the later sixties and then the experimentation that erupted. Much like this song the young Ahmed Jamal twenty years before was an inspiring force for Davis and Coltrane. Pushing to more creative composition within his release from the early fifties to think he aided in the begining of the reformation of jazz leading pushing the gnere forward to about ten years later. Miles playing Wayne shorters "Footprints" with his quintet in 1968:



See Youtube is getting better, now if only there was a better filter to find things that are worth it.