That 1974 sound, with the vaulting ambition of the jazz orchestra, which would once have sounded so dated, now seems contemporary again. Can we blame Quentin Tarantino?
Apparently Gil Evans was in early stage discussions about collaborating with Hendrix when the latter died (haven't there been a few others who've made similar claims?). I didn't know this album, or anything like it, existed until I came across it in the racks of Fopp for a fiver. Very nicely packaged. Unlike many others, this didn't become instant shelfware, and held my attention for a while.
But the pace at which my collection has been growing for the past decade or more means that even popular new discoveries quickly get covered over by even newer stuff. I got as far as ripping three tracks from this CD into iTunes — Angel, Crosstown Traffic and Little Wing — late in 2004 when I got the CD. I've played Angel eleven times, apparently, most recently in 2008, but the others got played less than a handful of times and have swilling around forgotten in the sump of my library since early 2005.
I realise it will be soon five years that I've been an eMusic subscriber. That's five years of first 40 and then 50 new tracks per month. A quick check reveals that I've listened to 406 of them since 1 January this year. Quite a lot, but that still leaves 2,291 that have been neglected for at least five months, on the way to being forgotten. If you asked me to list the artists whose music I've downloaded over those five years, I doubt I could name more than a third of them from memory.
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