I’ve been listening to Queen, On Fire Live at the Bowl. What an amazing album! Freddie Mercury is such a phenomenal musician. His studio recordings are incredible, but it’s truly something to hear him pull of all that great stuff live. Both he & Brian May spend some time playing with an Echoplex (I think). Freddie uses it as an intro to one of his tunes & Brian uses in his guitar solo. There are a lot of Queen tunes on this album that I am not so familiar with. Everything sounds great. I wish Freddie were still around.
Kronos Quartet plays the Music of Bill Evans with Eddie Gomez & Jim Hall playing with them. Whoa! How come I didn’t know about this album?! It’s like one of those dream all-star bands where you can pick anyone dead or alive for your fantasy band. We’ll here it is.
I was introduced to John Lewis this week. I’ve been listening to his solo piano album: Evolution. It’s beautiful, exciting and inspiring music. I hope to someday have vocabulary and imagination like his in my solo guitar playing.