New to me, but they’ve been at this for a few years now. I have no problem with free-form improv, but I usually like the more aggressive, dissonant type. However, any time Percy is given space is a good time…
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Percy Jones and PAKT
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LOL. One minute into the first video, and I see: Guitar player sitting down, with a pedalboard crammed full of Chase Bliss Audio pedals plus an Eventide H9, and he's got a slide and an Ebow at the ready... and my first thought is "I know exactly what this is going to sound like."
And now halfway through their performance, yep, no surprises here.
...not that there's anything wrong with that per se. Lord knows I've been in plenty of free-improv situations that sounded just as ...safe? ...as this PAKT performance. And often without being as sensetive or as controlled, so bravo for them.
And as you say, any opportunity to hear Percy Jones play is worth a listen.
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Yeah, that was cool and all; I saw the band with Kenwood Dennard in the late 70’s(sadly, even then he had hearing aids, but if Evelyn Glennie can do it totally deaf, anything’s possible), then I lived in L.A. during the same time that John Goodsall was there, and saw him in a small club, but personally I’ve just moved on from that sort of stuff.
Currently in the realm of exploritory improv, I’ve gotten into Ava Mendoza(like I mentioned, I’m more for the outside dissonant realm)and then a guy she has worked with, Bill Orcutt, although he is more structured.
