Si Me Olvido de Vivir Colgado de Sentimiento...

Voy a vivir para repetir otra vez este momento. (Andrés Calamaro)

Sorry to all you non-Spanish speakers, but those were precisely my thoughts as I left the Barbican tonight.

Chick Corea & Bela Fleck... that's about as good as it gets. Chick's innovative interpretation of the jazz piano lends the flexibility necessary to tie together their two very different musical styles into a coherent, yet multidimensional, fusion. Bela's banjo adds that light, bluegrass twang necessary to lift the (often overwhelming) intensity that jazz pieces can provoke in their listeners. Although I'll easily be the first to promote the improvisational, complexly-playful, & quite intellectually-stimulating musical style (after all, aren't these what give jazz its ability to transport one into that all-too-familiar, transcendental state-of-being?), we all know how heavy a jazz piece can feel after a few go-rounds. Luckily, their result is an oxymoron of sorts - as involving as jazz, but filled with the light-heartedness of bluegrass. And always beautifully unpreditable.

(The only bad news - it's late enough to give my impulses the right-of-way & shop online for a decent keyboard. Doesn't quite replace my all-too-missed piano, but I guess I'd finally be willing to compromise...)

Apologies, but I still don't know how to add songs, & I can't find any good YouTube videos... so instead I'll just leave you with some propaganda. ;)

Chick Corea & Bela Fleck

Besos.