Jazz for aficionados

@audio-b-dog 

I am envious of your luck, growing up in the Bay Area in that era! 

You are no doubt correct about each generation tending to focus upon whatever music they happened to grow up with. 

I didn’t see that K. Burns Country series. I will look for it. 

I don’t actually know much about Bluegrass but have been exploring what I simply call "new acoustic music" that often includes Bluegrass influences for some time. I’m happy to PM you with some recommendations if you are interested. There is much to explore in this territory where various genres overlap/intermix and there are some very fine players/singers who’ve found a home there. 

FWIW, Billy Strings doesn't really grab me, either. He's a fine player but I simply don't find his material very engaging. Same goes for Molly Tuttle.  

@stuartk

Please PM me with suggestions. I have a triple album of Allison Krauss and some of her CDs, but really don't know anybody else. I like the jazz-influenced Bluegrass and love jazz violin when it swings. I used to listen to Joe Venuti and Jean-Luc Ponty but don't have any of their recordings. I think you'll enjoy Burns' Country Music series. In later episodes he talks about California (Bakersfield mostly) country music. I was in elementary school in the mid-fifties and we had to learn square dancing. There was a strong country influence here.

Charles Lloyd at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1967 with Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee and Jack DeJohnette.

https://www.google.com/search?q=charles+lloyd+forest+flower+youtube&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS945US945&oq=charles+lloyd+forest+flower+youtube&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDIHCAEQABjvBTIKCAIQABiABBiiBDIHCAMQABjvBdIBCjE0MjQyajBqMTWoAgiwAgHxBYLlPTcYVxZZ&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:3590f761,vid:qOGqAvElCAs,st:0

@audio-b-dog 

PM sent.

I seem to remember doing square dancing in elementary school, too. 

Have you heard any of Lloyd's later work for ECM, such as:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VoQCdsN_CA&list=OLAK5uy_ljS8UH12GPpvKKeKmZo7jh11jRuBXbxZU&index=2

@stuartk

PBS _ Jazz and Blues in (Country) Western Swing

And just for shiggles and gits: 

It’s my impression that the Spanish-Western Tex/Mex/Cali contributions to country music was and has always been way, way under credited and appreciated to that genre of music. Miguel Aceves Mejía, "Malagueña Salerosa"

And Malagueña Salerosa, also known as La Malagueña and not to be confused with Roy Clark - Malaguena -1969 who indecently was also a country and western entertainer/musician, written by Ernesto Lecuona of Cuba. Originally the sixth movement of his Andalucia Suite.

And check out Linda Ronstadt - ’CANCIONES DE MI PADRE’ {{H.D.}} (Complete) -1989

@audio-b-dog,

Yeah I knew who Django Reinhardt was. When I first started to take a deep dive into George Benson I was rather shocked actually to find out his favorite guitar slinger who I knew nothing about, at the time, was Django Reinhardt instead of Wes Montgomery! Needless to say I had to take a deep dive into his music, but at the time I didn’t have the musical wherewithal to take a deeper dive into the study of some of his bandmates as I was smitten by his broken fingered playing.