Pangaea is an album you listen to in complete darkness after you smoked a good joint.
A most enigmatic guitar player
This is a puzzle to me. I am talking about REGGIE LUCAS, who performed with Miles Davis in his (to me one of the best) album "Pengaea". To me, his solo on "Godwana" (and also on "Zimbabwe" - the album consists of these two long tracks) is the most exciting, amazing and mysterious solo guitar session in a jazz performance - if this album can be called jazz at all, but I would gladly count it as a jazz album. John McLaughlin and Mike Stern, one of my favorite (jazz) guitarists, also played with Miles Davis. I love how they played with Miles (Mike Stern's solo on Jean Pierre is excellent and motivating). I also love the solo albums of these two guys. But very curiously, I consider REGGIE LUCAS solos on Pengaea far more superior. But wait, Lucas has no distinguished solo albums (to the best of my knowledge) and (it is not a joke) he played with Madonna! I am confused, how this guy played so amazingly on Pengaea (perhaps, only Miles and Reggie could have explained - none of them alive...)?
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@onhwy61 , thanks for the link. @tkhill , Jimmy Smith used to play with Kenny Barrel, both my favorite jazz musicians (together with Milk Jackson). @audphile1 , you may listen to it in a complete darkness but not necessarily so, and listening to it may substitute "smoking joint" (a similar effect without harming your health (:). I particularly like this album because it is not a traditional jazz album neither it is a standard rock. And the solo guitar session with Lucas is especially exiting for me because the way how a rock guitar is naturally and ingeneously is included into a jazz performance. |
@tkhill , Grant Green was outstanding, also Wes Montgomery. And you can also consider the next generation including Joe Pass and Jim Hall. |
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