Comments on: Hank Jones & Joe Lovano: Beyond Category http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/06/10/hank-jones-joe-lovano-beyond-category/ culture blogging for the good of the planet Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:18:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jason Chervokas http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/06/10/hank-jones-joe-lovano-beyond-category/#comment-5229 Jason Chervokas Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:27:09 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/06/10/hank-jones-joe-lovano-beyond-category/#comment-5229 Ha! That's a funny line about bluegrass musicians....BTW, Dolly Parton is so freakin' fabulous, a real musician, great songwriter, great singer. All her bluegrass or bluegrass-inflected albums for Sugarhill have been excellent...the best, most consistent string of albums in her career. My fave is Little Sparrow. Speaking of bluegrass and narrow mindedness among musicians and fans, there's a story about some of his bandmates bringing Bill Monroe a copy of Elvis "Blue Moon of Kentucky" when it came out on Sun, and wanted to know what he thought, expecting that Monroe would rip the record. But not only did he like it, he told the musicians they better listen up to the new sound, and a coupla months later he recorded his of 4/4 version of the song which was originally a waltz. Ha! That’s a funny line about bluegrass musicians….BTW, Dolly Parton is so freakin’ fabulous, a real musician, great songwriter, great singer. All her bluegrass or bluegrass-inflected albums for Sugarhill have been excellent…the best, most consistent string of albums in her career. My fave is Little Sparrow.

Speaking of bluegrass and narrow mindedness among musicians and fans, there’s a story about some of his bandmates bringing Bill Monroe a copy of Elvis “Blue Moon of Kentucky” when it came out on Sun, and wanted to know what he thought, expecting that Monroe would rip the record. But not only did he like it, he told the musicians they better listen up to the new sound, and a coupla months later he recorded his of 4/4 version of the song which was originally a waltz.

]]> By: Dan Leo http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/06/10/hank-jones-joe-lovano-beyond-category/#comment-5222 Dan Leo Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:15:34 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/06/10/hank-jones-joe-lovano-beyond-category/#comment-5222 I love your point about how artists are so often more open-minded than the fanatical fans who zero in on their obsessions and dismiss everything else as crap. I remember many late-night hours with Seamus Egan of the great Irish band Solas where we listened to everything except the Irish traditional music Seamus excels in. And it was Seamus who turned me on to Sharon Jones's R&B and to Dolly Parton's great bluegrass album, "The Grass is Blue". It was Seamus who told me something like, "Irish musicians are mad for bluegrass, and bluegrass musicians are mad for Irish music. The only difference is the bluegrass musicians don't drink." I love your point about how artists are so often more open-minded than the fanatical fans who zero in on their obsessions and dismiss everything else as crap. I remember many late-night hours with Seamus Egan of the great Irish band Solas where we listened to everything except the Irish traditional music Seamus excels in. And it was Seamus who turned me on to Sharon Jones’s R&B and to Dolly Parton’s great bluegrass album, “The Grass is Blue”. It was Seamus who told me something like, “Irish musicians are mad for bluegrass, and bluegrass musicians are mad for Irish music. The only difference is the bluegrass musicians don’t drink.”

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