Pundits/admins make decisions based on what comes through, what they’ve been able to dig out.
Sitting here now are four musical pieces planned for Sunday jazz, loosely following on from the shimmying and zydeco posts … in other words, cross-genre music from the early days (a different thing to “crossover artists). It’s generally about the earliest years of popular music from ragtime to swing.
Trouble is, four songs are too many for Sunday afternoon, particularly the Brendan Kavanaugh live footage and the same with Keith Emerson. It seems to make more sense splitting it into two halves … Jelly-Roll, Midnight Rounders and Brendan on Sunday … Oscar Peterson and Keith Emerson now.
There’s a second and third reason with the admin’s hat on … sitting here, making it difficult to find various polit sshots, are 4 sshot comments on the meeting of the two artists in the 70s, plus the rare video. That word “rare” is what tips the balance … not wise to keep a rarity back because YT or uploaders may have, and have had, other ideas.
Plus there is currently nothing else for this slot today. Plus I’m not 100%, healthwise right now, some things to sort out today.
When you (further) look at Keith Emerson and his various health issues, physical and mental, and how he departed this world … it was even more amazing how he managed this TV episode. It’s not lost on us how OP, as part of that ethnicity spawning ragtime, the blues and the advent of vocal-less jazz, was quite gracious about this Englishman. Worth viewing imho.
Speaking personally, I was never crazy about the prog thing back then … sorry to blaspheme but I found Floyd only occasionally interesting, the whole Clapton, Beck, Page, Emerson, Alvin Lee seemed to me to be just guys trying to play superfast, rather than feeling the music, plus it was always a deep, melodic groove with variations above it which counted … less of the “cleverness”, “look at me” and more of a satisfying and varied whole, not unlike basso-continuo during baroque. To my mind, ELP were too “treble”, lacking groove … kudos for technical skill though.