i listen to some. not a big fan of the stuff that sounds like everyone is playing a different song.
when i would mix sound with my friend and the band/s would hit a bad note we would look at each other and say "thats jazz!"

I've heard some of that and I'm also not a fan. It reminds me of Eddie Murphy talking about white people dancing, describing how we dance to the words instead of the beat.

Gould - Hard to imagine what must have been going on inside his head.
A Genius .

He really stradles the line - Bach as Jazz, or Jazz as Classical - just pure music maybe.
Interesting how Keith Jarret also took to Bach and quite well - but no where near the depth and voice and genius of Gould.

I believe Bach is an inspiration to many musicians.

Sherwood

And not just musicians.

But very interesting that Keith Jarrett recorded the Well Tempered Clavier (Books 1 and 2) - a serious effort that was well received in the Classical world.
I believe he recorded some other of Bachs works as well but I haven't listened to those.

Steve, pick an musician you like and go to Pandora.com. Sign up and create a "station" with that artist's name and Pandora will play that artist and similar genre tunes from other artists. I listen to it every night and discovered so many, new to me, talents. Right now I'm listening to a cut from Pat Metheny's Metheny Meldau Quartet , before that it was old Chick Corea, and before that a band called Ohm on my Terje Rypdal station (how's that for obscure?). I hear something I like and create another station from that artist and it evolves from there. Right now I've got about 20 different stations. I create about one a week. I also keep a post-it pad close by and jot down artists and album names I really like for the next bulk Amazon purchase. Did I mention Pandora is free and plays ad infinitum (so far).

Pelican and Pandora are the reasons I'm going to have a wireless Internet connection in my new garage.

yeah man....Vince Guaradli... played some tasteful stuff. I saw recently that CB Christmas CD was still one of the most popular downloads on the web... 30 years after its release.

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