MOTM

At 5:09 AM +0000 3/1/03, mate_stubb <mate_stubb@...> wrote:
>Best prog band ever: Gentle Giant. To me, nobody even comes close.
>Listen to "Octopus", "Power and the Glory", and "Free Hand".
>
>You'll never find this, but it's a monster prog record: David
>Sancious and Tone "True Stories". Tons of Polymoog, Minimoog solos
>and heavy Hammond.
>
>Listen to any Weather Report or Zawinul Syndicate for the absolute
>best organic jazz electronic music.
>
There's a recently issued live Weather Report, compiled from concerts 
between 1975 and 1985, that is really nice. It made me into a WR fan 
all over again.

But, to me, the most organic use of electronics in jazz has to be 
Herbie Hancock's Sextant, w/ Patrick Gleeson on (I think) ARP 2600. 
Rain Dance, the opening piece on the record, still sounds totally 
contemporary.

On the prog front, the Italian band Goblin deserves a mention, their 
soundtracks to Dario Argento's horror flicks of the 70's have some 
very fine (and occasionally charmingly cheesy) moog work.