Russ Anixter’s Hippie Big Band Translates Rock, Classical Tunes Into Jazz Vocabulary
It’s to Anixter’s credit that his reinterpretations don’t make a point of getting all ‘jazzy’ for their own sake; he stays true to the essence of the originals.
Russ Anixter’s Hippie Big Band
‘What Is?’
russanixter.com
When rock ’n’ roll arrived, a lot of the older jazz musicians — and even more so, jazz fans — professed to detest it. Yet at least as late as the end of the 1960s, jazz and rock had more in common than those veteran listeners cared to admit. The ironic thing is that nobody realized it at the time.
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