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My recent interview with jazz pianist Billy Childs left me with way more material than I could fit into the print edition of the Entertainer.
Childs, who played in Corvallis earlier this year with Chris Botti, will perform Friday, Aug. 19 with saxophonist Steve Wilson. It’s part of the first “Jazz in the Valley” program offered by Corvallis-OSU Piano International. Click here to read the story and some additional notes from the interview.
Childs is 54 now, and I’m 53, so when we started talking about the first albums we bought, he mentioned “The Inner Mounting Flame,” a 1971 album by the jazz-fusion group The Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Which made me think about one of the very first albums I bought, “Mysterious Traveller,” the 1974 album by Weather Report, the famed fusion group. I still listen to that album fairly frequently, and it doesn’t sound out of the question that Childs still listens to Mahavishnu or some of the other progressive rock albums from the 1970s that he mentioned in our interview. These recordings buy viagra online no rx from groups like Yes and Genesis and Emerson, Lake & Palmer all shaped him creatively in terms of how they tried to bridge the gap between different genres of music.
And that’s work that Childs continues today with his excellent “chamber-jazz” albums.
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