So, How Come?

[Terrapin Tim Volem]

So, how come? How come there is SO LITTLE DIALOGUE on this this wave length? Has everyone gone to the moon? Damn, but it's lonely, you know, feelin' like you are talkin' to yo'self .... But hey, pilgrims... i shall forge ahead, in the hopes that maybe someone of y'all will respond, will acknowledge that there is life out there, even, on the dark side o' the moon.

So here's a little number that I'll call "Midnight Blue" and can you dig it?


"Midnight Blue"


this one, you know, is for Meister Rudy


As always, it comes down to taste.

Even when all
of your systems are flowing
in response to music so compelling,
so compelling that it cannot
be denied.

Case in point would have to be Kenny Burrell's
"Midnight Blue"
as opposed to any number of guitar shredders
going in for a sound that is all treacle
and hysteria, jammed with way too many notes,
you know?

Smooth, swinging Kenny now,
master of time, in solidarity
with the saxophone,
Mister Rhythm, Mister Storyteller,
reminding us that,
as Chuck berry once said
in Eugene, Oregon,
"it don't have to be loud, y'all,
you know it don't have to be loud."

- rcorded at the Van Gelder Studio, 1967
- issued on Blue Note, 1999

So... waddya think?

- Terrapin Tim