I found a new version of 'Paranoid' by a band called Jazz Sabbath.
The pianist is Adam Wakeman (son of Rick who I saw play keyboards with his dad) and the English Rock Ensemble at Cropredy music festival last August in Banbury in Oxfordshire.
They played all of The Journey To The Centre Of The Earth. They finished with a twenty seven minutes encore of the Yes song: 'Starship Trooper'. It was a very memorable performance from the caped crusader, his son and his band. Please check it out on good old YouTube.
'Paranoid' by Black Sabbath is 55 years old this year and went to number 4 in the UK music charts.
Regular blog readers will know I love my prog rock music.
Jazz music 🎷 🎶 is said to be a big prog influence and a lot of future prog band members played in jazz bands. People like Rick Wakeman and Ian Anderson to name a couple of them.
Any way. Enjoy the following tune. I think I could regular visit a jazz club if there was one near me. Especially if they played some prog.
Adam also plays keyboards some times for Black Sabbath.
I read somewhere that London had 100 jazz and folk clubs in the nineteen sixties and you could go to a concert every night of the week if you wanted.
Back in the days when you could catch a bus to town, drink 10 pints, watch a band and you still had change out of a tenner for a chippy supper and the bus ride home.😀
You wouldn't need to carry a load of amplifiers either. That's my thought.😄
Amazing how long lived these pieces are. We rarely heard pre-WW1 music in the 1960s.
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Very true Tasker. Does your Streptocarpus have six strings? I will pop over and have a look.
DeleteIt's not surprising that Adam Wakeman has such talent, given his parentage . His dad used to live near us and had a music shop in our local small town.
ReplyDeleteI have seen Rick play twice. Once with Yes in Germany and last year at Cropredy. He said to Adam: " I knew your mother". He could easily be a stand up comedian. Amazing talent and a City fan. I have read his Grumpy Old Rockstar book. It's hilarious and unbelievable true anecdotes.
ReplyDeleteAdam Wakeman is clearly an accomplished keyboard player in his own right but I had never heard of him before as I am as ignorant as a Tory landowner. Adam Wakeman is 51 years old - so no spring chicken.
ReplyDeleteWhat a talented musical family YP. I only heard of him last year.
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