uli Posted December 28, 2014 Report Posted December 28, 2014 Congrats, Mr. Freeman! http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/reich/ct-ae-chicagoan-jazz-20141225-column.html Quote
Eric Posted December 28, 2014 Report Posted December 28, 2014 Congrats, Mr. Freeman! http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/reich/ct-ae-chicagoan-jazz-20141225-column.html Cool story. I need to head up to Chicago and catch him. I have always loved Birth Sign on Delmark and Rebellion on Southport. Quote
JSngry Posted December 28, 2014 Report Posted December 28, 2014 Funny (to me) story - I was doing a road trip with this really really good "western Swing" guitarist who also had big ears (and hands) for many many different kinds of guitar playing, and I put on Franticdiagnosis, advising him to check out Von & George, of whom neither he had heard. Well, ok, he's digging the shit out of Von, and then George starts to play. He's digging that too, and then George goes off into his special thing (has anybody ever adequately described it?).... Well, this guy's jaw dropped about as far as it could. After a few seconds, he looked at me and said "....FUCK THE CHANGES!!!" and then started laughing this maniacal laugh for the duration of the solo. It was like after he got over the shock he was totally into it, but that initial shock was...intense! Quote
johnblitweiler Posted December 28, 2014 Report Posted December 28, 2014 For me George Freeman was the highlight of Friday night at the last Chicago Jazz Festival. Myra Melford's quintet, Rufus Reid, and Terence Blanchard w/Ravi Coltrane were on the same show. Nowadays George plays with Mike Allemana's trio and the setting seems to inspire him whenever I hear them (Allemana is another no-b.s. guitarist). There are several good George Freeman CDs on the Southport label. Also, George is one of the nicest people in Chicago. Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted December 29, 2014 Report Posted December 29, 2014 Back in the early 80s, we had a computer game at work with a cave adventure called ADV on it. In those days, there weren't too many video games - this one was all descriptions of places you moved to and, somewhere in the descriptions, were clues you could use at some time, to find your way out. Good practice for reading Acts of Parliament, because you had to read what WASN'T there as well as what was there. One sentence in one of those descriptions attracted my attention."Off to one side lies a gleaming pearl."Yeah! That's George Freeman! Nuff sed.MG Quote
johnblitweiler Posted December 29, 2014 Report Posted December 29, 2014 "Off to one side lies a gleaming pearl." Yeah! That's George Freeman! Nuff sed. MG Quote
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