Arthur: Without knowing it you hit the nail on the head when you ungrammatically wrote about Yoshida: "I mainly know him from his amazing rock drumming, at almost
nothing of his jazzy stuff".
There is no jazzy stuff. Unlike sophisticated improv drummers like Gerry Hemingway, Tony Oxley, Hamid Drake and even William Hooker -- all of whom played at the festival -- there was no flow and fluidity to his work. It was all bang bang bang. Every part of the kit was miked, every item was used as much as he could --including a (jacket) zipper solo -- but excess can't take the place of ideas. Yoshida also felt he had to scream, yelp and jump around when he played. The unfortunate consequence of that is that Fujii seemed to think she was left out of the show if she didn't do the same. I like energy as much as the next man (or woman), but this appeared to force Fujii into a stance that negated her lyrical qualities. Ken Waxman --- Arthur Gadney <a_gadney@hotmail.com> wrote:
the Fujii half of Fujii and Yoshida.
Pretty curious about that, since I'm a big Yoshida fan. Though I mainly know him from his amazing rock drumming, at almost nothing of his jazzy stuff, which I expect this was. Can you comment more on this conert?
Thanks.
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