Tuesday, November 5, 2019

this is tonight in windsor, and it would be worth a beer if it wasn't so awful out, and i didn't feel so gross, in general. i don't know what it is, but i haven't felt so great since i came in last month. as it is, i'm just not feeling very social today.

what i will say is that the reason i stopped to listen is that phog is advertising him as a virtuoso jazz musician, and i'm not hearing that in the recordings i've found. this ep seems to have a little bit of live playing, but the other one appears to actually be mostly sample-based.

it's probably not his fault; he probably didn't write up the event listing. so, i don't want to delve into a critical analysis of his skills that he likely didn't bring on himself. further, i could be wrong - i might be missing a real spectacle. but, i suspect the write-up is just off base. his playing is competent, and it might be a different thing for a lot of kids to see nowadays, but it's not particularly impressive, from a jazz-fusion perspective, and as that's what i'd really be going to see, it hasn't convinced me.