tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957800621291025741.post5543790621555319865..comments2024-01-27T00:40:06.082-08:00Comments on Gapplegate Music Review: Jane Ira Bloom, Sixteen SunsetsGrego Applegate Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06188040049179872295noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957800621291025741.post-22592174030598504082014-04-09T12:59:52.682-07:002014-04-09T12:59:52.682-07:00In a related thread I can remember when I bought C...In a related thread I can remember when I bought Coltrane's Prestige album that was dubbed "Standards". Hard to imagine now but that seemed like a novel idea around 1971. Standards were what you used a fake book to play when you did your warm up set at weddings, something for the old folks. That changed drastically in the '80s. That there was so much in the way of revisiting standards with the rise of neo-trad is not in itself a bad thing, but then revisiting a standard should be about having something to say improvisation-wise. Not everybody has been equally successful in that way. Jane Ira Bloom certainly is on this album, to say the least.Grego Applegate Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06188040049179872295noreply@blogger.com