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RE: Head Toward the Light
Really glad you enjoyed that song! I noticed in the YouTube comments a bunch of jazz purists were putting it down. The original is great, but this version is funkier and more melodic, and brought the song to a lot of non-jazz fans who otherwise would have never known of this song. So I say good on them for covering it.
Coltrane -- couldn't agree more, enlightened and illumined, lighting the way.
Youtube comments are generally terrible, but I always have to read them :) funky is funky and music is music and boxes are boxes. Crazy how people react to a cover played by happy people. It does no bad thing to what already exists.
On this one I'm generally the opposite, I rarely read them. The only time I'm generally tempted is when I'm curious about the backup band and the info isn't in the description.
So true, and sometimes covers reveal pearls that were not present in the original -- been think about a music post since last week on that very subject.
Me too, I mostly has to see who the other members of the jazz band are and end up reading all the other crap.