that was proper fun

What an absolute gift to fans of Jean Luc. Thank you Andy for putting this together and, indeed asking great questions and allowing space for the answers. Back in the late 70s when I first discovered Jean Luc Ponty, it was all mixed together in my collection with progressive rock, etc. 1968-1980something was a special time for music for sure. Jean Luc’s statement about maintaining creative control at Atlantic, since the listening public was buying those albums, was very interesting. It’s kind of obvious, but having ENOUGH sales created a sustaining loop that allowed for more adventurous music to be recorded. Alot of that ended when the listening public became interested in other musical styles.

Zappa's Roxy era group is far more impressive than any prog band I've heard. Yes, with Bruford, comes somewhat close.

6 adds after 5 minutes? Nope. KZbin is going too far.

Sticky Fingers is a superior album to exile

Agree with many of these, but Quo live at the Apollo is head and shoulders above most of these great records - at least top three with my rational head on, clearly number 1 when I let my heart rule.

that yes cover is worst album cover of all time.

I think the proggiest album is yessongs. and the Roger Dean artwork in the gatefold sleeve is great too.

PINK FLOYD?? You mean ENSLAVED!!!!!!

on these albums, it seems to me, that Anderson changed his singing style to mostly chanting. there's a lot of slow ritualistic chanting. I prefer the earlier stuff. I don't get Awaken either. I wonder if beefheart's mirror man sessions or even trout mask could be considered prog.

What do think is the connection of rock bands + drugs, booze, dark magic? I have my own theory. But i dont want to put bad ideas into the heads oof misguided,impressional youth (as i was) that might read this.

Bon Jovi = Turned metal into "hair metal" which was just hard rock for the bad girls. 😂 Dont get me wrong. At the time, loved those bad girls....like SO many of them! 😂

You forgot The Spice Girls.

love it!!! SO MUCH TRUTH IN THI VIDEO!!!

What about a metal album?? Ie; british steel, nalla to the wall.. the whole black sabbath/ purple (machinehead?!!)/ budgie, etc genre has split into HUNDREDS of different subgenres- like death, prog, grind black +& 2, and my fave is extreme blackened avante garde, and the early stuff...

Sorry man but I cant take you as a serious person after stating your opinion of Peart. It lacks reality.

if you take zeppelin song by song then overall they aren't that great. there's a lot of filler starting with their fourth album. but I don't care for songs that are one ok riff over and over and over. presence is downright boring.

I love this room

Fantastic! You covered some very obscure stuff too, Warm Dust, Back Door, ZZEBRA. Not many Jazz Rock fans know of the catalogues of these bands. About 2 decades ago, I started going country by country exploring the genre, I stay only within the 1970 to 1981 time period. There's huge catalogue of great, great music from France with Zeuhl, Canada, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy. So much obscure great Jazz-Rock that came out from the world over. I can't get enough of this stuff.

Thriller had either 90 songs, or 90 writers throw thier songs into the hat for this album. As far as guitar, Mr Van Halen and Steve Lukather play on it... Huge project, which was not allowed to fail...

You can experience the terrible decline in popular music in the phenomenon of bands continuing long after their heyday is gone. The Rolling Stones are the greatest example of this. Hell, I took my daughter to a Foreigner concert this past summer and found that none of the original members were participating! I paid $300 for seats I couldn't sit in because everybody was standing for the entire concert - and it was literally just a cover band!

I would add Kurt Weill, Django Reinhardt and Jaques Brel.

Jazz isn't dead, but I think it's boring.

This is just a manufactured narrative rant designed to sell your channel, no different than the monkees

I've often wondered what Mariah Carey would sound like if she just played it straight. They all want to be Aretha franklin.

Two things. Well, three. Digitization. Death of radio. The pervasiveness of radical leftist politics in the musical world.

I don’t anything about music theory but love this LP!

Jesu, what a whinger!

Awesome video. You continually crack me up and inform as well. Rick is definitely doing the grumpy old man thing here. "When I was a kid, I walked 5 miles to school, through the snow, in BARE FEET!!!" But it would be a shame to lose the skillset needed to professionally record music. We don't want it to die away.

I agree that music education is rubbish. One of the worst tasks I got set was a Coldplay song arrangement in a country style. Or events management module where I carried some amps to a venue to pass. My contention is with your framing of elitist as a negative word. It reminds me of the tax the rich, or the world’s problems are due to lack of funding argument. I feel education would be far improved if it was left for those who worked the hardest. I say that as a self taught working class guitarist, who strives to become considered the elite.

I disagree with Layla, you are boring

great news on the studio 👍

Great interview Andy,i was lucky enough to see Jean Luc Ponty several times in 1973 with Frank Zappa who gave him lot's of extended solo's and again in 1974 a couple of times with the Mahavishnu Orchestra and a few years later with his own band his playing was unbelievable one of the best original exciting violinist's in the world.

I am guardedly optimistic about some of these developments, there was such an explosion in musical development in the 1960s. Paul Bley, the great jazz pianist who played with everyone from Charlie Parker to Ornette Coleman to forming the Jazz Composers Guild in New York to touring with a modular Moog in 1968 to ECM and playing with Metheny and Pastourius made an observation that the late 50s to 60s encompassed at least three musical developments that should have taken at least a decade each to develop- modal jazz, free playing and the introduction of electric and electronic instruments with sustain (add minimalism if you like). (The only comparable period of music in which so much happened at once was around 1900 to 1926 with the transition to serialism, multiple rhythms, dissonance in Western classical music (and the blossoming of non-western European music by many composers). I think when you have so much rapid development occurring organically (and sometimes at the record companies' request) , there is sort of a reaction--getting back to the real thing! I actually saw this in the 1970s. Free players were really interested in making sure that the new players knew all aspects of the history of jazz. The difference was, more players were interested in playing all types than is readily apparent now. When you standardize a curriculum, inevitably you end up sterilizing the past. Marsalis has, for instance, covered Ornette Coleman (who, btw, won a Pulitzer, so he is establishment legit!) There has also been a new spirituality movement which is more akin to free jazz. I don't think jazz is dead or even boring, but when you force conformity and rules, music does become boring. I think we are seeing the results of this emphasis on rules showing its full flower now. When folks figure out there is a different way to do something, the music will become less uniform. But that also means programmers and stores need to start stocking jazz records. I actually saw A Love Supreme recently at my local Walmart. There is SOME hope out there. (By the way, I know the Bley developments started in the 50s, even earlier, but the record market was glutted in the 1960 and 70s... and EVERYTHING was thrown at the audience all at once... and almost everywhere. It was overwhelming!

Timeless is unbelievable but after that, meh.

Every video is yours is an education ... No need to go music school... Your videos are more than enough.

Andy you are a good teacher. with a great approach to teaching.

Julian Lage is a God! Blasphemer!

I haven't watched yet but Pat Metheny better not be on this list!

Life Is A Highway by Tom Cochrane

1. Aqualung 2. Thick As A Brick 3. Passion Play 4. Living In The Past 5. Stand Up 6. Stormwatch 7. This Was 8. Benefit 9. Heavy Horses 10. Rock Island 11. Songs From The Woods 12. Too Old To Rock and Roll Too Young To Die 13. Warchild I hate ranking albums because some songs on some of the low ranked albums are still classics.

Don't forget Roy Orbison

move on alone

i thought the topic of this video was going to be about the clone wars. 😬 glad i clicked on it. very philosophical talk ☝️ dude 🙏 highly intellectual 👉🔥 great thinking 🥸 thanks very much for all you do. love your channel 👍

I don't like the posh studio. You come off as a different person in there, and it doesn't seem as authentic.

'Jazz' is far too often about how a certain tone sounds over a chord and not about what you do with it. I started jazzguitar lessons this year. During the first lesson my teacher was improvising, after he stopped i asked, to my own surprise: and, did you get them all? Ooh he said, ill try to play more melodically now. I wondered: what makes a melody? It seems that (good) non jazzplayers do more with lesser notes, contrary to jazzers who tend to do less with a lot notes. When you get bored with simple soulfull music go study mathematics. It takes heart to play less and.... listen to how it sounds

Andy, Andy Andy...you glorious beast of a man you. Thanks for this superb guest.

players that have the skills to play Jazz, , go through the motion of the charts and the real book, not always but very motivated by money. Sometimes there is more creativity by hanging around with less skilled players....😅

Some good points are raised. If you view jazz as mainly a loose culture with a strong attitude, then lot of inclusions are possible. Like many though, I view it as depending on a special rhythmic feel, one which inverts the beat of all the music which came before, adds tons of syncopation, and produces that swing feel which no other genre has. Arguably, it was born from mixing ragtime, blues, spirituals, marching music and afro dance rhythms. Certainly, most of the early jazz makes you want to move your feet in (what used to be) outrageous ways. Improvisation is an almost mandatory element of jazz, but jazz can be played without it. It follows that jazz isn't really defined by improvisation, especially considering that improvisation is common to other genres, most of which are rhythmically incompatible with jazz. If we abandon the core upbeat/swing argument, the word jazz will come to mean everything and nothing.

This is nonsense what a fool 😢