If a piece is titled CARROTBRAID EVERSMILE, can you expect it to be anything else than oh so happy background pop?

Well I suppose it can be opposite humour and contain some horrible death metal.

And it is!

Not!

There’s only a handful of guitar players of who you can say that there’s before and after him/her. Or I guess you can say it about anyone, but that’d be just silly.

Anyway, there’s definately before and after Jimi Hendrix. And I’m sure that most of you out there agree. That “hendrisque” style of playing is just as relevant today as it was fifty years ago. And difficult.

Plus, hendrisque is a nice sounding word. Like pythonesque or dalisque.

Anyway 2, NEVER RUNNING W is konganesque interpretation of hendrisque guitar playing.

Unlike in many other cases, in jazz, mainstream isn’t a derogatory term. It’s perfectly legit to describe something as mainstream jazz.

So, here we go: IVES GOT CLASS is mainstream jazz!

Overall it’s a pretty basic tune, with coolness and hip and all.

And remember folks: “Jazz is not dead it just smells funny.”

It seems that we’re on the brink of new age, again. Yeah, I should bring my categories up to date…

Perhaps five o clock in the summer.

FARER is clouds passing by, soft burbling of a brook and a nice grove with pretty flowers.

Getting all sentimental here.