Blogcritics Comments on Music Review: Sam Barsh - I Forgot What You Taught Me

Comment by Lyrics search on Music Review: Sam Barsh - I Forgot What You Taught Me

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:08:29 EDT

Thanks for your share, I will try to listen his songs

Comment by Pico on Music Review: Sam Barsh - I Forgot What You Taught Me

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:45:13 EDT

The early, pre-smooth jazz period was about the time I first heard Lorber. Back then his melodic lines were a lot trickier and did a lot of metre-shifting. Heavily derivative of the Hancock Head Hunters and Chick Corea Return To Forever stuff that was still popular with fusion-heads at the time, but with a bit more emphasis on grooving over wankery. That won't give him a lot of points for originality, but there were far worse role models he didn't emulate. Lift Off and Water Sign are the best of that period.

Comment by Mark Saleski on Music Review: Sam Barsh - I Forgot What You Taught Me

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:27:49 EDT

so it's Jeff Lorber, the pre-Poodle Years that should be investigated?

Comment by Pico on Music Review: Sam Barsh - I Forgot What You Taught Me

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:26:16 EDT

Yeah, Lorber's artistic decline roughly coincided with the addition of a certain sax player into his band. *ducks and runs*

Comment by Mark Saleski on Music Review: Sam Barsh - I Forgot What You Taught Me

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:21:59 EDT

i have to admit that i've never listened to any of his stuff....for the obvious reasons.

Comment by Pico on Music Review: Sam Barsh - I Forgot What You Taught Me

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:19:46 EDT

I probably should have clarified that to mean that Barsh recalls the seventies version of Lorber, which is some pretty interesting stuff. But Lorber is still kind of a guilty pleasure for me, as I've already mentioned on my guilty pleasures piece some time back.

Comment by Mark Saleski on Music Review: Sam Barsh - I Forgot What You Taught Me

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:02:37 EDT

you said "Lorber"...eweee!!! ;-)