Although he made history in heavy music, the instrumentalist had a bandleader father and a violinist mother
Eric Singer has his name written in the history of heavy music. Not only because of his long passage through Kiss — from 1991 to 1996 and from 2004 until the band’s closure —, as well as for work with Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Lita Ford, Brian May (Queen) and Gary Moore. Out the supergroup Badlands, with musicians who have passed through Sabbath and the backing band of Ozzy Osbourne.
However, its origins have nothing to do with hard rock or heavy metal. The now deceased father of Singer He was also a musician and worked as a bandleader for jazz groups. Generally, he played the saxophone, but he also knew how to play the violin — like his mother, who was still a singer. From an early age connected to the battery, Eric He started playing with his father when he was 14 years old.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the artist’s musical background is relatively broad. He demonstrated this when invited by the magazine gold mine (via website Igor Miranda) to choose the 10 albums that changed his life. Amidst several names linked to rock, such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, the longest-living drummer in the history of Kiss quoted a legendary jazz album: Kind of Blue, released by Miles Davis in 1959.
Initially, Singer admitted that Kind of Blue doesn’t exactly represent the subgenre of jazz that makes your heart skip a beat. However, the work of Davis It’s so good around here that it “forces” you to make an exception.
“I love this album, but when it comes to jazz, I really prefer late ’50s and early ’60s bebop. Now, look, just like we have all these categories and subcategories of genres, I also know that musicians jazz artists do the same thing across the style spectrum. But Kind of Blue it was huge; sold more than 5 million records, even before Miles have your famous quintet.”
Then the final makeup holder of Catman at the Kiss pointed out what he considers to be the great merit of Kind of Blue as a musical work.
“It’s an album that you can put on at any time as background music, sit back, listen and enjoy what’s happening. I love any of his albums. Miles Davis spawned the careers of so many great musicians, and you don’t realize it until you go back and listen to many of his works.”
The Talent of Miles Davis, by Eric Singer
At the end of his statement, Eric Singer highlighted one of the great talents of Miles Davis in general, not just in relation to what was done in Kind of Blue.
“Another thing about him is that he has always been experimental and ahead of the curve. He created these new jazz styles as they developed. It’s interesting to look at all the bands that had people who played with Miles in them and how they all became great.”
One of the most popular jazz albums in history, Kind of Blue brings Miles Davis exploring what is called modal jazz, with music composed based on modes, or scales, instead of chords. This made the sound simpler and more melodic in comparison to the bebop mentioned by Singer previously. And it is for this reason that the drummer comments that he can listen to the album at any time: its more direct sound makes it a good choice at any time, in addition to being highly recommended for getting to know the musical style in question.
Source: Rollingstone
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