Sublime

played a decisive role in fusing jazz and rock with his seminal 1970 release Bitches Brew,

I remember once, when I was a kid, hearing Johnny Winter singing “Tired of Tryin’ ” with Muddy Waters on guitar, on the Nothin’ but the Blues album, and hearing him sing and liking what I heard and then looking at a picture of him on the album and double-taking, maybe triple-taking, and then wondering what it meant to be black (or white, or albino)

each of the main characters is linked to a unique melodic phrase, each played by a different, easily recognizable instrument. A clarinet signifies the cat, the wolf is a French horn, the bassoon announces the grandfather.

Meeting the man himself, it is hard to believe that such a quiet, calm, and serious individual could be responsible for the frantic ‘sheets of sound’ which emanate from his tenor saxophone, or that such [a] sensitive person could think of his uglier wailings on soprano as beautiful.”

as much as the social organization and the conditions necessary for those soundings to be generated and produced in the first place.