Shades

I put Dayna Manning‘s CD back into my car player today, and was struck by how quickly her songs had become not just familiar, but comfortable, as if I’d been listening to them for years. Oddly, most of the (few) other groups I’ve had that experience with have been ones I’ve only discovered recently: Sirens, The Great Uncles of the Revolution, and the exception that continues to prove every rule, Lenni Jabour and The Third Floor.

I’ve also decided that when it comes to recent music, objective genres such as jazz, rock, folk, country, etc. mean very little. The closest general term I can come up with is fusion, which has its own semantics in the biz. Really, there are only two very subjective categories that matter, and they’re ones that can’t be easily defined: stuff I like and stuff I don’t.