If you listen closely and if you investigate BB's working methods, you realize that he was very intentional about pushing the envelope. He did create breakthroughs in popular music and miraculously to a large audience. To be frank, the scope of his achievements on that score dwarf something like the sixties Miles quintet. There is always a lot of experimental and revolutionary music going on away from the so-called and self-appointed"creative" music world. Burt Bacharach is not the exception to any rules. He's typical of something else. skip h on 11/11/03 8:35 AM, Patrice L. Roussel at proussel@ichips.intel.com wrote:
But why "The Experimental Side"? This is maybe what makes Bacharach (and many others) so important. They show (for those of us who were too infatuated with the sirens of experimentation to even realize it) that great music meaning a lot to a lot of people does not have to create breakthroughs.
There is a lot of great music to be done without extended techniques or a laptop :-).
Patrice.