02-01-2025, 18:51
John Barlow Jarvis was born on this day in 1954, in Pasadena, California. Classically trained on piano as a child, let’s just say proficient is an inadequate description! Nimble fingers indeed! He appears in the credits of 790+ albums and has performed on releases for Art Garfunkel, Leo Sayer, Ringo, Rod Stewart, Air Supply, John Mayall, Harry Nilsson, Nicolette Larsen, George Strait – the list is endless. Suffice to say, he’s had an illustrious career. He’s won several Grammy's and made six solo records and I dipped into a couple of them. View from a Southern Porch is a title MH might like, despite the fact that everything I’ve heard so far is instrumental.
There’s something heartwarming and very appealing about a lot of his compositions, I think. They could potentially be cheesy but aren’t, kind of thing – and these are positive sounds – filled with ease. Although he spent some decades in Nashville and is associated with many country artists, he has soft (or West Coast) jazz leanings and is not above some electronica. I quite liked what I heard of that too, tinned drums notwithstanding. Hmmm, interesting – not sorry to have loaned my ear to Mr Jarvis today …
"Solving a Dream" from Something Constructive ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4eicGdpoZ4
"A Perfect Rain" - Whatever Works ...
"The Confluence" ... View from a Southern Porch ...
There’s something heartwarming and very appealing about a lot of his compositions, I think. They could potentially be cheesy but aren’t, kind of thing – and these are positive sounds – filled with ease. Although he spent some decades in Nashville and is associated with many country artists, he has soft (or West Coast) jazz leanings and is not above some electronica. I quite liked what I heard of that too, tinned drums notwithstanding. Hmmm, interesting – not sorry to have loaned my ear to Mr Jarvis today …
"Solving a Dream" from Something Constructive ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4eicGdpoZ4
"A Perfect Rain" - Whatever Works ...
"The Confluence" ... View from a Southern Porch ...
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