Welcome to the Show

Hi there,

you've found your way to this blog and maybe the blog-url, the description on the top or the Cti Logo have catched your attention. For those that are familiar with the music blogs, this is the short story:

- I'll post excerpts (usually one track) from Cti-Albums in low quality (128 kb) except if the album is out of print.

- please post your opinion and say thank you if you enjoy this blog

and here is the longer story for the rest:

I'm a huge fan of Cti (Creed Taylor Incorporated), one of a couple of Jazz-labels (Blue Note and ECM come to my mind) that became known for having developed it's own distinctive sound and I'd like to enlighten those that are not familiar with it with this blog. Cti began to take off in the late sixties and early seventies, when both Jazz and Rock greats incorporated electronic/electronically enhanced instruments and musical boundaries where shattered like the Berlin wall. Many of the Jazz-snobs who digged the more concervative 50's/60's Jazz were quite upset and labeled the new Jazz-Styles -especially Cti- quickly as commercial crap (which I still hear very, very often in the jazz Clubs that I visit).
Cti was declared bankrupt in 1978 and reissues are rather sporadic, hence the existence of this blog.

So, what is Cti's music about? Is it funky? Yep. Is it cool? Certainly? Has it Soul? Yes! Let's stop here, I'll let you decide as I friggin hate reviews and flowery terms that try to explain music but usually fail to explain what it is about.

Enough chatter for now


P.s: Some music that I'm going to post has been taken from other blogs and in most cases I don't remember where it was from. If you see that something is from you and you don't want to have it posted here or you want to see you being credited, please let me know and I'll do it asap!