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Simon Weil

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  1. Going back in time 50 years to get this wound up about a Great artist whose best work this ain't just reflects our low opinion of ourselves now.
  2. There's a record by The Grateful Dead, Live Dead, which at one point I was completely obsessed about. I loved the thing (and still do kind of). Yet it never came up to the live performances I had heard. I used to fiddle about with electronics and had a spare, old micro stereo system and I botched up a faux quadrophonic effect with a bit of simple circuitry which created a "new" pair of channels made out of (as I remember it) the stereo channels added together and subtracted from one other. Suddenly I was in the middle of a live concert - and the experience was comparable to what I'd heard. Sacrilege....
  3. My view has been marred by the buzz (3LP Box Set!), which made it out to be A Profound Work. I gave up trying to find the profundity in it and just saw it as a hotch-potch, some of which I liked and most of which I wasn't sure about. And, at that point, I gave up, period.
  4. The original LP was good to listen to on a sunny day.
  5. The tragedy of WW1 is not that it got started but that it just went on and on. No-one took responsibility at the point where trench warfare had become stabilised - when it should have been clear that the war was just a machine for killing people. The propaganda on both sides kept people fired up and the people at the top were afraid to admit they didn't know how to win.
  6. My instinctive reaction to 6 - 0 is they'll get knocked out in the next round. But I confess to being sick of football - and sport in general. Just perverse, I guess.
  7. I had Norton block the site about an hour ago.I looked up Organissimo on the Norton safe search and they gave the site a clean bill of health. So I continued and didn't get the blocking message.
  8. That's the theory - as applied to most people.
  9. Amazon.co.uk however has MP3 downloads (£8.99 and £11.99) which you can order now ("Expected 29 June 2018").
  10. A generic response to Jazz is to hear the improvisation as noodling - the corollary of which is to wish they'd get back to the melody (or "the point"). Anyway I remember hearing it like that - so that a solo which sounded straightforwardly melodic, I remember one by Joony Booth on a McCoy Tyner live album, was extra special. But that's not a question of editing, that's a question of a fusing of a Jazz sensibility and the expectations of the rock listener. The Joony Booth solo was off a double album (Enlightment) - and it just gave me a way into the whole thing.
  11. I was on a scholarly discussion group for a while and one of the big names came on and said (paraphrasing) this is internet discussion and people are going to make mistakes - holding them to a "finished works" standard is over the top.
  12. Well, you know. She has her views. Don't make it right. The above is from the interview Iverson does with her on his website. In it, she also says: "I didn’t like Bud Powell. He played too many notes. I saw him play once in New York, maybe Basin Street or maybe Birdland. But when I went to Europe later I got to see him a couple of times at clubs like in Paris and stuff, and I thought he was sort of mean. A mean person."
  13. A search on Amazon.co.uk brought up a fair number of these: Jazz in Paris (Amazon.co.uk) Most seem not so expensive. But you could have a (used) 75CD box set for £2,152.40.
  14. To me, it has the ring of a journalist being confronted with a piece of information - which may be true or not - that he knows will "grab" readers and who is unable to resist the temptation to put it out there. Which doesn't contradict your take....
  15. I know EOTH and GTF (both on LP). I don't get GTF. EOTH - I do think it has stuff in it, but I feel I'm being strong-armed into treating it as "major statement" - The whole thing about triple LP, box set.
  16. Miles covered Human Nature plus Cyndi Lauper's Time after Time on "You're Under Arrest". I like both - but this is hardly classic Jazz. I also think the originals are both better than Miles' versions. Which should give one pause.There's something not entirely conducive about pop or rock originals to Jazz performances and "standards" are not current (IMO).
  17. For a real relationship between artist and the audience, there needs to be some underlying speaking of whatever concerns the audience and the (in this case) Jazz musician. That is to say the musician must speak of what is going on now and the audience must be prepared to hear it. I think standards are neither here nor there when it comes that.
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