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Seven Klang's Combo is my favorite jazz film too. Saw it in London. Not sure it's every been available in the States.
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For the love of sweet baby Jesus, why do people still use Real Audio files!??!
How to make it really hard for people to listen to your product, Rule #1:
Use non-standard audio files like Real Audio that require the use of specialized playback software.
:angry: I know what you mean--we're about to switch to archiving WFIU shows (including Night Lights) in MP3 format.
Re: EYE, yeah, I got that same e-mail from FSM. How's that Bernstein score for HEAVY METAL?
Huh!? To What are you referring? I was involved in that film and have a copy of the vinyl release of Elmer's score somewhere
(hope I can find it). Have they released a cd of it?
They just sent a copy of the Heavy Metal Score to our office. It contains a very good and extensive liner notes. I've always loved Elmer's score.
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Press passes are pretty easy to obtain. I helped publish a small film magazine in the '60s and we printed very official looking press passes. Since we didn't pay very much we felt obliged to offer them to pretty well any of our writers who wanted one and had the chutzpah to use it. I used mine to get in to the Rock&Roll revival show that turned into Live Peace in Toronto when John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Eric Clapton flew in in from London. I wasn't planning to go to the show till I heard they were on an airplane and planing to perform. I wandered down, flashed my card at the gate and got in just in time to see Alice Cooper.
As I remember it, one of the people using our press pass was Jonathan Demme who was our London correspondent. Can't remember if he ever wrote anything or what he was doing for a living a the time but I think he claimed he got into movies free with it.
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Wow! I went to a dance performance last night that had music by David Lang. I liked the music but the program didn't disclose which pieces were by him. I do have and like the Bang on a Drum performance of Eno's Music for Airports but obviously that's not by Lang.
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I met Heston once at my son's pre-school. He was with his grandson. Introduced himself as Chuck. Fortunately we didn't discuss politics. The first time I ever read the word icon in reference to a person was an article about Heston in the '60s British film magazine "Movie". It was an auterist magazine and I think Pauline Kael once made fun of that reference to Heston back in the days when she was attacking auteurism. (ie Before she decided james Toback was an auteur).
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I agree. Prez's solo on the Shoe Shine alternate is pretty incredible but even here I think they chose the right take to release.
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Yes The Marquee in Soho. Saw The Yardbirds there too. Thought they were going to be a jazz group.
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Wow!! Maybe the Jazz Icon people could put this out with some of the other Al and/or Zoot stuff on this page. BTW Wasn't Ginger Baker a protege of Phil Seamans?
Have any of the Jazz 625 shows been released on DVD? I was present for the taping of one at the Marquis Club. Jimmy Witherspoon IIRC. Maybe Mose Allison. I saw them both that summer (1964) and may be confusing which one was being taped. Maybe both?
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Happy B'day. May you receive a free "get-out of Hell " pass.
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I was in Ottawa working on Pierre Trudeau's campaign to become Prime Minister.
Though I didn't hear it till much later, I find King's final speech ("I have been to the mountain..." ) eerie in that it seems to predict his imminent death.
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Bozzio is in the film "Twins" playing with Jeff Beck. We let Beck pick his own band and he kept raving about how great Bozzio
was.
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Chris: How big is your place? Where do you keep all this stuff?
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I'm impressed. It came with a notes saying that their records showed I had bought The Hampton set, and Disc V had Fiddle Diddle where it should have had Fiddle Dee Dee. They apologized and said there was no need to return the defective disc. Now that's customer service.
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68 was a very good year for rock and R&B.
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I didn't pre-order but as soon as I read here that it as available did so. It arrived yesterday, so there's something wrong if someone who did pre-order hasn't gotten theirs yet. And I'm a long way from the East Coast.
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He played a despicable villian in so many films, did he ever play a 'good guy' ?
Just a couple of weeks ago I watched No Way Out in which he plays a racist two bit hood giving Sydney Poiter a very hard time.
I especially liked him in Pickup On South Street but he was good in everything.
He's a tough, but good cop in Madigan and IIRC he's an unambiguously good guy in Warlock and Two Rode Together.
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I loved Widmark. He was in a lot of good movies that were just seen as programmers when originally released:
Madigan, Warlock, Two Rode Together..... etc. but that have stood the test of time (can't think of anything that's not a cliche).
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Hey don't laugh: Didn't Kid Ory end up at Disneyland? (Maybe I'm wrong-- Chilton doesn't mention it.) I went there once to see Count Basie.
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alocispepraluger102: Is the subject line accurate re: you personally?
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Be sure to try some poutine. It may be like mainlining cholesterol, but it sure tastes good and goes great with beer.
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He did a few cover photos for BN, but also the design for them too.
What about The Basement Tapes? I know that's his photo, is it his design as well?
Well then the costume designer and art director of "I'm Not There" owe him a big shout out: the whole look of the Richard Gere section is based on the cover of The Basemen Tapes
(and the names of most of the characters are from songs on the record).
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I was the first person to vote so for a while it was 100% for Montreal (only 1 vote). I love Toronto but I've always presumed that Montreal was better for tourists. Toronto has better Chinese food but Montreal has Schwartz's for smoked meat.
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I mean, there's really so much there that one would have to know your tastes like you do to make recommendations.
I have a soft spot for free jazz and "improvised music," and there was a lot of really fascinating shit going on in a diverse, worldwide arena just dealing with the "outside." Some of this was by musicians who came up a little earlier, in the '60s, while a lot of it was from cats who really broke onto the scene later.
Of course, without Coltrane alive, things really busted open (in both positive and negative ways) for American saxophonists.
I mean, part of it is that things blew up in the '60s, musically, so people spent the '70s putting it back together in some really interesting ways. (I might be paraphrasing Steve Lacy, Burton Greene or Kent Carter there)
So, not knowing really what you like, I'll just suggest a few of the myrad people/bands that I like who were active in the '70s:
Steve Lacy
Frank Wright/Noah Howard
SUN RA
The Jazz Composers' Orchestra series of LPs (Grachan Moncur III, Clifford Thornton, Roswell Rudd, Don Cherry [tho the 1st of the series was cut in '68])
Loft dudes: Frank Lowe, Charles Tyler, Baikaida Carroll, The Revolutionary Ensemble, Charles Brackeen, etc.
The World Saxophone Quartet (and the bands of the participants: David Murray, Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake, Hamiet Bluiett)
The Art Ensemble of Chicago (and the bands of the participants, esp. Roscoe Mitchell and Lester Bowie)
ANTHONY BRAXTON!!! (+ Muhal, Threadgill, Leo Smith, other AACM figures)
Pharoah Sanders, McCoy Tyner, Alice Coltrane and that crew
John Surman - esp. The Trio w/ records on Dawn, Ogun, JG...
Keith Tippett
Derek Bailey, John Stevens/SME, Evan Parker, Tony Oxley, the Bead Records scene
Graham Collier/Harry Beckett
Peter Brotzmann + the FMP scene
Willem Breuker; the Instant Composers' Pool (tho I think the best Dutch jazz is from the late '60s)
Albert Mangelsdorff
Johnny Dyani
Chris McGregor and The Brotherhood of Breath (and participants with recordings on Ogun and Cadillac)
The Soft Machine (+ recs by Elton Dean and Hugh Hopper)
Don Cherry, Ornette, Cecil Taylor (had a really hot band in the latter part of the decade w/ Lyons, Sirone, Ramsey Ameen and Shannon Jackson)
Eje Thelin, Joachim Kuhn, Rolf Kuhn and the "free fusion" scene
The Norwegians: Terje Rypdal, Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen, etc.
Japan: Yosuke Yamashita, Masahiko Sato, Masahiko Togashi, and "out" cats like Kaoru Abe, Mototeru Takagi, Masayuki Takayanagi, etc.
Well I did see Manglesdorf, Roscoe Mitchell and Cecil Taylor (a couple of times, once right after being at a Steve Reich concert: making for a great weekend of music), but I guess I think of them as being from the 60s.) But I never did get into fusion. Saw the Mahvishnu Orchestra open for Zappa but didn't much care for them. I do like William Breuker but only have a couple of cds. (And I would definitely describe them as "fun".) I forgot that Conference of the Birds is from the 70s. I probably did hear CTI records on the radio but never really cared for any of them.
During the 60s I managed to see Ellington, Miles, Trane, Art Farmer, Woody Herman, Frank Strozier, Earl Hines, Cannonball, Dizzy, Jackie McLean, Sun Ra, Art Blakey, Monk, Oscar Peterson, Brubeck, MJQ, Sonny Rollins, WEs Montgomery, Roland Kirk-- the list goes on. I don't think I heard many people in the 70s who excited me the same way.
To some extent I think it has to do with age: The golden age of any art is always when you're young. Hence most film crtics think the 70s were the golden age of cinema whereas I know it was the 60s. (Can't find the proper emoticon to insert here.)
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Anyone want to elaborate about the "fun" of 70s jazz? I stopped buying many contemporary records after Trane died and Miles went electric. Most of my purchases in the 70s were of records made before I was born (exceptions being new works by Mingus, Gil Evans and of course Ellington). So I'm curious as to what I missed out on.
Nothing. Nothing at all. People started dieing and using electric instruments and messing around outside the lines, shit like that. It was a mess. You were right to ignore it all.
Sorry: this was a serious question. I'm looking over my collection and don't see much from the 70s. I wasn't disagreeing with anyone but admitting to a lack of knowledge. Thought someone would make some recommendations. The trouble with the internet is that people can presume you're being sarcastic when you're sincere. There should be an emoticon that signifies "100% no irony".
During the 70s I did see a couple of great Mingus shows with Don Pullen and George Adams and a couple of Anthony Braxton performances (including a great solo concert) but I tend to think of them as hold overs from the 60s. Ditto with Frank Zappa who I saw several times during the decade. In fact I think I heard a lot more live rock than jazz at that time though I still bought mainly jazz records. I think most of the jazz musicians I did see live tended to be older musicians.
I never did see Sonny Rollins in that period though I caught him a couple of time in the 60s and 80s.
So what did come to the fore in the 70s that I should check out?
Miles - Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
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I don't have the DVD right now (my son took it to college with him) so I can't check: Is the echo on he soundtrack of the film or just on the Lp/cd?