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Joe Puma, YES! Great, lyric guitarist, played a piece at Bill Evans's funeral that was surreal in its beauty - I remember it well more than 20 years later - Al Gaffa - worked with Dizzy, Al Haig - Tiny Moore (played with Bob Wills, and could really play bebop) - Junior Barnard (also played with Wills - first rock and roll guitarist, in my opinion, used distortion in 1945!) Joe Cinderella - great and adventurous stuff with Gil Melle -
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Am I the only one that gets my own joke here? (Just confirms that I AM getting old) -
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that's the one - I don't have it, but was curious about how Woods sounded on it -
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I recall Xanadu putting out an LP with one side of "live" Woods, ca. 1956 (?) - anybody have this?
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Anybody mention Bob Mover? One of the greatest, in my opinion - and how about Jaki Byard? He played very nice alto - and Boots Musulli - and let's not forget THE DEMON -
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I hope Joe Maini is in there -
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I thought Latin jazz referred to the Romans -
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Larry Kart's jazz book
AllenLowe replied to Larry Kart's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
that'll work - I'll either pick it up used or go to the library - -
People are probably going to disagree with me here, but I would say stay away from the Armstrong set because the sound is MUCH better elsewhere - get the old Columbia LPs, the old gatefold Armstrong LP - and hear this music in incredible sound - the box is OK, but the earlier LP issues are superior - not to mention that there is audible digital distortion at the beginning of Weatherbird in the boxed set! This is inexcusable -
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European Origins of A New Jazz
AllenLowe replied to garthsj's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
would you like fries with your mutton? -
I tried, but the damn laser beam keeps shining in my eye - and the guys at the airport don't like it either -
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European Origins of A New Jazz
AllenLowe replied to garthsj's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
Hey, isn't British "jazz" a little bit like British "food?" In other words, an oxymorn - (hey, really, I'm just kidding) -
Larry Kart's jazz book
AllenLowe replied to Larry Kart's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
Hey Larry, is there anyway you can post that Oxford Companion piece? -
Well, let's check out the daily schedule for WDNA (off of the web site): "12 Noon-1PM: LunchTime Special:Bebop Meringue with Mr. Mambo 1-2 PM: Clave 'Til You Drop 2-3: Baraka Does the Cha Cha: Latin Music and the Avant Garde" 3-4: Salsa on the Sauce: Latin Bar-room Classics 4-5: Siesta with Kenny G: Sleep Through the Hits 5-6: Tito Puente Meets Tito Jackson 6-6:15: Actual jazz 6:16: Sign Off" - does seem a little heavy on the Latin stuff -
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also, I meant to say, just cuts 2 and 4 -
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I don't think he plays badly, but there is a certain buoyancy missing, as there is on the 1954 recordings with George Handy - he certainly plays MUCH better on the Uptown than on Handyland, it just seems that some of the life has gone out of his playing - and hey Chuck, where that's Town Hall Charlie Parker?
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Apparently the Charlie Paker watch appears to run a little bit fast, but actually keeps perfect time -
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European Origins of A New Jazz
AllenLowe replied to garthsj's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
As I mentioned, I knew Mike years ago, he's a good and intelligent guy, and this could be an interesting work. The main problem is something I see in a lot of theory-based works (purusant to what Simon Weil has written, above): in many of these books I find that the theory is presented and than the examples given to support, which is fine, but that the writers tend to overstate, as there are ALWAYS exceptions, many many (unmentioned) exceptions (I've been reading Simon Frith's book on rock and roll and he is especially guilty of this). It is as though they set up an ideological/theoretical construct and feel bound to defend it and ignore anything that contradicts. This is an occupational hazard, I fear; I look forward to the book that simply (or not-so-simply) engages the Euro musician and his/her work, without having to prove it is utterly unique or part of a specific trend or isolated or outside of Afro-historical parameters or whatever other boxes such points of view tend to squeeze them into. Having said that, well, he does have to deal with peer review and that does entail a certain amount of intellectual posturing. -
European Origins of A New Jazz
AllenLowe replied to garthsj's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
Good premise which will probably be an interesting book when dealing with the music and the musicians, less so when he starts digging into the theorists that he mentions (though, from an academic perspective, he probably has no choice); also I would disagree somewhat with: "Whereas earlier American influences, both white and black, inspired imitation of the actual music, those of the free jazz pioneers mentioned above inspired emulation of the musical gesture: as African Americans had mastered jazz's Western premises to turn them to the service of Afrocentric expressions and aesthetics, so would the new generation of European jazz musicians master those (in free jazz, virtually exclusively) African-American premises" this is a gross oversimplification, especially considering the whole picture of 20th century atonality and polytonality. -
With Woods I wonder if it's a kind of warped technical mastery - sometimes you can play so much that you lose your editing capability. Another possibility might relate to something Barry Harris said to me once, which was that when Bird died a lot of players seemed to lose their way musically (and otherwise), so dependent were they on Bird and on his the next record, and so rudderless did they feel without him (we were talking specifically about Al Haig's 1950s problems, but Harris thought they applied to quite a few musicians) - I think there very well may be something to this, given the timing of Woods's decline.
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Do We Even Need Jazz Critics?
AllenLowe replied to medjuck's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
SUV or compact? -
I'd like just side 2 of the Teagarden -
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well, listen to Armstrong at that Ellington session - eg; It Don't Mean a THing - complete re-birth - I'm in agreement on Zoot, who I always admired but never really LIKED all that much - but than there are many players like that - also, can't stand Phil Woods's playing - too much on automatic - like a bebop windup toy -
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European Origins of A New Jazz
AllenLowe replied to garthsj's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
also, it's misleading to say that Euro jazz musicians ONLY found their voices post-free jazz - what about Django? Jutta Hipp? Lars Gullin? Kenny G? -
European Origins of A New Jazz
AllenLowe replied to garthsj's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
I knew Heffley years ago, and he's a bright guy, but my hackles tend to raise when I see "Until the 1960s American jazz, for all its improvisational and rhythmic brilliance, remained rooted in formal Western conventions originating in ancient Greece and early Christian plainchant," as these statements strike me as unprovable and uncertifiable in that charming, academic way.