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Does anyone know of anything happening 4th of July weekend? I checked all of the obvious places and didn't come up with much. I'm kind of surprised actually. I figured this would be a big weekend!

I've been getting into two bands from the Matador label lately. Dead Meadow is a pretty heavy band with a good, hard psychadelic sound. The guitar tone is unparralleled in this day and age. Big fuzz and smart use of the wah pedal. You can check out some free mp3s here: Dead Meadow mp3s Pretty Girls Make Graves is the other. A very different sound than Dead Meadow, but just as appealing to me. Check them out here: Pretty Girls Make Graves mp3s While you're there, check out some of the other mp3s they have available for download. Matador has always been a consistent indie rock label. I trust their taste like I trust Blue Note's during the 1950s and 60s!

Also the larger the better. The detail captured in this frame is actually pretty amazing.

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This is an alltime favorite for me.

P.S. I remember my middle school band teacher, Bernedette Spencer, always talking about Coltrane and Miles and Monk. It took me until college to finally follow through, but I finally did it. These kids in Gonzales class are way ahead of the curve! That is good news shrugs!

Congratulations Temple! I still remember my elementary and middle school music teachers very well. Very enthusiastic. It really made an impression on my friends and I. Unfortunately, I thought I was too cool to play in the high school band. As you can tell, my friends had me thinking all wrong. Now I wish I had continued to pursue music. It was an impressionable age.

"impossible" ! Seems like Woody liked to talk! The interviewer didn't have to ask more than a handful of questions to get him going! Thanks for posting this.

I'm liking it myself. I think it is cool to criticize Radiohead these days, as they have been hailed by critics for so long now. They seem to be revisiting some of their older song styles, skipping over The Bends and OK Computer though. I especially like the songs where Thom Yorke is singing in a more natural voice with less whine. Even some acoustic guitar strumming here and there! I'm a fan.

A good cook never reveals his/her recipe for collards and always exaggerates on how long he/she cooks them. All day is better than not. Vinegar is a necessity. Fatback/hamhock/gizzard is also recommended. Yes, they smell like hell, but once you've tasted a good batch, you learn to love that stink!

An absolute favorite. Just as good, if not BETTER(!) than Straight Ahead. Another strong recommendation for Ornette Coleman FREE JAZZ, Abbey Lincoln STRAIGHT AHEAD, Booker Little OUT FRONT, Chico Hamilton COMPLETE DUKE ELLINGTON SUITE. Man, what a spectrum of styles Eric Dolphy was invited to play in. I may be entering another Eric Dolphy stage, thanks to this thread! My wife is going to love the next few weeks...

I remembered two this afternoon. I guess I was trying to think of bands whose new releases I look forward to... Sublime !!! BLind Melon It is a damn shame both of these bands are no more. Every album gets equal play at our house! I would have loved to have heard more. Right now I'm listening to Dead Meadow. Has anyone heard of them? Fucking great!

Not a starting five, but an interesting quintet maybe... Walt Dickerson .:. vibraphone Sun Ra .:. piano, electronic keyboards Andrew Hill .:. piano Jimmy Garrison .:. bass Richard Davis .:. bass Gilmore would be there too, but he wouldn't be unlisted. He would be playing percussion and the occassional reed.

Kevin, I think you got together with Shawn Dudley and Doug. They were both living in Charlotte at the time. I was away for the holiday. Funny, I never got to hang out with Shawn in Charlotte. It took a three day business trip to Dallas to meet the guy! We went out to hear Sangrey play with a couple of keyboard players. It was all improv, but very rigid meter. Never having heard Sangrey play before, this was a great introduction. He is a shapeshifter with his tone and the music was a challenge for him, I think. I remember the keyboard and percussion sounds to be devoid of feeling almost, where Jim's playing was all feeling. An interesting juxtaposition. Do you still play with those guys Jim? Remember it was at that little coffee house?

I had a great time in Dallas, TX a couple years back hanging out at Shawn Dudley's place with Sangrey and Milazzo. I don't know that I will ever have a chance to hang out with these guys again, but I would have loved to have made it a regular thing. We had a good time. I'm meeting Al Jones and Dave (shrugs) in a couple of weeks down in CT. Should be fun. It is funny. Al and I have been talking on the phone, emailing, trading music, etc. for about three years now. He's sent me a jpg of his family, but we've never met face to face. Nonetheless, I feel like we have a true friendship. I'm looking forward to hanging out with him. I also used to hang out with Doug Robinson (ADR) when I lived in Charlotte. Next time any of you are up near Providence, RI let me know! I'd love to hang out! :rsmile:

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I'd like to add something that I listened to last night for the first time in a while. Two discs actually. Bob Moses .:. Nishoma Quite a few cameos on this disc maintain a variety of sounds and Moses' composing/arranging just amazes me. Here I go recommending another drummer that composes music like a pianist! Moses and tap dancer, Jimmy Slyde trio on "Ask Me Now" with trumpeter, Rossen Zahariev to great effect. Complex and multilayered compositions make up most of the disc. I know Moses' ideology isn't that popular with most, but his drumming is second to none. What a sense of swing. Bill Stewart .:. Think Before You Think This is on Evidence. A definite sleeper in my collection. If you ever see this in a used bin, give it a listen. You will most likely end up taking it home with you. This is a great thread. I am going to look for many of these in the near future!

That's true... none of them are eligible voters in the U.S. The title may be a double entendre. Radiohead equipment has been stolen many times. This may be the band's way of thanking the theives over the years that have helped the band continually change their sound. I've also heard "stolen" tracks from the latest album. Sounds a lot like the last two (KID A, Amnesiac). I am looking forward to hearing it nonetheless.

Perry Robinson .:. Funk Dumpling Great playing by all involved (Kenny Barron, Henry Grimes, Paul Motian) plus she'll like the title! Very enjoyable music, and rereleased on CD fairly recently! Hey, if we all join together, we can make middle school clarinetists the coolest kids in school!

I haven't heard any of the later period Larry Young or Big John Patton, so I can't really add anything to this thread other than: I love a lot of avant-garde/free jazz from the era and I love most of the greazy organ music from these two that I have heard. My imagination runs wild. One day this stuff will be available to the common man. I do own Minor Swing and Blue Mode and Les Stances a Sophie and I think they are all great in their own way. Blue Mode is downright Fonky. Minor Swing can seem a little contrived to me at times, but I love the concept. It definitely has its moments! Kenny Wolleson is baaaaaaaaad. For that matter, I love Tommy Derrick's sound on Blue Mode also! Check it out.

I wish Gregg Bendian's INTERZONE album "Requiem for Jack Kirby" was more well known around here. Nathan turned me onto this tribute album a few years back, but I only came across it within the last 8 months or so. This is one of the most fantastic bands I have heard in a long time. Bendian commits to the vibraphone(voracious vibing/cataclysmic composing) for the extent of the album as Nels Cline joins on guitar(spectral plectra), Alex Cline on drum kit(polymorphic percussing), and Joel Hamilton on bass(boomtube bassery). The music attempts to parallel the world that Kirby illustrated for DC Comics. While it is hard to imagine a music that would parallel this world, I assure you Gregg Bendian gave his all to materialize such a sound. The music remains fluid throughout the entire disc and moves somewhat like the music on Eric Dolphy's "Out to Lunch!". This is an excellent disc, obscure and inprint on Atavistic. Gregg Bendian's Interzone .:. Requiem for Jack Kirby Atavistic ALP125CD ONE FINAL NOTE REVIEW

Same here Soul Stream. Unfortunately, most of the albums chosen are not yet in my collection, so I have a hard time participating. I do love to read these threads though!

OTIS. Hands down. Pure soul. OTIS definitely fits right into the soul singer description. He gained a great deal of notoriety in his lifetime and has continued to be recognized as a great, but I still say that he is underrated!

We have Pete Yorn's first disc for Columbia. Reading your taste in rock music, I think you'll like his music. Hey, you might even love it. Good solid rock 'n roll. He is considered a "singer/songwriter" by some as well. Just to give you a ballpark, a few of my friends are big into Uncle Tupelo/Son Volt/Wilco, Ryan Adams, Elliot Smith and the like. They are also fans of Pete Yorn. Don't know anything about the other bands. Who's Foo Fighters?

I like the cover. If I saw this as an LP in the dollar bin, I wouldn't think twice. The cover is so ODD! Paul Jeffrey: Seeing Eye Music. I've never heard Paul Jeffrey before. I will keep the recommendations in mind. Thanks for the tip Late, Lon.