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  2. Tri-Axium Writings excerpt - Vol. 1: World Music

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    I've been trying to get a copy of the writings for a while...

    Have you tried here?

    Does anyone here have the full three volumes of the TAW? It seems like the thing I need to have, but it would probably sit on the shelf. I've done a similar thing collecting what has been translated of the Gramsci Prison Notebooks (3 Volumes, 8 Notebooks worth so far). They are definitely collecting dust, but I still want em.

    How about Leo Smith's self-published 1973 Notes (8 pieces) source a new world music: creative music. Anybody here (Chuck?) have a copy of this? Is it available somehow?

  3. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    Last night:

    Sonny Rollins - Twofer compilation on Prestige. Music is from early 50s sessions. Cover image is from his Taxi Driver photo shoot.

    It's been awhile since I saw Taxi Driver. Is that Rollins playing on the soundtrack, though? I remember being in high school and digging the sax on the theme. Is that theme on your twofer, and if not, is it available on LP/CD?

  4. New Ran Blake

    in New Releases

    Posted

    He would be the perfect Mosaic project for many of us, but they know they could not broadly monetize it (per MC). They should however consider some one-off editions, say the Blue Potato Milestone LP.

    I got that Blue Potato LP for 6 bucks at a local store a year ago. I'd like to hear the Horo LP, Open City. Imagine if they had a complete Horo Records Mosaic like the Commodore set! I know it's impossible, but one can dream.

  5. Sunny Murray and BAG

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    Just googling the Murray album for more info I found this. Regarding only issuing vinyl rather than cds of these albums, check out this little debate between Eremite and the bloggers on a site that had a rip of the Sunny Murray album posted.

    I linked to the site because they took off the link for the download. Moderators, if you want to remove this because it makes you uneasy, please do so.

  7. musicians playing an ENTIRE session NOT on their primary instrument

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    According to AMG, Jaki Byard plays tenor sax throughout on Herb Pomeroy's LIFE IS A MANY SPLENDORED GIG... can anyone here confirm?

    Yes , keyboard duties in that band were handled by Ray Santisi .

    Thanks. Very curious to hear this Pomeroy session...

    Don't have the album anymore (one of those that mysteriously evaporated at some point in my life) but recall liking it a good deal. On the other hand, I have no memory of any Byard tenor solos on it (all the tenor solos IIRC were played by ringer Zoot Sims), though there is a fine Byard chart on his piece "Aluminum Baby" (based on you know what). Also no longer have (for the same mysterious reason) its successor, "Band in Boston," on United Artists, which was also very good, though I do have the CD reissue of the Irene Kral-Pomeroy album "The Band and I."

    Incidentally, I was reading John Litweiler's excellent book The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 recently, and Jaki Byard is referred to in Chapter 10 as a "pianist-altoist." I noticed since then that Byard plays alto in On The Spot! (Prestige), but does he play alto in any other albums? I haven't heard his tenor or alto playing but am really curious to do so. Did he play anything else in the saxophone family?

  17. Autotune and Chopped n Screwed Hip Hop Music

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Kanye West (on "808 and Heartbreak") has done what might have previously seemed impossible - He used autotune as an instrument, not "fixing" his vocals per se, but actually using it to make his singing simultaniously more emotive and paradoxically less human. T-Pain certainly uses the autotune to good effect, but the fact is that he CAN sing without it. Kanye turned what might have been an awkward album into an excellent album through his creative use of the device.

    True. Off the top of my head, though, I can't think of any T-pain singing without it. I don't own his albums, so I've really just heard his singles. He rapped before really delving into the autotune thing, but when did he sing without it? Any recommendations?

  18. Autotune and Chopped n Screwed Hip Hop Music

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Oh yeah.

    Zapp and Roger were doing the same kind of thing in the 80s, interesting to see it come to light again. In a BIG way. You can't turn around without hearing T-Pain on a record in the pop world anymore.

    Nice. I'm listening to Zapp and Roger now in "More Bounce To The Ounce" in a funk compilation from 1980. I guess that is a slightly different technology--a talk box. So it is probably more musical because it is put through a guitar or keyboard that you actually have to play. With autotune you don't have to sing/play in tune at all. Definitely similar appeal anyway.

  19. Autotune and Chopped n Screwed Hip Hop Music

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    It's really easy to be hip and automatically put down artists who use autotune, especially those that use it for correcting their pitch. That was definitely my immediate reaction when this started to become a trend. But does anyone here have any fondness for some of the stuff that has been done with it, in commercial mainstream hip hop? I have to say, I have a weakness for the occasional T-Pain tune. I really think autotune is being manipulated in funky ways. I may be single-handedly killing my reputation here, but I kind of think T-Pain is the fucking man. His shit is catchy. What about the Kanye album? Lil Wayne is kind of huge now because of it. Is it all bad, or is there some inherent quality in autotune. The same goes for some of the stuff that is chopped n screwed. Anybody (that isn't tripping on Robitussin) like DJ Screw or Mike Jones?

    How about this controversial analogy for the future of autotune: piano is to B3 organ as vocals is to autotune.

    I'm not sure I actually stand by any of this, haha. But I thought it would spark an interesting discussion.

  20. Music Stores You Like to Go To

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    I live right near a dusty old record store called The Jazz Quarter in the Sunset district of SF, and its eccentric one person staff named Tom has been a challenging influence for my dive into the history of Jazz. Through him, I've been hipped to events like Larry Vuckovich at the Piedmont Piano Store and the Dogpatch Saloon. He's the type of guy that doesn't say hello or involve himself in any sort of stop-and-chat, but every time I enter the store, he plays obscure records specifically based on my taste from what he remembers me buying the last time I came in. When pushed, he gives me a thorough lecture filled with personal stories. I love that place.

    Is that the one on 20th near Irving?

    Yup.

    I'll have to remember that one. I didn't know about it. I may be coming into SF Friday or Saturday. I'll make an effort to stop in and check it out.

    Don't get too excited because the hours are extremely erratic, and it is just one guy's operation, but I think technically it is supposed to be 1pm to 6pm Tues.-Sat.

    Tom from the Jazz Quarter was just featured in yesterday's SF Chronicle!!

  23. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    Anthony Braxton - Donna Lee - (America orig)

    Playing the CD now. I think I like this firt tune more than his stuff on the Charlie Parker Project. Braxton is such a genius.

    I guess after a little research "Donna Lee" is actually a Miles Davis composition, although I've always associated it with Bird. Does that track on the LP also end abruptly? I know it has been discussed in the Free America thread that it happens on everyone's CD, but is that the case on the vinyl too?

  25. Stella by Starlight

    in Musician's Forum

    Posted

    While instrumentalists seem to still play it - I wonder why singers today - even those that do a lot of standards from this era - never sing this song? Corny lyrics? any guesses.

    First you've got to have a man singing it.

    Second, they're hard lyrics for a male singer to bring off and not sound lame. To sing those words effectively you need to put your heart and soul into giving them meaning. Ray Charles did it.

    Third, no male singer with any sense would want to have their version compared with Ray Charles', which is definitive.

    MG

    Why does a man have to sing it? iirc Ella Fitzgerald sang it, and so did Anita O'Day. Jazz shouldn't have to live by the laws of heteronormativity.

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