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12 hours ago, felser said:
Oh yeah, he can definitely still bring it when he wants to. The reunion concert with the original group is fabulous.
I also heard that Santana put on a great show at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest.
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On May 6, a blogger named Aslan Sagutdinov was arrested for holding a blank poster in a public square in Uralsk, Kazakhstan…
The blankness of the poster is comparable to the statement that John Cage made in his famous work 4’33” (1952) when he allowed the listeners to interpret a perceived silence.
https://hyperallergic.com/500658/man-arrested-in-kazakhstan/
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the Woodstock 50 team announced that it has enlisted the help of Oppenheimer & Co. to complete financing for the three-day event to take place in August.
https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/woodstock-50-is-back-on-maybe.html
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15 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:
Also Bud Powell being beat on the head by the police.
If we include violence on jazz musicians, there's also Anita O'Day's description of being raped (in her memoir High Times Hard Times, p. 172). You can read the description in Google Books.
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Someone needs to write a biography of Jimmy Giuffre.
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If you stop in Austin, check out Waterloo Records. Every time I go there, I get the impression that the vinyl section has expanded.
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Did Gustav Mahler take the A Train?
Most likely, he took the Ninth Avenue Line, which is now defunct, but went to Harlem like the song popularized decades later by Duke Ellington. During his New York years (1908–11), Mahler is reported to have missed his 72nd Street stop and didn’t know it until he hit 140th Street.
https://www.wqxr.org/story/gustav-mahler-take-a-train-new-york-philharmonic/
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Speaking of Buddy Miles, the Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! album needs to be remastered and remixed and re-everything else!.
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16 hours ago, felser said:
Santana even had some interesting work as late as 1992's "Milagro", but nonetheless he went off a high cliff after "Welcome",
I would say Greg Walker was Santana's best vocalist, and Walker appeared after "Welcome".
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My apologies if this has already been posted:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/buddy-guy-is-keeping-the-blues-alive
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Looks like it is 55 hours of unseen footage
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/peter-jackson-directing-happier-doc-163519113.html
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21 hours ago, Scott Dolan said:
Just saw a post on The Beatles Facebook page this morning about Peter Jackson putting together a documentary about the Let It Be sessions using 18 hours of recently discovered video.
I say make the entire 18 hours available to the public.
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8 hours ago, chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez said:
- Roxy Music--fantastic to see this and hope this leads to some sort of reunion
A reunion with Brian Eno
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An essay that dives deep into something about the early days of computer music in the United States - it got its start, quite literally, in the off-hour downtime of the military-industrial complex:
https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/automation-divine-early-computer-music-and-the-selling-of-the-cold-war/
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If I remember correctly, Friedrich Gulda's "Fugue" is in the first half of Keith Emerson's "Piano Improvisations" (in the "Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Never Ends" 3-LP Emerson, Lake and Palmer album)
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2 hours ago, felser said:
Details below from the Real Gone Music newsletter email:
Coltrane (who adopted the name Turiyasangitananda or Turiya for short by the end of her tenure at Warner Bros.)By the end of the tenure? She's Turiya Alice Coltrane on the album (Illuminations) that she recorded with Carlos Santana. The album appeared around September 1974.
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“…But what if the story that so many of us lean on to prove that classical music can be, in a word, “crazy,” is just that — a story? Because there’s a very good chance the Rite riot never happened. And if that’s the case, then how did we begin to believe it?...”
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A 22-year-old bassoonist was in a church parking lot in the town of Springfield sitting on his trunk and playing scales while waiting for a rehearsal to start, when he was slowly approached by police wearing bulletproof vests. It seems a nearby citizen, worried by mass shootings in the news and unfamiliar with large double-reed instruments, had called 911. Said the young man, "In the right kind of light, it looks like a bazooka, but I don't think it was the right kind of light." Fortunately, the police giggled, and did not throw the bassoonist to the ground or worse.
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In the middle of a recent article on Margo Guryan, there is this comment on Brookmeyer: “Her first husband, jazz musician Bob Brookmeyer, was a prime example of someone trodden over by agents, managers and the rest, she said.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/margo-guryan-music-industry_us_5aa16fd0e4b0e9381c16951b
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If you have not heard the following already:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/29/health/brain-on-jazz-improvisation-improv/index.html
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On 03/27/2018 at 11:30 PM, CJ Shearn said:
As much as I dig Santana albums like "Lotus", he doesn't bring much of value when talking about jazz much. I saw it back on Netflix and enjoyed it.
I agree that Santana’s statements could have been left out of the documentary, but, on the other hand, Santana has for more than a decade told people about John Coltrane. Today there probably are some people who have listened to Coltrane at least once simply because they heard Santana mention Coltrane. Every few years there seems to be less people who listen to jazz, and anyone who can motivate people to listen to jazz (and Coltrane) is ok with me.
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On 11/12/2017 at 4:48 PM, JSngry said:
Also - JIMMY GIUFFRE. That Resonance(?) set of a few years ago, pay attention if not already done, Jimmy Giuffre being there for this was no accident.
Who believes that Giuffre's "being there" was an "accident"? In a 1964 article about the October Revolution in Jazz, the student newspaper of Columbia University published this comment about GIuffre:
Jimmy Guiffre [sic] is one of the leaders and masters of the new element of jazz which is actually an experiment in sound. He performed alone on clarinet, and everyone listened…I am sure no one could have predicted what would follow, but today Jimmy Guiffre stands straight, closes his eyes, and then clicks the keys of his horn, plays two (and occasionally three) tones simultaneously, plays without his mouthpiece, plays the mouthpiece alone, squeals, roars, groans, whispers and rumbles. All the debates about whether such sound experiment is still music are worthless. Guiffre prefaced his playing by saying that he was "not a Subversive," that everything he did was "between me and the stick and the maker." He forgot to mention the audience. It is evident that this will not be the pop music of any tomorrow.
Who's totally misreading the market?
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Throughout the last 10 years or more, I have several times given as a gift the 2001 Impulse CD John Coltrane Spiritual.