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  1. Now reading...

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Brad said:

    Amazing book. 

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    This is a reimagining of the Huckleberry Finn story as told by Jim the slave, but with significant differences. It’s a terrifically good book. To those who are not all that familiar with how enslaved people were treated this will be an eye opener. 

    That's been getting a lot of coverage here in the UK too. Some interesting interviews with Everett. Definitely on my 'to read' list

  5. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

    From @dougcrates too, who I noticed posted it.

    What's your view? Strong? Weak? Interesting? Go back to tenor please? Team Andre3000? 

    I've only had one listen myself and thought it had depth, deserving of more listens, but possibly not quite the full deal. Perhaps too in love with the calming potentialities of the flute. Maybe it gradually opens though. I like Hutchings a lot and this is an interesting facet to him.

    That's pretty much my take too. First and only listen for me too. Somehow I tend to like the ideas behind his music more than their execution and this is the same. I like the premise of ditching the saxophone soo definitely to take on a new direction. 

    This has more immediacy than the Andre 3000 album(s) I think, more complete in conception and execution. It suffers a little from having too many different players which means it doesn't quite sit together as a whole though. An album of the Moran quarter would have been very 8nteresting. I like the vocal input more than I thought I would

    That said it's very listenable and I think will merit return listens. But I will still go to Yamamoto when I want to hear shakuhachi.

  9. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    Primary

    Kayhan Kalhor And Toumani Diabaté - The Sky Is The Same Colour Everywhere [RealWorld, UK 2023]

    Stunning

    followed by first listen to

    Primary

    Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace [Impulse, 2024]

    1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

    Yeah, I have that one too. Gaslini was an utterly fascinating musician and composer, kind of reminds me of an Italian George Russell. That being said, not all of his records -- or at least those that I have -- blow me away but I'm usually quite interested in what he put out there, regardless of the end result.

    I love 'Nuovi Sentimenti', and others I have always have enough interest to them to survive successive collection culls.  The discography is such that I never can get an overview of it though, a real grasp.

  10. What music did you buy today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

    I just pre-ordered this LP from Dusty Groove:

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    I've wanted to have a physical copy of this for years.  :) 

    I first heard it after downloading the music from the Magic Purple Sunshine blog.  Remember that?!? . . .  Along with this Eddy Louiss LP, that blog provided me with my first discovery of Martial Solal's music (and many others as well).  Before streaming and before Discogs, downloading from blogs was pretty much the only way one could hear the majority of the MPS catalog (particularly if you lived outside of Europe).  Aside from a few titles issued on PAUSA or Verve, it was almost entirely unavailable.

     

    Nice one, such a good album and such a good feeling when you snag a long sought after

  12. Robert Glasper

    in Artists

    Posted · Edited by mjazzg

    Glasper's a fine Jazz musician on the evidence of the few times I've seen him live.

    His music has always been informed by contemporary R&B and Hip Hop since his earlier albums and he has moved more into those areas on recent releases.

    He's widely acknowledged, not sure he's often called a genius, by a younger audience for creating music and facilitating others to do so in a contemporary take on an R&B/Hip Hop/Jazz crossover.

    I"d be surprised if his music is widely appreciated on this board, a place that doesn't really embrace, with a few exceptions, contemporary music where Jazz is influenced by Hip Hop and contemporary R&B.

    So, not a genius but an important musician in my view.

  13. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

    That 70s thing where the group feels it wants to make a statement but maybe doesn't have that much to say.

    Or perhaps the message doesn't resonate 50 years on as it might have then?

    Gaslini wasn't afraid of a statement or two. I have one album recorded for a student movement record label of a 70s university concert. Not sure if it was during a sit in but it certainly has that feel.

  14. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    26 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

    Bought in a moment of high spirits whilst on holiday in Italy last week. I'm going to listen a few more times but not that wow-ed by it to tell the truth.

    The danger of holiday high spirits...many have done a lot worse I'd suggest

    Playing here:

    Ahmed Abdullah Quartet - Liquid Magic [Silk heart, 1987]

    Forgotten how joyous this is, Brackeen, Favors, Fielder with the leader.

  20. Newport Jazz Festival 70th Anniversary

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted

    Looks like a pretty healthy lineup to me. A good number of younger artists featured to illustrate that Jazz is an evolving and vital art form.

    Some non-Jazz artists to pull in the curious who may then connect with some of the Jazz acts thereby helping to maintain and increase the genre's audience.

    Some Jazz adjacent artists who use Jazz to inform their music, showing the influence of the genre we all love.

    Nice all round programming by McBride I'd say

  21. Newport Jazz Festival 70th Anniversary

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted

    9 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

    WTF is Andre3000? It is the first name mentioned on the Montreal Jazz Festival billing as well. Stupid group names mean music of no interest to me.

    i just looked up this clown and he is another useless rapper. Giving top billing to a rapper at a jazz festival is total bs.

    Extraordinary post, factually incorrect apart from anything else.

  23. Vlady Bas

    in Artists

    Posted

    I finally found a copy of Blas's 'En La Universidad' and I'm really enjoying it.

    Just hoping that some of you might know what other releases he can be heard on playing in this manner. 

    Looking at Discogs it appears that releases under his name around this one are more aimed at a different audience, pop covers etc

    He's been discussed on this thread but only about the Universidad LP

    Thanks

  25. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, Pim said:

    I did wash it one time. Maybe I should try that again. But I am afraid it’s in the grooves…

    Thats a lovely album by Hannibal. The choir really ads something like it did with Max Roach records as well.

    Yes, it is really good.

    Looking again and I think that's pressing faults on the Clark.

    I'm really enjoying your old copy of Archie Shepp at the moment!

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