MomsMobley

here's your chance, motherfucker, GO! different sides, same coin, vice versa or maybe the same sides, no matter-- if ya'll can't see / hear that...

fasstrack, thank you for your senstivity though I respectfully sugget, for starters, you read the interviews in that AAJ link that Uli posted (props especially to Craig Taborn.) ANY / every musician, all genres, ANY / every artist any medium has much to learn-- much to be in AWE about-- in Prince's career. I can understand how certain white people-- let's call it truthfully because I daresay you can't find ANY (credible) black artist who'd dismiss Prince-- pull up Mavis Staples' tribute last week for one example, funny she's saying how she was gonna be cool when first introduced to him (and think how many folks Mavis has known) & when it happened, she immediately broke, ooooh Prince!-- but look to yourself and your own limitations first. Miles was correct and that only a fraction of the story. Even 'mediocre' Prince is what? Oh, he only does 3-4-5 of the 7-8-9 things he can do extraordinarily well. Give Brotzmann or Sonic Youth (hah hah) twice Prince's budget and put them on any worldwide stage, see what they come up with. Ghost of D. Boon (& living, humble Mike Watt) would laugh at any suggestion they were superior or even equal to the prodigal talent, force, work ethic, restless invention of Prince. We gonna front on Maceo here too? And this a 'mere' live showpiece And while we're in a blues bag, which Prince didn't over pursue on record compared to the after-party live shows deep dark as (yet different from) any John Lee Hooker, any Bobby Bland, any James Brown or James Hendrix... that Prince virtuoso singer / arranger / producer / conceptualist no small factor, hah.

Please Steve, that's ridiculous; you're a better listening artist than that, don't play yourself like a 'thinking' ofay. And I know D. Boon very very well, who's to say what he could have done but at the point he passed, he was VASTLY more limited than Prince. As for Brotz, let's be generous and call him, I dunno, B.B. King-like in his respective scene (no matter how much he laudably mixes it up, 'free' platutides aside it's ultimately pretty schematic) tho' of course-- I'm sure Peter would agree-- B.B.'s travails as Southern black man of a vastly different order than even 'avant'- Euro, of which there was, if not wholly 'supportive', at least not Jim Crow oppressive etc. *** Anyone reading this who doubts Prince's SUPREME brilliance on pretty much ever damn level should check out Vernon Reid's twitter posts of the last week. Regardless what specific distinctions one makes-- & of course they are necessary-- seeing Duke, Miles, Mingus, Braxton, Prince as constellation of long(-ish) lived evolutionary BLACK (& human but always black) genius is the ONLY thing a properly listening / thinking person can do. Ya'll might not like it but please. *** *** NO! A step down from "Sign of The Times" & more diffuse than "The Black Album" but not pro forma-- which "Batman" would mostly be. This ain't "Automatic" (say) but it's doing plenty of great things-- follow the structure on this one-- and sure, you might prefer x, y, z elements elsewhere but there's nothing rote / un-inspired here-- quite the contrary, it's pretty damn courageous in less than obvious ways

from 1985 Rolling Stone interview (can't find original link on their website but it's here also), Moms Mobley bought & read it at the time-- http://princetext.tripod.com/i_stone85.html Do you read most of what's been written about you? A little, not much. Sometimes someone will pass along a funny one. I just wrote a song called "Hello," which is going to be on the flip side of "Pop Life." It says at the end, "Life is cruel enough without cruel words." I get a lot of cruel words. A lot of people do. I saw critics be so critical of Stevie Wonder when he made Journey through the Secret World of Plants. Stevie has done so many great songs, and for people to say, "You missed, don't do that, go back" -- well, I would never say, "Stevie Wonder, you missed." [Prince puts the Wonder album on the turntable, plays a cut, then puts on Miles Davis' new album.] Or Miles. Critics are going to say, "Ah, Miles done went off." Why say that? Why even tell Miles he went off? You know, if you don't like it, don't talk about it. Go buy another record! Not long ago I talked too George Clinton, a man who knows and has done so much for funk. George told me how much he liked Around the World in a Day. You know how much more his words meant than those from some mamma-jamma wearing glasses and an alligator shirt behind a typewriter? *** way Way WAY undermentioned in Prince discussions is Todd Rundgren btw; there's ZERO chance teenage Prince wasn't a Todd & likely Utopia fan for all his obvious absorbtion, transmogrification black tradition, the pop / rock / PROG one is there also, not 'just' Joni, Fleetwood Mac etc... One man can / will do anything = Todd, who even had constumes tho' he knew well-enough not to dance. (And I'm not even Todd fanatic but facts is talent / genius is facts-- and there's a lot of great Todd, esp. once he got really weird.) ***

Greg Tate-- http://www.mtv.com/news/2872859/prince-a-eulogy/

Attn: Larry Kart, Chuck Nessa, John Litweiler, how many of these folks ya'll recognize? Not realizing I should, I at first didn't. at 2:00: "Hey Richard, come and dig this cat's... Pageboy."

for those with a passion for what's between your legs / others Max Reger has to be #1 there's some v. interesting Fuermann / Reger worth hearing & don't forget the cello sonatas either echoing Schnittke

http://drewfriedman.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-saga-of-frank-sinatra-jr.html

pretty hot Tony Williams tribute from Merzbow, not posting as 'joke' though only post-Webern / Varese / Cage / Pierres Henry / Schaeffer adepts will fully enjoy, ring modulator-era Miles Davis fans also

a brief introduction, starting with the superb chamber music violin sonata string trio string quartet string quintnet, purposely choosing this movement because some consider it 'lesser' T for its wanderings; I disagree! & sometimes, in between Brahms & Dvorak, Dvorak & Herzogenberg, Herzogenberg & Reger...

Solid anthology, I wouldn't pay more than $10 though, it's sorta thing that might at times be 'rare' esp. since (I'm near certain) you can get all works elsewhere... Hold fire and get Jacob Druckman / Group for Contemporary Music disc on Naxos (reissue of CD originally on Koch) with the $$$ you've saved, snag same label / band's Wolpe recital then, if you have bones leftover, splurge a for the Leon Kirchner / Orion Quartet 2-cd on Albany don't worry / wait / listen elsewhere Cage, Feldman, Crumb

BLIND BLAKE PORTER WAGONER LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS

GREAT composer for the purposes to which he devoted himself; compare to x # (x = many) later 'jazz' composers / performers who have tried to flaunt polystylism / collage / disjunction etc... some (a few) are excellent, most aren't. And of course Lalo like any jobbing pro has some lesser inspirations also but he heightened &/or complemented greatness so often... pay close attention to Godfrey Cambridge here-- Don Siegel Don Siegel Don Siegel w/o Don Siegel, Magnum Force suffered & while still enjoyable, the workman-like direction is nowhere near the level of the score

This not the version I'm listening to-- that's Miklos Spanyi & Concerto Armonico on Volume 7 of his CPO keyboard concerto series (BIS 857)-- but this gives at least the idea & a bit more. Jump right to the third movement at 14:24 & try not to elate. Spanyi plays this on tangent piano, btw, & is a shade or two more dramatic. Here's the same movement in its cello iteration, performed (perhaps a little quickly) by our beloved Cafe Zimmermann--

i'll be glad when you're dead you rascal you ... it's a celebration! ***

Rooster's comparison with Hindemith instructive because, though Piston wrote x # 'interesting,' 'engaging,' 'well-crafted' works you don't mind hearing, his greater value BY FAR is as an educator. Despite a few similarities, Hindemith is VASTLY-- exponentially-- the greater, more creative, more important composer: ballets, operas, songs, chamber music, concertante works, symphonies etc etc... With nearly every work of Hindemith, of every period, you'll learm something more than 'just' music; (likewise Schoenberg btw)... whereas Piston, well... He's more than a footnote, his books on harmony and counterpoint are 'famous' doorstops but... it's hard to say Piston underknown or that, in wider view of 20th c. classical music, he's doing much that's singular or remarkable.

i've posted this elsewhere but worth noting again, re- (re-) listening, JRM c. '62-'64 (??) employee Don Kent and brilliant blues / old-timey scholar on John's Old Time Radio Show, Big Joe Williams sleeping in the basement (where Don's filling mail orders)-- http://www.eastriverstringband.com/radioshow/?p=455 http://www.eastriverstringband.com/radioshow/?p=498 I think it's on a later broadcast where Don talks about Bernie Klatzko having found Berha Lee Patton, Don & his girlfriend then taking Bertha Lee to see Howlin' Wolf, who (understandably) ignores Don & gf, says "It's been a long time Bertha Lee..."

nat gonella marjorie stedeford

a Grace song but still... "Blows," "Sunfighter" " & "Baron von Tollbooth" among thee greatest-- maybe thee greatest-- bargain bin avant- weirdo pysche albums ever too... Paul's "Twilight Double Leader" a highlight of spotty "Long John Silver" but this live version even better

uh... uh-oh? http://www.thetheaterofyourmind.com/keep-your-hands-off-our-stream/.html great that "Sound Exchange" is looking out for artists, composers etc... esp. with Roy Eldridge Birthday almost here... because the sum of all other American radio stations / streams will play how much Roy Eldridge music that day? this year? etc etc and I "knew" that WKCR's existence one result of Columbia '68 but didn't think of it because taken so (happily) for granted. One thing I'd amplify from the above article is that Schaap's programming of single artists is NOT unique-- other hosts in any # of genres might do so-- there was just the annual Jobim fest & there are many many other non-annual examples... hell, according the Sound Exchange regulations below, they couldn't even stream a musicians' OWN recordings during the weekly Musician's Show *** ...The three of interest here are no more than 4 tracks by the same featured artist (or from a compilation album) may be transmitted to the same listener within a 3 hour period (and no more than 3 of those tracks may be transmitted consecutively; no more than 3 tracks from the same album may be transmitted to the same listener within a 3 hour period (and no more than 2 of those tracks may be transmitted consecutively); [no content that allows] the listener a reasonable foreknowledge of the transmission of a specific sound recording at a specific date and time (e.g., by the use of a published advanced program, playlist, announcement, etc.). Source: http://www.soundexchange.com/service-provider/licensing-101/

DG-- Microgroove in Tampa is owned by ex-Vinyl Fever employee; not the same thing (no new CD stock or music-related books / magazines) but at least the spirit's there-- sometimes Spirit records too & he'll sell as much jazz & blues as he can get in, just question as with most used places what they can acquire. As you'll see, Tampa Sound Exchange especially will get some very interesting collections in-- I think there's a dozen or so Mosaic boxes there now (most priced to sell) on one end of the spectrum, a few dozen John Zorn-related discs the other. Sound Exchange also does DVDs / BluRay & vintage audio. re: the Rays & Red Sox, though the political / biz shenaigans involved is part of what turned me off to MLB, ** you ** are in luck because after years long battle full of lies lies lies lies and sub-childish threats, the St. Petersburg City Council finally voted to allow the Rays to look for new location in Hillsborough-- breaking a lease at the Trop that runs through 2027 & was a (too) generous deal back when. It's uncertain exactly what will happen; "ideal" for ownership and the Tampa Mayor is to figure sight near downtown or Ybor but obviously land cheaper / more available elsewhere in Hillsborough. The griping btw is that Rays in St Pete, i.e. that side of the Bay, handicaps driving attendence & not enough Pinellas folks care, nor Sarasota / Bradenton driving up from there. But who DOES like domed stadiums, even in long hot Florida? St Pete, while it has issues common with other Fla cities, quite burgeoning now and though there are some very good food options by the stadium, at this point it's almost a coincidence the stadium is there & I bet nearly all the best of St Pete 'revival' will continue if / when they go (+ the land stadium is on can be put to better, multi-use.) There's pro soccer (Rowdies) at Al Lang Stadium St Pete but I don't follow it.