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Takashi Miike "MPD Psycho"- Netflix has all six episodes.
Miike da man-san!
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Dankworth did some good film scores, also.
The Cleo/Dankworth team produced some great music, until they started to do pop/rock BS in the 70s.
I still watch "All Night Long" every time it's on TV. Dankworth did all the writing for that film.
Cleo does a great job on her Sondheim LP, but I don't know if JD did the charts for it.
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I just read another music article by Nate Chinen that really bugged me, and I asked someone who NC was. They replied that he was probably the gardening columnist before he got assigned to cover music. When you become too knowlegeable about your subject to be able to relate to the average reader, they move you to another section. Look at what happened to Frank Rich...
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Percy Brice is still playing. A few friends of mine get together with him on Lon Guyland every week. God Bless him!
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I missed the Cecil show, but they hit a new low after that when the KCR DJ played Jaki Byard playing "When Sunny Gets Blue" and the DJ said it was Booker Ervin on tenor, Richard Williams on trumpet, and Jaki on piano.
Actually, the cut had no piano, and it was Jaki playing alto sax with just a bass player and drummer!
Then he played an Eric Dolphy solo alto saxophone cut, and said it was Dolphy on bass clarinet, and Richard Davis on bass, playing the song "Alone Together", which may be on the album, but definitely wasn't the song he played.
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This is the only radio station in NYC that plays (some) jazz?
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Is that the book by Art Taylor? Interviews with a lot of great figures in jazz.
There's a lot of wild quotes from that book. I think the most famous was:"The only way a caucasian musician could swing is from the end of a rope!"
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Hey all-
I've never posted before, but I've been lurking for a couple months and have really enjoyed a lot of the discussion going on around here.
I have a simple question -- does anyone know of a good Max Roach biography? He's a guy I've always wanted to learn some more about, but I've never come across a biography. He's certainly a worthy subject. Thanks in advance.
It would have been difficult to get anything out of Max towards the end.
A friend of mine played a gig with Earl May at the senior home where Max was living, and sadly he said Max was all but gone from some severe brain disease.
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Get Roku and screw them all.
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KCR played a tribute to him, and I was bowled over by the sound of his voice.
He sounded like Sam Cooke singing b3rds and b7ths.
They played his early stuff where he sang the shit out of some standards ("Fever" among others).
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I've noticed that Phil Schaap and WKCR haven't played any JS. Could the reasons for this be:
1) He wasn't black?
2) He didn't play free jazz?
3) He didn't have any self-destructive "habits" which endeared him to a hipster audience?
4) He wasn't black?
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There was a great 1960s British horror film anthology that featured a short horror story about a jazz trumpet player who transcribed some sacred African melodies, and performed them in a club.The resultant piece is a bongo-filled, dissonant, wild cacophony that builds up to the leader of the tribe laying the hapless trumpet player to waste. I forget the name of the movie- maybe something like "Tales of Terror"(?).
I think you are thinking of Dr. Terror's House of Horrors. Amusingly for British viewers the trumpeter was played by Roy Castle, a light entertainer (and trumpeter) who presented a long-running children's series called Record Breakers. Tubby Hayes also makes an appearance.
That's the one. RC was a pisser!
I saw another 60s British horror flick the other day called "Corruption", with Peter Cushing wildly overacting the old 'mad surgeon trying to restore his wife's beautiful face by using the skin of other beautiful women' role (in other words, a rip-off of "Eyes Without a Face").
There's some wonderfully demented 'Twilight Zone Jazz' in the scene when Cushing and his wife are chasing the beatnik chick across the beach for what seems like an hour.
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I think I've already related the story of seeing Phil Woods play there, and having the honor of him hurling a can of beer at me after we tried to visit him backstage.
My HS friend introduced me to PW as "the world's greatest jazz guitarist" (we were still in high school!)and Phil bellowed, "Get the fuck outta here!!", and let the can of Bud fly.
The guy who ran it sometimes sells records in various places in NYC, and I bought some great LPs "Eddie Costa Trio Live at Newport,1957", "The New York Jazz Quartet", and "The Sal Salvador Sextet"- all without their covers.
He told me that he was making a film on jazz artists like Costa, Clifford Brown, etc... who died young.
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While we're talking about composers' kinks and prejudices, I'm reading "Self Portrait of Percy Grainger", a compilation of all his private writings, and this man had enough to fill four books- let alone one.
Although he wasn't gay, his appetite for flagellation seemed to be inexhaustible. In the Grainger Museum in Melbourne, there are photos on display of him with hundreds of whip scars on his body, along with his actual collection of whips.
He also has a 25 item list of suggestions of things that should be done to make the world safe for Nordics near and far.
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This is a long list, but here's only a few:
Don Joseph jamming with Bill Evans
Jimmy Raney playing with Bill Evans at a jazz clinic
Pepper Adams playing Miles Davis' solos down an octave at the same time Miles was supposedly improvising
Bob Bruno playing bass with Teddy Wilson while tripping on acid
Bob Bruno playing piano duets with Don Preston at the Musicians' Union in Cal.
Bob Bruno jamming with Jimi Hendrix and Larry Young in NYC
Bob Harris playing piano with Gabor Szabo in 1970
Judee Sill playing upright jazz bass and singing in a duo with Bob Harris
Phil Woods playing at Carnegie Hall with the opera singer mentioned in Martin Williams' rundown of the Thirdstream concert featuring Eric Dolphy
Steve Kuhn playing with the John Coltrane Quartet
All of these things happened, but weren't recorded, AFAIK...
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You're lucky, Jeff. Bloomberg has fucked the shit out of the NYC Public School music programs.
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That's sad about J&R, but we know what NYC is all about... I scored many great CDs and LPs there. I still remember when one of their employees defiantly put Steely Dan in the Jazz section, with something like, "Yes, they deserve to be here!!!".
Another time, I heard them talking about a chick they knew who was a Frank Strozier groupie.
I used to go into Manhattan every week, and spend twelve hours just looking at records at Tower, J&R, Rockit Scientist, etc...Now they're all gone. I haven't gone into Manhattan in years- it's just a big tourist attraction- Bloomberg's destroyed it...
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Yeah, there's a scene in the last 20 minutes of Once a Thief that has a great piece that could've been written today.
It also had a wild opening scene of a jazz drummer playing a drum solo in a jazz club, that went on for more than five minutes.
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You're a manly man, Jeff.
Band Camp has driven many a music teacher into retirement.
They stranded a friend of mine on an island with the little monsters for a week every summer, and that eventually drove him to call it quits.
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Wow is right! Thanks for that.
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Bassist Schmassist.
The score is by THEE GREAT BERNARD HERRMANN.
Yeah, Bennie da man!
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There was a great 1960s British horror film anthology that featured a short horror story about a jazz trumpet player who transcribed some sacred African melodies, and performed them in a club.The resultant piece is a bongo-filled, dissonant, wild cacophony that builds up to the leader of the tribe laying the hapless trumpet player to waste. I forget the name of the movie- maybe something like "Tales of Terror"(?).
Kenton might have done some stuff like that.
Lalo Schifrin's first Hollywood score (some 1966 crime movie with Ann- Margaret), ends with a wild piece like this.
David Raksin wrote some dissonant stuff for "Force of Evil" that might qualify.
i think there was some of this type of stuff in "Crime and Punishment, USA" (1962).
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Well I love it the way Dolphy plays, and Donna Lee played a little more "outside" must be a gas, like the way he played Hot House, or as he blew on that Parker mixture "Parkeriana" with Mingus.
I must admit, I never really got into Phil Woods. Heard some stuff he did with Richie Cole I think, , but it is not the kind of stuff that really made me happy, though they really can play all that stuff.
On the record PW made with RC, "Side By Side", they play Donna Lee at 352BPM.
Like Roland Kirk did with George Adams, and Sonny Stitt did with RRK, PW mops up the floor with RC.
Sorry all you jazz pacificts out there- this is a noble jazz tradition.
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and I don't mean Henry Fonda :-)
BTW, with all the databases and blogs, is there a way to discover which musicians were hired on movie projects?
What is the history of attempts to list the musicians in the credits?
This is considered the standard text for jazz musicians in films. I just used it to discover that Bud Shank was the flautist in the jazz club scene in "Night Tide", a lesser known Raksin film score.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/jots/jazzscreen-home.html
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I heard a rumor (seriously) years ago that he was part African American. I found this of interest.
love his playing, btw; the very first jazz record I ever heard was one of his Roosts that my mother owned.
That would be pretty strange if it were true.
A British guitarist is writing a bio of Smith that should be coming out pretty soon; maybe he'll go into it...
Today's NY Times: Larry Carlton's 1967 'Free Spirits'
in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
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Yeah, Carlton deserves it for ripping off Johnny Smith's tune "Jaguar" for his tune "Strikes Twice".
Even the Ventures paid JS for "Walk, Don't Run".