7/4

Happy Birthday to Son O'Deeley!

Hell yeah!

Doesn't Ted Nugent new album out? Seriously, there are two bands that crossed the 7/4 radar. I heard about the North Mississippi Allstars from a friend and the Black Keys from a Guitar Player article. They share common North Mississippi blues influences and I enjoy how they rock those influences out. The early albums are favorites. But I'm pretty sure that's it for me...my interest in new rock for the past 15 years: the North Mississippi Allstars and the Black Keys.

Ha!

ChaunceyMorehouse writes like Clem and mysteriously writes about the same issues as Clem. Smells like Clem. Walks like Clem. Looks like Clem, apparently I'm not the only one who thinks so.

Okay Chauncey, Clem, whatever you're calling yourself this week...got a great idea, why don't you go outside and play hide and go fuck yourself? No one should have to put up with personal attacks from Clem. Clem should go fly a kite.

Now Uncle 7/4 is hearing that she doesn't have emphysema, but early symptoms that can be reversed if she takes care of herself. My Grandmother died of emphysema, a horrible disease. She was old when it happened. .

Uncle 7/4 now sees that Imus says new race remark misunderstood. How on earth could this have happened??? .

The two times I heard Cecil, I was surprised by how quiet he was...it's been a few years, but I think both gigs were 5-10 years ago. .

Clem, you sound restless, irritable and discontent.

And Frank Zappa. Good point. His last couple of albums were just downright lewd and lascivious. Bitter yes, but I thought Zappa went for more lewd and lascivious as time went on to sell albums. It financed his Classical ambitions.

He's an asshole? Just a wild guess...

I got so bored with rock.... How bored did you get Uncle 7/4??? I couldn't be bothered to search for any new (to me) rock, so I moved on years ago. There's more interesting music than rock out there folks...I get more and more serious about that idea as time unfolds.

Maybe every one was in the bag when they thought of it. .

There's some videos on YouTube I was pretty impressed with. Missed him in NYC recently...dam...

CECIL TAYLOR New York Society for Ethical Culture, JVF Fest review Has Cecil Taylor mellowed with age? For all Mr. Taylor’s virtuosity as a pianist and originality as an improviser, his concerts have sometimes been so unrelentingly intense that they seemed as much assault as performance. His solo recital at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on Friday night, part of the JVC Jazz Festival, felt more like an embrace. Mr. Taylor owes stylistic debts to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, but his music has always been so defiantly sui generis that after more than half a century there are still those who question whether it can even be called jazz. Finding a way into it can be an effort for some listeners; easy handles — a sustained melody line, a steady beat — are rare. It would be a stretch to characterize his Friday performance as accessible in any conventional sense. But for much of his hour at the piano the music was, to use a word not always associated with Mr. Taylor, pretty. All the hallmarks of his style were there: ominously rumbling bass lines, breathtakingly rapid runs, percussive tone clusters. But there were also numerous passages of quiet delicacy, and more than a few deftly deployed silences. The violent torrents of notes that are a Taylor specialty were in short supply; more often the music simply flowed, elegantly and peacefully. While it hardly sounded as if Mr. Taylor had lost his edge, it did sound as if he had found a way to emphasize the lyricism that has long been an important if underappreciated color in his palette, and to temper his intensity without damping his fire. Maybe this is just the way an enfant terrible sounds as he approaches 80. Mr. Taylor’s fellow pianist George Cables, also playing unaccompanied, opened the evening. Mr. Cables is not as daring an improviser as Mr. Taylor; few if any jazz pianists are. But while staying solidly grounded in post-bop concepts of harmony and rhythm, he left a pleasingly personal mark on a selection of original compositions and familiar standards, notably an uncharacteristically high-energy “ ’Round Midnight.” PETER KEEPNEWS, NY Times June 23, 2008

The man was too young! .

Wow! Real music talk...theory! .

I started to notice this about 35 years ago and it just gets worse every year. yawn. .

Four I own, there's a lot of interesting music there I wouldn't mind getting my ears on.

It's a horrible story. It's a shame she couldn't get her life under control. .

It has...in the Braxton thread, of course. .

Mary Halvorson.

New compositions and new arrangements on an instrument he's never released recordings of. Cool...