7/4

yes.

The Magic City is a real mind**** of an album. I remember putting it (I'd already heard Atlantis and Space is the Place) on for the first time while driving to a student council meeting in college. Upon hearing that wheezy organ, I was hooked. But that collective improv section still cracks my head open like a walnut sometimes. In a good way, of course. The shorter pieces on the album are also excellent if not as mindblowing as the title suite. They're similar to what he was doing on both volumes of Heliocentric Worlds. Guy Ah yes. The Tuned percussion: tymps & marimba w/ some picciolo too.

Instead of starting a new thread, I think I'll continue this one. Cecil Taylor - It Is In The Brewing Luminous (Hatology) Wow, what an intense disk!

Anthony Braxton - For Two Pianos (Arista) w/Frederic Rzewski and Ursula Oppens (p, zither, melodica) Classical, but with an avant edge.

Discography here. Someone put a lot of work into this.

The Arista deserves a Mosaic box. for the Hat discs. Composition No 174 is like that too. I heard it a few days ago but while I feel I should closer listen, I can understnad why it's only the 2nd time I've heard it.

One I don't have.....must buy, must buy....

I hope so!

October 9, 2004 MOVIE REVIEW | 'MILES ELECTRIC' Jamming With Miles on Isle of Wight By STEPHEN HOLDEN NY Times The 38-minute jam that Miles Davis and an electric sextet played at the Isle of Wight Festival in the summer of 1970 is like a pungent, musky, musical soup. The sounds floating through the rock-funk murk evoke the Three Witches' incantation from "Macbeth": "eye of newt, and toe of frog/wool of bat, and tongue of dog." That jam, titled "Call It Anythin' " after Davis's retort when asked to name it, is resurrected in impeccable sound by "Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue," Murray Lerner's film of the event, which introduced Davis to a screaming outdoor rock audience of 600,000. (Bizarrely, he followed Tiny Tim on the bill.) The camera remains onstage for much of a jam that one musician remembers as a "microhistory of jazz." The musicians joining Davis included Gary Bartz on soprano sax, Chick Corea on electric piano, Keith Jarrett on organ, Dave Holland on electric bass, Jack DeJohnette on drums and Airto Moreira on percussion. The stock in which those newt eyes and frog toes simmer is a floating blues groove that changes key only gradually while hovering between major and minor. Its dominant note is Davis's instantly recognizable signature: a fractured, sputtering sweet-and-sour trumpet that hints at tunes but never draws them out. "Miles Electric" is more than a concert movie. A few months earlier, Davis and a different crew of sidemen revolutionized music with the landmark album "Bitches Brew," which stands as the jazz equivalent of Bob Dylan's "going electric." At the Isle of Wight, Davis and his fellow musicians created improvisatory sounds, incorporating rock rhythm and electric funk inspired by Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and Sly Stone. During the first half of the film, the original Isle of Wight sidemen and other musicians look back three decades to recall Davis's historic transition into electric instrumentation. That leap, which brought Davis to a mass audience for the first time, infuriated the orthodox jazz establishment. The articulate jazz critic Stanley Crouch recalls trying and failing to like "Bitches Brew," which he studied repeatedly (sometimes in chemically altered states). He accuses Davis of contemptuously selling out and calls the music "formless." Davis's embrace of electric music was part of a personal revolution that saw him exchange his fancy Italian suits for flashy street clothes. His embrace of rock sound was heavily influenced by Betty Mabry, the flamboyant funk diva he wed in 1968 and divorced a year later. His jabbing solos also reflected his fascination with boxing, which he expressed directly in his soundtrack album, "A Tribute to Jack Johnson," released around the time of "Bitches Brew." Musicians differ from critics in their descriptions of the experience of music. Carlos Santana, the film's most enthusiastic talking head, exalts the "spiritual orgasms" produced by jazz-fusion. Herbie Hancock remembers approaching the Fender Rhodes as a toy and learning to love its sound. Keith Jarrett, though a bit more guarded, recalls being in a trancelike state at the Isle of Wight concert. "Miles Electric" is an exceptionally concise, well-organized concert documentary. There's none of the padding you often find in concert movies, and once the jam begins, there are no distractions. Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue Produced and directed by Murray Lerner; edited by Einar Westerlund and Edward Goldberg. Running time: 87 minutes. This film is not rated. Shown tonight at 7:30 and 10:15 at the Walter Reade Theater, at Lincoln Center, as part of the 42nd New York Film Festival. WITH: Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, Joni Mitchell, Stanley Crouch, Bob Belden, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, Airto Moreira, Dave Holland, Gary Bartz, Herbie Hancock, James Mtume, Paul Buckmaster, Marcus Miller, Pete Cosey and Jimi Hendrix.

Oh yes, the Magic City is very nice. It's too bad I didn't pick up some vinyl when I saw them 88-92.

Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 1 & 2 is amazing.

I followed the link then clicked to the home page. It told me 'You are visitor number 1 to this page'. Man, sure is quiet in here. Strange, I'm 'No. 1' too.. Me too! Hey - I'M NUMBER 1!! Me too...or maybe me one? Everybody is their #1 customer!

Where are there spelling problems? Here, have some diapers!

it works for me!

eating my underware!

Yeah, my thoughts exactly, he looks alot older than me....but then again, if I ate my underwear, I probably would look much older today. Try it!

I think that's it.

Yeah, but do you start with the crotch. I keep a supply of waist bands in the glove compartment. Just in case....

Always works for me!

The students are complaining? WTF?

You might want to try the CIMP discs doing the music of Andrew Hill and Wayne Shorter, which also feature O'Neil. Of the two, my favorite is Nine Compositions (Hill) 2000. I think those two are similar to Braxton's renditions of standards on the 4 CD Leo box. I think I'll go by Downtown Music Gallery and have them play me some cuts. Thanks. A friend is going to loan me a copy. Yeah baby!

missed that one!

I'm on a big Anthony Braxton kick this week.

not too big on quotes....yek!