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Beyond a Love Supreme
robertoart replied to Mark Stryker's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
It's not too hard to find out what reify means. And unless there is a better word to encapsulate what it means, that one will work. I think the academics like to flex their intellectual muscles, just like tenor sax men were wont to do. Coltrane moved from the bar room to the concert hall and he made an album that had meaning for both audiences, and the crossover of the two. Then he made some albums none of em possibly liked much at all -
When Lou toured Australia in 74(?), an interviewer asked him if he was still doing Heroin! "No" Lou said, "I haven't touched it in ten years". "I meant the song", the interviewer explained. "Oh" Lou said, "I don't do that anymore either".
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i.d. this musician photo (rahsaan roland kirk sideman)
robertoart replied to l p's topic in Miscellaneous Music
This could be a tough one I can definitely confirm it's not Bill Cosby if that's any help? -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WmhMKWt8DI
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Lou and Bowie. Pretentious.......moi
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Miles let it be known what he thought of the Prime Time alumni, and supposedly was reluctant to play any festivals that featured them. Meanwhile he luxuriated in Sco, Mo larry curly and any other post Hendrix fusion shufflers. Probably reached it's nadir with the feeble Robben Ford getting a guernsey.
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And no Grant Green as leader or sideman in these first fifty? Conspicuous by his absence this time around. Just release the unreleased sessions Japan. Just like ya did in the old days. God bless ya's! Those scoundrels Music Matters will never do it.
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It doesn't get much more 'organic' than this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vxc8rlM0EI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppWazrhkNYA
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Thanks for the life changing music. And the beautiful melodies too.
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All at roughly the same time or within 18 months of each other, Wes Montgomery - a dynamic new sound (the one with Mel Rhine) Music revelation ensemble - no wave Grant Green - the one with My favourite things (sonny Clark) And Coltrane - Meditations
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Indiegogo Fundraiser: Recording with Gary Bartz, et al
robertoart replied to AllenLowe's topic in Miscellaneous Music
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Wow. Someone identifies qualities in the book, and they're either making backhanded compliments or they're too sheepish to say what they really think!
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Luckily they lost the other half of this photo.
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Randy Brecker's The Brecker Brothers Band Reunion
robertoart replied to GA Russell's topic in New Releases
I'd be showing up wondering where Coltrane and Henderson were. -
Jim Alfredson's Dirty Fingers - A Tribute To Big John Patton
robertoart replied to Jim Alfredson's topic in Announcements
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Jim Alfredson's Dirty Fingers - A Tribute To Big John Patton
robertoart replied to Jim Alfredson's topic in Announcements
The YouTube link in the latest update isn't working? -
He's still only one croon away.
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They define the genre. I don't think I agree. They're great recordings, indeed, but Baby Face was MUCH better served in his recordings for the Chess Bros. Those two albums are effin' incredible! But GG's not on 'em; it's Ben White on guitar. MG Didn't someone say that Baby Face Willette cried about those Chess recordings? Don't know about the crying, but the Blues Notes and the Chess recordings are two completely different deals, at least to my ears. I'll take the Blue Notes hands down. I don't know about the crying, either, but it has been said somewhere here that Baby Face and Esmond Edwards didn't see eye to eye at the sessions. Personally, I think Baby Face won, hands down. MG Well I'm enjoying listening to some tunes from the Chess sessions again, even if only via youtube! I'm sure I read somewhere and fairly recently, someone speaking directly about this session and Willette being disturbed about it. If it wasn't here it must have been a very dark corner of the internet? hasn't really got his dad's talent for music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7lhKh94SeU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DahIbMpnfUU
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OK. I like both Dearie (much of the time) and Bennett (almost always) and don't think of either of them as vanilla. I like Dearie sometimes, Bennett not so much. But possibly like many, I'm not keen on the Ratpack side of things, even when it falls towards Jazz chops (except for Sinatra - may the baby Jesus piss on his evil Mafioso soul), and more to the point, I'm not so knocked out by what I hear. The album jazzwax talks about Brand New Morning on Cadet, from the late Sixties, does sound like it would be quite wonderful though. Anyone else heard it?
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They define the genre. I don't think I agree. They're great recordings, indeed, but Baby Face was MUCH better served in his recordings for the Chess Bros. Those two albums are effin' incredible! But GG's not on 'em; it's Ben White on guitar. MG Didn't someone say that Baby Face Willette cried about those Chess recordings?
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Yes I've heard them but probably haven't listened enough. The big esoteric track was on one of them. The guitar player didn't do him justice if I remember. His two Blue Notes are definitive for me because they just swing hard unstoppably so, they are also bop, and they are also so dirty low down, almost as close as you could imagine to the sound and vibe of actually being in a Black organ bar as ever captured on vinyl by the true masters, in their youthful prime. This includes Grant's First Stand. They are all obviously 'off the leash' without Lou there. But Here Tis provides a more sober version of the band with Lou overlooking the proceedings. The Green/Dixon/Willette's without Lou are carnal.
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I don't know what the other end of the spectrum would be. But this all just sounds flattened out and weird to me, just kind of matter of fact performing like Blossom Dearie meets Tony Bennett with a guitar. That kind of vanilla.