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Fuck The Dave Clark Five too

Fuck The Beatles

What a creative and generous thing to do.

How about a barge full of Jazz records and cd's and shoes.

Has he got a sax AND a ciggy in his mouth? Practice makes perfect. MG Who says the beboppers didn't take full advantage of circular breathing

Also known as 'newsboy'. I know them as 'baker boy'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsboy_cap http://www.polyvore.com/urban_excess_bretton_baker-boy_hat/thing?id=42946394 plus this Trivia The Baker Boy is also known as a Newsboy cap, an Apple Cap, a six pence, an Eight-Panel, a Cabbie, a Jay Gatsby, a Fisherman's Cap, and a Lundburg Stetson. The Baker Boy is commonly associated with newspaper boys, also called newsboys or newsies, and this association is referenced in the item's description.

Agree. I thought of Trane too, but changed my mind for these very reasons.

Yes, Rivers at his best is a very substantial painting figure no doubt. My comments were more about how to a young painting student from my time, his work was stylistically too 'cool' to be attractive in the rush of German Neo-Expressionism or Post Painterly Abstraction of someone like John Walker who lived in my home town at the time, and cast a long shadow over local painting there. My painting lecturer did turn me onto the underrated British painter David Bomberg. And he also loved El Greco. Your very fine earlier post about Rivers friend who died young also reminded me of memories of Art School and Larry Rivers.

Ivo Perelman is a more worthy painter than Rolf And probably a better singer too. What about Hugh Laurie and Bruce Willis And more seriously...Slim Gaillard. Was he not an actor as well?

The Okra Eaters. Michael Douglas produce that one?

Excellent interview/radio doco on Hugh Masakela. He says some funny things about his friendship with Fela Kuti http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/intothemusic/of-home-and-heart3a-the-musical-journey-of-hugh-masekela/4782334

I wonder if Johnny Smith would have thought that?

There's also Charlie Chaplin who scored his own films. Smile tugs at the heartstrings. A bit saccharin but still beautiful. What about Hans Bennink. Surely he was bi-artal at something? That definitely looks like a 'real' painting there! You ask, "Could Rivers really play?" Well, try the YouTube clip I've posted in #3. If you can get past the ear-damaging singer (who seems more like a performance artist than a vocalist) you'll hear entirely competent, Ben Webster influenced tenor from Rivers. And he was educated at Juilliard. Yep. Rivers is an anomoly. Educated and practicing to proficiency in two distinct disciplines. Very impressive. And a bit of an old Lothario if that wiki page is anything to go by. BTW. Is that a representation of a red brassier behind Humair?

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My Painting lecturer was always trying to turn me on to Larry Rivers. But at the height of the Neo-Expressionist return to painting in the late Eighties, his work seemed so anal. Interestingly, my Painting lecturer who was born around 1940, was an ex-Jazz saxophone player as well, and knew I played Jazz guitar. So he probably thought I would relate to the bi-artal aspect. I remember one day asking him if he had any old Jazz records he didn't have any use for (seen as he'd given up playing ), and he said he had plenty of old Blue Note records but had already given them away . He did give me a copy of OMNI magazine though, that had an expansive interview with Anthony Braxton - waxing lyrical about his latest 'piece' that could only be correctly performed on Mars - if Alpha-centauri was correctly aligned with the fifth moon of Jupiter (or something like that ). Here is his website for all you old colour-field nostalgists http://www.craiggough.com.au/current_works.html ps. could Rivers really play? That definitely looks like a 'real' painting there!

I like that Cobblestone one. There's some very nice unaccompanied solo stuff somewhere in there, if I remember it right. MG You remembered right. I listened to this session for the very first time yesterday, after reading this thread. On Summertime Mobley plays some stuff that is on an unaccompanied solo tangent. This is very brittle stuff. I'm very glad to have been made aware of this album.

No, I really thought an interview with him (Evans), would be really interesting. I would love to read one of those younger indie/Jazz/improv guys open up as honestly and guilelessly as Perelman does. Although Ethan Iverson does do this on his blogs to a certain extant. I thought the This Is Our Music Cover, piss-take was a bit off really, and kinda underplays the cultural elements still happening in music now. I guess this would be something very peripheral to those musicians. I also really thought your Perelman interview was fantastic actually. I enjoyed reading it and his ideas/insights. And will return to it again. The molecular stuff is beautifully sincere but a bit naive and harkens back to the hippie things Hendrix used to say about a 'pure' kind of music. This is the kind of honest and visionary stuff that would be laughed out of the 'ironic' pop-culture' Contemporary Art climate. But the things about an almost 'correlationist' battle between 'man and metal' is really interesting. And he is also very insightful when he talks about the way Visual artists are more practised at using language to describe their disciplines. Perhaps also the reason most "Contemporary Artists aren't into serious and advanced music is probably because Contemporary Art has a total investment in a kind of dialectical relationship with subverting, aestheticising and critiquing Contemporary mainstream issues, through image and text, so they gravitate to music that they can relate too. Visual Artists are incredibly aware of Art-film culture and Critical Theory, but Art-music beyond anything word-based and Indie is of no interest to them mostly. If it's beyond Sonic Youth or The Velvets - or anything 'cool' instrumental/minimalist like The Necks or Dirty Three, it's too far 'distant' for them. I really do think the connection in the past between Abstract Expressionism-Colour Field and Jazz was a mostly romantic rather than real one though. And served it's purposes more for convenience, and kinda masked the huge 'divide' between the two worlds of Black American music language and 'Heroic White American Art'.