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  3. Kronos Quartet plays Sun Ra (sort of)

    in Live Shows & Festivals

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    Just came back from a Kronos Quartet concert at which they played "Kiss Yo' Ass Goodbye" credited to Sun Ra, Terry Riley and Sara Miyamoto.  According to the program notes it "utilizes Sun Ra's Track 'Nuclear War' as source material."  It begins to really kick ass when they sample the drumming and chanting from the original. 

  12. Best Live Boxed Set?

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

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    On 4/23/2024 at 7:31 AM, Ron S said:

    I was thinking of posting this one, but figured that someone else would eventually get to it.  👍

    IIRC it's not really complete, but rather a collection of what had been previously released as individual albums put into chronological order.  If I do remember correctly I wonder if there is more unreleased material.   ( just looked at the liner notes and they claim that this is "all known" recordings from the date but I doubt that they had access to the Contemporary vaults.)

    Nevertheless a great set and I'm just being greedy. 

  14. Lester Young: "Just a Little Bit South"?

    in Discography

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    I've found a playlist on Spotify  called "Lester Young Chronological solos:1936-1942".  There are 200 entries including many (though not all) alternate takes and recorded  broadcasts.  There is one entry that is not listed in Frank Buchmann-Moller's  Prez discography. It's   from 1941 or '42:  "Just a Little Bit South" and whoever compiled the playlist says it's by an "unknown band" (and singer).  The tenor solo sure sounds like Prez of that era.  Any one know about this?

  16. Herbie Hancock

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    3 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

    Was he playing a real piano until he got to the Headhunters stuff? And did he play Blow-Up?

    Until he picked up  the keytar  off a stand he  sat at a grand piano at right angles to a an electric keyboard switching between the two even within solos. Though I've seen the film several times it's been a while and I wouldn't recognize the theme from Blowup.  

  17. Herbie Hancock

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    Saw him last night.  Terrance Blanchard and Chris Potter part of the sextet.  I thought he walked slowly at first but by end of two hour concert he was bouncing around the stage.  He filled a 2,000 seat theater and wowed most of the audience (there were a few early walkouts, but the concert was part of a subscription series  and  unadulterated jazz probably wasn't what  everyone was looking for). 

    All the compositions were by Herbie except Footprints which he announced was written by his recently passed best friend, Wayne Shorter. 

    Ended with some Headhunters pieces and never played Water Melon Man. 

     

     

  21. Gerald Wilson 1950 San Francisco Concert

    in Discography

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    23 hours ago, JSngry said:

    No you're not. That's the ongoing speculation - who is the second alto player?

    I am hearing Dolphy, based on the tone and a few micro quirks in the playing. Check it out a 1:56

    Me too. But do you think he has the rest of the photos right excluding those of Wille Smith? 

  23. Newport Jazz Festival 70th Anniversary

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    1 hour ago, JSngry said:

    When was that, and where?

    I love Louis Jordan, but his mass popularity was far behind him by the time of the modern jazz festivals.

    Was it something that Johnny Otis was booking? Didn't Jordan and Otis do business together for a minute or two in the late 60s?

    It was a club booking: The Zanzibar, 1945.

  24. Newport Jazz Festival 70th Anniversary

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    On 4/9/2024 at 2:44 PM, Ken Dryden said:

    George Wein included non-jazz acts because of the bottom line, he said so in more than one article and I think his autobiography.

    I do find it puzzling as to why the non jazz acts are often the first 8 to 10 acts billed for what is supposed to be a jazz festival. I feel like the Jazz Masters on the bill deserve better, having somebody like Bruce Springsteen billed above Duke Ellington is ridiculous (though Duke would have not shown up had that happened).

    Duke was pissed when Louis Jordan was billed above him. But he did show up. 

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