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  1. Making a good and lively show

    in Musician's Forum

    Posted

    You really don't have to say much. Sometimes just 'hello' will suffice. Talking to the crowd is not a bad idea, though. I remember the late Clarence 'C'. Sharpe relating a story wherein a club owner told him 'You're in show business! Open your mouth. Say something!' He started talking after that. C. was a talker, though, and that may not be you. I talk a bit on my own gigs if I'm the leader, and fancy myself a jokester.

    I think, though, it's the attitude you project more than what you say that will entertain and engage people. Just the basics: dress nicely, no surly looks, give the folks the feeling that you respect them and the $ they spent to come out and hear/support live music. All the while be yourself. People can read phoniness and will be turned off by it.

    The main point is that if people like you they may be more apt to like your music. Of course, never change a note of, or dumb down, your music. People will get it.

    Hope this helps a little...

  2. WKCR resumes online streaming

    in Jazz Radio & Podcasts

    Posted · Edited by fasstrack

    I wish KCR broadcasted jazz 24/7. Listening to WBGO right now, and they don't even come close to KCR's jazz programming. I do like Rhonda Hamilton---the host as I listen---she is knowledgeable and personable. But the playlist I can live without. They just played a ditzy Pat Metheny Brazilian composition, for example. 

    Long live WKCR!

  3. WKCR resumes online streaming

    in Jazz Radio & Podcasts

    Posted · Edited by fasstrack

    On 14/01/2016 at 8:01 PM, MomsMobley said:

    ...espcially tonight I missed beloved Sharif Abdus Salaam... 

     

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    I can attest that Sharif is a great guy. I was a guest on his show, and was treated royally, also the same when I ran into him afterwards. He is warm and positive, and, perhaps most importantly, plays artists deserving of airplay whom WBGO wouldn't touch. 

     

  12. Now reading...

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    I'm on a autodidact musical self-improvement bender. Currently reading Something to Live For (Walter van de Leur), which analyzes examples of Billy Strayhorn's pieces---and I just ordered Don Sebesky's The Contemporary Arranger (not so 'contemporary' anymore, I believe it came out around '79, but still a great arranging textbook/CD)...

  15. Return Of The Film Corner Thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by fasstrack

    After A Bronx Tale I later watched Donnie Brasco (geez, I need some things to do...).

    Funniest line: Lefty, on ABSCAM boat with Donnie/Joe: You go to the bough. I'll stay at the stern...

    10 hours ago, BERIGAN said:

    I see no reason to apologize for liking this film! It's great! It's been awhile since I've seen it, but I loved it when Chazz Palminteri's charater is asked by the kid how to know if a girl is the right girl, and after saying something somewhat generic , he takes it back and says no, if she unlocks the drivers door of the car for you from inside, she's the girl...

    heh, of course it's on youtube... you will have to watch the film to find out if she does or doesn't (or just search on youtube) ;)

       

    Palmentieri looked amazingly death-like lying in the coffin. Just like a real stiff...

  16. Sonny Rollins in Denmark

    in Artists

    Posted

    I did think Sonny and the band were a bit subdued on this. Not at all a bad thing, BTW. His solos were shorter and less exploratory than the usual for this period.

    I have a feeling that this performance was taped in a T.V. studio with no audience present (there is no applause audible), therefore the numbers perhaps had to be somewhat truncated...

  18. Sonny Rollins in Denmark

    in Artists

    Posted

    Notice how Kenny Drew solves Sonny's piano 'problem' by laying out for most of Sonny's choruses. It's generally a good orchestrational device, anyway, waiting and introducing a new color. Works well here...

    ...choruses on the first tune, I meant. Wasn't allowed to edit my post for some reason...

  19. Return Of The Film Corner Thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Just watched A Bronx Tale. Call me lowbrow, but I thought it damn good. It had a lot of heart---even had Duke Pearson's Cristo Redentor in the soundtrack in one scene. Only thing is, DeNiro should pay royalties to Martin Scorsese. The gangster scenes were pretty derivative, down to the use of music. Hell of a movie, though, for what it tried to do and did...

  20. Frank Zappa

    in Artists

    Posted

    In an interview in the documentary Eat That Question he seemed to infer that he was deemed more interesting than his music. He said, more or less, 'I'm famous, but no one seems to know what for'...

  21. Return Of The Film Corner Thread

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by fasstrack

    On 07/08/2016 at 11:34 PM, kinuta said:

    Ridley Scott double bill.

    Body Of Lies (2008)

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    American Gangster (2007)

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    I saw American Gangster. Brutal. IIRC, Ruby Dee played Washington's character's mother...

    On 06/08/2016 at 1:36 PM, medjuck said:

     

    On 04/08/2016 at 3:58 PM, duaneiac said:

    Now on my list of "worst movies ever made" --

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    This movie is truly awful!  It's a sequel to the 1968 movie Salt & Pepper (but see, Sammy Davis is Charlie Salt and Peter Lawford is Chris Pepper -- bet you didn't see that coming -- and sadly, that's the level of humor to be found here).  I saw that film a few years ago and found it mildly amusing, but this piece of crap was unbearable.  I actually could not make it all the way through the movie, which is very rare for me.  The two characters are co-owners of a swinging London nightclub who get into financial trouble so Pepper goes to see his identical twin brother, Lord Pepper for help.  Shortly after that, Lord Pepper is murdered and Mr. Pepper assumes his identity and title and life of wealth & ease without telling his friend Salt.  But it turns out Lord Pepper had been working with Interpol to break a diamond smuggling ring and he had double crossed both the smugglers and Interpol so they are all out to get him.  Hilarious, right?  It is so, so sad watching two middle aged men who have obviously been doing too much drugs trying to be late-1960's hip.  The one and only good point of the movie (or at least the portion of it that I could sit through) was Sammy Davis' performance of "When The Feeling Hits You", which is actually one of his better recordings of that era.  Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing do make a cameo appearance together, but their scene is ruined by Mr. Davis' mugging.

    That tag line at the top of the movie poster is funnier than anything to be found in the movie.

    I dare any of you to watch this movie all the way through!

     

    Hilarious! Thanks, I've been needing to laugh all day. Maybe one day I'll see this piece of dog crap and laugh at it...

    Here's a review: https://letterboxd.com/film/one-more-time/

  23. Who did you miss when they were alive

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted

    On 12/07/2016 at 1:18 PM, Hot Ptah said:

    I missed Charles Mingus because my ears opened up to jazz about a month after he played live in my city. I never had another opportunity to see him before he died.

     

    The only time I ever saw Charles Mingus in the flesh he was not performing. He walked into Bradley's in the mid-late 70s. Jimmy Raney was on the stand. Mingus's arms were like tree trunks. I caught a tad of his conversation, something to the effect of 'that's what I been doing'...

    On 06/08/2016 at 5:57 PM, psu_13 said:

     

    But, I grew up in Amherst, MA where Roach was in the music department at UMass for my entire childhood. Sadly I didn't know anything about Jazz until I left for college. :( 

    I do recall seeing Max Roach once. Don't remember the details, but it was a Dizzy Gillespie event at Lincoln Center, and Paul West was on bass. Max was sort of challenging him by accenting 1 and 3, perhaps to see how West would react.

    He came into the Schomberg performance space in the '90s, to hear a tribute to Nat Cole. He was dressed like a king, and beamed when he said to the audience he was amid 'thank you all for coming'. I seem to recall him grabbing my arm at that moment...

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