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Friends & Neighbors: Monktail Creative Music Concern presents SOUNDS OUTSIDE A Celebration of Adventurous Music & Community Saturday, August 15 Cal Anderson Park, 1635 11th Ave (between E. Denny & E. Pine) Music 1 - 8 pm FREE 1:00 Melbatones 2:30 Figeater 4:00 Greg Sinibaldi 5:30 Syncopated Taint Horn Quartet 7:00 Bert Wilson featuring special between set performances by Jabon Melbatones David Milford - violin Craig Flory - tenor saxophone Steven Fandrich - piano John Seman - bass Mark Ostrowski - drums Figeater Beth Fleenor - clarinet, bass clarinet, beth boxing Paris Hurley - violin Samantha Boshnack - trumpet Stephen Fandrich - piano Jeff Huston - electronics Stephen Parris - guitar John Seman - bass Mark Ostrowski - drums Greg Sinibaldi Greg Sinibaldi - tenor Mark Taylor - alto Zach Stewart - guitar Geoff Harper - bass Byron Vannoy - drums Syncopated Taint Horn Quartet Skerik, Craig Flory, Dave Carter and Hans Teuber Bert Wilson Bert Wilson - saxophones Nancy Curtis - flute Craig Hoyer - piano Mike Barnett - bass Greg Campbell - drums For more information please visit: www.soundsoutside.com http://www.seattleweekly.com/events/sounds-outside-739302/ Sounds Outside Saturday, August 15 Mark D. Fefer Players in Seattle’s creative-music scene can most often be heard in two types of venues: austere, low-budget rooms like Gallery 1412, or high-minded, august recital halls like the Good Shepherd Center. That’s why the Sounds Outside festival is such a welcome antidote. For once, you get to enjoy some of Seattle’s most remarkable musicians while stretched out the lawn with a breeze between your toes. And it’s free! This second and final concert of the fest features several players from Monktail, the collective that spearheads the event—including a strange and beautiful trio led by clarinetist Beth Fleenor. Other woodwind innovators on the bill include Greg Sinabaldi, who’ll have a quintet of top Seattle jazz partisans, and the indomitable Skerik, leading a saxophone quartet. The day closes with a 7 p.m. show from Bert Wilson, the wheelchair-riding alto-sax legend from Olympia, who rarely resurfaces, and whose performance at the Bellevue Jazz Festival almost thirty years ago is burned into my memory. If Coltrane’s Live in Seattle was one of the most creatively scary things ever to happen in this city, then Wilson’s show that day was likewise for Bellevue. Frankly, this lineup would be essential listening even if you had to pay money to spend the afternoon in a metal folding chair in an airless cube. The fact that you don’t makes it unmissable. All ages.

Don't miss this show! Paul Harding has been the Obi-Wan of New Jazz Music in Seattle for an entire generation, and he just moved back to his hometown of Brooklyn. We love this guy. We miss this guy. He sat in with our trio Floss at the 2003 Earshot Jazz Festival. Video clip below:

Do not pass up a trip to Wall of Sound on Capitol Hill, E Pine between Melrose and Bellevue. Jeffery Taylor is a wizard and his store is a treasure chest. www.wosound.com 315 E Pine St Seattle, WA 98122 (206) 441-9880 If you're in Queen Anne, and enjoy looking through thorough but expensive releases, see Silver Platters at 701 5th Ave N (Corner of 5th and Roy). 206-283-3472. Ask for Mark, Brad or Gabe. It's only a half-mile east of Easy Street (which you should visit first - ask for Jody). If you make it to that neighborhood, also check out Underdawg Records, which is around the corner at 532 Queen Anne Avenue N. Bud's is closed, by the way.

Nothing to add other than the AB cello-guitar-tuba band is one of my all time favorite ensembles. When I finally discovered this music I couldn't believe how long I had gone without it. I had In The Tradition for years, with no idea what I was in for. I love it when that happens. I'd also recommend the Gil Evans recordings Priestess and Live at the Public Theater with Blythe. The latter has a ripping version of Stone Free, an arrangement not on Evans' Hendrix LP. For no reason, I'll also give props to Oliver Lake's Life Dance Of Is, which I always bust out once I listen to any of the above. I found the Sunshine LP at a store in Denver a few months ago, and couldn't believe what I heard. It reminded me of Beefheart's "Tragic Band" period. Blood Ulmer's Columbia recordings would make a smart Mosaic set. And don't miss America - Do You Remember the Love? on Blue Note.

Monktail Creative Music Concern presents Sounds Outside 2008 July 19 & August 23, 2008 Cal Anderson Park / 1635 11th Ave (between Denny & Pine) Free and open to the public Music from 1 – 8 pm Saturday, July 19 1:00 Paul Harding & the Juju Detective Agency 2:30 The Owcharuk Sextet 4:00 Bill Horist 5:30 Cuong Vu featuring SPEAK 7:00 Blue Cranes Saturday, August 23 1:00 Floss featuring Zachary Watkins 2:30 Reptet 4:00 Aram Shelton + Special O.P.S. 5:30 Ahamefule J. Oluo and the New Seattle Brass Ensemble featuring Okanomodé 7:00 The Wally Shoup Free Three In 2006, the Monktail Creative Music Concern teamed up with Seattle Parks and Recreation to produce Sounds Outside, a day-long festival of music in Capitol Hill’s Cal Anderson Park. The excitement of the first concert led MCMC to produce another multi-day festival in the summer of 2007, which featured performances by Wayne Horvitz, Skerik, Paul Rucker, and the Degenerate Art Ensemble, among others. It was met with much acclaim, not to mention naked bicyclists, surprise guests, and other creative happenings. For 2008, MCMC has once again rallied the troops to produce the third annual festival series, Sounds Outside: A Celebration of Adventurous Music and Community. Boasting a dynamic line-up and an opportunity for audiences to get up close and personal with the artists in two action-packed, sound pumpin’ events, Sounds Outside 2008 will once again prove MCMC’s point – that creative music can be a whopping good time. For one Saturday in July and in August, Cal Anderson Park will be filled with sounds of a different sort. Sounds Outside is an opportunity to share experimental music with the public at large, offering a new setting for the artists and new sounds to anyone willing to listen. Combined with arts-focused showcases, and supported by local foundations, organizations, businesses, and individuals, MCMC has assembled a lineup of some of Seattle’s most innovative, adventurous, experimental, and entertaining musicians. It is our hope that a diverse audience will come together to enjoy the upcoming festivities, and celebrate the dynamic community to which we all belong. http://soundsoutside.com/

Something I haven't read here is Zappa's sociological resonance. The stupid lyrics (Bwana Dik, poop chute) are not there to merely grace us with their presence. They are cultural artifacts of life in 20th century America. These words (many of them) were produced by our society itself and Zappa only chose to remind us of our blossoming disintellect, our unabated consumerism, our downfall as a nation. Here we all are in 2008. Was he wrong?

Bring some organic carrots. and JAM!

Anyone have one they'd like to part with to a good home? PM for a good time. Thanks.

Pat Metheny - Zero Tolerance for Silence I have been on a Metheny kick lately, enjoying 80/81, Bright Size Life, the Song X reissue, and this which I found for a dollar. I don't know why Metheny doesn't get more respect. He forged his own path with his own music for many years. Like Spinal Tap's punctuality, I'm impressed with his perseverance.

But we're among friends! Since it's an imperfect science, I thought our findings might be of some help, or at least consolation.

From time to time I haul a batch of LPs off Ebay when I'm feeling flush and lazy. Where else do you cats dig through the virtual bins for potential finds? I've been burned by this method, for sure, but sometimes I can't help betting on finding some obscure or unique vinyl in good condition online. Where are your secret hideouts?

Slept on it before, but would love to find it now. PM or email please.

Another WB tragedy. Incredible sounds, though! This one has always bothered me, although I enjoy the music:

From Salon today: My take on this was Tony's luck returned with the death of Christopher, at least in his mind. He expected to lose, but just kept winning, and then it dawned on him that "He's dead. " The curse is lifted, and lifted by Tony being the murderous, cold-hearted bastard he truly is. He gets it. Be true to thyself, or, look out for yourself, fuck everybody else. I think Tony might just whack everybody, Phil and AJ included.

GNYAH! Happy Birthday, see. GNYAH!

"Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." Frank Zappa, 1973

Eternal Flame today at www.zappa.com. They have done a number of flash tributes on Dec 4. My favorite is http://zappa.com/dec/.

“It goes sumpin’ like this: Consumption of BEER leads to pseudo-military behavior. Think about it — winos don’t march. Whisky guys don’t march either (sometimes they write poetry, which is often more horrible, though). BEER drinkers are into things that are sorta like marching – like football. Go ahead and laugh…every industrialized country has A BEER, You can't be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need A BEER. In contrast to Mr. Beer Guy, picture a guy who is religiously devoted to Chateau Latour. Is he marching? HE AIN’T MARCHING!” -FZ

I took Persichetti's book out of my high school library and still reference it over 15 years later. I think I even had to pay for it to be replaced to get my diploma. I carried it around to every class and read it cover to cover several times. It was a harmonic skeleton key to a kid in concert and jazz band. I love that book! Also recommended is Schoenberg's Harmonielehre. A sort of treatise before he cracked the egg wide open.

Kiss my McNugget!

I believe that's what he called, "putting the eyebrows on it."

I don't know about that. They certainly can be analyzed differently: http://www.zappateers.com/diapo.php?cat=17&expand=15

Who says playing over some changes is the mark of a great improviser? That's like trying to convince yourself you still fit into that tuxedo from 20 years ago. So what? Get it? "So what?" FZ was a modal vamp soloist, exploring harmony through melody and tension through rhythm. His interplay with drummers is legendary, and although his vamps are very often two chords, that's because they are in the middle of goddam rock tunes. Through the 80's he developed the "non-vamp" which has the band laying down sustained, non-metric, polytonal arpeggiated figures, offering the solosit complete freedom from meter, tempo and other Western music constraints. Forget all that though. Zappa could play mean, unmitigated blues. And he had guys like George Duke in the band, who did play over changes like those in Inca Roads.

from www.zappa.com FRANK ZAPPA Imaginary Diseases $17.00 1. Oddients 1:13 2. Rollo 3:21 3. Been To Kansas City In A Minor 10:15 4. Farther O'Blivion 16:02 5. D.C. Boogie 13:27 6. Imaginary Diseases 9:45 7. Montreal 9:11 Produced by FZ All tracks mixed, edited & tweaked by FZ Vaultmeisterment & Compilation by Joe Travers, UMRK Mastered by Doug Sax & Robert Hadley Original 1972 masters recorded by Barry Keene Mix engineers: Kerry McNabb, Michael Braunstein, Davey Moire Executive Production, Art Direction & Text by GZ Liner notes by Steve Vai Photos by Bernard Gardner & others Design & Layout by Tracy Veal October 27-December 15, 1972 FZ--conductor, guitar, vocals Tony Duran--slide guitar Malcolm McNab--trumpet Gary Barone--trumpet, flugelhorn Tom Malone--tuba, saxes, piccolo trumpet, trumpet Bruce Fowler--trombone Glenn Ferris--trombone Earle Dumler--woodwinds Dave Parlato--bass Jim Gordon--drums I recently acquired this little artifact, and it is fantastic! If you are a fan of Waka/Wazoo, do yourself a favor and grab it now!

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