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I have a track remixed by him from Rosalia De Souza, a Brazilian singer. From 2004. From her Garota Diferente. This record is all tracks from her debut Garota Moderna, remixed. Though that's more in what I'd call a Clubjazz bag. Danceable music with a jazz underscore. Like jazzfunk is, for example.

I thankfully have that.

I just bought a framed reproduction of the Prestige cover of Monk & Rollins. A long dream of mine that goes back some years. Thanks to a site that has them: Fine Art of America, of which I learned thanks to a member here. I had seen it previously, but long ago, from Concord. But that isn't available anymore. Now I'll have to decide what to do with it.

Listening to this as a companion to the book I'm reading. But I have to wonder these must have been produced after the fact, since the first is from 1953. His Jam Sessions were his beginnings and they predate his JATP concerts, which started in 1944. And where (JATP) he applied the principle of his jam sessions to a bigger frame. But the jam sessions are great. With all the usual suspects, including Benny Carter, Charlie Parker, Flip Phillips, Oscar Peterson, Barney Kessel, Sweets Edison and many others. And I just discovered this is already a sought after piece, that was first released in 2005, 6 or 7.

I am really enjoying this book. Had it for a long time (many, many years), but only got around to reading it now. It's interesting for how it depicts the jazz scene in LA in the 40s. And Granz' upcoming as a jew. And it's also interesting how it describes how the musicians he would champion in later years first introduced him to the jazz scene in the beginning igniting a passion that would remain for the rest of his life. People like Roy Eldridge, Lester Young or Nat Cole. They were his friends.

Some nice Burrell. But although it says here Chess it was an Argo release.

Now that I think of it King Crimson had an excellent record in the 80s. In 81 or 82, called Discipline. With Adrian Belew, one of my favorite rock guitarists.

That one I don't know. It must be a more recent one? But I was a real Herzoghead for some time in the early 80s.

Robert Fripp once had a band called like this. Of course after King Crimson, at the beginning of the 80s IIRC. That one, together with Fitzcarraldo, is for me easily the best Herzog movie. Herzog with his fetish actor Klaus Kinski, in the role of a Spanish Conquistador. You can't go wrong with that pair. In the book I'm reading on Krautrock the chapter I finished today talked both and together about Popol Vuh and Werner Herzog. Logic if you consider the former signed many soundtracks for him. Among them their perhaps most famous to Aguirre.

In pop and rock 1985 was a turning point, the second half of the decade being VERY different from the first.

Me too. Right now. Thanks.

I browsed IMDB the other day to learn about the music. And I found out Umberto Eco also appears in the movie as a guest at the party. He must have been young then. I read one of his books in university, The Definition of Art. He only got into writing novels later. At the beginning he was a non fiction writer.

The cover of this one, what you posted, was my avatar here for quite a time. And yes it's very good. One of his masterworks IMHO.

Very good. I love it too.You can find it on Marcos Valle records from the 70s.

I was going to do the same but have ended with the Complete Prestige set, which I like perhaps even some more. All his classics are there and in their original incarnation, which for me is very important. Plus, last not least, it's a K2.

When I saw that famous photo with Iggy Pop from when his last album came out I remember I thought he looks really much younger than Pop. But that can have something to do with Iggy Pop's lifestyle and with Smith wearing a turban. At the time I thought he was older, but I'll check now. They can easily be in the same age group. Iggy Pop is also in his 70s IIRC.

Same here.

I think that's the case. Because rock guitarists are much more objects of adulation.

I've got that one and it's brilliant. Very, very good.

Sound and Vision by Bowie. From Low. One of my favorite songs by him (there are so many great ones). And it's from the Berlin trilogy. An absolute bonus for me.

A mesmerizing book about Krautrock. Not only that, it's also about the rebuilding of postwar Germany, as the krautrockers seeked to build a new mode of expression leaving old Germany and also English/American imperialism behind. They were late 60s hippies, and it's all too understandable. And the book is very well written and documented. I can feel that as a half German. I used to spend all my summers in Germany in the 60s (as a kid) and the 70s (as a teenager), and the first 80s (as a twen). And I've got a feeling for what that country was up to. The author, from whom I'm also expecting another book on the history of electronica (Mars by 1980), seems to have a deep knowledge of Germany going back to his own schooldays.

Yes, Mr. Bongo are good. Specifically with Brazilian things. And, as I just posted before, I didn't know anything about it before I heard it. It just came up.

Yes, I checked out the Piri album. And I didn't either know what I posted. Never had heard of it. But it came up after I played Piri.

Another fantastic Brazilian album. Look at the artist's name alone. And the cover, asking where do we come from?

I just got a bunch of Burrell Albums including this one and Asphalt Canyon Suite a.o. from CDJapan. A very satisfying experience. They were 1500 yen a pop. I now realize this is the Freshsound edition. Which I also have, just don't ask me where. So it would me more like this: