Music and Politics: Strange Bedfellows Get Stranger

[Lazaro Vega]

http://frakathustra.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/music-and-politics-strange-bedfellows-get-stranger/

[Teasing the Korean]

Let's hope Wynton never gets into politics. I can only imagine what his brand of "democracy" would look like!

[Larry Kart]

Oh. My. God.

[Teasing the Korean]

"Let Freedom Swing" would have been a great concept for a Sinatra album of patriotic tunes! Arrangements by Billy May.

Edited November 14, 2010 by Teasing the Korean

[Van Basten II]

Ain't getting in that bed anytime soon. !

[MomsMobley]

Beyond. Fucking. Insipid.

And please. Please. PLEASE. Everyone--

Read any/everything by John Hope Franklin before taking these "freedom" "jazz" knuckleheads say.

Also, on "Democracy," Henry Adams ain't too shabby.

Ossie Davis reading Frederick Douglass is nice but everyone needs much MORE than that too.

Oh. My. God.

Edited November 14, 2010 by MomsMobley

[Face of the Bass]

It's like a Ken Burns wet dream, which is to say, horrifying.

[JSngry]

Do you guys still have any doubt that the dream as we knew it is gone for good?

Which is not to say that there's no room for dreams, or even new versions of the old dream, just that this one is finito, history, O-ver.

[Teasing the Korean]

I want to talk more about the would-be Sinatra album "Let Freedom Swing."

I imagine it coming out circa 1966, Vietnam in full swing (pardon the pun), Frank is on Reprise and putting on weight.

Side 1 opens with "My Country Tis of Thee." It starts out very slow, solemn and straight:

My country tis of the thee

Sweet land of liberty

Of thee I sing

Then there's this huge WOLLOP with a snare hit and screamin' brass:

Land where my ol' man died (saxes answering in portamento thirds, a Billy May trademark)

etc.

God, I wish this album would exist.

[ghost of miles]

I like your concept, TTK. In the meantime, vis-a-vis the thread topic, I think I'll stick with this instead:

[AllenLowe]

just read that Marsalis script - god, that's the stupidest effing thing I ever saw.

makes one yearn for the good old days of Stalin and Hitler......

Edited November 15, 2010 by AllenLowe

[JSngry]

I want to talk more about the would-be Sinatra album "Let Freedom Swing."

I imagine it coming out circa 1966, Vietnam in full swing (pardon the pun), Frank is on Reprise and putting on weight.

Side 1 opens with "My Country Tis of Thee." It starts out very slow, solemn and straight:

My country tis of the thee

Sweet land of liberty

Of thee I sing

Then there's this huge WOLLOP with a snare hit and screamin' brass:

Land where my ol' man died (saxes answering in portamento thirds, a Billy May trademark)

etc.

God, I wish this album would exist.

The album as you describe it would have probably ultimately (albeit a few years earlier) been better suited for Bobby Darin...

[Teasing the Korean]

I wonder if the LCJO or whatever it's called got some huge grant, and WM has to dream up stupid ways to justify spending it.

[Hoppy T. Frog]

The first verse ends with the line Let freedom ring! which is the beginning of the anthemic chorus from Martina McBride‘s hit tune Independence Day (which is the theme song to Sean Hannity’s Radio Show).

I'm amusing myself with the thought of Sean Hannity's theme song being "accidentally" replaced with the Comsat Angels' "Independence Day."