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[HutchFan]

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Akira Miyazawa Quartet – Kiso (Victor JP, 1970)

This album was made less than a year after Bull Trout, and the band members are the same -- except from the drummer.  Takeo Moriyama replaces Masahiko Togashi -- and his propulsive, frenetic drumming definitely alters the trajectory of the music.

 

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, Teasing the Korean said:

 

• Hubler & Schwab - Vampyros Lesbos

When I was a kid, Channel 4 in the UK used to show art house or foreign films on a Friday evening, chosen and introduced by the film critic Mark Kermode (still going).

As a teenaged boy in a pre-internet era, these Friday night foreign and arthouse films were one of the few reliable sources of (ahem) "intellectual stimulation" that was available.

You would have Kermode and his quiff talking for 15 minutes, inevitably something about how the film you were about to see recontextualised and reframed modes of alienation through its subversively marxist use of mise-en-scene, and then you'd finally get onto what you were watching for, which was sub-titles and generous pubic carpetry. 

Anyway, Vampyros Lesbos was typical of Kermode's highly intellectual choices (presumably the producers knew their audience). 

I remember watching it and being really impressed by the soundtrack (even if it failed to live up to its name when it came to the amount of full frontal 'mise-en-scene' shown).

I'm going to track it down. Thanks for the reminder.

Edited October 3, 2023 by Rabshakeh

[Teasing the Korean]

5 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

When I was a kid, Channel 4 in the UK used to show art house or foreign films on a Friday evening, chosen and introduced by the film critic Mark Kermode (still going).

As a teenaged boy in a pre-internet era, these Friday night foreign and arthouse films were one of the few reliable sources of (ahem) "intellectual stimulation" that was available.

You would have Kermode and his quiff talking for 15 minutes, inevitably something about how the film you were about to see recontextualised and reframed modes of alienation through its subversively marxist use of mise-en-scene, and then you'd finally get onto what you were watching for, which was sub-titles and generous pubic carpetry. 

Anyway, Vampyros Lesbos was typical of Kermode's highly intellectual choices (presumably the producers knew their audience). 

I remember watching it and being really impressed by the soundtrack (even if it failed to live up to its name when it came to the amount of full frontal 'mise-en-scene' shown).

I'm going to track it down. Thanks for the reminder.

Ha ha!  Brilliantly described!

There are two versions of Vampyros Lesbos - one with 14 tracks and one with 17.  I have the CD with 14 tracks, but then bought the other three as lossless downloads from Qobuz.  Try to get the longer version if you can find it.  The tracks feature unusual juxtapositions of funk beats, brass, sitars, and wordless vocals.  I never get tired of it, but at the same time, I generally only listen in October.

[Rabshakeh]

22 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Ha ha!  Brilliantly described!

There are two versions of Vampyros Lesbos - one with 14 tracks and one with 17.  I have the CD with 14 tracks, but then bought the other three as lossless downloads from Qobuz.  Try to get the longer version if you can find it.  The tracks feature unusual juxtapositions of funk beats, brass, sitars, and wordless vocals.  I never get tired of it, but at the same time, I generally only listen in October.

Thanks!

[Peter Friedman]

[ghost of miles]

Btw anybody heard this one yet?

Dear Tubby H: Simon Spillett

[Ken Dryden]

4 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

I've only discovered Michael Franks recently. I'm not a huge fan, but I really can't believe how much his stuff was ripped off by so many of those British Columbia indie bands that Pitchfork Media so desperately wanted to marry in the 00s, without anyone ever mentioning his name.

That Kaputt album by Dan Bejar was a particular example.

 

3 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Ha ha!  Brilliantly described!

There are two versions of Vampyros Lesbos - one with 14 tracks and one with 17.  I have the CD with 14 tracks, but then bought the other three as lossless downloads from Qobuz.  Try to get the longer version if you can find it.  The tracks feature unusual juxtapositions of funk beats, brass, sitars, and wordless vocals.  I never get tired of it, but at the same time, I generally only listen in October.

Sorry, but Michael Franks' voice and his annoying lyrics drove me crazy when my station played him to death in the early 1990s. Especially "Popsicle Toes" and "When the Cookie Jar is Empty," or whatever that song was called.

 

[jazzbo]

For Mahalia, With Love” James Brandon Lewis/Red Lily Quintet

I got this a month ago and started listening to it. I definitely was not feeling it. It seemed like someone fabricating a work like someone else’s. Re-visiting it tonight I am past that and enjoying it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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40 minutes ago, Ken Dryden said:

 

Sorry, but Michael Franks' voice and his annoying lyrics drove me crazy when my station played him to death in the early 1990s. Especially "Popsicle Toes" and "When the Cookie Jar is Empty," or whatever that song was called.

 

Me no likey as well.

[JSngry]

Who is Red Lily? 

[jazzbo]

About thirty seconds of internet search will reveal an answer.

[Rabshakeh]

5 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

 

Sorry, but Michael Franks' voice and his annoying lyrics drove me crazy when my station played him to death in the early 1990s. Especially "Popsicle Toes" and "When the Cookie Jar is Empty," or whatever that song was called.

I didn’t say I liked him. 

Sorry for your trauma. 

[Gheorghe]

15 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Ray Brown was one of the leaders of post war bass, maybe the greatest. I´m mostly interested in his work before he jumped on the "Granz-Wagon" , with Diz, Bird and so on. 

In his later years I had the impression that he turned up his amp on a very loud volume. I like a good bass sound, but I think that was a bit too much of volume for the bass. 

I had seen Benny Green when he was with Art Blakey. That was a helluva band, but most of us listeners here in Viena was quite surprised that a little guy who looked much more like a college boy plays so much piano, and fast and hip and quick. He was the surprise of the evening. 

I don´t really know about drummer Jeff Hamilton, maybe he worked in other contexts than what I usually listen to. 

[optatio]

32 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

I had seen Benny Green when he was with Art Blakey. That was a helluva band, but most of us listeners here in Viena was quite surprised that a little guy who looked much more like a college boy plays so much piano, and fast and hip and quick. He was the surprise of the evening. 

Me too in Hildesheim + Wallace Roney, Javon Jackson, Julian Priester and Peter Washington. Art Blakey always looked at Benny Green with a smile!

[BillF]

[jazzbo]

The New John Handy Quintet “New View” Columbia / Koch cd

 

 

Talk online of Handy made me seek this one out from the shelves. What a band! Albert Stinson was taken from us too soon.

Alto Saxophone – John Handy
Bass – Albert Stinson
Drums – Doug Sides
Guitar – Pat Martino
Vibraphone – Bobby Hutcherson

[Gheorghe]

1 hour ago, optatio said:

Me too in Hildesheim + Wallace Roney, Javon Jackson, Julian Priester and Peter Washington. Art Blakey always looked at Benny Green with a smile!

oh very interesting, I would have liked to see that edition.

In my case it was in the late 80´s and it was Javon Jackson if I remember right, and it was Peter Washington I think, but no Roney and no Julian Priester which I would have liked to hear. 

I don´t remember who was the trumpet player , the trombone player I think was a very young guy, but they all was great and yeah, Benny Green. The only white guy I had seen until then in a Blakey band was the Russian trumpet player Valeriu Ponomarev. 

[jazzbo]

More John Handy. . . “Mosaic Select” disc 1

The famous concert album.

[JSngry]

8 hours ago, jazzbo said:

About thirty seconds of internet search will reveal an answer.

You're right. Aliens DO live in rocks, thanks for the tip! 

[dougcrates]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

More John Handy. . . “Mosaic Select” disc 1

The famous concert album.

The booklet for this one contained the following "Hopefully the New View album, plus bonus material from the same Village Gate date, as well as other unreleased studio material with Hutcherson, will be the subject of a later Mosaic release."  It's a shame Mosaic didn't get around to that release.  

[John Tapscott]

[jazzbo]

1 hour ago, dougcrates said:

The booklet for this one contained the following "Hopefully the New View album, plus bonus material from the same Village Gate date, as well as other unreleased studio material with Hutcherson, will be the subject of a later Mosaic release."  It's a shame Mosaic didn't get around to that release.  

I guess. . .there's still hope!

Chick Corea + Origin “A Week at the Blue Note” disc 2

 

 

I really love this box set. Great music in sound that makes you feel you are there if you use your imagination.  

[kh1958]

Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Concert, Falkoner Centret, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 13, 1961 (Steeplechase)

[Teasing the Korean]

Jack Marshall - Munster, Go Home (La La Land)

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]