clifford_thornton Posted October 10, 2023 Report Share Posted October 10, 2023 19 hours ago, mjazzg said: Singularity Codex, Matthew Shipp on RogueArt - @clifford_thornton This is very readable, about a third in. Great to hear the multiple voices tell the story Yes! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted November 22, 2023 Report Share Posted November 22, 2023 (edited) Started reading this recent chance purchase now: "Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This" by Val Wilmer. Very interesting and fascinating, and exploring the jazz scene of that period (and its place in society) from a somewhat different angle. Edited November 22, 2023 by Big Beat Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted November 22, 2023 Report Share Posted November 22, 2023 Bought a used copy 7 years ago and, yes, interestingly different. 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sidewinder Posted November 22, 2023 Report Share Posted November 22, 2023 11 hours ago, Big Beat Steve said: Started reading this recent chance purchase now: "Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This" by Val Wilmer. Very interesting and fascinating, and exploring the jazz scene of that period (and its place in society) from a somewhat different angle. There is an exhibition of her photos taking place in a North London gallery this month. I am in London one day next week and tempted to check it out, if I have enough time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted November 22, 2023 Report Share Posted November 22, 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/nov/21/fela-kuti-bb-king-jimi-hendrix-miles-davis-val-wilmer-mi6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmonahan Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 On 5/18/2023 at 3:34 PM, gmonahan said: Still occasionally reading in this fun book. Recently, I read the passage where someone asked Zoot Sims what it was like performing with Benny Goodman in the much maligned tour of Russia. Answer: "Every gig with Benny is like playing in Russia." Ouch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted December 3, 2023 Report Share Posted December 3, 2023 Valerie Vilmer´s Jazz People. Great book, the best interview with Thelonious Monk I ever read. He is really he himself. Don´t worry, or better said in his own words or music "Worry Later". Great interviews. Only the one with Jaws is too much about booking, nothing about his music.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted December 3, 2023 Report Share Posted December 3, 2023 On 11/22/2023 at 11:02 AM, EKE BBB said: 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopkins Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 (edited) Am reading John S. Wilson's "The Collector's Jazz - Modern" and am finding it very enjoyable. He pulls no punches with musicians he does not appreciate (at the time - it was written in 1958), but have discovered some nice albums through his comments about those he does appreciate. Edited December 19, 2023 by hopkins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 I was given this book to read many years ago and I've only just gotten around to reading it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 16 minutes ago, bresna said: I was given this book to read many years ago and I've only just gotten around to reading it. Strangely enough, I bought a copy many years ago and also have yet to get round to reading it ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 20 minutes ago, bresna said: I was given this book to read many years ago and I've only just gotten around to reading it. Balliett's such a talented author that I always enjoy his writing -- even when I disagree with his musical point of view. He sometimes says downright silly things, like calling Max Roach's drumming "ugly." But I suppose you've got to take the bad with the good and the good with the bad. And the good definitely outweighs the bad, IMO. My 2 cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 21 minutes ago, HutchFan said: Balliett's such a talented author that I always enjoy his writing -- even when I disagree with his musical point of view. He sometimes says downright silly things, like calling Max Roach's drumming "ugly." But I suppose you've got to take the bad with the good and the good with the bad. And the good definitely outweighs the bad, IMO. My 2 cents. I read that long ago. Balliett's a very good writer (for instance, I recall an excellent passage about Mingus), but I didn't agree with some of his opinions. I found his extreme dislike of hard bop kind of amusing...in that vein I also recall a brief rant about JR Montrose's ugly playing. No longer own the book, donated it to a library as part of downsizing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopkins Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 I enjoy his portraits. They are all in the New Yorker's online Archive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmonahan Posted December 19, 2023 Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 Two chapters into this new one. I'm liking it so far. She's done some good work on Ella's early years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted December 21, 2023 Report Share Posted December 21, 2023 The hardcover from JIB. But there's now a paperback available from Amazon and presumably elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazaro Vega Posted December 21, 2023 Report Share Posted December 21, 2023 On 12/19/2023 at 4:43 PM, gmonahan said: Two chapters into this new one. I'm liking it so far. She's done some good work on Ella's early years. I read the Chick Webb bio this summer, "Rhythm Man," that did a great job on her early career, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted December 25, 2023 Report Share Posted December 25, 2023 On 11/22/2023 at 12:02 PM, EKE BBB said: I just started it a few days ago. Got it from my wife. Right now I´m at the point where Sonny first had heard Hawk´s "Body and Soul" and his idols where Louis Jordan and then Hawk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted December 28, 2023 Report Share Posted December 28, 2023 On 12/25/2023 at 10:10 AM, Gheorghe said: I just started it a few days ago. Got it from my wife. Right now I´m at the point where Sonny first had heard Hawk´s "Body and Soul" and his idols where Louis Jordan and then Hawk. Currently delving into the East Broadway loft days chapter (1966). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted December 28, 2023 Report Share Posted December 28, 2023 37 minutes ago, EKE BBB said: Currently delving into the East Broadway loft days chapter (1966). So you are more into it. I´m just where they talk about the Charlie Parker Influence, I think soon there will be Sonny´s first recording. About the mid 60´s period I don´t know almost nothing, somehow I have much of Sonny with Don Cherry, that step to avantgarde, and then is a big hole and then the 70´s where I saw him live and bought many of them Milestone records. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 On 12/28/2023 at 8:40 AM, EKE BBB said: Currently delving into the East Broadway loft days chapter (1966). Right now I start the chapter about his time in Chicago from 54´to 55´. A period that I didn´t know about. It´s great to read some inside info about his recording sessions with Miles, with Monk and the Modern Jazz Quartet from the early fifties. But I had not known that his drug addiction was so severe, what I read seems even worse than what I had read about Bird. Terrible. But not my really interest. I enjoyed the musical part of the story and am lookin´ foward to read about his further 50´s albums, those like "Collossus" and the BN period...... Some of my older friends back then had the "Way Out West" but somehow that hadn´t touched me really....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeBop Posted January 22 Report Share Posted January 22 Total Jazz by Blutch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmonahan Posted April 2 Report Share Posted April 2 I've had this one sitting on my shelf longer than I've had shelves, and I know I've read "in" it, maybe through it, though if so, longer ago than I can remember, so I've decided to read it through...again?! I find myself wishing I had the original 1955 edition with the discography that they decided to omit from the later editions. It would presumably have been mostly 78s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted April 3 Report Share Posted April 3 I'm just about finished "Unfinished Business"- The Life and Times of Danny Gatton". by Ralph Heibutzki. Up until now, I had thought Gatton was a great Rockabilly/Country/Blues player, but his real love was jazz, and he'd play these crazy solos that would mix all four of the styles of playing in one solo. He started off playing jazz archtop guitars, but then he saw Roy Buchanan play at some club in DC, and he let it be known that he was a better player than RB, so Roy got on the mic and said "I understand we've got a guy named Danny Gatton in the audience tonight who claims to be a better guitar player than me, so why don't you come up and show everybody how great you are- onstage". So Roy threw his Fender Telecaster at Danny, and Danny brought down the house with his playing. DG had never played a Telecaster before, but bought one after seeing Buchanan and started playing with the bridge pickup instead of the mellow neck pickup.He started playing his own version of Roy Buchanan's style, but got tired of that after a few years, and started a group with the great pedal steel guitar player, Buddy Emmons, and put out an album called "Redneck Jazz". Another interesting jazz player in the group was a pianist who was DG's strongest influence, Dick Heintze, who later played with Roy Buchanan, but developed MS and died at the age of 42. Gatton mainly played in the Maryland/DC area, and didn't like to tour, and was known as the World's Greatest Unknown Guitar Player. He committed suicide at the age of 49, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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