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  2. StopSmiling #34

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    Saw this while passing through a local Borders today... thought it might be of interest to the board populace at large...

    STOPSMILING: THE MAGAZINE FOR HIGH-MINDED LOWLIFES

    Issue #34: The Jazz Issue

    COVER STORIES

    ORNETTE COLEMAN + BOBBY HUTCHERSON + A TRIBUTE TO ERIC DOLPHY

    INTERVIEWS

    Ron Carter + Joe Chambers + Ira Gitler + Olu Dara + Lawrence Lucie + George Wein + Jeff Parker + Michael Cuscuna + Lorraine Gordon, owner of the Village Vanguard

    INTERVIEW & PHOTO ESSAY

    William Claxton on Jazz Life

    TRIBUTES

    Patricia Barber on NINA SIMONE + John Corbett on PETER BROTZMANN +

    Jim Dempsey on KEN VANDERMARK + Dick Buckley on TOMMY DORSEY

    EXCERPTS

    Ben Ratliff on JOHN COLTRANE (From Coltrane: The Story of a Sound)

    Arthur Taylor talks to MILES DAVIS (From Notes and Tones)

    Gary Giddins on THELONIOUS MONK (From Visions of Jazz)

    ESSAYS

    "Empty Forest Blues" by Phil Schaap

    "Letter From New Orleans: The Story of the Hot 8 Brass Band" by Richmond Eustis

    "Costuming the Super Anti-Hero: Sun Ra & Moondog" by Jamie Hayes

    "Keith Jarrett, Cross-Referencer" by Jonathan Rosenbaum

    VISUAL RESPONSE

    Art director and critic Steven Heller offers his impressions on the designs of classic jazz record sleeves

    FILM

    Seymour Cassel and Al Ruban on JOHN CASSAVETES + Edward Bland on

    The Cry of Jazz + Essential jazz DVDs

    LIMITED EDITION 7” SINGLE

    Two rare recordings from 1965 by German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann

    & MORE

  5. Saturday Night Live - Musical Guests

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Ornette and Prime Time were featured one night during the ill-fated 1980 season (I believe). I thought there was evidence of this on Youtube, but I cannot locate it at the moment.

    Captain Beefheart was also a musical guest in 1980, IIRC.

    The most memorable of these "I watched it live" performances? For me, Neil Young in 1989, doing a killer version of "No More" from FREEDOM.

  6. String Quartet Cycles

    in Classical Discussion

    Posted

    Larry -- thanks for the reply.

    Get your slings and arrows ready... I happened to hear the Orion Quartet's recording on Wynton Marsalis' "At The Octoroon Balls" on local radio here (KCSN) yesterday. Definitely a pastiche, but a pretty enjoyable pastiche overall.

  7. String Quartet Cycles

    in Classical Discussion

    Posted

    Rochberg. :tdown And I used to own them all, or all that were recorded. What a feeling of enlightment/liberation when I realized they needed to be dumped.

    Larry -- I'd be interested to know more about your experience with the Rochberg quartets. While I like the few of his early chamber works that I've encountered ("Serenata d'estate"), I'm sitting on the fence with respect to much of his other work.

    Not essential, and not easy to track down, but I have a mid-50s Columbia recording that pairs Lukas Foss' String Quartet No.1 with William Bergsma's String Quartet No. 3. Both interesting examples of how American composers at mid-century were trying to work around the overwhelming influence exerted by serialism. Glorious mono to boot.

  11. Ahmed Abdul-Malik

    in Artists

    Posted · Edited by Joe

    So, does the (pre-Concord) Fantasy JAZZ SOUNDS OF AFRICA CD 2-fer contain all of the material from THE MUSIC OF and SOUNDS OF AFRICA?

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    Track Listing:

    1) Nights On Saturn

    2) The Hustlers

    3) Oud Blues

    4) LA Ibkey

    5) Don't Blame Me

    6) Hannibal's Carnivals

    7) Wakida Hena

    8) African Bossa Nova

    9) Nadusilima

    10) Out Of Nowhere

    11) Communication

    12) Suffering

  12. (New York vs New England) VS (Old York vs Old England)

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Does one consider Old England / Old York (what was that about a house divided against itself?) to be West of the European mainland, or East of North America? If the former, does that mean that we great TIVO-less unwashed will have to stay up until past 1 AM just to see the end of the contest? If the latter, should I get ready to endure another network-sponsored blast of East Coast Media Bias?

    Looks like a lose / lose proposition to me no matter which way you spin the electrons.

  13. The Residents

    in Artists

    Posted

    I'm very partial to ESKIMO, THIRD REICH 'N ROLL and THE COMMERCIAL ALBUM. Alas, I think their best work -- the double-sided single that paired their version of The Beatles' "Flying" with a brilliant, pre-digital-sampling phantasy / satire of where those Liverpudlians went after SGT. PEPPER, "Beyond The Valley Of A Day In The Life" -- is not currently available on CD.

    Santa Dog '07?

  14. worst and favorite sports announcers

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    I can hang with most announcers, even the Waltons and Crosses (Irv AND Randy) of the world, as I can always just snap on the radio and listen to my local guys (Brad Sham, Eric Nadel, etc.)

    But what I cannot abide is the "guy / gal in the stands" beating administered by the likes of Ahmad Rashad, Jim Gray (human offal) and, the grandaddy of them all, from my pov, the absolutely execrable Pat O'Brien, the man who almost single-handedly ruined every NBA Finals viewing experience I had in late 80's / early 90's.

  19. Jandek

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Just spun MANHATTAN TUESDAY, ummm, this past Tuesday. It is indeed very strong, and quite unlike any other Jandek recording I've heard. More shading and nuance here that I had expected; strong overtones of Miles' "He Loved Him Madly" in the pairing of Loren Connors' effects-laden guitar and The Representative's Korg synths. Typically bleak lyrics, nearly nihilistic, and yet the tone in which they are delivered is often oddly... gracious.

    And, for North Texas residents...Jandek In Fort Worth (with Susan Alcorn, Ralph White, et al.)

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