Rabshakeh Posted yesterday at 08:40 AM Report Share Posted yesterday at 08:40 AM 8 hours ago, JSngry said: today it's fashionable to talk about "coding". Well hell, Eddie Harris was coded like a motherfucker. He reached people not because of what he did or did not play, he reached people because they could FEEL him. What do you mean by the coding bit? I'm familiar with "coded" as in "rock is white-coded" or "XYZ political position is [right / left] coded. But not this usage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted yesterday at 03:05 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 03:05 PM The inner core message of blackness. Eddie could played the simplest most commercial stuff, skate over the top of it, but that core was always there. Coded in there no matter what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted 23 hours ago Report Share Posted 23 hours ago And just, like, if you know the deeper parts of Eddie Harris's music, that stuff is still there in his really "basic" music. He codes it in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted 22 hours ago Report Share Posted 22 hours ago (edited) In 1979, a community radio station, WMNF 88.5, was launched in our humble hamlet. At that time, they played jazz in prime time, 7-10 if not 7-11, Monday through Thursday (possibly more.) Each night of the week featured a different host, and as a result, different aesthetics and musical/cultural perspectives. While most of the jazz DJs were white, the Thursday night DJ was an African American gentleman by the name of Charles Van. He played primarily organ grove. As a white kid (That is not me in my profile pic; I'm not that handsome), I had never heard this music before and was mesmerized. I didn't know it at the time, but Charles Van was playing this stuff 10 years after it had gone out of fashion, and 10 years before hipsters rediscovered it. Anyway, my anecdotal experience seems to reinforce the book's thesis. The "jazz" that anyone was talking about, writing about, or listening to at that time was all very "serious." But I could tell instinctively as a teenager listening to this organ groove stuff that it was party music. Fast foward another 20 or so years. In the late 1990s, I was living in Beantown, and Ms. TTK and I went to a small jazz club in Roxbury - forget the name of the club - where there was an organ trio playing. The audience was a blend of both demographics - younger white hipsters getting into this stuff, and older African American couples who were probably spinning these records 30 years earlier. Edited 22 hours ago by Teasing the Korean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted 22 hours ago Report Share Posted 22 hours ago 19 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said: As a white kid (That is not me in my profile pic; I'm not that handsome), Not to mention not a murderer, nor imprisoned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabshakeh Posted 21 hours ago Report Share Posted 21 hours ago I do wonder whether in 30 years time we are all going to be telling people the same thing about Najee and Kirk Whalum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted 21 hours ago Report Share Posted 21 hours ago Quite possibly! It's easier with Eddie because he left a trail. The guys you mention (and include Gerald Albright)...not so much. But it's in there, imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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