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[Serial_Apologist]

Er..............precisely, Calum.

[charles t]

Calum: Bypassing for the time being, your follow-up ponderings (#60), the Red Hook Jazz Festival 2010 which featured so many New York young-and-0ld lions (Tony Malaby, Chris Cheek, Craig Taborn and the list goes on...) is a capsule commentary on the importance, or the lack thereof, for jazz these days in Corporate Music America!

No disputing that fact given the back-yard facilities provided for the event.

Yet, all these musicians (Chris Lightcap's group and several more) contributed... casually dressed... and
jazz prevailed for another day.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

and they are well worth bypassing Chas .....

that alfresco neighbourhood jazz with such stellar performers is a real inspiration, more hope in it than any mass media event or Itunes advert ....

am very taken with Craig Taborn as ensemble and solo performer ... and have recently scored the Lightcap album DeLuxe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HYr5ay5Uyw

[charles t]

True...the Lightcap album DeLuxe is on many of 'The Best of 2010' over on JazzCorner/Speakeasy lists...

[Tenor Freak]

Agree about Craig Taborn. I was fortunate enough to see him playing at the last <ahem> Jezz on 3 live show from Cheltenham with Tim Berne a couple of years back and thought he was the most impressive musician there (including Brotzmann).

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

and the music goes round and round ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WijQtQe6kE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8JoCSoOcPM&feature=related

i sat in my son's yard with this playing over and over .... in Californian sunshine by the pool ..... turned on a whole bunch of thirty forty somethings to Mr Shaw in his natural setting ...good times on the coast ....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

... in between the Shaw last night i came across this and was struck by just how natural they all sound, no self binding meta awareness, no critical deconstructions or post modern theoretical neuroses .... in a word FRESH ... and er brilliant, just straight at it without artifice but with mastery beyond compare [and a few bad habits in between takes eh] ... is such a natural performance still possible?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

...down melody lane

Lonnie Johnson in 1929 just get that cornet player ...

and in 1930 ..get his voice ... in 70+ years hard to find anything that surpasses him

Oscar Pettiford doubling the melody with Stan Getz, bebop on the bass ....

then he got Lucky [Thompson]




melodists messrs Johnson & Pettiford ...

[Ian Thumwood]

Calum

The Lonnie Johnson track is exceptional and not one of his I have heard before. There are several interesting facets of this recording. Firstly, the line about the engineer letting his "ride the blind" is something that often crops up in blues lyrics - one of the best examples being "Travelin' Blues" by Blind Willie McTell which is a kind of "narrative performance" that somehow manages to incorporate a song within a song. In this instance it is the folk song "Po' Boy" which occurs at the end of the performance. For me, this is an exceptional record:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPAHIHGMOoI

Secondly, the guitar motif Johnson uses at the end of the performance (where he sings the lyrics "watch that headlight shining") was previously used in one of the recordings he made in the 1920's with Eddie Lang called "Bull Frog moan" which is one of my favourite performances of his. Fascinating to see that that these blues musicians also had a sense of humour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNSLZZERank

Thirdly, the "black train" theme does indeed refer to death and again is something that also gets picked up in the work of other blues musicians. Bukka White's "Black train Blues" for example.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

within the construct of the culture novels it is plausible that a culture ship is a free jazz artist playing an exact replication of a Sam Rivers solo with one quaver lasting 10 light years simultaneously repeating a derek bailey solo at note value 6.18 and a replicating the entire Double Album at 3.82 and seeking a determinative function for the harmonic overtones created at a distance of half U radius to settle an argument on emergence with Lao Tzu ....

alternately [not a good word in this particular context] a neutrino ship is playing all of Charlie Parker's live wire recordings at quaver one tenth trillionth of a second modulated in a laser beam and is using this energy to erase all reference to Cab Calloway from the eternity and infinity of space time - the phrase 'Chinese music' having caused offence ....

in the first eons of the culture several very elderly personages, themselves replicas of personalities selected from arcane public houses in London circa 1975, have been deposited in the memory complex of a third ship, they have by chance been uploaded into the operational centres of the ship and it now spends itself in perpetuity seeking to find and bridge the signals of the aforementioned vessels

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Le travail d'un homme n'est rien, mais ce trek lent à redécouvrir, à travers les détours de l'art, ces deux ou trois images simples et grandes, dont la présence dans son cœur a ouvert ses portes.

[charles t]

Frog prattleing about Pearblossom Highway, and that famous painting by Dale Cockney.

[Ian Thumwood]

That painting is a good impression of what it looked like when I went to pick up my vari-focals from Leighton's opticians last weekend. Needless to say, they have gone back to be re-made! (My lenses have to be specially made by NASA.)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

ok boogie cheese day [what ya gonna do, MARCH?]

[...always remember the tide of idiots is just behind you ....]

1966

or 1975

herbal

night time

road

riff

the big cheese

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Ben Allison has a new album, Action-Refraction, coming out on 12/4/11; here is the NPR stream of the full album, available until it is released on 12/4



...and there is blurb

NPR is very good at Jazz ....