Yard

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

everyone is welcome in da yard!:cool2:

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne:
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific—and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

[Lateralthinking1]

Thanks Calum. The Yard is full of perplexities. I like it. The great man above begins weakly. He stresses the first word of "The Riddle of Poetry" and decides bizarrely that this is "riddle", not "the". Still, it is good stuff. We know now that children develop their hearing sense first and become visually aware surprisingly late. Words are there ready to be applied to pictures.

With this in mind, consider the notion that poetry is the ability to see without words. It requires a natural forgetfulness of nouns and verbs which in turn enables feelings. Feelings that may be most closely expressed with a new, differently structured, learning of sounds. In the gifted such are grooved as deep or strip like bark in parallel.

Haphazardly, I like to think, I maintained that sense of poetry. My head was regularly washed in records. What was the value in absorbing the language of science more than was necessary for convenience? I love gardening and the countryside but I'd hate to know how a tree "works". This doesn't mean that I am a poet. Oh no. I'm an environmentalist.

As the main man seems to say, there are books and books of the stuff. It can be lovely but at it's most profound, it boils to a beautiful nothingness. Nothing comes from nothing. Something comes from this writing but, being something, it is lacking a lot of nothing. I'm humanly proud of that fact of analysis.

So, yes, the very point of a poem is that it is the final frontier. The emphasis here is on the second word "the". It is THE frontier before the poetry of the non-verbal drifts away. Music is the inner liner but you know that well. You've been in The Yard a long time. Now for me beans on marmite toast with worcester sauce and a side dish of fish fingers dipped in cranberry jelly.

[Lateralthinking1]

Sorry for this yesterday. It was my attempt at jazz writing - too much Kerouac - I promise that I won't do it again.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

.... the original typescript scroll of On The Road was exhibited at the Walker Gallery at Birmingham University last year ... went with other similarly aged beats and jazz buffs to see it, extraordinary document .... we had a great day out, lunch in student cafe, guitar recital [renaissance and baroque] and a waltz round the collection as well .... rejuvenating [and without benefit of anything other than caffeine and in my case nicotine ....]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uN6Qv2nxPY

[eighthobstruction]

You've got a great delivery LT1....UPS or DHL could be your next step....

[Lateralthinking1]

Thanks Eighthobstruction. I'm like Captain Beefheart - I was an only child, nobody understands who I am exactly, and I feel most at home in a desert. Being on here is my attempt at developing a public face. I've just grown a beard like yours but only temporarily. So far I've been called a Father Christmas wannabe and aka Captain Haddock. Got to go now. Can't stand the crowds. Catch up with you later. (PS All messages with doves are always welcome ).

[Ian Thumwood]

Calum

To pick up on your question, I did listen to Darcy James Argue on Jon3 and was impressed although I ust admit that the material (bar two tracks) can all be found on their CD. Still to listen to the second set.

The music was not accurately described by Jez Nelson in my opinion. I cannot hear anything in this music that relates back to earlier styles of jazz and the whole thing sounds totally contemporary. It is interesting music but I haven't been quite as won over as I have by his contemporaries John Hollenbeck (more adventurous) or Maria Schneider who is just in a totally different league. The CD suffers from the material being very similar and the soloists not really adding much to nthe excitement levels when the ensemble playing stops. The writing is what draws you in and not the improvising as the soloists are more conservative than the writer. Several of them such as Ryan Keberle actually come from the Lincoln Centre JO and whilst the girl altoist was good, I have heard Ingrid Jenssen in better situations such as the clip you posted on the old site a few weeks back. Seeing that this CD was a debut, you can anticipate that the band will only get better albeit they do seem to play from a very small book of arrangements. For me, very much a work in progress but definately someone to keep tabs on.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

...yep Ian, a year back i dld a stack of stuff from his personal website [dk if it is all still there!] and listened

i think this is aband you have to be in the room with, not best served through speakers, most of the very positive reactions come from people who have been in the room for a live performance...

still pretty listen-able and i detect Mingus and Ellington sounds from their larger pieces for orchestra too

[eighthobstruction]

Yep,....much like that myself....though it comes from a decision, do I [a] want to constantly have strain looking interested as people blather on, or [b] deal with solitude and lots of dead space....I chose [b]....weird but wonderful, testing but silent....((thank goodness for BBC))((a friend you can turn off and doesn't eat your biscuits))....

....what is this thread about , I've forgotten....Ah Yes Yard....could it be that there mght be a Hen House in the yard....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw3Z8...eature=related ....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

belgian white chocolate cookies?

[eighthobstruction]

No usually those expensive Stem Ginger /Dark Choc....where you only get about 8 or 10 in a box....luckily he lives in Stroud....

[eighthobstruction]

Funny posting to the cadaja has just made me hanker after Coop best Columbian....you made me do it....nothing worsr than mother natures jet fuel + no-one to react with....you can bet by noon certain Funk records will have been played....and by 2pm I will be an exhaust mess....you made me do it....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

dippin donuts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQddiBz0Px8

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fW1Mxm2wUA

12 bars sets the right tone eh ....

[Serial_Apologist]

Speaking, not of Yard(e) (Jason), but that fine fellow Soweto Kinch, anybody hear his talk on 3 on putting radical politics back into jazz - in particular - on 3 last Friday?