Jazz Poetry Improv gig, April 10

[handsomefortune]

120 days - wow! congratulations calum da jazbo, and hang on in there ,,,only 20 odd more days, and you'll have doubled your last count. (bet you sing much better in the bath already).

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

sing? sing? dis jazbo can croak man, after fifty years of two packs a day there are no vocal chords just stalagmites etc .....

[Old Grumpy]

vocal chords

ha-ha!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

'elp i've got a norwegian in me frote

[handsomefortune]

i thought i heard a 'gree deep' hailing from the east just now, probably jazbo's stalagmites?

[jazzpoetry]

now check this out.

[jazzpoetry]

more steve dalachinsky:

[jazzpoetry]

the christopher logue record is great!

[handsomefortune]

more steve dalachinsky:

yes please jazzpoetry.

dalachinsky is bliss to hear - thanks for the clips. a great start to today's online onslaught. the uk virtual community have to be especially quick/nimble, (here goes) as it's beautiful, sunny again outside. a beauty which certainly puts 'diamonds' in there proper context, as dalachinsky mentions in his 'audio painting' on coltrane.

the poem about wally and co is so timely, as uk job markets reduce to non existent, and all sorts of people resort to 'other means' just to survive. there isn't much contemporary poetry/music which explains why it's better to avoid this route though. oddly, it risks the sin of deep uncoolness? whereas dalachinsky's poem existed in tandem with less beautiful aspects of 60s counterculture presumably, (or is it a newer poem...)?

it's always a shame when it takes an obit to bring attention! logue's record is uniquely 'of its time', and on hearing it an instant response if crappy one, i thought i'd type; 'yes, logue was the first ever rapper you know' as people so often do in response to ANY spoken word/music. (but thankfully i resisted).

nevertheless, discovery of logue suggests there's vaste stretches of less/non documented british past, postwar. old vinyl can create a rare, if mystified, excited, expectant, intrigued sensation.

whereas dalachinsky's voice is familiar, conjours the famous west coast before the 'cicadas stopped singing' ......

but they're still bang at in northern chicago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqys8lKsu4s&feature=related

which prompted these utube responses:

'Like wow! It is the ultimate white noise! CICADAS ROCK!
agreed about the white noise comparison.

but arguably contemporary rock/drugs are specifically designed to drown out points raised in posts like this:

Little do you know that this frequency is designed by an intelligent force to bring you into an alpha (and then eventually theta) wavelength brain pattern. !!!! With the advent of cities-the sound of traffic-damages the DNA-it is so out of the organic realm designed for humans on this planet. Throw a few sirens in, along with some arguing or drunken, senseless babbling from the neighbors....and you have a ripe growth medium for mental illness.

(not to mention noisy punters at gigs, + 'special' personal gadgetry needed to prove users 'know other people too': laugh: they have 100 friends on 'stalkerbook' etc.

fingers crossed, your upcoming performance will be especially blissful, as in attentively received).

but thanks again for the dalachinsky. a perfect choice of nourishment, for days just like today.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yep to the thanks and it is a great day out there handsomefortune

[Serial_Apologist]

Well I greatly enjoyed Dave Liebman's piano playing, which I didn't previously know about, as well as the tenor of his tenor.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

apropos of nothing much i am listening to a selection of Tristano pieces with guitar and bass ..... coo er mother that cat could play eh ... i do not believe one could articulate speech over a Tristano line ...

[Serial_Apologist]

i do not believe one could articulate speech over a Tristano line ...

Leaving aside the quality of the poetry, my problem with simultaneous music and the spoken world, is always the divided attention.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

speaking of which ...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

back to the thread

and celebrating Nikki Iles who has a new cd out