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For those interested, all three episodes are to be found on the link below - the URL remains the same, just click on as the follow-on programmes pop up in the window at the end of each:
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SA many thanks for that. Just listened to the start of the first one and got drawn in. Will run them all at the weekend. Excellent.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
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I know what you mean about liking the idea of something more than the execution. Evan Parker is someone I've seen perform on a few occasions and find his perfomances more interesting to watch than to listen to on a record. A friend of mine once told me that he had heard Parker improvise a solo based upon someone twanging the wires of a fence and ever since then I've struggled not to think about the clarinetist Leon Ropollo who performed with the New Orleans Rhythm kings in the 1920's before showing signs of eccentric behaviour (probably caused by syphilis) that ultimately led to him being confined to a mental institution. I recall hearing somewhere that Ropollo used to improvise on his clarinet against the sound of the wind blowing along the telegraph wires. I don't know if this was before or after he went mad.
Ropollo is obviously a jazz soloist but I think sometimes it is difficult to ascribe this to everything Parker plays. There is something compelling about what Evan Parker plays and even if I not too much of a fan of the Improv scene, he is a musician that I admire.
Here is a clip of Ropollo:-
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" What jazz is about and what it isn't"
John Zorn (Jon3 02 Sept) presents this problem in a different light. He spans a vast spectrum of different styles. In fact, a new composition of his was featured a year or so back on Hear and Now with Tom Service, who has studied his music.
It's easy to disentangle the Klezma from the mix, but he certainly blurs the borders between Hard Rock, Contemporary music and jazz, and probably a few more genres I've never heard of.
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I'm very curious about this singer. I used to be a bit sceptical of her output but it's amazing at just how many jazz musicians have recorded versions of her music including the likes of Dave Douglas and Alan Ferber. I see there is now a "Bjorkestra" that has been assembled specifically to preform her music.
Wondered if anyone else had checked her out ? where do you start? Is she a charlatan or is she exactly the kind of composer to generate a wealth of new standards to improvise on?
There seems to be an awful lot of production associated with her music but this is particularly good, in my opinion:-
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Bjorkestra I think Dave Douglas is actually on this track
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I enjoyed that, but are you sure you've got the right clip, Ian?
OK - we crossed!
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