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finnbow
The Dude Abides
No, but it makes reference to recordings of the jazz greats preceding Miles, mostly Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie as they developed Bebop. Then it goes on to the various recording of Miles leading up to Kind of Blue (e.g., Birth of the Cool). I'm listening to the audiobook and it's quite good. The narrator has the perfect cool voice for the material.
noisefreq
Super Member
ROOTS, RADICALS AND ROCKERS
How Skiffle Changed the World
By: Billy Bragg 2017
Faber & Faber Ltd.
Extremely well researched and meticulously documenting the post WW II British music scene. Bragg tells the story how merchant marines brought New Orleans jazz, Delta blues and hill country blue grass and folk back to England and reimagined it through a British sensibility. Examining the D-I-Y nature of what became Trad Jazz in the 30s and 40s and ultimately morphing into Skiffle during the 50s and comparing that to the Punk movement's reaction to the progressive rock of the 70s.
The influence of Skiffle music on teens in the late 50s steered the course of the 60s British invasion back to the United States. A fascinating circular journey.
noisefreq
Super Member
"ASCENSION"
'JOHN COLTRANE AND HIS QUEST' 1993
BY ERIC NISENSON
Pretty engrossing read, especially if you have a love for bop and post-bop jazz. I'm not well versed in thirties and forties swing, so there were a few names that I can research now. The author is a hopeless Trane fanatic and repeatedly expresses his appreciation of the man, almost to a fault, as he disparages pretty much every other sax blower before or since Coltrane (with the exception of perhaps Bechet, Young, Hawkins, or Parker). He admits so (at the end of this book) but it's still is a bit much to take towards the end. Not to take anything away from Coltrane, but it's as if once Coltrane died, jazz was ran into the ground by a bunch of Coltrane imitators and nothing interesting has happened since, while I kept screaming in my head "yeah, but what about...!"
I will now actively seek out several John Coltrane recordings that will fit very well into my collection, so that's a positive. I may also push further back and check out a few late forties/early fifties titles. But there is still so much 70s free jazz that I want to obtain, beside the Coltrane stuff. Is it Coltrane influenced? Well of course it is, but it's still very much worth exploring, despite the way Mr. Nisenson may feel.
'JOHN COLTRANE AND HIS QUEST' 1993
BY ERIC NISENSON
Pretty engrossing read, especially if you have a love for bop and post-bop jazz. I'm not well versed in thirties and forties swing, so there were a few names that I can research now. The author is a hopeless Trane fanatic and repeatedly expresses his appreciation of the man, almost to a fault, as he disparages pretty much every other sax blower before or since Coltrane (with the exception of perhaps Bechet, Young, Hawkins, or Parker). He admits so (at the end of this book) but it's still is a bit much to take towards the end. Not to take anything away from Coltrane, but it's as if once Coltrane died, jazz was ran into the ground by a bunch of Coltrane imitators and nothing interesting has happened since, while I kept screaming in my head "yeah, but what about...!"
I will now actively seek out several John Coltrane recordings that will fit very well into my collection, so that's a positive. I may also push further back and check out a few late forties/early fifties titles. But there is still so much 70s free jazz that I want to obtain, beside the Coltrane stuff. Is it Coltrane influenced? Well of course it is, but it's still very much worth exploring, despite the way Mr. Nisenson may feel.
Somewhere upstairs I have the Rolling Stone with a Paul Simon interview. Yes, I'm a huge Paul Simon fan.
onepixel
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I subscribed, so I had a pile. I have the 50th, #958 in 2004. It's stashed somewhere.
Dean-O-Tampa
New Member
This looks interesting. Ordered a copy! Thanks.
ra7c7er
Hoarding records since 1990
Awesome. Hope you like it.
Quadman2
Lunatic Member
SIGNALS
When radio dark night existed
& assumed control, & rocked in its web
consumed by static, & stroked w/fear
we were drown down long from
a deep sleep. & awaken'd
at dayfall by worried guardeners
& made to be led thru dew wet
jungle to the swift summit, o'er looking
The sea...
Jim Morrison
When radio dark night existed
& assumed control, & rocked in its web
consumed by static, & stroked w/fear
we were drown down long from
a deep sleep. & awaken'd
at dayfall by worried guardeners
& made to be led thru dew wet
jungle to the swift summit, o'er looking
The sea...
Jim Morrison
