Finally picked up this one. Decent-ish price at eMu, esp given recent credit freebies. I can tell it's going to take some listens to get to the heart of this thing.
@BT, that's definitely so - a lot of music is just sounding different, and I predict that the new system will affect my tastes. But I have always had a soft spot for lazy, languid bass rhythms, which that album has a-plenty. And I like gospel organ, which that album has a-plenty too. And I like its unclutteredness. It just has this great mellow, laid-back vibe. Conversely, I struggle a bit with the kind of jazz that sounds to me as if it's in a competition to see how many random notes it can pack at speed into a given 30-second stretch (funnily I can tolerate that quite well on piano - Oscar Peterson - but on brass or bass - Jaco Pastorius - it just wears me out trying to follow it.) Texture and timbre and timing are important; for frantic-ness I really have to be in the right mood.
Also oddly, and maybe this is what you had in mind, in electronic music I am drawn to the experimental, all the way through to non-music, but in Jazz I am liking the older stuff at the moment. It might be that I don't have an ingrained enough sense of the norm yet (in jazz) to really get the experimental deviation. I do have a feeling I might get the newer stuff more after I've listened to enough old stuff.
"I do have a feeling I might get the newer stuff more after I've listened to enough old stuff."
GP - Maybe, maybe not. It didn't happen for me, although I tried (of course, everyone's different.) I'm still stuck in the old jazz, which I dearly love. I'm curious, though, if most avante garde jazz enthusiasts came to be so through listening to old jazz first. My guess would be that it is not so, but I could be wrong.
Anyhow, I would sure love to hear Albert Nicholas' Baden 1969 album on your new speakers! Baden 1969
Also would love to hear what your speakers do with Armstrong's "Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy" album - most especially I would love to hear how the trombone, clarinet and (of course) trumpet instrumental break sounds in the song "Chantez Les Bas"
in electronic music I am drawn to the experimental, all the way through to non-music, but in Jazz I am liking the older stuff at the moment.
Actually, I don't regard your taste as being particularly experimental, at least not much more so than anyone else on the board. Rather you prefer conceptual music. I could see you listening to Mingus, Kenton, Giuffre, AEC, Shipp--it could swing or grate. Davis, by comparison, is low concept.
@kez, I have the Armstrong/Handy disk - haven't tried it on the new system yet, but will do so. Albert Nicholas is a new name to me.
@BT, yes, that's probably right, in both music and literature I gravitate to high concept stuff. (And I tend to write about it more for the blog because it's easier to write about!) But at the same time, a fair bit of my ambient listening is driven by texture and sound design, and I actually am finding that listening to the sonic texture of, say, an ambient/drone piece and a timbre-rich sax passage is not that different a process (or maybe I just listen to jazz with ambient ears) - and maybe what can make either genre sink into muzak is not that different either. And I think that many times timbre is more important to me than structure. (I suspect that might have something to do with becoming a record- buying teenager just as synth music was really hitting the charts, and being fascinated by the new sounds). And alongside all of that, I do like a good groove, whether it's a Berlin-school analog sequence or a prog jam or a jazz swing. In the Lockjaw stuff it's tempo and timing and mood that I'm enjoying; I don't know enough about jazz yet to worry about where it falls on the map. I do have some Mingus lined up to explore - I'll add those other names.
I've found over the last several years that I tend to binge on a genre for a couple of years before absorbing it and moving on. I feel like I'm teetering on the end of an ambient binge and the beginning of a possible jazz binge. We'll see.
Nothing Is Easy:Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 by Jethro Tull. Each time I listen to this I like it even better - it's become my favorite Tull album. As a lean mean live rocking machine they were absolute badasses here.
Yes I agree with you BN about Jethro Tull live - I still remember seeing the band decades ago
Just been listening to Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate's Ali and Toumani on the drive to work, now listening to Ultimate John Williams before my students arrive.
@GP - I thought you might be interested in something on the national TV news at the weekend. On Friday evening Holbeach had the lowest recorded temperature in England this millennia! It went down to minus 17C. I know the millennia is only just over 12 years, but that is how it was reported!
BDB - we never got that release in the UK, I think Capitol tried to get additional albums in the States by splitting them up with a few hits added. After all this discussion it is time to play:
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Finally picked up this one. Decent-ish price at eMu, esp given recent credit freebies. I can tell it's going to take some listens to get to the heart of this thing.
Thanks BN!
NP:
Harmonica, fiddle and button box combing Blues and Celtic.
Also oddly, and maybe this is what you had in mind, in electronic music I am drawn to the experimental, all the way through to non-music, but in Jazz I am liking the older stuff at the moment. It might be that I don't have an ingrained enough sense of the norm yet (in jazz) to really get the experimental deviation. I do have a feeling I might get the newer stuff more after I've listened to enough old stuff.
GP - Maybe, maybe not. It didn't happen for me, although I tried (of course, everyone's different.) I'm still stuck in the old jazz, which I dearly love. I'm curious, though, if most avante garde jazz enthusiasts came to be so through listening to old jazz first. My guess would be that it is not so, but I could be wrong.
Anyhow, I would sure love to hear Albert Nicholas' Baden 1969 album on your new speakers!
Baden 1969
Also would love to hear what your speakers do with Armstrong's "Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy" album - most especially I would love to hear how the trombone, clarinet and (of course) trumpet instrumental break sounds in the song "Chantez Les Bas"
YouTube linky
See Jonah's notes on yesterday's "jazz drop of the year."
Album link goes to eMu, but I actually got it at mTraks.
@BT, yes, that's probably right, in both music and literature I gravitate to high concept stuff. (And I tend to write about it more for the blog because it's easier to write about!) But at the same time, a fair bit of my ambient listening is driven by texture and sound design, and I actually am finding that listening to the sonic texture of, say, an ambient/drone piece and a timbre-rich sax passage is not that different a process (or maybe I just listen to jazz with ambient ears) - and maybe what can make either genre sink into muzak is not that different either. And I think that many times timbre is more important to me than structure. (I suspect that might have something to do with becoming a record- buying teenager just as synth music was really hitting the charts, and being fascinated by the new sounds). And alongside all of that, I do like a good groove, whether it's a Berlin-school analog sequence or a prog jam or a jazz swing. In the Lockjaw stuff it's tempo and timing and mood that I'm enjoying; I don't know enough about jazz yet to worry about where it falls on the map. I do have some Mingus lined up to explore - I'll add those other names.
I've found over the last several years that I tend to binge on a genre for a couple of years before absorbing it and moving on. I feel like I'm teetering on the end of an ambient binge and the beginning of a possible jazz binge. We'll see.
Not jazz.
Streaming at Bandcamp. This is the babysitter's son the drummer again...Just passing along the stuff his proud mom posts on Facebook!
This is a very fine album that you sometimes see credited to Horace Tapscott (and is on Horace's label, Nimbus West).
Jethro tull was indeed a killer live band - their live performances of Thick as a Brick gives me the shivers just thinking about it.
Just been listening to Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate's Ali and Toumani on the drive to work, now listening to Ultimate John Williams before my students arrive.
@GP - I thought you might be interested in something on the national TV news at the weekend. On Friday evening Holbeach had the lowest recorded temperature in England this millennia! It went down to minus 17C. I know the millennia is only just over 12 years, but that is how it was reported!
- The full album is @ youtube along with all the others, I wonder for how long . . .
Just about to play Dave Brubeck Take Five