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What Are You Listening To? April 2020
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Big Pooh & Nottz - Home Sweet Home (2015)
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Big Pooh & Nottz - Home Sweet Home (2015)
The laughter is for the album cover.
^ It is genius. That album art also reminds me of Stacie's Mom, but the music couldn't be more different.
The pics inside the fold reveal that the woman has full sleeves up each arm, but I guess they covered those tats for the cover.
ETA: After watching Hustle & Flow last night with my son, I was raring to listen to some Hip Hop today.
The pics inside the fold reveal that the woman has full sleeves up each arm, but I guess they covered those tats for the cover.
ETA: After watching Hustle & Flow last night with my son, I was raring to listen to some Hip Hop today.
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Lifesavas - Gutterfly: The Original Soundtrack (2007)
Interesting concept Hip Hop album from Portland OR, fashioned as the soundrtrack to a non-existent 70s blaxploitation movie. They managed to land some very impressive guests (George Clinton, Fishbone, Vernon Reid, members of Digible Planets, Camp Lo, and others. This never achieves the greatness I thought it would when I first heard of it over a decade ago, partly because they seem to forget to stick to the theme of the concept. But, it is a good album and nice to listen to every so often.
Interesting concept Hip Hop album from Portland OR, fashioned as the soundrtrack to a non-existent 70s blaxploitation movie. They managed to land some very impressive guests (George Clinton, Fishbone, Vernon Reid, members of Digible Planets, Camp Lo, and others. This never achieves the greatness I thought it would when I first heard of it over a decade ago, partly because they seem to forget to stick to the theme of the concept. But, it is a good album and nice to listen to every so often.
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The Love Dimension - Tree In The Seed (2020)
Nice acronym.
Nice acronym.
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Doves - Lost Souls (2000)
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Bark Psychosis - Hex (1994)
Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring (1963)
Chico Hamilton introducing Larry Coryell - The Dealer (1967)
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I'm fairly weak in the Jackie McLean appreciation department. I have only one CD of his, from his later years.Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring (1963)
Should I start with this, or something else?
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The Cult Of Dom Keller - s/t (2013)
This is good, but more traditional than Jackie would get by the mid 60s. Also, it's a quartet album, but my favorites of his albums will include more players to allow Jackie to experiment more by using the instruments differently than, say, an Art Blakey album.
For instance, Jackie's next album, One Step Beyond, replaces the piano with vibes, and adds a trombonist. While not as out there compared to where avant garde jazz would later go, the music Jackie creates on One Step Beyond is definitely a step (or two) beyond what is on Let Freedom Ring. Later albums, like It's Time!, Action, and New & Old Gospel, find Jackie really reaching out and experimenting, but never in a way that goes too far for me.
Starting with Let Freedom Ring, or the two or three that precede it, is a good way to get going with McLean. It will set the baseline for how he advances his sound. No need for all of them. One will set the scene. It will give you a point of reference to let you know he can produce good traditional Jazz, in case you don't like the later work and assume he's a hack. By the end of the 60s, Jackie tamed his explorations, teamed up with a young Woody Shaw, and released Demon's Dance in '69, which I like a lot.
Personally, I love the albums where he features the vibes.
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Fleetwood Mac - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac (1968)
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Patrick Battstone ~ The Last Taxi: A Conversation (2013)
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The album promo info is so fine it deserves repeating: `Everyone has their vision of the Last Taxi - the sense of urgency, the sense of immediacy, the sense that you have to catch it or you are stranded. All the passing faces, the trestles driven under, and the bumps of old trolley tracks are but a blur. You are going home and that's all that matters. We've all been there. This current work is a collection of musical conversations. Our initial works, Through an Open Door and Mystic Nights, established a language, a musical dialog, between Richard Poole on vibes and myself on piano. In this effort, we have kept our "chamber jazz" voice and expanded it to include Chris Rathbun on bass and Todd Brunel on bass clarinet. Richard now plays drums in addition to vibes. Like most conversations, not everyone speaks at once and not everyone is a part of every conversation. All of these works are spontaneous improvisations. Only "A Night at the Hotel Avery" had a predetermined theme - a blues, whose form was never once realized. What transpired were reminiscences of places and activities that happened either in reality, or in a subconscious state. Yet the act of recalling the past was, at the same time, an act of creating in the present. Both Chris and I had been bell-hops at the Hotel Avery, a sleazy hotel in the middle of Boston's red light district. Richard had played drums at the clubs. We knew the club owners and their "friends", the dangers in the alleys, and the sights and people of the street. Our conversations went into the late hours where empty beer bottles were filled with cigarette ashes, yet we kept talking. Sometimes we talked of being at sea, of wandering around les rues désolés de Paris, of our escapes, and of our flights of fantasy. Everyone has their vision of the Last Taxi - the sense of urgency, the sense of immediacy, the sense that you have to catch it or you are stranded. All the passing faces, the trestles driven under, and the bumps of old trolley tracks are but a blur. You are going home and that's all that matters. We've all been there. Much can be said about how each of us envisioned the music. Yet none of our descriptions matched each others'. Each had his own interpretations of the colors, shapes, and varying textures that are presented here. With this in mind, we invite the listener to be drawn into these pieces and evoke their own vision.'
The ensemble is Patrick Battstone, piano, Todd Brunel, bass clarinet, Richard Poole, drums, vibraphone, and Chris Rathbun, bass
The track listings are as follows:
The Last Taxi
Atypical Morning
Ashes and Empty Bottles
A Night at the Avery Hotel
The Lone Sailor
Subterranean Affairs
Merchants of Kiev
Still Floating
Barbés
Hidden Passage
Peruvian Street Dance
Step into the magic this rare quartet creates. Patrick Battistone and Richard Poole have some of the richest memory music played out here in a 100% superb album. Grady Harp, September 2014
The ensemble is Patrick Battstone, piano, Todd Brunel, bass clarinet, Richard Poole, drums, vibraphone, and Chris Rathbun, bass
The track listings are as follows:
The Last Taxi
Atypical Morning
Ashes and Empty Bottles
A Night at the Avery Hotel
The Lone Sailor
Subterranean Affairs
Merchants of Kiev
Still Floating
Barbés
Hidden Passage
Peruvian Street Dance
Step into the magic this rare quartet creates. Patrick Battistone and Richard Poole have some of the richest memory music played out here in a 100% superb album. Grady Harp, September 2014
Nathan Eklund - Trip To the Casbah (2009)
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