Jazz for aficionados
This evening I'm also kicking it with "Eddie Harris"; he was born in Chicago and was grooving on the "South side" during the times I've written about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsHtO_i4qzM This man has a most incredible discography; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDrH5urtCbQ "Theme In Search of a Movie" is the most beautiful; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HLA5adVGTI |
Nice Joshua Redman clips. Excellent player. Hadn’t heard that one. Some of the best playing by him that I’ve heard. Thanks. **** it is obvious this book was not written for Jazz fans, **** Well.....only a particular type of Jazz fan; the kind that thinks that a mildly in-depth look at the music = mumbo jumbo. Lots of great pics ‘though; those should be easy enough to understand 😊 Diva? Seems too nice a person to qualify for the full meaning of the word, but great singer: https://youtu.be/naA6DSSxIPU https://youtu.be/O5UiuPMbprs https://youtu.be/XGqVyxRfKFI |
Not a complaint, just an observation. I have just started on the book. After just reading the prelude to the revised edition, dated 2013, and getting as far as page 7 in the main text, I can see that this guy is more into showing off his use of the English language, than he is in Bird. More later. Cheers |
in the fifth grade: "when, mulishly trying to make sense of opening chapter of "The Brothers Karamazov", I twigged that Alexei and Alyosha were the same guy, ditto Dmitry and Mitya ---ditto maxima, Parker and Bird". as a music teacher: my students had "followed me through Armstrong and Swing, and never blinked when we got to Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, but the volatile 1945 Savoy record of "Koko" unnerved them. Unnerved them?? The only folks that should be unnerved by Bird are the guys on the bandstand with him. --- Rok "But where’s the pedagogical fun in that" -- speaking of messing with his students. I continued to start the class with "Koko" without preface, enjoying the general alarm, ’wtw’ His style of writing was influenced by his reading Satrtre’s "Prisoner of Venice". "By the 1980s, I had read Johnson, Boswell, Strachey, and Sartre’s longer ’Saint Genet’, and I knew what I wanted to do, if not how to do it." Rok’s Take: The ravings of a person full of himself. This is an example of the type of people teaching young people about Jazz. And this is just the Prelude, to a book about a Jazz player. Stay tuned. Cheers |
