If you think about the course of hip-hop, then can you really imagine groups like Tribe Called Quest or even someone like Tupac without a cultural and musical prophet like Coltrane?
― Brad C., Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
6. Miles DavisBitches Brew I'm not saying that you have to like this album. But it's one you just have to listen to before you die; it's kind of like looking at Abstract Expressionism or listening to Morton Feldman -- it just might not jive with you. Bitches Brew was released in 1970. The first time I heard this album, I thought it was a joke. In fact, I was kind of pissed. Where was the melody? Where was the catchy rhythm? Well, it's so shocking the first time you hear it that it forces you to question what jazz and music can be. It makes you think about structure and limitations of our current music. The prison of the human ear. Ah, enough of that. Just listen to the album. Chaos and cacophony defined.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
Charles Mingus is the godfather of the upright bass
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
This is a hilarious article. Serious laughs.
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
"it just might not jive with you" <-- wtf
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
that's not even getting to the fact that he's making Bitches Brew sound like a Naked City release
The first time I heard this album, I thought it was a joke. In fact, I was kind of pissed. Where was the melody? Where was the catchy rhythm?
― sug ones (omar little), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
thanks, i cdn't think of a suitable vehicle for laughing at that BB piece
― only Brod can judge me (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
for some reason my favourite detail is his assertion that there are multiple decades of jazz.
― Yorkshire lass born and bred, that's me, said Katriona's hologram. (thomp), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
brb gonna go play some half notes on my piano -- they're not even known to western music and basically imaginary
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
village voice sneaking geir hongro into its freelance rolodex under another name
― sug ones (omar little), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
the vicious atonal skronk of Bitches Brew was so mind-blowing in its redefinition of what music cd be that only 10 years earlier were dudes like Coleman and Ayler able to catch up
― only Brod can judge me (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
― Yorkshire lass born and bred, that's me, said Katriona's hologram. (thomp), Tuesday, November 13, 2012 3:21 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I loved this too
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
it's kind of like looking at Abstract Expressionism or listening to Morton Feldman -- it just might not jive with you.
yes of course what idiot would do these things for pleasure
― C:\GAMES\KEEN\KEEN4E.EXE (clouds), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2012/11/10_albums_while_studying.php?page=4
3. Simon Trpceski -- Debussy: Images
Claude Debussy is one of the best French composers and probably artists, and that says a hell of lot. His compositions were analogous to the paintings of the impressionists, and he hoped when you listened to his music, you saw, literally, similar visualizations of Monet. That's why he called his work Images. You can find an album by Simon Trpceski on Spotify. Take for instance Debussy's, "Clair De Lune." It's probably one of the most famous works in music -- played in everything from lullabies to film scores. And really, it's not just a song. It's a painting that will set all 100,000,000,000 neurons in the average human brain on fire.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
Geir would NEVER have made that half note gaffe
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, November 13, 2012 3:21 PM (4 minutes ago)
Can't you read they're in between those
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
In a way, studying or being creative is kind of like sex. Yes, you can probably have it any time you want (some of us, anyway), but sometimes, it's really about being in the right mood.
Joseph Lapin, ladies and gentlemen.
― only Brod can judge me (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
i like the idea that this guy was pissed at miles davis for the way a 43 yr old undisputed masterpiece sounded.
― sug ones (omar little), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
named after the Williamsburg Bridge, which connects Manhattan to Brooklyn.
lmao @ this bit of trivia being in the village voice
― sug ones (omar little), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
At one point, Head Hunters was the best selling jazz album of all time. Be warned though, there is experimentation happening here.
― super perv powder (Phil D.), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
If you're about to go sky diving, and you're not sure if you're going to survive, play this album on the car ride over.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
Why is it so great? Let's not try to put it into words. It might be something unsayable.
Kind of Blue is about abortion?
If you're about to go sky diving, and you're not sure if you're going to survive, play this album on the car ride over. turn the car around imo
― sug ones (omar little), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
Herbie Hancock helped bring the synthesizer and the Fender Rhodes Electric Piano to mass appeal.
once the domain only of enthusiasts like The Beatles and The Doors
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
In a way, studying or being creative is kind of like sex. Yes, you can probably have it any time you want (some of us, anyway)
I can study and sex all day whenever wherever
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
also (kind of exhausting this piece, I know, but)
Ornette Coleman went from playing the sax to the trumpet
um, not on Shape of Jazz to Come, and not really that often in general.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
I don't want to give this terrible thing clickthroughs but I kind of want to see if it's being savaged in the comments
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
"I can still remember the first time I heard this album. I was 17, and I was driving my Subaru Legacy Wagon in the rain."
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxQYgH5WF_g
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
i think the five minute drive to his grandparent's house in the subaru might be my favorite part. belongs on the *worst anecdote ever* thread.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
i once wept like a schoolgirl driving home from work the day my grandmother died and "hollywood swinging" came on the radio but you don't see me trying to work it into any listicles.
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
And really, it's not just a song.
...it's not a fucking song!
― C:\GAMES\KEEN\KEEN4E.EXE (clouds), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
Misspelt Mingus song title. Axe this fucker to death.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
I really liked the image of him already at his grandparents house with So What less than half over, sitting in their driveway "blaring" the record while his grandparents are staring out the window like "what the hell is Joseph doing out there?"
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
honestly would prefer maudlin personal anecdotes to eight-hand regurgitation of Intro To Jazz class material
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
i mean it's POSSIBLE for a random twentysomething to have a touching anecdote involving a mingus album, far less likely they have any information/insight wikipedia doesn't
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
you know he was sitting in his car in the driveway in the rain because he was dreading the fact that he actually had to hang out with his grandparents and help them, like, change lightbulbs or something. not because his life was being changed by a jazz record.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
once I was pulling into a grocery store parking lot and "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me" came on the radio and I was too lazy to change the station so I kept listening to it until I parked
― paula boradwell (crüt), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
this dude probably passive-aggressively sits in driveways for thirty-five minutes because he "has to hear the rest of this record" all the time
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
maybe if he'd actually talked to his grandparents he might have found they had first-hand stories to share about the genius of dave brubeck.
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
alas, now they are worm food.
this morning as i parked the car in the garage at my office building, i heard the first few notes of surrender by cheap trick. slight disappointment arose within me when i realized it was not the version from budokan. yet i still listened because it's a good song. cried a bit or something, memories.
― sug ones (omar little), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
I've performed with Dave Brubeck twice btw, I just wanted to throw that out there </insufferable>
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
last week i was smoking a cigarette in the parking lot outside of where I was working that day and the prodigy's breathe came on right when I was done with the cigarette so I turned the radio off and walked towards the gate I had to go through but some public works guys had parked their car near the gate and they were blasting the rest of breathe by the prodigy and when one of them asked me for a cigarette I said I was out
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
there was a Police song playing in my car earlier today, I forget which one
― paula boradwell (crüt), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
one of his "classical" reviews (of an ennio morricone album) features the phrase "Yo-Yo Ma and his aching cello"
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
godfather of the upright cello
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
i don't have a car or else i'd go out and sit in it and listen to a whole album right now. maybe the well-tuned piano.
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Yo-Yo_Ma_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg/220px-Yo-Yo_Ma_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg
my cello, oh how she aches
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link