I have tried to get into these guys, especially Zen Arcade, and I appreciate the good music. But it's just not for me. Sadly. See also: The Pixies and The Replacements.
Oh snap, is it winter down there right now? I kinda forgot about cool weather since it's been >40 degrees C nearly every day for the past month. Such is desert living...
I had another one of those vinyl LP spinnin' evenings after work was over. In order: Menahan Street Band - The Crossing Rock 'n' Roll with The Modern Lovers Shoes - Pre-Tense: Demos 1978 - 1979 Nilsson - The Point! The Mothers (of Invention) - Uncle Meat (side 4, "King Kong" only) Marty Robbins - More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP
Desert is scorching hot, but at least is dry. If we reach the 40ºC mark in Buenos Aires (during a couple of Janueary days , generally), it feels like being immersed in a bowl of putrid hot soup (it's too early in the morning for a good metaphor, sorry). I simply can't get enough of this. That electrically-treated sax solo by Gardner is legendary.
Santana (or Santana III, to tell it apart from the debut album). The end of an era. Gregg Rolie would leave the band after this one, and the band would dwell in jazz-fusion territories for the next three years (with brilliant results). I find this album the least interesting of the first three, even though it features some outstanding moments. The single song I don't like is "Guajira", whose salsa mood forshadows the worst moments of Santana's career. The piano solo is fine, but the vocals make me cringe a bit. Hey, I don't like salsa, what can I tell you. The 2-cd reissue features an excellent live set recorded at the closing of Fillmore West show series (two days after the Dead's set).
Bunk Gardner & Ian Underwood were a formidable tandem during that all too brief incarnation of The Mothers.
Brief, but prolific. That's what happens when the band leader is a workaholic. Fortunately, Ian kept on working with Frank up to 1973. What he did in Hot Rats is almost heroic.
Two days ago it was the 50th anniversary of Trane's death. The world still misses him (or at least I do, even though I was born 15 years after his passing). I have the Live In Japan 4-cd set, and it's certainly amazingly intense yet pensive music. Unfortunately, I don't have it loaded in my Walkman right now
I'm guessing what I have is a single CD version. It has a 20 min track and a 45 min track. PS If you had a streaming subscription, you could listen right now.
Discs 2 & 3 from the 11/23/75 Blue Notes for Mongezi One more 40 minute segment left (disc 4) Again: Dudu Pukwana Chris McGregor Johnny Dyani Louis Moholo Look them up if you want to hear/read a heroic story.
Generally, I don't use streaming to listen to titles I own in physical format, don't ask me why As I'm not listening to a lot of jazz lately, I only have four Trane albums in my portable device. I was almost sure that I had the Japan shows here with me because it's one of those titles I never delete so I can always count on them in case of an "musical emergency". This one is pretty similar to my loose screw.
I'm the opposite. I'll stream things I own. I figure it's that much more fractions of pennies to the artists. Plus, you can't beat the convenience.
I haven't thought of that before. Anyway, I always use my Walkman for listening and I have the wifi function off so the battery can run longer. If I want to check something I don't have in my collection, I used Spotify on the iPod. Today I was thinking about the days in which I had no portable device of any kind to listen to music. How I could manage is something that I can't understand.
Too much drum solo in the 45 min track 2 of Coltrane in Japan; apparently I wasn't in the mood for a lot of drumming, even when it's very good. Now listening to some Schubert piano.
I remember my early forays into the jazz aisle, seeing that 4cd set with only 6 tracks total! It took me many years before I finally picked it up. I need to give it a serious listen again, its been a while. Definitely not background music!
I also remember when I first saw it. I had never seen such long tracks in my entire life! I ended buying it ten years later, more o less. Interpreted by...?
Alfred Brendel Schubert, 6 Moments Musicaux Lovely. Also, I'm on my phone, so posting album covers is more work than it's worth.
I saw a comment about streaming by David Crosby on twitter recently. I think he said he got something like under $2 for almost 200k plays of one of his biggest Byrds tracks. Maybe Eight Miles High. That's highway robbery.
