The Non-Classical You Are Listening To

[Herzeleide]

Originally Posted by Balthazar

I didn't mean to trash Tyner or insult you. Get a grip, willya?

You're right, that was a little bit OTT, and in this context it seems more than a little bit ODD. Sorry.

[Herzeleide]

OMG Monk is too good, I love his style, the Sprachähnlichkeit of his solo means it is at once quite abstract, but it's obvious what he's saying. Like any good poem the intensification of meaning strikes the listener as being not only original but also honest.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmhP1RgbrrY"]YouTube- THELONIOUS MONK - Blue Monk[/ame]

(Monk's solo starts at 3:11)

[Herzeleide]

This is completely brilliant, Shorter inspires some of McLaughlin's most ebullient + hippest playing. Cherish it: this kind of guitar playing, with his particular timbre, was unheard of either before or since, even by McLaughlin himself (something to do with the guitar he was using. I could be more technical were I sad enough to be a guitar nerd.) His playing both here and pretty much everywhere else with Miles is just so good in comparison to the legions of guitar-wielding 80s fusion nit-wits, about whom it takes great will power on my behalf half not to launch into some nasty tirade on how utterly useless they are and how I would rather hear a lobotomised chimp on a tequilla binge play a mono-stringed banjo than hear some plonker rip through a string of tapped or sweep-picked hemidemisemiquavers. See what I mean?


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbI1i-kVD8E"]YouTube- Wayne Shorter??Supernova[/ame]

[Despina41]

Time to spice up this thread with a little Don Ellis:


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrsNOSewwAM&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrsNOSewwAM&feature=related[/ame]


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFf_190Vnr4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFf_190Vnr4[/ame]


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2msqK7HHdaY&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2msqK7HHdaY&feature=related[/ame]

[Stlukesguild]

Another weekend... another long hot day in the art studio painting... another cook-out in the back-yard (barbecued chicken)... and still another slew of good beers (thank God for on-line spell-check) and I'm back listening to Frank...



and Miles...



and if I keep drinking... and there's a case of Young's Double Chocolate just calling to me... I'll end up with the Stones played REAL LOUD.

[Stlukesguild]

Instead of the Stones I went off into left field and ended up listening to this:



A phenomenal singer!! My secular, non-practicing, Jewish studio mate ended up singing along with Mahalia last time I played her in the studio, and he declared that he wants me to have her and Johnny Cash' "Keep Your Eyes on Jesus" played at his funeral just to see the expression on his family's faces.

[Herzeleide]

I've been listening to this dark, enigmatic, cool thing:



Favourites: 'Pee Wee' and 'Masqualero'. The former (written by Tony Williams) especially makes me melt, it's like every note Shorter plays was already on the tip of my tongue.

[Herzeleide]

Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965.

I'm being spoilt by the sheer quality of the second great quintet. They take risks and go places that I seldom hear in any other jazz. Everyone is of surpassing quality but it's Wayne Shorter who does it for me. I love the dark, abstract nature of his lines, they're so eloquent and poetic. There's also a certain 'magic' to Shorter's playing here that (with the greatest of respect to his solo albums, many of whose quality most artists are unable even to approach) one doesn't find when he's not with Miles. It's been said before - Miles the Magus, Miles the Sorcerer, Miles the Prince of Darkness. Needless to say, this appeals to me greatly.

[Balthazar]

After reading the Rolling Stone article about the reissue, I've been listening to Exile on Main Street. I've always loved its messy, bluesy decadence, and I'd love to hear the extra tracks on the reissue.

All these years, I really thought the band had just holed up in Keith's Riviera mansion and bashed a bunch of jams into shape between parties. According to the article, however, the sessions were endless and painstaking. The heat in the stifling basement made the guitars go out of tune constantly, so decent takes were few and far between. Marriages, money issues, and drug habits put the band on different schedules throughout the recording. The musicians had to walk from the basement to the mobile recording trailer in the backyard every time they wanted to hear a playback. Engineer Andy Johns got stuck mixing the miles of tape into something that sounded exciting and spontaneous instead of overwrought.

"Come on baby, won't ya let it rock!"

[Stlukesguild]

Some real roots of American music.