Kamasi ime is more jam band with funk elements than jazz but ymmv
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, September 20, 2016 10:20 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol what
― marcos, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 13:55 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I tried typing a response to that last night but my eyes kept rolling back in my skull.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 13:56 (seven years ago) link
Kamasi Washington's next album is a covers album of String Cheese Incident songs with Graham Central Station as his backing band
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
Bitches Bonabroo
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link
it also feels like there's more reviews and articles on experimental music. The site is obviously moving away from indie rock, and it feels like they're filling some of that gap with increasing coverage of "avant-garde" stuff, particularly electronic stuff.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 01:52 (nineteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
almost excelsiored this tbrr
― imago, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
does anyone read the wire anymore btw
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
they do if they're in it that month
― Dominique, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link
heyooooooo
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:21 (seven years ago) link
braggin' 2016
― imago, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
seriously though pitchfork do not give one shit about avant-garde music
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22158-four-meditations-sound-geometries/
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:24 (seven years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21535-3-compositions-eemhm-2011trillium-j-the-non-unconfessionables-no-380quintet-tristano-2014/
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22345-arvo-part-the-deers-cry/
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
...comparatively speaking, and they definitely don't give a shit about new experimental artists
― imago, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
Those are all decades-confirmed masters
― imago, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
But, they just BNMed Sunergy (for example)
― Evan, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link
and Anna Meredith
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
well, they should give more of a shit, cf that clipping review mentioned upthread where they 5.3 hip-hop history
― imago, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
how much of a shit any publication gives about areas of music is usually borne out by their eoy lists rather than their intermittent concessions
― imago, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link
anyway whatever i fight this erry day and yall bored
isn't covering clipping at all the definition of "giving a shit"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
yeah fine
still think they only really cover shit if it's fashionable and they infinitesimally rarely let an underdog at the throne. kanye has a 100000x bigger chance of a 9.something than any bandcamp mc regardless of the respective quality of their outputs (not saying kanye is bad, even)
― imago, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
they only really cover shit if it's fashionable
this is a tautology or something i think /dumb_person
― brimstead, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
or maybe a misunderstanding of how entertainment media works
― brimstead, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
i remember the days when pitchfork would fearlessly drop 9+ on a clearlake album
― nomar, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
they literally did that
― imago, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
oh i see
just forget i posted
― brimstead, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:48 (seven years ago) link
me too
― imago, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
Louis is about five posts away from calling them "cuckfork"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
did you literally compare me to a MRA redditor
― imago, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
goddamn i'm easy to rile
― imago, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 22:00 (seven years ago) link
lol whatYeah, I tried typing a response to that last night but my eyes kept rolling back in my skull.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 22 September 2016 00:05 (seven years ago) link
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, September 21, 2016 4:18 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Dominique, Wednesday, September 21, 2016 4:20 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, September 21, 2016 4:21 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ouch
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 22 September 2016 02:02 (seven years ago) link
I read it every month, but I write for it, so.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 22 September 2016 02:05 (seven years ago) link
At this point, I skim it in the bookstores, but feel guilty about that. Used to buy it almost monthly, but can't justify doing so given that I have subscriptions to several magazines that I never get around to finishing.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 22 September 2016 02:10 (seven years ago) link
if the stuff that eg Phillip Sherburne and Andy Beta are reviewing is trendy then I must be particularly out of the loop these days
anyway it comes back to the actual writing - they might not award a BNM or even a top-of-page review to experimental stuff but if I read it and I think "hey this sounds like its for me and that 7.7 or whatever suggests it isn't awful then maybe I'll give it some time of my own and see if I form a better opinion of it"
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 22 September 2016 07:27 (seven years ago) link
I stopped my Wire subscription last year (for mainly financial reasons) and I feel a weird kind of guilt about it but not sure how much I actually miss it.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Thursday, 22 September 2016 08:23 (seven years ago) link
i was surprised when i saw him live! dunno what to tell you!― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, September 21, 2016 7:05 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I saw him live too and unless you're in some kind of Wynton Marsalis bop utopia where fusion and the whole 70s and 80s never happened....I dunt know how you can call it not jazz that's just lj level ludicrous
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 September 2016 12:18 (seven years ago) link
proud + ashamed to say this applies to me!
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 22 September 2016 12:55 (seven years ago) link
What's your point? I hide pictures of myself with my phone number in all sorts of magazines.
― Evan, Thursday, 22 September 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
I dunt know how you can call it not jazz that's just lj level ludicrous
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 22 September 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
https://www.quackergiftshop.com/eCart/catalog/(249)jazz%20rubber%20duck%20white%20headband.jpg
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
Funky duck
― niels, Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
It's spiritual hat jazz
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
always good to judge a band by its audience
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
(deej otm tho)
I guess fusion jazz or whatever got pretty far from what noobs (like me) think of as /jazz/, especially live the drums were so beefy and playing like, banging hip hop beats; The other concert that Kamasi live most reminded me of was The Roots
― flopson, Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:58 (seven years ago) link
everyone plays beats in jazz these days, we've had so many generations raised on beats that it feels like the natural and honest approach for young jazz musicians, whereas making the choice to swing feels very particular and antiquated.
i agree that this can feel jam band-y at times. a lot of bands are good at avoiding jam band pitfalls, but it's tricky.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 22 September 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
banging hip hop beats
but... so many banging hip hop beats are/were sampled from jazz records
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 22 September 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link