Feb. 13, Philly: A Record Release Party and Memorial Concert for JACK ROSE
"Jack Rose passed away suddenly at home in Philadelphia on December 5, 2009. He was widely regarded as the most profound exponent of acoustic guitar playing of his generation. Jack grew to be loved and admired by a great many people through his live performances, electric personality, serious cooking skills and a general mastery in the art of friendship. This concert is a release party for his new album Luck In The Valley and an occasion to celebrate and remember the good Dr. Ragtime. The artists performing were all dear friends of Jack’s and admired by him musically."
Saturday, February 13, 2010 – 7:00 PMLatvian Society of Philadelphia – 531 N. 7th Street
Tickets: $18Available now: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/4067
Performers:D. Charles Speer & The HelixThurston Moore | Paul Flaherty | Chris CorsanoMichael ChapmanPeltThe Black Twig PickersGlenn JonesByron ColeyMeg Baird | Chris ForsythMegajam Booze BandDJ Ian NagoskiVideo clips curated by Tara Young
More info: http://www.arthurmag.com/2010/01/19/memorial-concert-for-jack-rose/
― jaybabcock, Friday, 22 January 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Meanwhile, Strange Attractors has put up the first teaser trailer from the forthcoming DVD. Looks like it should be a winner and a half:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0r3weDRgKE
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 January 2010 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link
whoa, that philly memorial show sounds great. i hope tickets are still available in two weeks, i don't think i can afford it now...
― spastic heritage, Saturday, 23 January 2010 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
The memories continue:
http://citypaper.net/articles/2010/02/11/blues-for-jack-rose
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 February 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Miss this guy. Really looking forward to the posthumous album this year.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 11 February 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Long form trailer for the upcoming DVD now up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ5tSbLZdfM
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 February 2010 05:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been fortunate enough to receive an early review copy of the DVD with Glenn Jones. It's a treasure, and it's just nice to see Jack again, in some way.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Meanwhile, here's the information again on the tribute collection, due for release in a couple of weeks online:
http://www.fina-music.com/catalog/index.html?id=104712
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Good to see some more Jack stuff being released. I admittedly still need to pick up Luck in the Valley -- will do that this week.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://uabab.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/jack-rose-luck-in-the-valley.jpg
jesus christ
what a joyous, mystical, wonderful record
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Agree -- it's fabulous.
― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
:(
― am0n, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i was just listening to opium musick this morning.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I played Raag Manifestos the other night. Really great album.
― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2010/03/jack-rose-brickbat-books-bootlegs.html
― tylerw, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
A year ago today.
Rest well, sir. We all still miss ya.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 December 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^^ this
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 5 December 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^^^
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
love this guy 4eva
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, 6 December 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Yo La Tengo dedicated a song to him at Maxwell's last night.
― Chonus, Monday, 6 December 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
can't believe it's a year already. listened to z.m. dagar playing raga yaman the other night and thought of him.
― ogmor, Monday, 6 December 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
dedication in the new Six Organs of Admittance record:
"Missing you, Dr. Ragtime. Now who will call bullshit on the bullshitters?"
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Saturday, 12 February 2011 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Coming this month:
Thurston Moore - VDSQ Solo Acoustic Volume Five12 String Meditations For Jack Rose
Solo, untreated, 12-string compositions in tribute to oneof the greats. An album of instrumentals in requiem.
Really miss Jack. The few times I had the privilege of seeing him live are forever burned in my memory. A truly savage loss.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Saturday, 12 February 2011 07:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.decal.org/file/2443
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:24 (eleven years ago) link
Nice syllabus
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
would enroll
― tylerw, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
idk what he wld have made of this. i wonder if it means money for his estate.
― ogmor, Friday, 24 August 2012 11:47 (eleven years ago) link
Four years.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, still sad. I am now older than he was when he passed.
New Pelt album has some heavy Jack-inspired moments on it related to their shared history, as well as a song called "Of Jack's Darbari" (the album is also called "Effigy", though I don't think it is solely because of Jack being gone). It is a great record and a very fitting way to pay tribute in some ways, barring just playing a ton of Rose's albums and the Pelt records he is actually on.
― grandavis, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
three years, but yeah, still a bummer. listened to luck in the valley last week and it really seemed like he was just getting started. haven't heard the new pelt yet, but will seek it out!
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 December 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
It's really good Tyler, and pretty unique to my ears. Still doing the all acoustic drone thing from the last 2 records or so, but even more of a strange mix of instruments/strategies.
― grandavis, Thursday, 6 December 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
agreed that the new Pelt is great. soundscape with the jaw harp blows me away.
it's LP/Digital only...the record is nice. sounds great, too. out here: http://mie.limitedrun.com/products/504355-pelt-effigy
also can't believe it's been 4 yrs...saw him play just a month before he passed, and was lucky enough to see him & pelt at the last Terrastock. great shows.
― dronestreet, Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
Forever missed:
http://soundamerican.org/jack-rose-is-real
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
Man, reminiscences of Jack are just so interesting, cause everyone feels compelled to lay a heavy story or two on you, which speaks volumes about the path this guy cut through music/life. Hope there are a bunch of unreleased beauts out there awaiting release, just cause it would be nice, but still sad there won't be new tunes.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
nice article... yeah, there should be some sort of big jack rose box set w/ unreleased stuff. by the way, anyone have this? http://oh-be-joyful.blogspot.com/2010/11/nice-and-nasty-selections-from-dr.html [link is dead there...]
― tylerw, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
listened to "two originals of..." last night -- man, "red horse" has to be up there with the all time great Takoma epics. the whole thing is stunning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP0LnKJSU1o
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 May 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah man, that is killer. I need to own more Jack Rose records.
― grandavis, Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
I suppose red horse was the first solo piece he released? arrives perfectly-formed. that bit ~1.20-1.50, gaaaah. mb the only thing that withstands comparison to the great san bernardino birthday party. it was always a beautiful, melancholy piece but it feels so sad now.
― ogmor, Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
think i posted this over on the other thread, but if you missed it - http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/49362884245/jack-rose-peel-sessions-two-very-much-missed
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
Whoa, thanks Tyler. If you posted it already I missed it.
I wonder how much of this (Red Horse)was improvised? Some of it is so damn good it is hard to imagine it being so, but it seems a lot of times pieces this long are "loosely structured" so say the least. I gotta say, that interview in Arthur was really enlightening, just full of cool details. Like I said, I gotta get more Jack Rose records.
Sad doesn't even begin to describe the feeling. The way he pushed himself, and the run he was on, made it pretty evident that he had some tremendous things ahead of him. Just a shame, but at least he got a pretty decent amount out whilst charging ahead.
― grandavis, Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
xp sun dogs! heard him play it in a church & it was the most incredible thing
― ogmor, Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
by the way, anyone have this? http://oh-be-joyful.blogspot.com/2010/11/nice-and-nasty-selections-from-dr.html [link is dead there...]
Yeah I have that. Pretty lo-fi (in both sound & packaging) CDr. Don't recall if I got it from Volcanic Tongue or Rough Trade.
― Wandering Boy Poet, Friday, 24 May 2013 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
ysi? actually i'd just settle for a tracklisting...
― tylerw, Friday, 24 May 2013 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
i have that nice and nasty thing. could post a track listing tomorrow.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 24 May 2013 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
VHF have put their entire in print catalog on Soundcloud and that includes _Kensington Blues_...
https://soundcloud.com/vhfrecords/sets/jack-rose-kensington-blues
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
As mentioned upthread re: the Arthur issue it appeared in, the extensive interview with Jack done a few months before he died
http://arthurmag.com/2013/12/04/ah-man-a-career-spanning-conversation-with-jack-rose-by-brian-rademaekers-from-arthur-no-33/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 December 2013 02:47 (ten years ago) link
great interview... amateurist (or anyone else) would still like to see the tracklisting of that nice and nasty comp....
― tylerw, Thursday, 5 December 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
That interview is great. There is a Coley rundown of Rose's recordings in that issue as well I believe, which is also great.
― grandavis, Thursday, 5 December 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
Still sad as hell that he passed.
― grandavis, Thursday, 5 December 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
totally...they've put up that discography as well it seems: http://arthurmag.com/2013/12/04/jack-rose-discography-by-byron-coley-from-arthur-no-33
― tylerw, Thursday, 5 December 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link