I'll bet it's this right here
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha, BR brings up Getz/Gilberto as another example of a lightweight, easy-on-the-untrained-ears not-really-jazz album that won.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Note: I never had any beef with him until I read that book. In fact, once at Jazzfest I shared a crawfish beignet with somebody having exactly the same name.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks James Redd. Ratliff seems to be giving the Grammys a lot more consideration as a marker of a particular sort of taste than they deserve? To whom do they really matter, these days?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't really want to go to this place either, but there is a certain type of New York Times reader who wants to, if not exactly keep a finger on the pulse of the, um, cultural Zeitgeist, at least throw it a passing glance in the Arts and Leisure now and then.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:46 (sixteen years ago) link
of course
To whom do they really matter, these days?
-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, February 17, 2008 4:27 AM
vs.
River: The Joni Letters performed by Herbie Hancock
Did this win this year? That's awesome.
-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, February 17, 2008 4:02 AM
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 17 February 2008 05:00 (sixteen years ago) link
All the HOOS that's fit to print.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 17 February 2008 05:02 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/blackplasticbag/
In a February 14th posting Michael J. West says in part : “Inasmuch as it is a jazz album, it is precisely the kind of jazz album that would win this award,” Ratliff says. “It is soft-edged and literate and respectable. It seems, at least, intended as an audience bridger.”
In other words, it’s not really jazz enough to count.
The authenticity debate never dies (Thanks, Wynton), but come on. The musicians who’ve made this “soft-edged,” crossover-friendly album include Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, and Vinnie Colaiuta (not a big name, but a musician’s musician–cited by Modern Drummer as “the most important drummer of our time”). You couldn’t get a higher pedigree if you resurrected John Coltrane.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 17 February 2008 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Resurrecting Coltrane would apparently have been a problem too.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 17 February 2008 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
He would have been viewed as a "free jazz casualty" who had been forced to dumb it down after all the damage sustained by all the overblowing.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 17 February 2008 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link
(Sorry I confused Oregon with Washington State with D.C.)
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 17 February 2008 12:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Will Hodgkinson's Song Man recently made it over here to the states. I bought it, and would heartily recommend it. Aside from having a couple of fascinating chapters dealing w/Lawrence from Felt, he interviews Hal David, Arthur Lee, Andy Partridge, Chan Marshall, Lamont Dozier, Chip Taylor, Bridget St John...
I have no complaints with the book whatsoever.
― dell, Monday, 18 February 2008 01:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Sacks' Musicophilia book totally not holding my interest. It seems scattered, almost like a series of essays.
― sleeve, Monday, 18 February 2008 01:09 (sixteen years ago) link
OTOH I want that Moondog bio really bad, think I'm gonna order it next paycheck.
― sleeve, Monday, 18 February 2008 01:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I haven't read Musicophilia, but aren't all of his books arranged in that format? Regardless, I am still haunted by the chapter in the one book of his which deals with the Grateful Dead fan who became a Hare Krishna, and ended up having a brain tumor...does anyone else remember that one?
― dell, Monday, 18 February 2008 01:15 (sixteen years ago) link
All of his fellow Krishna devotees celebrated his meditative powers, but his apparent ability to exist blissfully in the present or whatever was due to the fact of some massive tumor growing in his brain. At one point, he goes to a Dead concert, and despite being completely blind, he says, "oh yeah, there's Jerry over there! Look at him! He's amazing!"
― dell, Monday, 18 February 2008 01:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Clapton and Patti books are out in paperback but still steering clear of them. Yesterday bought the Moondog bio and the Lee Konitz interview book from last year.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 6 June 2008 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Would love to see this thread resuscitated for the o-12!
― Terabytes of FLACS of screaming (Call the Cops), Monday, 31 December 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
Good books about music
― curmudgeon, Monday, 31 December 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link