OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

village voice sneaking geir hongro into its freelance rolodex under another name

the vicious atonal skronk of Bitches Brew was so mind-blowing in its redefinition of what music cd be that only 10 years earlier were dudes like Coleman and Ayler able to catch up

for some reason my favourite detail is his assertion that there are multiple decades of jazz.

― Yorkshire lass born and bred, that's me, said Katriona's hologram. (thomp), Tuesday, November 13, 2012 3:21 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I loved this too

it's kind of like looking at Abstract Expressionism or listening to Morton Feldman -- it just might not jive with you.

yes of course what idiot would do these things for pleasure

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2012/11/10_albums_while_studying.php?page=4

3. Simon Trpceski -- Debussy: Images

Claude Debussy is one of the best French composers and probably artists, and that says a hell of lot. His compositions were analogous to the paintings of the impressionists, and he hoped when you listened to his music, you saw, literally, similar visualizations of Monet. That's why he called his work Images. You can find an album by Simon Trpceski on Spotify. Take for instance Debussy's, "Clair De Lune." It's probably one of the most famous works in music -- played in everything from lullabies to film scores. And really, it's not just a song. It's a painting that will set all 100,000,000,000 neurons in the average human brain on fire.

village voice sneaking geir hongro into its freelance rolodex under another name

Geir would NEVER have made that half note gaffe

brb gonna go play some half notes on my piano -- they're not even known to western music and basically imaginary

― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, November 13, 2012 3:21 PM (4 minutes ago)

Can't you read they're in between those

In a way, studying or being creative is kind of like sex. Yes, you can probably have it any time you want (some of us, anyway), but sometimes, it's really about being in the right mood.

Joseph Lapin, ladies and gentlemen.

i like the idea that this guy was pissed at miles davis for the way a 43 yr old undisputed masterpiece sounded.

named after the Williamsburg Bridge, which connects Manhattan to Brooklyn.

lmao @ this bit of trivia being in the village voice

At one point, Head Hunters was the best selling jazz album of all time. Be warned though, there is experimentation happening here.

If you're about to go sky diving, and you're not sure if you're going to survive, play this album on the car ride over.

Why is it so great? Let's not try to put it into words. It might be something unsayable.

Kind of Blue is about abortion?

If you're about to go sky diving, and you're not sure if you're going to survive, play this album on the car ride over. turn the car around imo

Herbie Hancock helped bring the synthesizer and the Fender Rhodes Electric Piano to mass appeal.

once the domain only of enthusiasts like The Beatles and The Doors

In a way, studying or being creative is kind of like sex. Yes, you can probably have it any time you want (some of us, anyway)

I can study and sex all day whenever wherever

also (kind of exhausting this piece, I know, but)

Ornette Coleman went from playing the sax to the trumpet

um, not on Shape of Jazz to Come, and not really that often in general.

I don't want to give this terrible thing clickthroughs but I kind of want to see if it's being savaged in the comments

"I can still remember the first time I heard this album. I was 17, and I was driving my Subaru Legacy Wagon in the rain."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxQYgH5WF_g

i think the five minute drive to his grandparent's house in the subaru might be my favorite part. belongs on the *worst anecdote ever* thread.

i once wept like a schoolgirl driving home from work the day my grandmother died and "hollywood swinging" came on the radio but you don't see me trying to work it into any listicles.

And really, it's not just a song.

...it's not a fucking song!

Misspelt Mingus song title. Axe this fucker to death.

I really liked the image of him already at his grandparents house with So What less than half over, sitting in their driveway "blaring" the record while his grandparents are staring out the window like "what the hell is Joseph doing out there?"

honestly would prefer maudlin personal anecdotes to eight-hand regurgitation of Intro To Jazz class material

i mean it's POSSIBLE for a random twentysomething to have a touching anecdote involving a mingus album, far less likely they have any information/insight wikipedia doesn't

you know he was sitting in his car in the driveway in the rain because he was dreading the fact that he actually had to hang out with his grandparents and help them, like, change lightbulbs or something. not because his life was being changed by a jazz record.

once I was pulling into a grocery store parking lot and "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me" came on the radio and I was too lazy to change the station so I kept listening to it until I parked

this dude probably passive-aggressively sits in driveways for thirty-five minutes because he "has to hear the rest of this record" all the time

maybe if he'd actually talked to his grandparents he might have found they had first-hand stories to share about the genius of dave brubeck.

alas, now they are worm food.

this morning as i parked the car in the garage at my office building, i heard the first few notes of surrender by cheap trick. slight disappointment arose within me when i realized it was not the version from budokan. yet i still listened because it's a good song. cried a bit or something, memories.

I've performed with Dave Brubeck twice btw, I just wanted to throw that out there </insufferable>

last week i was smoking a cigarette in the parking lot outside of where I was working that day and the prodigy's breathe came on right when I was done with the cigarette so I turned the radio off and walked towards the gate I had to go through but some public works guys had parked their car near the gate and they were blasting the rest of breathe by the prodigy and when one of them asked me for a cigarette I said I was out

there was a Police song playing in my car earlier today, I forget which one

one of his "classical" reviews (of an ennio morricone album) features the phrase "Yo-Yo Ma and his aching cello"

godfather of the upright cello

i don't have a car or else i'd go out and sit in it and listen to a whole album right now. maybe the well-tuned piano.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Yo-Yo_Ma_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg/220px-Yo-Yo_Ma_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg

my cello, oh how she aches

xp or maybe it an AC/DC song playing in the police car that took me away from the house whose driveway I sat in for 30 minutes blaring music -- lol, my grandparents are dead, totally forgot

hurtingchief
Wow, thank you for the great introduction to this music called "Jazz." Miles Davis, huh, I will have to check that guy out. Glad the Voice is still around to shine a light on the hidden corners of the music world.

one time after i hooked up with a girl, i was driving in my car and 'you got lucky' by tom petty came on the radio. funny, that.

my dad used to sit in the car with the radio on after pulling into the driveway, but he was an alcoholic

i was going to turn this whole thread

whitesnake - "here i go again"

into a voice pitch. maybe i can now.

I heard a Yo-Yo Ma cello performance that was so aching I accidentally drove off the road and crashed into my grandparents' house

i killed my grandfather while listening to albert ayler.

now that's journalism.

you weren't sure he was going to survive, so you put on Spiritual Unity

gave in and went to the first page, went "oh fuck no" and backed away