Friday, November 13, 2020

Kneckbeard Hipster Dept. - Davis And John Jazztacular!

Jazzbos refer to Miles Davis by his surname, and John Coltrane by his given name. Don't get this wrong! Nothing shames the neophyte like calling them Miles and Coltrane!

Davis' Big Fun album is just that. Critics lament the outtakes, inferior versions, whatever, like they're paid to. None of what they claim to hear is in the groove. This is a monster album. Light on demanding atonality, heavy on harmonic groove. Inventive, varied, tuneful. This is the massively extended edition, two hours and twenty minutes of meditative, mildly psychedelic bliss.

John, as we jazz buffs call him, is represented by Lush Life, which sounds exactly like what John and Jane Q. Public think jazz sounds like. No sheets of sound here - more like pillowcases, and to my old ears all the better for it.

The critics rave: "undergirded by a lightheartedness", "arrangements that emerge singular and clear, never sounding preconceived". Well, golly gee!

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18 comments:

  1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIINovember 13, 2020 at 3:53 PM

    To get on board the bus to Jazzville, simply state your favorite girl's name! Oboy!

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  2. pmacNovember 13, 2020 at 5:21 PM

    As a married man, I'm pleading the 5th on this one.

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  3. Farquhar Throckmorton IIINovember 13, 2020 at 5:44 PM

    Oh, wait - I mean your favorite name for a girl. Not the name of your favorite girl.

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    1. DEPRAVOS DE LA MOURNovember 13, 2020 at 6:51 PM

      Marge's Little Lulu.

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    2. pmacNovember 13, 2020 at 7:14 PM

      What a coincidence, that's my wife's name. Hey, wait a minute.........

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  4. bumppaNovember 14, 2020 at 12:02 AM

    Pumpkin?

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  5. Rico FiNovember 14, 2020 at 5:15 AM

    Quaneesha the amazing!

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  6. BillNovember 14, 2020 at 5:44 AM

    Ma'am.

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  7. Farquhar Throckmorton IIINovember 14, 2020 at 6:08 AM

    Some excellent votes here. My money's on Velda. Sudge class! Sophistification out th' ass!

    (Stealth Link embedded in this comment - I bin makin' it too easy fuh youse bums!)

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  8. Farquhar Throckmorton IIINovember 14, 2020 at 6:32 AM

    Listening to Davis as we speak ... I have to say, on mature reflection, it's my favorite of this period. It's listenable in a way Bitches Brew isn't. And this extended version is the way to go. Find somewhere to spend some time with your own bad self, and plug into this.

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    1. tcw3November 14, 2020 at 7:46 AM

      tcw3: i prefer tappin' my toes to On the Corner.

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    2. Farquhar Throckmorton IIINovember 14, 2020 at 8:06 AM

      Ah-ha. And uh-huh. I remember telling people I liked that album, too. But nobody's tapping their toes to Big Fun - swaying a little, maybe. This is dance music for the synapses.

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    3. pmacNovember 14, 2020 at 10:47 AM

      For latter day Davis, I've always been partial to Amandla. It still had the phrasing of Kind of Blue, but incorporated the modern era rhythms. Aw, fuck it, what I meant is, its sounds cool.

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    4. Farquhar Throckmorton IIINovember 14, 2020 at 11:43 AM

      Hah! We wus seppyrated at boit'! Amandala is my go-to late Miles too, with Tutu in second place.

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  9. FRANCKNovember 14, 2020 at 5:40 PM

    Favorite girl name is love. cause if you can't be with the one you're love, love the one you're with.

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  10. oqueefNovember 15, 2020 at 12:40 AM

    Ilsa the She Wolf

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