EDIT: Don't miss the second batch from Mr. Swami in the comments!
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Monday, November 22, 2021
Sitarswami's Sons Of Bitches Dept. - EDIT!!!
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These fine long-playing elpees will increase your jazzbo cred from its present basement crawlspace level to motel penthouse!
ReplyDeleteTo qualify, list your favorite Davis and John albums right now (ONE EACH and NO CHEATING!)
John: My Favorite Things
ReplyDeleteDavis: Big Fun
Sayyy! This is a fantastic choice! Well done!
Delete(wupes - commented under my own name - pse. ignore)
If I hadn't heard it so many times, My Favorite Things might be might favorite thing too -- it's incredible. Likewise, Kind of Blue. I'm just a little tired of hearing them thought they are faultless and peaks of creativity and performance for sure.
DeleteSketches of Spain - MD
ReplyDeleteDial Africa - JC
Miles: Miles Smiles
ReplyDeleteTrane: A Love Supreme
[*snort*! - jazz afficionados such as meself will note Babs' gauche use of "Miles" and "Trane"!]
DeleteI'll go for the only two that I actually own, Love Supreme and Kind of Blue. I don't suppose, Snap Crackle & Bop and Their First Album count or do I have to enter an alternative universe for those?
ReplyDeleteMy woman's intuition tells me you are already in an alternative universe, Mr. Mon.
DeleteNot yet found it, but am always on the lookout!
DeleteAn Old School Stealth Link© has been embedded into this here comment to deter grasping freeloaders desirous of exploitin' Sitarswami's largesse. The files are at an ozone-depleting 320 for all youse snowflake-eared winnetasters out there, and there's tablecloth-sized scans! Hoo boy!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'll take these to the print shop and get some posters made for sprucing up the den.
DeleteThanks guv'ner!
DeleteGuilty as charged. The benefits outweigh..
DeleteFor Miles, Kind of Blue
ReplyDeleteFor Coltrane, Olé
Gbrand
Kind of Blue
ReplyDeleteLove Supreme
'evening pardner,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the fine listening. I'm enjoying the Jazz Rock In Stravinsky in particular, but there was little dust up with Billy jr. earlier. Seems like he got into mother's preserves and it hit him kinda' heavy. All is good now, but for a while he was wielding an axe (the plastic kind, mind you) and as he was bashing away at the cellar door all the while yelling "Father, I want to kill you - Mother? You'll be my dutches - MY DUTCHES OF PRUNES!" Needless to say, the miss's was a tad spooked.
As always,
Billy Gates - of the Double X Ranch.
Older readers will remember Billy Gates from his kids TV show "Billy Buckaroo" where he played the tow-headed freckle-faced youngster (a stretch for him even then, at twenty-nine) with dreams of putting on a puppet show in the old abandoned stagecoach. Will Geer played "Stumpy", the grouchy but loveable town sheriff.
DeleteWhy Miles ? What about Betty ?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpuDoR_L0M0
Hermann
Well, Hermann, It was Miles who inspired the musicians in this post, not Betty, but she and Veronica have been FoamFeatured© antecedently.
DeleteMiles - You're Under Arrest
ReplyDeleteTrane - Giant Steps
I'm surprised no one's questioned my choice of Miles' albums...
DeleteYou're Under Arrest falls in my Davis Comfort Zone. Love that period.
DeleteIt was the first Miles album I heard after Bitches Brew. Borrowed it from the library and just loved it. It set me off going back to see what I'd missed - a shitload - and got me back picking up everything else he went on to do. I just love that period with Scofield in the band.
DeleteI just love this clip where Miles leads Jones front stage to share the limelight.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KFrotGj1x8
Berg's solo is standout and then Sco gets the limelight treatment.
DeleteStunning stuff.
Why John? Why not Alice?
ReplyDeleteDavis - Sketches
John - Om
There isn't any reason why "not" Alice, or Betty, or any other musician. I have and enjoy albums by both. This place is always open to informed (or merely opinionated) pieces about anyone. If you feel there's something exclusionary going on here, please do submit a piece to redress the situation (as you may see it), but try not to write it from a polemic point of view. There's no agenda here, merely writing about whatever/whoever occurs to me (or anyone else). I'm not ticking boxes, filling quotas, or attempting a fair and representative overview of global culture. So if you want to see Alice & Betty here (whom I don't consider to be in any way hurting for respect or celebrity), it's up to you (generically, not personally). I'm not writing by request or imperative, and I may not get around to them for a while. I have the definitive "Roger Whittaker - The Punk Years" feature on the back burner, and a facetious piece about a non-existent TV show host that needs a shit eye-hurting graphic in my in-tray, so a little help would be very welcome. Thank you!
DeleteIn your Roger Whittaker featurette, please do not hesitate in your geographical condemnation, Durham never has and never will be on the Tyne. So tell him to stuff that up his Oxbow lake and then he can leave old Durham Town which asanyfuleknow is on the Wear. Mutter mutter, grumble grumble, rant rant, part time punk, I should coco.
DeleteWow. I was only a half-joking because I prefer Pharoah Sanders' playing over John's and Journey In Satchidananda is some of his best.
DeleteI was only half-joking too. But the need for screed is real.
Delete... and I apologise for apparent crabbiness.
DeleteJazz rock - where did I go wrong? Dabbled with it a bit in my teenage years, as it seemed an extension of the keyboardy progressive rock sound of the time. The only evidence left in my record collection appear to be Isotope and Stomu Yamashta, both of which survived the great post punk lp selloff of the late 70's cos no-one bought them. I do remember having Soft Machine Third (with expanded brass section) and various cassettes of Chick Corea and John Mclaughlin types, also a BBC session of Ian Carr's Nucleus. So can anyone give me some pointers as to how to correct this, and should the aforementioned even be considered part of this noble oeuvre? Who are the prime contenders for the Jazz Rock Hall of Fame?
ReplyDeleteI think jazzrock is a really difficult one. Corea and Mclaughlin put out some great stuff in their supergroup(s) days, but they've done so much more since, that I'm not qualified to comment on. I like what I've heard by Ian Carr too, Nucleus seems to be all pretty good.
DeleteHowever I also like Colosseum II (the one with Gary Moore on guitar) a lot and I know I'm probably in the minority on that one, also Brand X first four albums. Love a bit of Soft Machine too (Live in Paris 75 is good).
But I'd recommend Billy Cobham Spectrum, and his stuff with George Duke (two good live albums). Also Pierre Moerlens Gong is interesting stuff, but its all subjective init.
Gong - Camembert Electrique - bought it as an impoverished schoolboy for 59p (?) When Mr Branson put it out as a cheapy, just missed out on Faust Tapes which had been issued earlier. Never knew that would be included as jazzrock, but still love it, to this day (tomorrow as well, probably)
DeletePierre Moerlens Gong, is the 1976-1981ish all insrumental version fronted by their drummer, and featuring Alan Holdsworth, Mike Oldfield and Mick Taylor amongst others on guitar.
DeleteJazz rock never really went away.
DeleteIndeed, with acts like Snarky Puppy, Jaga Jazzist, Panzerballet and Progger it's having somewhat of a resurgence, often with big band overtones.
Davis - A tribute to Jack Johnson
ReplyDeleteJohn - Black Pearls (the only John I have)
JC : Complete Village Vanguard
ReplyDeleteMD : The Cellar Door Session
Live recording is the best...
In A Silent Way. Not sure about Coltrane.
ReplyDeleteStravinsky's Apollo cherished large chamberish piece just now recalling. What beauty, just jazzy enough as it is!
ReplyDeleteps
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When I was younger I might have said Ascension and Bitches Brew but my tastes have mellowed over the years so today I'll go with Birth of the Cool and Coltrane(62).
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to these!
So even a mon like me can do it, e.g. if I wanted to give a free non jazz gift to all of Farquhar's Island visitors (not mine to give, please treat as being on appro, for review purposes only, to be returned in an unused state or your credit card will be charged accordingly). If it doesn't work then you'll have to go to yesterday's topic.
ReplyDeleteThe bad news is that my ineptitude failed to link this to ge's comment above. However, the good news is that my eptitude seems to have succesfully got the embedded link to work. Whether anyone wants it of course is another matter, but I'm quite partial to it. Thanks to ge anyway.
DeleteMiles Milestones
ReplyDeleteI had the Milestones & Straight NC EPs at school
This is out of sequence cos I picked it from vols 2 & 3 of the complete Miles & Trane set
https://workupload.com/file/7pTWCarbEDQ
JC Plays the Blues Had this at school too
https://workupload.com/file/PB3HKbSCkA5
Second installment:
ReplyDelete"Two from keyboardist Hiromasa Suzuki with help from T. Muraoka (both found on Hino's "Hi-Nology"). Sitar is present on the Bitches Brew sessions although the tracks did not appear until Big Fun and Circle in the Round, and the 4cd Bitches boxset. On the two Rock Joint records, from 1972 and 1973, Suzuki utilizes first the Japanese biwa, and then a sitar in a jazz/rock setting. I love both of these."
https://workupload.com/file/ZTqwuZFTDNh
Thank you Farq.
DeleteLast night gave Hiromasa Suzuki a spin, very interesting and wonderful recording of some unusual instrumentation. Thanks.
DeleteThere's more incoming. I'll give them a separate post. Sitarswami unearthed some real treasure here.
DeleteMiles Davis-On the Corner (the complete on the corner sessions)
ReplyDeleteI met Miles at an art opening of paintings he had mid 80's. I congratulated him on his show of oil paintings of women, upon shaking his hand I noticed his extremely long fingers and well manicured fingernails. He was wearing a white leather jacket and pants.
John-Africa/Brass
Great story! Personally, I think he's right up there with Bob Dylan as a painter.
DeleteListening now to Hiromasa Suzuki 鈴木宏昌, brilliant stuff, many thanks!
ReplyDeleteAppreciate and enjoy immensely, your blog Farq. I like to join in occasionally, but the intellectual level is a bit above my pay level, I fear. However the sense of humour appeals greatly. About to listen to these Jazz from Japan albums. Thank you all.
ReplyDeleteWait -- we're supposed be getting paid here?!? Why that lyin,' connivin,' two-faced, brisket handed, houndstooth toothed, cotton wearin,' swinlin' swindler Farq ain't never paid me a red cent for my work here. I call for a strike!
DeleteNext time you see Sitarswami at the Tiki bar, karaoke night, thank him for the Hiromasa Suzuki 鈴木宏昌 albums, they are really fantastic. The other albums are interesting, but those two are top stuff.
ReplyDeleteKind of Blue.
ReplyDeleteAscension.
Davis: Miles Ahead
ReplyDeleteJohn: Africa/Brass