JazzTimes:The Sounds Of 1970
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Topic: JazzTimes:The Sounds Of 1970
Posted By: Rocktopus
Subject: JazzTimes:The Sounds Of 1970
Date Posted: September 10 2010 at 17:35
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Their http://jazztimes.com/issues/201009 - 40 year anniversary September issue is a really is a cutting edge jazzrockfusion special. Which is about as close to a progrelated issue a jazzmagazine can make. The three interesting, lenghty main articles are about: -Bitches Brew Sessions & electric Miles -Herbie Hancocks Mwandishi Sextet (and the album) -Freddie Hubbard: Red Clay Interviews with Holland, Jonette, McLaughlin, Hancock, Priester, Hart... basically everyone involved still alive. Bonuses articles are a nice selection of ten essential avant-garde recordings of 1970 (with albums by Alice Coltrane, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Marion Brown, Sonny Sharrock, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, Garbarek...) + there's Christian McBride listening and talking about a cool selection of tracks by Fank Zappa, Tony Williams, McCoy Tyner, Miles, Hendix.... from the same year as well.  ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
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Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: September 10 2010 at 19:00
| Thanks for the link, looks like good reading. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: September 11 2010 at 04:09
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Jazzwise magazine, likewise, has a couple (of relatively half-hearted) acknowledgements of the 40th Anniversary of BB's release - although in one, its review of the "complete" (how many of ths ehave there been) BB set, it is awarded one of ftheir very rare 5 stars. What of the American jazz journals
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 19:12
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Hi,
If the magazine took more shots and listens to other jazz scenes, I would say that is mandatory and important. If not ... I would pass.
I just find it sad to continuously see these publications leave behind so many artists that deserve a listen and a comment ... simply because some of them are not black and their name is not Miles!
There is a lot of jazz, and there has been, for 50 years in Europe, and folks like Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous, Egberto Gismonti (and we haven't even started listing Japanese jazz folks!) and and so many others have been playing it for just as long ... and have helped jazz make the stamp in music history that it has ... but sadly ... those magazines, like Bass Player and Guitar Player ... have never been very good at listing and discussing and even applauding those other massive musicians out there ... that deserve the credit.
Heck ... I didn't even see Keith Jarrett listed ... and that's not only insane ... it is sad, as he is one of the best American pianists of the last 50 years regardless of music style, and he has done it all except Chuck Berry I think! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: September 25 2010 at 04:49
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^I sort of agree with you, but this issue is not about the sounds of the 70's, its about the year 1970.
Keith Jarret didn't even release an album in 1970. Its an anniversay
issue, and I think its positive that they've chosen to focus on the
beginning of jazzrock-fusion. And I'm more than happy to read about largely ignored projects such as Mwandishi for starters. Btw: Afric Pepperbird is one of their selected ten essential avantgarde albums of 1970. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 26 2010 at 13:41
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certainly looks interesting enough for me to track it down.... ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: September 29 2010 at 17:24
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^One of the reasons I find the issue genuinely interesting is that the text, inteviews, thoughts and look on these albums and the whole period, both feels and actually is kinda new, positive and fresh. I'm no specialist, but the jazzpurist dismissal of this style and period seems to have been kept very much alive by mags like JazzTimes and Downbeat. And atleast in this issue they seem to address and acknowledge this. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 08:58
McBride seems a born-again jazz fusionist. 3 or 4 years ago I read of him (in a interview tied to an album of fusion tunes) as a young musician being very much influenced by the 80's movement to post bop, ala Wynton Marsalis - in which rock, electricity and anything attributable to 70's fusion was completely unacceptable and avoided. And then McBride heard Weather Report, and all fell away from his eyes and ears, so now he happily encompasses fusion (and the electric bass) in his repertoise. ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
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