"musician Eubie Blake offered his recollections of the original slang connotations of the term, saying: "When Broadway picked it up, they called it 'J-A-Z-Z'. It wasn't called that. It was spelled 'J-A-S-S'. That was dirty, and if you knew what it was, you wouldn't say it in front of ladies"
The ROVA show was some deep water, and just brilliant.
And I'm planning on making at least one of the Amendola/Blades/Parker/Baptista shows, either in SF or Santa Cruz, but I'd be more excited if Baptista wasn't involved.
Damn, that's quite an indictment. I can see how that might be so, since Scott Amendola is such an explosive percussionist on his own. However, I've always enjoyed Baptista's ability to color sound without becoming overbearing – but then, I've only seen him play in the context of John Zorn's bands.
Yeah but speaking of "noisy," this is the lineup I'm considering checking out this weekend, so...
M/S/T is the NYC based avant-garde jazz trio of drummer Mason Macias, saxophonist/flautist Craig Schenker, and drummer John Thayer...
Spontaneous, playful, and aware; this is reactionary music that evolves as a dialog between players through conversational percussion and echoes of European folk melodies.
I was unaware a Roland Kirk fz sit in ever took place.
any audio of that?
found these quotes:
"I met him backstage at the Boston Jazz Festival and asked him to play with us if he was interested in our music. Then, during our set, led by his attendant, he came up to the stage. As you know he's blind, but his body understood all of our signals. At one point everybody in the band was supposed to get down on their back and kick their feet in the air while they still keep playing. As soon as we got on our back, he also got his back. When we got up, he also got up. He grasped everything. He is an excellent musician. Three weeks later we played together again at the Florida Jazz Festival."
— Frank Zappa, New Music Magazine interview, April 1976.
"The first time we played with Rahsaan Roland Kirk was at the 1968 Boston Globe Jazz Festival. After his performance, when introduced to him backstage, I said I really liked what he was doing, and said that if he felt like joining us onstage during our set, he was more than welcome. In spite of his blindness, I believed we could accommodate whatever he wanted to do. We began our set, wending our atonal way toward a medley of 1950s-style honking saxophone numbers. During this fairly complicated, choreographed routine, Rahsaan, assisted by his helper (can't remember his name), decided to join in. In 1969, George Wein, impresario of the Newport Jazz Festival, decided it would be a tremendous idea to put the Mothers of Invention on a jazz tour of the East Coast. We wound up working in a package with Kirk, Duke Ellington and Gary Burton in Miami at the Jai Alai Fronton, and at another gig in South Carolina."
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Jazzercise?
Jazzercise?
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Lol please god make it stop
Lol. smh.
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"musician Eubie Blake
"musician Eubie Blake offered his recollections of the original slang connotations of the term, saying: "When Broadway picked it up, they called it 'J-A-Z-Z'. It wasn't called that. It was spelled 'J-A-S-S'. That was dirty, and if you knew what it was, you wouldn't say it in front of ladies"
- NPR interview
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https://www.youtube.com/watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuKJkghC2u0
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That's cute, noodler. Real
That's cute, noodler. Real cute.
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Daylight,
Daylight,
Rova Saxophone Quartet this Friday night at St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church on Turk St. in SF.
If you haven't seen these guys you should.
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Dunno if Daylight is allowed
Dunno if Daylight is allowed to off the reservation but this looks pretty great:
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For some reason taking band
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Picture looks a bit....cool..
Picture looks a bit....cool...not as refreshing as sound.
Good note about Eubie Blake....
and was jasz/jism?
I once met a guy who said jazz bored him....I didn't mention zappa....wish I had!
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FZ and Roland Kirk
FZ and Roland Kirk
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The ROVA show was some deep
The ROVA show was some deep water, and just brilliant.
And I'm planning on making at least one of the Amendola/Blades/Parker/Baptista shows, either in SF or Santa Cruz, but I'd be more excited if Baptista wasn't involved.
He's just noisy in this group.
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>> He's just noisy in this
>> He's just noisy in this group.
Damn, that's quite an indictment. I can see how that might be so, since Scott Amendola is such an explosive percussionist on his own. However, I've always enjoyed Baptista's ability to color sound without becoming overbearing – but then, I've only seen him play in the context of John Zorn's bands.
Yeah but speaking of "noisy," this is the lineup I'm considering checking out this weekend, so...
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I was unaware a Roland Kirk
I was unaware a Roland Kirk fz sit in ever took place.
any audio of that?
found these quotes:
"I met him backstage at the Boston Jazz Festival and asked him to play with us if he was interested in our music. Then, during our set, led by his attendant, he came up to the stage. As you know he's blind, but his body understood all of our signals. At one point everybody in the band was supposed to get down on their back and kick their feet in the air while they still keep playing. As soon as we got on our back, he also got his back. When we got up, he also got up. He grasped everything. He is an excellent musician. Three weeks later we played together again at the Florida Jazz Festival."
— Frank Zappa, New Music Magazine interview, April 1976.
"The first time we played with Rahsaan Roland Kirk was at the 1968 Boston Globe Jazz Festival. After his performance, when introduced to him backstage, I said I really liked what he was doing, and said that if he felt like joining us onstage during our set, he was more than welcome. In spite of his blindness, I believed we could accommodate whatever he wanted to do. We began our set, wending our atonal way toward a medley of 1950s-style honking saxophone numbers. During this fairly complicated, choreographed routine, Rahsaan, assisted by his helper (can't remember his name), decided to join in. In 1969, George Wein, impresario of the Newport Jazz Festival, decided it would be a tremendous idea to put the Mothers of Invention on a jazz tour of the East Coast. We wound up working in a package with Kirk, Duke Ellington and Gary Burton in Miami at the Jai Alai Fronton, and at another gig in South Carolina."