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Post by beth on Dec 20, 2015 21:40:44 GMT -5
Joe Sample
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Post by beth on Dec 21, 2015 16:35:23 GMT -5
Joe Satriani
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Post by beth on Dec 25, 2015 21:08:24 GMT -5
Wynton Marsalis
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Post by Dex on Jan 8, 2016 12:29:29 GMT -5
Old fashioned jazz.  Ellington has some good albums. Going to add one to The Full Monty. |
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Post by beth on Apr 15, 2016 15:46:48 GMT -5
Miles Davis, So What
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Post by men an tol on Apr 15, 2016 18:26:41 GMT -5
Orbit with the cool color of sound, it’s the boss. Just at the edge of vision are the hipsters of Kerouac still snapping fingers. Down and out to find the color of cool. Thanks Beth, old times and memories at the edge of drifting smoke over thick black coffee, talking existentialism, all to the beat of the bongo interspaced with poetry of single words, slipping back just a little from a place never meant to be. |
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Post by Dex on Apr 15, 2016 19:22:47 GMT -5
Orbit with the cool color of sound, it’s the boss. Just at the edge of vision are the hipsters of Kerouac still snapping fingers. Down and out to find the color of cool. Thanks Beth, old times and memories at the edge of drifting smoke over thick black coffee, talking existentialism, all to the beat of the bongo interspaced with poetry of single words, slipping back just a little from a place never meant to be. Men an tol, if you like Miles Davis, there's a new movie that's just come out called Miles Ahead, all about Davis. Don Cheadle plays the title role. There's an article at this link and then there's the trailer. www.denverpost.com/movies/ci_29768352/don-cheadle-boldly-portrays-legendary-trumpet-player-miles |
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Post by men an tol on Apr 15, 2016 19:33:41 GMT -5
Orbit with the cool color of sound, it’s the boss. Just at the edge of vision are the hipsters of Kerouac still snapping fingers. Down and out to find the color of cool. Thanks Beth, old times and memories at the edge of drifting smoke over thick black coffee, talking existentialism, all to the beat of the bongo interspaced with poetry of single words, slipping back just a little from a place never meant to be. Men an tol, if you like Miles Davis, there's a new movie that's just come out called Miles Ahead, all about Davis. Don Cheadle plays the title role. There's an article at this link and then there's the trailer. www.denverpost.com/movies/ci_29768352/don-cheadle-boldly-portrays-legendary-trumpet-player-milesThank you Dex. There are some people, some music, some colors, that bring back memories. Miles Davis is one such. |
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Post by beth on Apr 15, 2016 21:33:37 GMT -5
Orbit with the cool color of sound, it’s the boss. Just at the edge of vision are the hipsters of Kerouac still snapping fingers. Down and out to find the color of cool. Thanks Beth, old times and memories at the edge of drifting smoke over thick black coffee, talking existentialism, all to the beat of the bongo interspaced with poetry of single words, slipping back just a little from a place never meant to be. My parents were jazz fans. They had stories about going to coffee houses for jazz, and poetry readings to a bongo background. They even went to Newport Jazz Festival one year and brought back a couple of albums. They liked Dave Brubeck and Ella Fitzgerald. Must have been a fun time and a cool scene. If you want to post to this thread, feel free .. or ... if you want to request a favorite, I'll try to run it down and put it here. |
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Post by men an tol on Apr 15, 2016 23:02:09 GMT -5
I’m old enough to have gotten in on the last of the Beat generation. Some of the guys I met in the military were older than I and some were Beatniks. This is where I got my first contact into Existentialism (which I still study) and philosophers such as Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, and others and of course Jean-Paul Sarte. That generation of writers with poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Diane di Prima and writers such as William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, was a great one.
To most today the poems would seem to be more dark and pessimistic such as the following poem:
Wild Orphan
- New York, April 13, 1952
by Allen Ginsberg
Blandly mother
takes him strolling
by railroad and by river
-he's the son of the absconded
hot rod angel-
and he imagines cars
and rides them in his dreams,
so lonely growing up among
the imaginary automobiles
and dead souls of Tarrytown
to create
out of his own imagination
the beauty of his wild
forebears-a mythology
he cannot inherit.
Will he later hallucinate
his gods? Waking
among mysteries with
an insane gleam
of recollection?
The recognition-
something so rare
in his soul,
met only in dreams
-nostalgias
of another life.
A question of the soul.
And the injured
losing their injury
in their innocence
-a cock, a cross,
an excellence of love.
And the father grieves
in flophouse
complexities of memory
a thousand miles
away, unknowing
of the unexpected
youthful stranger
bumming toward his door.
In the music there was more experimentation than in the past:
Personally, I like Amal Jamal (pianist) His most well-known is from the late 1950s performed in 1958 at the Pershing Hotel in Chicago. Included in the set ws Israel Crosby (bassist) and Vernel Fournier (drummer). It includes classics as well Poinciana. I must admit that he came to Michigan State College for performances and after he would go to a local ‘Black and Tan’ club where my cousin worked and I got to watch him perform there.
In my opinion the Beat Generation laid the intellectual foundation for the Hippie movement (which had no depth) to follow.
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Post by beth on Apr 15, 2016 23:14:27 GMT -5
Well, they were both into recreational drugs. Something in common, right there. Thanks for the Ginsberg. We have "Howl" over in the poetry section somewhere, unless it had to be set out during one of our random purges. I really don't remember one way or the other, but it's just a part of history now, IMO. I'll see if I can find some Amal Jamal during the weekend. Good suggestion. |
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Post by beth on Apr 16, 2016 17:29:31 GMT -5
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Post by men an tol on Apr 16, 2016 19:52:58 GMT -5
As I remember Beth Amad Jamal spent some time at Interlochen in Michigan a long time ago. Of course in those days all of us were slimmer including him. Interlochen is a place that everyone should visit at least once. www.interlochen.org/ |
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Post by beth on Apr 16, 2016 21:49:05 GMT -5
Thanks for the link, Men an tol. I've heard of it. It has a good reputation.
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Post by beth on May 18, 2016 20:03:05 GMT -5
Thelonious Monk
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Omega
Ellington has some good albums. Going to add one to The Full Monty.
