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I have been on task to load my store-bought cds onto iTunes so that I can
and in the meantime I have also been loading music new to me on iTunes through an eMusic subscription. I just cannot say enough good about eMusic. If they have a dark side, please don't tell me, because I am still marvelling at the back catalog they are makingavailable.
During July and early August, I have added from my cds and from eMusic, so this isn't really a competition as much as it is a momentary snapshot of what I'm adding from which sources. First the music from my cds.
This month from the Collection Casa de Bubba:
[album artist=]Instrumental Music Of The Southern Appalachians[/album]This is a VA compilation with several songs each by Etta Baker, Hobart Smith, Richard Chase and others. This is old-timey music suitable for Pappy O'Daniel's Flour Hour.
A variety of Wayne Shorter selections:
Moto Grosso Feioon Blue Note, a gorgeous suite of soprano sax pieces over ostinato vamps supplied by Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Dave Holland, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams (under an assumed identity as 19 year old Belgian girl Michelin Prell who was never heard of before or since). The kicker here is that most everybody is playing an instrument slightly different than they're known for. Shorter plays soprano, McLaughlin is playing acoustic guitar as does Dave Holland. Carter plays cello and Corea plays marimba and percussion.
Speak No Evil and Juju, two more from Shorter on Blue Note--these from the mid 60s (Moto Grosso Feio was recorded during the same time as the Odyssey of Iska sessions but not released for many years)and during a period of transition for Shorter. Juju begs the comparisons with Trane: the band is Tyner, Jones and Workman. On Speak No Evil, Shorter is with his bandmates from the Miles Quintet, with Freddie Hubbard taking the horn spot. These are both stellar recordings and give us old-fart jazz listeners hours of amusement as we argue which rhythm section was better--Miles's or Trane's? And like a gathering of the world's top economists, if you laid us end to end, we would never reach a conclusion.
His Tangerine and Atlantic Sides. You know Percy, right? No? No, he's not Curtis's little known brother. Percy Mayfield was one of the R&B geniuses of the early 50s. He wrote a number one hit for himself called "Please Send Me Someone to Love". Still not familiar? OK, he wrote a little tune called "Hit the Road, Jack" for his buddy Ray Charles. He wrote some achingly beautiful proto-soul ballads and a few real-life inside views to the life of the committed alcoholic. Scary and beautiful.
Italian Renaissance Dances, who are a group of North American English-Traditionalists, if you'll bear the oxymoron. These are some pleasant and pleasing Italian court dances performed by this string ensemble. They play lute and viol, and violin. The connection with jazz, for me, is that the bass lines are laid down as the foundation from standardized patterns, but the musicians work from memory and improvise--they do not play from sheet music, but instead they jam.
Finally, a favorite jazz/blues steamer: Swiss Movement. Recorded at Montreux in 1969, this is a classic of soul-jazz and "Compared to What" is one of those songs that just invites singing along.
I'll leave it there for now and continue with my NINE (9)! lp's worth of eMusic downloads for August.
- free up living room space
- play music networked throughout the house
- recoup a little cash?
and in the meantime I have also been loading music new to me on iTunes through an eMusic subscription. I just cannot say enough good about eMusic. If they have a dark side, please don't tell me, because I am still marvelling at the back catalog they are makingavailable.
During July and early August, I have added from my cds and from eMusic, so this isn't really a competition as much as it is a momentary snapshot of what I'm adding from which sources. First the music from my cds.
This month from the Collection Casa de Bubba:
[album artist=]Instrumental Music Of The Southern Appalachians[/album]This is a VA compilation with several songs each by Etta Baker, Hobart Smith, Richard Chase and others. This is old-timey music suitable for Pappy O'Daniel's Flour Hour.
A variety of Wayne Shorter selections:
Moto Grosso Feioon Blue Note, a gorgeous suite of soprano sax pieces over ostinato vamps supplied by Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Dave Holland, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams (under an assumed identity as 19 year old Belgian girl Michelin Prell who was never heard of before or since). The kicker here is that most everybody is playing an instrument slightly different than they're known for. Shorter plays soprano, McLaughlin is playing acoustic guitar as does Dave Holland. Carter plays cello and Corea plays marimba and percussion.
Speak No Evil and Juju, two more from Shorter on Blue Note--these from the mid 60s (Moto Grosso Feio was recorded during the same time as the Odyssey of Iska sessions but not released for many years)and during a period of transition for Shorter. Juju begs the comparisons with Trane: the band is Tyner, Jones and Workman. On Speak No Evil, Shorter is with his bandmates from the Miles Quintet, with Freddie Hubbard taking the horn spot. These are both stellar recordings and give us old-fart jazz listeners hours of amusement as we argue which rhythm section was better--Miles's or Trane's? And like a gathering of the world's top economists, if you laid us end to end, we would never reach a conclusion.
His Tangerine and Atlantic Sides. You know Percy, right? No? No, he's not Curtis's little known brother. Percy Mayfield was one of the R&B geniuses of the early 50s. He wrote a number one hit for himself called "Please Send Me Someone to Love". Still not familiar? OK, he wrote a little tune called "Hit the Road, Jack" for his buddy Ray Charles. He wrote some achingly beautiful proto-soul ballads and a few real-life inside views to the life of the committed alcoholic. Scary and beautiful.
Italian Renaissance Dances, who are a group of North American English-Traditionalists, if you'll bear the oxymoron. These are some pleasant and pleasing Italian court dances performed by this string ensemble. They play lute and viol, and violin. The connection with jazz, for me, is that the bass lines are laid down as the foundation from standardized patterns, but the musicians work from memory and improvise--they do not play from sheet music, but instead they jam.
Finally, a favorite jazz/blues steamer: Swiss Movement. Recorded at Montreux in 1969, this is a classic of soul-jazz and "Compared to What" is one of those songs that just invites singing along.
I'll leave it there for now and continue with my NINE (9)! lp's worth of eMusic downloads for August.
