Music

[Jungle Rat]

Crazy that it has been 33 years. My sister was pushed through a glass door and still has a scar (& always will) from her armpit to her hip from the glass door she was smashed through by the pressure. She lived. I was like 10 or so but I can still remember the fear in my parents voices that night. My next door neighbor wasn't so lucky. He lost his 18 year old son. She was 15 back then but back then going to a concert at 15 was no big deal. It damaged her to a point. Up to this day she will only go to outdoor concerts.

http://www.700wlw.com/cc-common/news/se ... e=10611489

[Dave23]

I saw The Who last night in Nashville...

[Jungle Rat]

I saw that on FB. A friend of mine from HS was there too.

[Dave23]

Damn good for pushing 70...

[AugustWest]

Take Five Dave. You've earned it.

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[AlabamAlum]

Huge loss.

[hedge]

I saw a good documentary about him a few months ago. Not terribly familiar with his whole body of work, but Take Five is certainly one of the iconic songs of the 20th century, arguably the most recognized jazz song of alltime...

[Bklyn]

It definitely is one of the most recognized. Take The A Train is probably number 1. I'm sure one of Sinatra's jazz standards from when he recorded with Tommy Dorsey and afterwards is probably up there too (Mack the Knife, Fly Me to the Moon, etc.).

[hedge]

You are correct, I should have said instrumental jazz. Pink Panther theme would be up there, too...

[Bklyn]

Well, Mancini's work is a tough one because it was driven by other mediums. His work on TV show themes ("Sanford and Son", "What's Happening" and I think "Taxi") would probably make his music more recognizable that anyone. As a result, I can't give him full credit. Also, I refuse to put Kenny G and "Songbird" in the discussion either.

[hedge]

"Also, I refuse to put Kenny G and "Songbird" in the discussion either."

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[hedge]

More Kenny G sass:

http://www.culturekiosque.com/jazz/port ... kenny.html

Also:

"Pat Metheny really hates Kenny G. Maybe you're thinking to yourself, "I don't like either of those fellows, why would I care about this?" And then you'll click through and you'll see why I think you should care. It's a 15 paragraph character destruction that, since it's now on the web, must be considered one of the top flames of all time. If you didn't think it was possible to gut someone with words, click through. If I were to pull out a quote for you, it'd be from the 9th paragraph, but it uses some words I'm not sure I'm allowed to use. Actually, I probably am allowed, but they're very mean and I don't want to damage Jason's chances of selling ads to Kenny G one day."

http://www.jazzoasis.com/methenyonkennyg.htm

[Saint]

Kenny G's on Logan's shit list

[Bklyn]

LOL @ 15 paragraph character destruction.

Annnnnnd, starting at paragraph 9:

Not long ago, Kenny G put out a recording where he overdubbed himself on top of a 30+ year old Louis Armstrong record, the track "What a Wonderful World". With this single move, Kenny G became one of the few people on earth I can say that I really can't use at all - as a man, for his incredible arrogance to even consider such a thing, and as a musician, for presuming to share the stage with the single most important figure in our music.

This type of musical necrophilia - the technique of overdubbing on the preexisting tracks of already dead performers - was weird when Natalie Cole did it with her dad on "Unforgettable" a few years ago, but it was her dad. When Tony Bennett did it with Billie Holiday it was bizarre, but we are talking about two of the greatest singers of the 20th century who were on roughly the same level of artistic accomplishment. When Larry Coryell presumed to overdub himself on top of a Wes Montgomery track, I lost a lot of the respect that I ever had for him - and I have to seriously question the fact that I did have respect for someone who could turn out to have such unbelievably bad taste and be that disrespectful to one of my personal heroes.

But when Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man who is probably the greatest jazz musician that has ever lived by spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing all over one of the great Louis's tracks (even one of his lesser ones), he did something that I would not have imagined possible. He, in one move, through his unbelievably pretentious and calloused musical decision to embark on this most cynical of musical paths, shit all over the graves of all the musicians past and present who have risked their lives by going out there on the road for years and years developing their own music inspired by the standards of grace that Louis Armstrong brought to every single note he played over an amazing lifetime as a musician. By disrespecting Louis, his legacy and by default, everyone who has ever tried to do something positive with improvised music and what it can be, Kenny G has created a new low point in modern culture - something that we all should be totally embarrassed about - and afraid of. We ignore this, "let it slide", at our own peril.

[AlabamAlum]

Kenny G is to jazz as Red Lobster is to good seafood.

That said, Metheny is only marginally better.

[Bklyn]

Man, I miss Hizzy.

[Jungle Rat]

Me too.

[AugustWest]

Holy fuck I'm ignorant. One of Brubeck's early band was called the Wolf Pack!!

http://www.ww2incolor.com/us-army/Brubeck004.html

Wolf Pack Advertisement, Nuremburg, 1945. Dave Brubeck formed the "Wolf Pack Band", a swing/dance band while with the 3rd Army. When he was near Verdun, as part of the 17th Replacement Depot, waiting to go to the front, a large Red Cross truck pulled up, hauling a piano. They turned the back of the truck into an improvised stage, someone said, "Is there a piano player here?" Brubeck responded immediately and so did the GIs sitting in the mud waiting for an uncertain future. When Colonel Brown saw the impact Brubeck made on the troops, he issued the order that kept Brubeck behind the lines and in front of his own band, known affectionately as the Wolf Pack (but named perversely for the German submarine fleet), which was basically a jazz orchestra that varied from 10 to 18 pieces.

[eCat]

I love this
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[Bklyn]

Immediately sent to wife. Fantastic.