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This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.

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Favoriting February 23, 2017: Indigenous Protest, Antropoloops, Aesthetic Expressions Of Psychedelic Funk Music
Collages from the Antropoloops project: http://antropoloops.tumblr.com

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time
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Abdou El Omari  Layali Saif   Favoriting Nuits D'Été Avec Abdou El Omari  1976  Morocco  0:00:28 (Pop-up)
Abdou El Omari  Hind   Favoriting Nuits D'Été Avec Abdou El Omari  1976    0:05:39 (Pop-up)
Brigitte Fontaine  Le Goudron   Favoriting Le Goudron / Les Beaux Animaux 7"  1969    0:12:21 (Pop-up)
Buffy Sainte-Marie  He's the Keeper of the Fire   Favoriting Illuminations  1969    0:16:38 (Pop-up)
Buffy Sainte-Marie  Poppies   Favoriting Illuminations  1969    0:20:52 (Pop-up)
Mordicai Jones / Link Wray  Days Before Custer   Favoriting Mordicai Jones  1972  recorded at Link and Vernon Wray's "Wray Shack Three Track" studio  0:24:22 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Link Wray & the Raymen 

Ramble   Favoriting

 

 

 

0:27:27 (Pop-up)
Buffy Sainte-Marie  My Country Tis of Thy People You're Dying   Favoriting Little Wheel Spin and Spin  1966    0:40:48 (Pop-up)
Willie Thrasher  Wolves Don't Live By The Rules   Favoriting Spirit Child  1981    0:47:22 (Pop-up)
Willie Thrasher  Spirit Child   Favoriting Spirit Child  1981    0:50:32 (Pop-up)
John Angaiak  I'm Lost in the City   Favoriting I'm Lost in the City  1971    0:53:30 (Pop-up)
Richard Dick, Alaska Tlingit Indian  I Love You So Much It Hurts Me   Favoriting Alta Marie  1969    0:55:28 (Pop-up)
Buffy Sainte-Marie  Now That The Buffalo's Gone   Favoriting It's My Way!  1964    0:58:10 (Pop-up)
Buffy Sainte-Marie  Song of the French Partisan   Favoriting She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina  1971    1:00:54 (Pop-up)
Link Wray  Water Boy   Favoriting Beans and Fatback  1973  recorded at Link and Vernon Wray's "Wray Shack Three Track" studio  1:04:23 (Pop-up)
Vernon Wray  Prison Song   Favoriting Wasted  1972  recorded at Link and Vernon Wray's "Wray Shack Three Track" studio  1:13:56 (Pop-up)
Abner Jay  Cocaine   Favoriting The True Story of Abner Jay  197?    1:17:16 (Pop-up)
Antropoloops  Twin Cheganca   Favoriting Antropoloops #01  2013    1:23:21 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 

 

Masters of the Sarawakian Sape 

 

 

1:30:43 (Pop-up)
Antropoloops  Sacromonte's Gettin Fuzzy   Favoriting Antropoloops #01  2013    1:41:28 (Pop-up)
Antropoloops  The Light Became Morning, Dolores   Favoriting Antropoloops #01  2013    1:46:52 (Pop-up)
Antropoloops  Tarantellina Electron   Favoriting Antropoloops #2  2014    1:55:15 (Pop-up)
Antropoloops  Northern Tja Birds   Favoriting Antropoloops #2  2014    2:01:18 (Pop-up)
Antropoloops  Detente Judas Dance   Favoriting Antropoloops #2  2014    2:07:45 (Pop-up)
Antropoloops  Witch Ceremonie   Favoriting Antropoloops #2  2014    2:15:02 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Humpback Whale 

Madagascar Whale One   Favoriting

New Songs Of The Humpback Whale 

 

 

2:23:26 (Pop-up)
Brigth Engelberts and the B.E. Movement  Civilisation In The World   Favoriting Tolambo Funk  1978  Cameroon  2:28:28 (Pop-up)
Colomach  Cotocun Gba Gounke   Favoriting Colomach  1974  Nigeria  2:33:46 (Pop-up)
Harry Roesli Gang  Don't Talk About Freedom   Favoriting Philosophy Gang  1973  Indonesia  2:37:14 (Pop-up)
Hemant Bhosle feat. Asha Bhosle  Phir Teri Yaad   Favoriting Sansani  1980  India  2:44:24 (Pop-up)
John Angaiak  I'll Rock You to the Rhythm of the Ocean   Favoriting I'm Lost in the City  1971  Yup'ik, Canada  2:47:33 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Humpback Whale 

Tonga Whale   Favoriting

New Songs Of The Humpback Whale 

 

 

2:50:52 (Pop-up)
Johnnie Ray  Cool Water   Favoriting On the Trail  1959    2:57:20 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
Dave in Vermont:

Beautiful collages, Evan. Wow.
Speaking of collage, I just watched How to Draw a Bunny recently.
Avatar 6:30pm
Flash Strap:

These collages are from the Antropoloops project, which we'll hear some music (sound collages, specifically) from tonight. Basically, for each track of the project he/they did a collage using album art components from each sampled piece of music. Truly a project after my own heart.

antropoloops.tumblr.com
Avatar 6:31pm
Flash Strap:

also, Hi Dave! I've never seen How to Draw a Bunny, I should really really rectify that
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
Dave in Vermont:

So these aren't your collages. But you do collage too, right?

Yeah, I get DVDs from Netflix and my queue is almost always full (500 titles) so I rarely remember what prompted me to add a film and then I am surprised when it arrives. This was a great surprise and for some reason I kept thinking about Fabio while watching, imagining that he mentioned it on his show once. He talks about movies for a bit every week.
Avatar 6:51pm
Flash Strap:

I remember when that movie came out, I was at the Museum School and it was a big cause celebré but for some reason I slept on it and never caught up. It's a must-see I'm sure!

Yeah, I definitely do collage! They even look more than a little like these.
Avatar 6:57pm
Flash Strap:

And evening to all other explorers! we'll get started here in just a minute
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
doctorjazz:

HI Flash and you other Strappers.
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Doc Jazz! Welcome, welcome!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
Dave in Vermont:

Time to get your strap on.
uhh, hmm
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

just started getting into this record, it's so otherworldly... the organ so dreamy and the drums are amazing
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

@Dave: Straps can be either on or off, whatever helps you get flashed
Avatar 7:06pm
geezerette:

Hey Evan and crewe, wonderful sounds. :D
Avatar 7:07pm
Flash Strap:

Hello and welcome Geezerette!
Avatar 7:07pm
geezerette:

Love the collages.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
Ike:

Meow!
Avatar 7:10pm
Flash Strap:

@G: I'll get a little more into those in a bit, but they're a key part of some music I'll play later on. They're not mine, but I wish they were
Avatar 7:10pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Ike! Ike's here, everyone!
Avatar 7:13pm
geezerette:

I love the pickle kitty.

Saw "How to Draw a Bunny". Interesting but depressing. Wouldn't want to see it in a state of self doubt or sadness.
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

This has got to be my favorite Fontaine track, ever
Avatar 7:14pm
Hams in Athens:

hoy!
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

really makes me wish I had some French and could understand
Avatar 7:15pm
Flash Strap:

Well well well! Hams is here! Hello Hams!
Avatar 7:16pm
Flash Strap:

the art for this 7" is so striking: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 7:17pm
geezerette:

Oh, that has attitude!
Avatar 7:17pm
Flash Strap:

Really into Buffy this week. Steel thyselves
Avatar 7:18pm
geezerette:

Wow,great Buffy.
Avatar 7:18pm
Flash Strap:

@G: it's like, exactly the attitude her music projects. So cool and smart. Sort of proto-Laurie Anderson-esque as well
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
Little Danny:

Evening Flash, evening all! This Buffy track ("Poppies") is incredible!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
Doug Schulkind:

Buffy the vamp: Ire slayer.
Avatar 7:24pm
geezerette:

@Evan: Laurie Anderson,exactly. I've seen her perform & it was a great experience.
Avatar 7:25pm
Flash Strap:

I just saw her with Phillip Glass last week and I almost actually died. She was the power and beauty of the universe manifest
Avatar 7:26pm
Flash Strap:

Hi LD, Doug!
Avatar 7:27pm
geezerette:

Yes, she's very powerful. Assured, focused, & warm. Phenomenal.
Avatar 🥁 7:39pm
quinn:

privatize reservations? jesus. i hadn't heard that yet.
  7:40pm
jeff:

right on my man
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Dave in Vermont:

Have a link, Evan? Or can you put the author's name here?
Avatar 7:41pm
geezerette:

Might be in shock the rest of my life.Gonna draw now. That helps.
Could not survive without good music, so thanks Evan,Doug,L.D....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
Little Danny:

Thank you Evan
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
Little Danny:

Hi geez, thanks!
Avatar 7:42pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Quinn, Hi Jeff!

Yeah, I haven't heard too much about that, but the talk concerns me

oh yes, good question Dave. The author is Julian Brave NoiseCat: www.jacobinmag.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Doug Schulkind:

Our dear powerful Buffy turned 76 on Monday.
Avatar 7:43pm
geezerette:

Hi L.D., merely the truth.
Avatar 7:44pm
Flash Strap:

I just can't even get through this song without burning down a federal building
Avatar 7:44pm
Flash Strap:

i kid, but seriously, so blunt and eloquent at once, incredibly powerful
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
Dave in Vermont:

holy shit
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
Doug Schulkind:

Never for a stinkkking minute not relevant. Disappointing indeed.
Avatar 7:50pm
Flash Strap:

Simply the best song-that I know of- to address and describe the brutality of colonialism in the US. Genuinely, truly, staggeringly brilliant. I love her
Avatar 7:51pm
Flash Strap:

Willie Thrasher is Inuk, from Canada
Avatar 7:54pm
Flash Strap:

Mr. Angaiak is Yup'ik, also from Canada
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Little Danny:

This is great, this Richard Dick
Avatar 7:57pm
Flash Strap:

All of this guy's songs are about his new wife. Her picture is on the back of the record. He just loves his wife so much!
Avatar 8:00pm
Flash Strap:

this is a really interesting observation she's making
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
doctorjazz:

Buffy St-Marie has the oddest vibrato ever. (not very deep observation, but it always stuck me...)
Avatar 8:02pm
Flash Strap:

it's totally bizarre, nobody sings like that
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
melinda:

hiya!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
Doug Schulkind:

Link Wray's cover of I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry is the second greatest Hank Williams cover ever.
Avatar 8:07pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...woh - it's the real thing in here tonight...
Avatar 8:08pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Melinda! Hi RevRab!
Avatar 8:11pm
Flash Strap:

I read somewhere about Link Wray: "his approach to electric guitar seemed totally unfettered by precedent"
Avatar 8:11pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The Native American influence on American Music that it's usually presumed has a lineage of only African & European influences is something that fascinates me particularly. I have never encountered much of an exposition on it.
Avatar 8:13pm
Flash Strap:

me either, and I'd really like to. I always think of how Neu! and all the motorik german boys were into the "Apache beat" but I'm not sure that's any more than emulating a self-projected construct
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
coelacanth∅:

Greetings Evan and Explorers
Avatar 8:14pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Wray reportedly Shawnee on both sides: en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 8:15pm
Flash Strap:

Hi old fish old chum!
Avatar 🥁 8:15pm
quinn:

gettin some lee hazlewood vibes
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
Little Danny:

Doug leaving us hanging.
Avatar 8:16pm
Flash Strap:

I always think the same, Quinn, especially with the grandeur of the backing vocs
Avatar 8:16pm
Hams in Athens:

i've always have tried to get ahold of this album.
Avatar 8:17pm
Flash Strap:

yeah, good point.... WHAT'S THE FIRST??? DOUG! INQUIRING MINDS
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
northguineahills:

This Abner Jay song is more suggestive then the Dillinger track w/ similar subject matter.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Doug Schulkind:

Al Green's cover of I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (which closed out last week's GTDS).
Avatar 8:20pm
Flash Strap:

haha I love that Dillinger track, Cocaine on my Brain... he has another on the same record, Marijuana on my Brain, which to my eternal disappointment is not as good
Avatar 8:21pm
Flash Strap:

aha of course thanks Doug and sorry for yelling

hello NGH! welcome welcome welcome
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Little Danny:

@Doug that is some bold averring sir
Avatar 8:23pm
Flash Strap:

"lord knows I spit my juice" what a brag
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Little Danny:

And I like it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
northguineahills:

When I was still in college, I ended up djing an opening at the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, and played the Dillinger track, and the blue hairs gave me some indigent looks. So worth it!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
doctorjazz:

The Al Green is indeed great (but did he do any covers that weren't great?).
Love this Abner Jay Cocaine (get Desolation Row vibes from the harmonica/guitar feel).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
melinda:

I like the Antropoloops
Avatar 8:25pm
Flash Strap:

Al Green even did a cover of I Wanna Hold Your Hand that managed be not just good but exactly great, he's a master
Avatar 8:26pm
Flash Strap:

haha my god NGH that's like the least appropriate art museum music. right on and power to you
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Little Danny:

Me too Melinda. Though the name sticks out a bit funky
Avatar 8:27pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Interwebz says Hank Williams has been recognized for his Muskogee Creek and Tsalagi (Cherokee) ancestry - but I don't think there's much out there about that? Which is a situation actually common to a lot of us...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
coelacanth∅:

mekons doing "lost highway"... but i haven't heard that Al Green version.
Avatar 8:29pm
Flash Strap:

whole next set will be a sampling of Antropoloops, once again I say steel thyselves
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
northguineahills:

Wow, I've never heard of Anthroloops, this is boss!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
melinda:

New to me, too, digging it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
doctorjazz:

A bit OT, but "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart", a sappy song (which I still liked in its original), is just transformed by the Reverend (Not RRN63, though maybe he does a nice cover as well...)
Avatar 8:31pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Antropoloops! The loopy new cereal made from fascinating human beings!...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
doctorjazz:

The music it fabulous, by the way, Mr Strap
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
Little Danny:

Speaking of Native American country singers, Marvin Rainwater cut some hard, brilliant honky-tonk sides in the '50s and '60s.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
coelacanth∅:

mm-mm!
Avatar 8:43pm
Flash Strap:

I need to check that out, LD, never heard it before
Avatar 8:44pm
Flash Strap:

why thank you for sayin so, Doc
Avatar 8:45pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Love these collages! Like a visual representation of what goes thru my head perceiving possible connections (real or otherwise) between different International Musics listening hear or @ Gary's or RobW's programs & more. Which is surprising!
Avatar 8:45pm
Flash Strap:

you can see some, but unfortunately not all, of the collages here: antropoloops.tumblr.com...
Avatar 8:46pm
Flash Strap:

if you download the mixtapes, which you can do free, all the images are included: antropoloops.tumblr.com...
Avatar 8:47pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

fb: www.facebook.com...
Avatar 8:47pm
Flash Strap:

image at the top accompanies this track (Dolores)
Avatar 8:49pm
geezerette:

Sounds sort of Haitian.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
northguineahills:

Geezerette hit the nail on the head.
Avatar 8:52pm
geezerette:

:)
Avatar 8:52pm
Flash Strap:

I got really into these when they first happened, but then sort of didn't listen to them for a while – indeed, never really gave the second volume a good thorough listen – but the other night we had it on and were sort of going nuts over it, esp. vol. 2 which is even better than the first, maybe. So I figured I should immerse in it tonight and see what happened
Avatar 8:53pm
Flash Strap:

so exciting when a new loop joins the fray!
Avatar 8:58pm
geezerette:

Struck me that collage as a form is a very musical visual language.
Conveys the experience of music even better than most painting
( Pollock is still jazz to me.)
Avatar 9:00pm
Flash Strap:

I totally get you, G
Avatar 9:01pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'Action Painting' seems very Rawk'n'Roll to me...
Thx for sharing this !
Avatar 9:04pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...there's a contrast in the 'CutUp' method & the 'Organic' sources - but esp. w/ the visual collages, it's like animations in a documentary...
Avatar 9:05pm
Flash Strap:

One of my favorite pieces of art writing is by Robert Motherwell, on Max Ernst. He talks about how Ernst's collage sensibility (engaging the tyranny of history by cannibalizing and transforming it) almost totally negates the pursuit of surface & flatness that you find in his own work and Ab Ex in general, which aims to escape history

I love Ab Ex, I do, but I stand on the other side from it!
Avatar 9:06pm
Flash Strap:

really like the visuals for this one: 2.bp.blogspot.com...
Avatar 9:10pm
Flash Strap:

Motherwell is one of my favorite Ab Exers, generally, and I really appreciated him approaching those differences in that way. He was also very close with Ernst
Avatar 9:10pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- wull Music is much like Animation, I think...it's very Layered of course...
Avatar 9:13pm
Flash Strap:

a while back, beloved listener Quinn (I think that's who it was!) shared some amazing musical animations by John & Faith Hubley. HIGHLY recommended. I've also been getting really into the Sound&Vision of Henry Jacobs' The Fine Art of Goofing Off
Avatar 9:14pm
Flash Strap:

One more Loop Groop after this and then on to new biz!
  9:14pm
MrFab:

Thanks for the link to the Antropoloops site. I am clicking downloads like a clickin' mutha for ya.
Avatar 9:16pm
Flash Strap:

Oh my pleasure Mr Fab. You've induced me to many a click yourself
  9:18pm
MrFab:

Oh, and I just came back from the LA Museum of Modern Art (its near where I work and free on Thu evenings) and theres a giant Ernst sculpture thingie there. And lots of collage/assemblage stuff like Cornell and Rauschenberg. Very appropriate.
Avatar 9:20pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I agree w/ geezerette that Pollack is like Jazz ; that's a comparison I use often w/ people who say they 'don't get' 'Jazz': it's like Abstract Art (which wasn't lost on either of them, in the same Era) - just appreciate the colors & rhythms & lines & so on.
Yeah on Gary's I was musing that a 24/7 Sublime Frequencies stream would be great - but Antroloops could feature on there too!...
Avatar 9:21pm
Flash Strap:

God, I love Ernst! Cornell too, what a weirdo

Never been to LA, would really love to see that museum

(Actually, when I was a wee babe I went to LA and almost drowned in Rob Reiner's pool, but I have no idea why I would have been anywhere near Rob Reiner's pool)
Avatar 9:22pm
Flash Strap:

wow, yes, a 24/7 Sublime Frequencies stream!

yes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:22pm
northguineahills:

@RevRabbit: When I was in my 20s, I broke up w/ two women (on two separate occasions) after a few months each, b/c they said they didn't like/get jazz. You don't get jazz, there's a whole lot more you won't get.
Avatar 9:23pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

*Antropoloops (I will spell it right.) Ernst, I think, is like Caulder in that his Modernism didn't make him grim - while he was also a heavyweight.
Avatar 9:27pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

(...a limited comparison...)
Avatar 9:31pm
Flash Strap:

I agree, RevRab, but times a million in every direction. I feel that he may be THE artist of the 20th century, along with Duchamp
Avatar 9:33pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...ok - on one program - probably Gary's - we got to talking about all the People Who Are *Not* FelaKuti (that I never hear)...
Avatar 9:33pm
Flash Strap:

You could have taught them to love jazz, NGH! You were all still young! Or maybe you just saved yourself a lot of heartache and frustration, what do I know
Avatar 9:35pm
Flash Strap:

So many Nigerian musicians! he's not even in my top 10, which is probably ridiculous of me
Avatar 9:36pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Meghan also did her Pan-African tour - every country - over *months* - a real tour de force of programming...
Avatar 9:37pm
Flash Strap:

man i need to catch up on THAT! that sounds amazing

awesome guitar on the Colomach track, imo
Avatar 9:37pm
geezerette:

Motherwell's collages especially knock me out. Ernst too.
& Cornell,magical.

Evan, think I also sent you & LD Hubley animations because of their long term collaboration with Dizzy Gillespie.
Quinn sounds great, hope we meet up on GTD.

The comments are so good here!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
melinda:

I think there is sometimes an intimidation factor when people feel they don't 'get' jazz, since there is an element of conoisseurship surrounding it that can be off-putting or confusing. I know that I'm not hearing or appreciating what others might, but I learned to say fuck it and just like what I like, not worry about the rest.
  9:38pm
MrFab:

This is the Ernst sculpture across the st from me:
https://lacitypix.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/max-ernst-sculpture-moca-650x488.jpg
Very large and impressive in person.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
northguineahills:

By the time I was in my mid-20s, I thought if you didn't get jazz, there was no hope. Noise, avante-garde classical, etc, I had more patience. The woman I married wasn't into noise or avante-garde when I met her, but now she'll go to said shows by herself up and down the East Coast.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
coelacanth∅:

Fela released so much Amazing stuff; but also released a lot of blah stuff.... if he'd only released his Amazing stuff, he'd certainly be in my top 10.
(when i articulate that, it now doesn't seem right...)
Avatar 9:39pm
Flash Strap:

No, geezerette, it must have been you. Quinn sent me something else that was really interesting recently and I'm guessing that was still fresh in my mind
  9:40pm
Ehd:

Hi Flash and everyone
Avatar 9:40pm
Flash Strap:

I love that piece, Mr. Fab. I know it well but have never seen it
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Flash Strap:

Hi Ehd!

That's got to be the only way, Melinda. It's all I know
Avatar 9:42pm
geezerette:

Melinda,totally agree. What you like is what matters.

Hi coel, long time, no sea!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:42pm
David D:

Up late doing stuff and enjoying the sounds...
Avatar 9:42pm
Flash Strap:

@NGH: I know I couldn't be partnered up with someone who didn't have their own rich grasp of music that overlapped and diverged from mine, I'd go mad like a man in solitary confinement. Fortunately, I'm fortunate
Avatar 9:43pm
Flash Strap:

David! David D! Wonderful to see you comrade
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:43pm
melinda:

Yeah, there needs to be some overlap.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:43pm
Doug Schulkind:

Like rust, David D never sleeps.
Avatar 9:44pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Well - Jazz *is* the 'Classical African-American Music' - or, there is that element. It *is* intimidating. Also - the BeBoppers deliberately set out to keep out the squares. I can't score a Pop song for you either - but exactly - it doesn't stop me from listening...So - there are those who are too intimidated - but also those who just can't hear or feel anything - & probably those who are a bit of both I guess...There's always taste, the X factor. Lennon reportedly avoided Jazz, but he after all was one of the Saviors of Rock'n'Roll - & got snubbed for that by many...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:45pm
David D:

I did have an extended nap before, otherwise I might really start to rust!
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geezerette:

RevRab, in addition to art talk,loved the breakfast cereal joke.
Keep trying to work but music & personalities too compelling!
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coelacanth∅:

hey g! yes, diving deeper to a safer haven with the other weird, old, unsavory creatures.
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MrFab:

i HATE that whole "jazz=American classical music" routine. Jazz was whorehouse music! It used to be fun, and funny. And i love the rhythms, the energy, the noir atmosphere of postwar jazz (Hi DJ Little Danny!) But the beboppers/white critics' focus on technical skill became the main story. Boring, boring...
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geezerette:

Coel, old & weird is good!
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Doug Schulkind:

Classic American whorehouse music, MrFab. There. Are you happy?!
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Flash Strap:

what I love about Jazz, MrFab, is that it is or can be both. Duke is such classical music! but he's also the consummate entertainer
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melinda:

@Fab: true. While I'm sure there are people who don't care for the whorehouse jazz either, I think it is the later stuff a lot of people are thinking of when they say they don't get it.
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Little Danny:

Hope to see everybody in the next pond over: wfmu.org... Webbed-toed creatures of all varieties welcome!
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coelacanth∅:

certainly they can outsing me!
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melinda:

I like whale sounds.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Excellent point. Thing is - they logged 1,00s of hours playing in those whorehouses. That's the thing. You can play Jazz w/out treading - but it's rarer all the time. People don't understand that Jazz players are as disciplined as Classical players - but can also Improvise & Swing. ...They also don't understand how riddled w/ syphilis a lot of Classical icons were, for that matter !! Not so different...
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melinda:

Fun show, thanks Ev!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

*1,000s

Thx DJ Flash Strap !
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David D:

Thanks, Evan!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan - Stellar program!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...play Jazz w/out *reading music...
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slawooy:

Great show tonight! Respect.
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coelacanth∅:

hmm - this is okay but i doubt anyone can come very close to the original.
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Barb:

Thanks daddy. love u.
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geezerette:

Great show Evan. Thank you. :D
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Flash Strap:

Thanks all! Goodnight and G'bless
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Doctorjazz:

interesting posts, to late to go on (didn't post, was driving),,thanks for the music and company.
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