"I wanna be straight, I wanna be straight, I'm sick and tired of taking drugs and staying up late..." Following up on a conversation with faithful reader Holly in the post below this one, here's a fun showdown between messrs. Richman and Dury. And as a chaser: a hot quartet of not so straight jazz cuts. The Modern Lovers - I'm Straight Ian Dury & The Blockheads - I Wanna Be Straight Art Pepper - Straight Life Thelonious [...]
TRAVELIN' MAN DEPARTURE #1 Stanley Cowell Musa: Ancestral Streams Strata East : 1974 SC, piano, electric piano, kalimba (African thumb piano). We're not sure why it's taken us so long to devote a post to the wonderful pianist and composer Stanley Cowell . Like many fans and critics, we're probably guilty of overlooking and underrating his work from the late '60s and early '70s. He recorded [...]
Baritone sax-man, Josh Levy, discusses five classic jazz recordings. Jazz - Saxophone - Music - Arts - Sound Files
Classic 1957 meeting between Art Pepper, and Mile Davis' rhythm section.
Art Pepper : Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise [ purchase ] Art Pepper (´25-´82) was the west coast king of the alto saxophone. His career consisted of many highs. Some of these were related to his art, the others to heroin. Do yourself a favour and pick up a copy of his extremely candid autobiography Straight Life for all the sordid details. A great [...]
Body and Soul FluJames Moody, Body and Soul (1949).Serge Chaloff, Body and Soul (1956).Billie Holiday, Body and Soul (1957).Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond, Body and Soul (1957).Benny Carter, Body and Soul (1961).Art Pepper, Body and Soul (1989).We're guest-starring at Ted Barron's Boogie Woogie Flu (which you should be reading anyhow) with a long ramble on "Body and Soul." Here are a few
"Art Pepper began his career in the 1940s, playing with Benny Carter and Stan Kenton (1946-52). By the 1950s Pepper was recognized as one of the leading alto saxophonists in jazz, epitomized by his finishing second only to Charlie Parker as Best Alto Saxophonist in the Down Beat magazine Readers Poll of 1952. Along with Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan and Shelly Manne, and perhaps due more to geography than playing style, Pepper is often associated with the musical movement known as West Coast jazz, as contrasted with the East Coast (or "hot") jazz associated with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. [...]
Art Pepper (´25-´82) was the west coast king of the alto saxophone. Where most of his contemporaries never managed to shake off the enormous legacy left behind by the great Charlie Parker, Pepper had a tone all of his own almost right from the start. His personal life was a real mess, with heroin and related jail time being constants. For all the sordid details, read his amazing - and often almost embarrassingly honest - autobiography Straight Life , masterfully transcribed by his wife Laurie. But no matter how troubled [...]
Chris From Australia! Thank you for your donation you wonderful, special person you! Nicci from down the street! Thank you for your surprise donation, it was completely unnecessary you wonderful, special girlfriend you! That makes for six donations in five days. We've almost reach half of my goal with ten days left to go! Please keep donating, friends. In case you have not heard, my roommates are moving out and taking their turntable with them, and I don't have money to buy a new one plus the new phone/contract I have to buy next week. If you love [...]
Allow me to don the cap of sports fan for one day, if you will. Last night's Angels/Yankees game was by far the best baseball I think I've ever seen. I can't recall ever going to a Mets games when they were actually good. I didn't go to any games last year, which was their best season in maybe a decade. I certainly don't remember the game I went to in 1988, which was the last time before 2006 when they won their division. Plus, the Mets never win when I see them in person. Sure, they beat the Cubs [...]
1957 what a beautiful world this will be Charles Mingus, Haitian Fight Song. The Spaniels, You're Gonna Cry. The Pastels, Been So Long. Carol Lawrence, I Feel Pretty. Art Pepper, Red Pepper Blues. The "5" Royales, Dedicated to the One I Love. Red Sovine, Juke Joint Johnny. Mal Waldron, Nervous. Buddy Holly and the Crickets, I'm Looking For Someone to Love. Thurston Harris and the Sharps, Little
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Thursday Pass Along – May 24, 2012
