Per raccontare il rapporto viscerale e ossessivo che legava Jaco Pastorius al suo strumento, vi basti sapere che realizzò il suo primo basso fretless da solo: armato di scalpello, martello e mastice, rimosse infatti i tasti del suo Fender Jazz e rivestì il risultato con dieci strati di resina epossidica, del tipo usato per le barche. Fu tale l'identificazione con quel gesto - e con il fretless in generale - che sono in molti a credere che sia stato lui stesso l'inventore dello strumento (ovviamente non è così: i primi modelli comparvero già negli [...]
Notes from YouTube: This is from the Stadthalle Offenbach Concert that took place 1978.
Cassandra Wilson : Waters of March [ purchase ] Listen to the words to Waters of March, and you may not hear why I am posting it for this week's theme. There are a few mentions of rain, but it doesn't appear to be the subject of the song. Actually, there doesn't appear to be a subject, just a list of things and impressions. The music offers no particular assistance, offering the cascading gentleness that is a hallmark of Brazilian music. The key is that many of the objects named in [...]
Alex Bach: Hurricane [ Purchase ] Being from South Florida, singer-songwriter Alex Bach probably knows a thing or two about hurricanes. So when she writes a song likening a man in her life to a hurricane we know she is talking about the destructive path he is laying. Her song "Hurricane" appears on her 2002 album "Miles to Go" . The whole album is lovely, but my favorite thing about Alex as a songwriter is that she can put her lovely lyrics with the acoustic [...]
Hyde : The Cape of Storms Hyde : The Cape of Storms (Last Quarter Mix) [ purchase ] So where do I sail? A ship losing control, My cries swallowed up, lost in the raging sea. So where has love gone? Will I ever reach it? The Cape of Storms echoes the pain I feel inside. You can't really call this [...]
Doc and Merle Watson : Stormy Weather [ purchase ] Weather in songs is often a metaphor for emotional turbulence. Stormy Weather is the classic example of that. Comparing raindrops to tears may be a cliché now, but it wasn't so much when this was first written. Doc and Merle Watson do a great job here of finding the emotional truth of the song with their performance. Merle Watson takes a solo on slide guitar, Doc on regular guitar, and Sam Bush on fiddle. These solos are all brief but sweet. [...]
Paul Revere and the Raiders : Rain, Sleet or Snow [ purchase ] Not everything Paul Revere and the Raiders recorded turned to gold. Their 1967 holiday album, A Christmas Present...And Past, never broke the Billboard [...]
Back in the late 60s / early 70s, it was Joey hearing a question... There is some cataclysmic nature wending it's way about. The Ramones - Have you Ever Seen The Rain [ buy it ] Have You Ever Seen...blah blah blah I hope everybody gets to be safe. I hope everybody gets to hear less violent rains again.
Preston School of Industry : Caught in the Rain [ purchase ] I didn't expect to be posting a transition song this week for two reasons. First, I didn't realize that I had a weather song by a band that had never been on Star Maker Machine before. And second, sitting here in the path of Hurricane Irene, I wasn't sure I would have electricity. At the moment, it is strangely quiet outside, which may mean that the storm will wallop us again soon. But hopefully, I can get this done [...]
There are very few shows that i get geeked out about anymore, in the last two years there's been only three that i can think of; The Gaslight Anthem, The Head and the Heart, and tonights bright eyes show. Don't take that the wrong way shows like the rural alberta advantage, maps and atlases, and [...]
'This is This' is taken from the album of the same name that Columbia records squeezed out of the band in 1986. Many of Weather Report 's members weren't present on any of the LP's content and such it was labelled by bandmembers and critics alike as a failure. Anyway forget such negative projections - they decided to draft in Carlos Santana for this one and we think it's a gem of a track. Weather Report - This is This
Don Kirshner -"The Man With the Golden Ear"-had his hands in all things rock 'n' roll since the '50s, working with songwriters from New York's fabled Brill Building, who in turn provided some of the early hits for The Monkees . He later helped provide the tunes for the Archies 'toons. But Kirshner, at least for me, will always be known as the driving force (if not the simply the name) behind Don Kirshner's Rock Concert . The show, which ran from 1973 to 1981, shirked the typical pre-recorded lip-synced [...]
A surprisingly effective pairing of trumpet with 12-string guitar.
This is Weather Report on the 28th June 1978 at the Shinjuku Kouseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Weather Report was an influential American jazz band of the 1970s and early 1980s. The band was co-led by the Austrian-born keyboard player Josef "Joe" Zawinul and the American saxophonist Wayne Shorter (and, initially, by Czech bass player Miroslav Vitouš). Other prominent members at various points in the band's lifespan included Jaco Pastorius, Peter Erskine, Alphonso Johnson, Airto Moreira and Chester Thompson. Alongside Chick Corea's Return to Forever, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, and the early 1970s Miles Davis [...]
Wikipedia Weather Report was an influential American jazz band of the 1970s and early 1980s. The band was co-led by the Austrian-born keyboard player Josef "Joe" Zawinul and the American saxophonist Wayne Shorter (and, initially, by Czech bass player Miroslav Vitouš). Other prominent members at various points in the band's lifespan included Jaco Pastorius, Peter Erskine, Alphonso Johnson, Airto Moreira and Chester Thompson. Alongside Chick Corea's Return to Forever, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, the Pat Metheny Group and the early 1970s Miles Davis electric bands, Weather [...]
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Weather Report: Waterfall The players: Joe Zawinul – Electric and acoustic piano Wayne Shorter – Soprano saxophone Miroslav Vitous – Electric and acoustic bass Alphonse Mouzon – Drums, voice Airto Moreira – Percussion
SAM'S FLOAT Dave Liebman Lookout Farm ECM : 1974 DL, soprano and tenor saxes, flute; John Abercrombie, electric and acoustic guitars; Richard Beirach, electric and acoustic pianos; Eleana Sternberg, vocals; Frank Tusa, bass; Badal Roy, tablas; Don Alias, congas and bongos; Armen Halburian, percussion; Steve Sattan, tambourine, cowbell; Jeff Williams, drums. THE SUBJECTIVE FACTS: "Sam's Float" is mesmerizing jazz fusion that splits the difference between the visionary electric music of Miles Davis and [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. Proving once again that he's one of the coolest five people on the planet, here's Andrew W.K. doing the weather report. If Andrew W.K. was my local weatherman, I'd probably watch the weather more often. Or actually turn on my television.
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