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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 09:48:39 -0400
From: <nytab@pipeline.com>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Cheese Blotto, Art Farmer
From the Saratoga Daily Gazetteá
á http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=9:37:46|AM&p=amg&sql=B12398
Keith Stephenson, 43, played bass guitar with band `Blotto'á
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Authorities ruled Monday that a well-knownáá
area musician whose body was found in his truck early Sunday in theá
Saratoga Spa State Park died of natural causes.á
The body of Keith Stephenson, 43, bass player for the group "Blotto"áá in the 1980s, was found lying on the floor of a truck in the Hathorná Spring parking area in the park at 3:20 a.m. Sunday.á
While with the band, he performed under the name of "Cheeseá
Blotto." The band played in Saratoga and Albany clubs and touredá
in this country and in England.á
Lt. Edward Moore of the city police department said a park nightáá
watchman noticed the truck and tried to awaken the man without success.á
"We have ruled out foul play, he died of natural causes," Moore said oná Monday.á
An autopsy on Stephenson's body was performed at Saratoga Hospitalá and his death was caused by cardio myopathy [a disease of the heartá muscles] brought on by a diseased liver, said Saratoga County Coronerá Thomas A. Salvadore.á
Salvadore said Stephenson's body had slid down onto the floor ofá
the pickup truck and he couldn't be seen through the vehicle's windowá unless a person got very close to the truck. He was dressed casuallyá in a T-shirt and shorts, the coroner said.á
Stephenson, of Middleline Road, was born in Ballston Spa, and was aá 1974 graduate of Ballston Spa High School. He attended Berklee Schoolá of Music in Boston.á
He was the former owner and operator of the former Edible Express iná Saratoga Springs.á
Stephenson earned his pilot's license through Flight International Schoolá in Vero Beach, Fla., and owned his own airplane.á
He was a member of Simpson United Methodist Church, Rock City Falls.á
Stephenson was a member of the National Rifle Association.á
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áArt Farmer, 71, Be-Bop Master of the Trumpet and Fluegelhorn
áááááááááááááá Art Farmer, one of the more important second-generation be-bopá musicians, an improviser who could say a great deal in a few notes on the trumpet and fluegelhorn and later on his own hybrid instrument, theá "flumpet," died on Monday in Manhattan.áá
ááááááááá He was 71 and lived in Manhattan and Vienna.áá
ááááááááá The cause was cardiac arrest, said his manager and companion, Lynneá Mueller.áá
ááááááááá Farmer was considered a master of ballad playing.áá
ááááááááá His tone was soft and even and sure, with no vibrato and with cannyá silences built into his improvisations.áá
ááááááááá He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and when he was 4 his familyá moved to Phoenix. He studied piano and violin in grade school there. Asá a teen-ager he joined a dance band playing big-band arrangements, andá he often invited members of whatever swing band happened to pass through town to come to his house and jam with him and his twin brother,á Addison, the bassist, who died in 1963.áá
ááááááááá In 1945, when they were 16, the Farmer brothers moved to Los Angeles, having promised their mother that they would finish school. Itá was a time when great musicians were coming out of the city's integratedá high schools; at Jefferson High Farmer studied with the well known musicá teacher Samuel Browne, who also taught Frank Morgan, Hamptoná Hawes and Don Cherry, among many others.áá
ááááááááá Farmer worked in Los Angeles with Horace Henderson, Johnny Otis and others, leaving school to join Otis's group on tour.áá
ááááááááá He recorded a be-bop classic, "Farmer's Market," with Wardell Gray's band.áá
ááááááááá In 1952 Farmer went on tour with Lionel Hampton, and in 1953 he settled in New York, joining bands led by Gigi Gryce and Horace Silver.á In 1958 he was hired by the saxophonist Gerry Mulligan for one of hisá bracing new pianoless groups.áá
ááááááááá At the end of the 50's Farmer formed the Jazztet, a sextet, with the saxophonist Benny Golson. Together they wrote a deep repertory of harmonically sophisticated, tightly arranged music, and the group definedá the state of the art for mainstream jazz until the music's prevailing winds began to grow wilder.áá
ááááááááá The group broke up in 1962, and Farmer started another jointly edá group, with the guitarist Jim Hall. The Jazztet reunited in 1982 and playedá through most of the 80's.áá
ááááááááá In the early 60's he often used the fluegelhorn, which has a warmer, creamier sound, suiting his lyricism and terseness.áá
ááááááááá Then in the early 90's he designed a mixture of the two instruments, theá flumpet, which combined projection with warmth.áá
ááááááááá When work grew sparse in New York, he moved to Vienna in 1968 toá join a radio jazz orchestra.áá
ááááááááá He ended up staying and starting a family but traveled constantly, playing with local pickup rhythm sections around the world. For the last few years, he had a residence in Manhattan and was dividing his time equallyá between Vienna and New York.áá
ááááááááá Farmer's discography as a leader is large and as a sideman larger, encompassing work on the Blue Note, Contemporary, Soul Note, Enjaá and Arabesque labels, among others. His most recent album, from 1997,á was "Silk Road" (Arabesque).áá
ááááááááá Besides Ms. Mueller, Farmer is survived by his sister, Mauvolene Thomas, of Tucson, and his son, Georg, of Vienna.áá
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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 10:32:40 -0400
From: <wlt4@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's
It's great that Paul Williams has decided to finally release this, after
>BarNone dropped out of the Esquivel reissue business a couple of >years ago.
BarNone says they were more or less forced out by RCA who didn't realize there was money to be made with these things. Of course there wasn't as much as they'd hoped....
LT
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 07:49:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <chuckmk@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) This is Cult Fiction???
Nat
This is the tip of the iceberg. I believe there are 3 other volumes though I can only
recall "This is Son of Cult Fiction" and "Cult Fiction Royal" right now.
I saw "This is Cult Ficton" for sale at Tower or Virgin the other day and it said "as
seen on TV"
Calling this music cult movie themes bothers me also, because it is depresssing to see
the number of soundtracks released that are merely rereleases of songs which were never
intened for the movie.
Sometimes when the products are sold in the US they are commerciallized, marketed and
advertised in ways best determined by someone to make money. Calling these songs "cult
fiction" seems ridiculous to me but I'm not surprised,
The other volumes have more exotica cuts on them then This is Cult Fiction which for me
is the weakest of the lot.
Also it seem there is a whole series of "This Is" compilations released for all kinds
