> One thing that sounded intriguing was a series of cds by Don Shirley
> ... he combined classical and jazz piano techniques. It sounds nifty.
> Does anyone know anything about him and his music ... yea or nay?
I know very little about him, but what I know, I will share. I have what
seems to be his first album on Cadence, home to Julius La Rosa and the
Everly Brothers, viva diversity! I recall the album being well-played, but
not too Jazzy. That is not to say that it is bad, for I still have the
album. It is pleasant, but not enough improvisation for me.
Brian Phillips
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:08:06 -0400
From: Bump <bumpy@megsinet.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Coffy/Jazz
i just gotta speak up for Coffy.
it may not be GREAT but it is some pretty smooth shit.
and all this talk about it being a bad jazz album is because it is mostly
downtempo funk.
and Roy Ayres deserves some props for being one Fly Mo Fo.
he is currently experiencing a much deserved resurgence in CLUBLAND.
as for COFFY
lets hear it for the movie itself.
by far one of the best Blaxploitation/Revenge flicks ever made.
has everyone seen it?
its a whole lot of fun.
Pam Grier-nuff said.
tongue in cheek
bump
>See! See! I'm not the only one who thought it was mediocre, so all you
>corn-shucking "jazz lovers" kiss my lily-white butt!
>Heh heh.
>
>Honestly, it's at best mediocre, with a few annoying tracks and I think one
>or two decent cuts. I'm not knocking anyone liking it, but I just can't
>fathom how it ends up on people's Top Blaxploitation LPs.
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:47:45 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) theremin
Speaking of theremin, just noticed this upcoming book:
Theremin : Ether Music and Espionage (Music in American Life)
by Albert Glinsky
Our Price: $34.95
Hardcover (October 2000)
Univ of Illinois Pr (Txt); ISBN: 0252025822
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:57:03 -0700
From: "Mr. Unlucky" <fcobalt@mailcity.com>
Subject: (exotica) Roy Ayers' "Coffy"/Joseph's "Murder Inc"
Regarding the "Coffy" soundtrack, I think that it's partly a big deal because of the movie's cult status, which tends to sort of elevate the album more than it might really deserve. I think it's a good record for a few songs but not as a complete record. Of course I find this a lot with many soundtracks. Another decent Ayers' album is "Red Black & Green" at a point where Ayers' jazz began to break down into his soul/funk sound. It's a bit smooth. I think it helps if you're into the jazzy/soul/funk sound too.
Also regarding the "Murder, Inc." Time album by Irving Joseph, it is high on my list of crime jazz, especially because it isn't from an actual soundtrack but was inspired by the action jazz trend. This makes every song stand out as its own piece. Worth the effort to get a good copy if you like that kind of music.
Mr. Unlucky
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:52:00 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obit] William Killgallon,irma Bowker
June 13, 2000
Man Who Dubbed Etch A Sketch Dies
Filed at 2:22 p.m. EDT
By The Associated Press
BRYAN, Ohio (AP) -- William Casley Killgallon, who helped come up with the name for the Etch A Sketch, has died. He was 87.
Killgallon suffered a stroke three weeks ago and a heart attack a few days later. He died Thursday near his home in Charlottesville, Va., said his son William Carpenter Killgallon.
Killgallon was a vice president at the Ohio Art Co. when it acquired the rights to the toy, which had been produced in England as the DoodleMaster Magic Screen.
Killgallon and another executive came up with the Etch A Sketch name.
Etch A Sketch -- which has two knobs that turn to make doodles and can be shaken to make the images disappear -- was an instant success in the early 1960s and billed as the hottest toy since the Hula-Hoop.
Ohio Art has sold more than 100 million Etch A Sketches, which are still made in Bryan.
Killgallon became president of Ohio Art in 1966. He retired in 1978 after his family bought the company.
He is survived by another son, Martin Killgallon, and daughters Ruth Gilbert and Katherine Michelsen.
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Irma Bowker
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. (AP) -- Irma Bowker, a member of the Radio City Music Hall's original Rockettes, died last week. She was 89.
Bowker was a member of the original precision dancing troupe that later became known as the Rockettes. First known as the Russell Markert Dancers, they later were called the Roxyettes when they danced at Manhattan's Roxy Theater.
They made their Radio City debut when the famous theater opened in December 1932.
At a Rockettes reunion in 1986, Bowker said was paid $45 a week for five shows a day, seven days a week.
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:01:44 -0400
From: Will Straw <cxws@musica.mcgill.ca>
Subject: (exotica) Il Mondo di Notte
A question folks . . . the soundtrack for Il Mondi di Notte
(by Piero Piccione) just went for $103 on Ebay, way beyond
my threshold of temptability. But I'd do almost anything to get
a tape of the movie, or of the "Europa di notte" film which it
seems to have copied. These were both early/pre- Mondo
films, and I can't seem to find any source for them. Any suggestions . . .
While we're on Ebay . . . the prices for Confidential and Confidential-like
mags of the 1950s have quadrupled over the last month or so, with
run of the mill mid-decade titles being driven up to $50 or $60. Is this
just Ebay-fueled inflation, or is something else going on here?
Back to bidding and buying,
Will
Will Straw,
Associate Professor, Communications
Department of Art History and Communications Studies
McGill University
3465 Peel St., Montreal, Quebec CANADA H3A 1W7
Phone: (514) 398-7667 Fax: (514) 398 4934
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 23:09:23 GMT
From: "james brouwer" <jamesbrouwer@hotmail.com>
Subject: (exotica) recent scores / toronto record show
100 guys lined-up outside a recreation centre, 30-55 years of age, mostly
white, mostly pot-bellied, and far too many stuffed into bad "Beatles" or
"KISS" t-shirts: welcome to the Toronto record show, what you see is what
you get. I was fifth in line but that didn't give me much of an advantage
when the doors opened. By the time I got through the fifth dealer's batch of
soundtracks and was STILL seeing nothing but "Mary Poppins"; "Star Wars",
and "Rocky" lps, well, I gathered that others had beat me to them. People on
the net that is. The main soundtrack guy said he doesn't put out anything
that hasn't failed on eBay first. And the whole show was like that; all the
records seemed like someone else's leftovers. That, combined with the fact
that a lot of dealers here still don't seem clued into the
exotica/incredibly strange/ early-electronic thing, make this show a tough
nut to crack. But I got a few things nonetheless, and I can't complain - I
got $300 in trade from 65 garage-sale records I had brought around to some
stores the day before. So here's what I got over the weekend, both at the
show and elsewhere:
"Education of Sonny Carson" OST (blaxplo, some good tracks)
"Exotic Percussion and Brilliant Brass" by John Evans (not bad for 50 cents,
has nutty bird sounds etc.)
"Passionate Percussion" by Don Catelli & All Stars (again, not bad for 50
cents)
"Black Emmanuelle" OST by Nico Fidenco, original issue (this was definitely
not 50 cents, but it's good. An Emmanuelle porno set in Africa made in 1975
- - how can ya go wrong?)
"Mondo Hollywood" OST. (Hippie soundtrack. so-so)
"Word Jazz" by Ken Nordine (in the $2.00 bin. I should have got this long
before as I quite like it).
"Jazz Raga" by Gabor Szabo (again, in the $2.00 bin and plays beautifully.
Tons of sitar and the like. One track even has Gabor "singing"/"narrating"
some trippy poem through a vocoder of some sort. I have a bunch of records
by Szabo but this might be my fave).
"Exotica Suite" by Martin Denny and Si Zentner (one of those records that
looks absolutely MINT but when you play it sounds a little bit noisy. A
lo-fi pressing, I suppose. But the music ain't all that great in my opinion
so it doesn't really bother me).
"Tangerine Zoo" by Tangerine Zoo. (Cool psych re-issue).
"The Soul of Nigger Charley" OST by Don Costa (again, not cheap but has some
really good tracks).
"Montana Slim's Greatest Hits" by Montana Slim (50 cents, has some beautiful
old country death songs on it. I'm big on those.)
hope everyone else out there has had some luck with the records too.
