I donÆt see much of a difference between Jazz and the ôeasy listening musicö IÆm listening too except for the improvisation parts. After listening to jazz for about a decade I just got tired of the endless solos and lack of melodies. Coltrane had something to say for 25 minutes on ôMy Favorite Thingsö but most players donÆt.
As for why I listen to a lot of this easy or exotic music? Well I was stuck in traffic on the way to work this morning and listened to the Henry Mancini big band Latin LPÆs I digitized. ItÆs hardly mushy strings but it kept me cool and occupied in the stop and go traffic.
I think I listen to this stuff because I need to!
Domenic Ciccone
"Martinis with Mancini" WJUL 91.5FM FridayÆs 6-9AM EST
http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/
http://wjul.cs.uml.edu/listen.html(On Real Audio)
azed@pathcom.com wrote:
>
> Jazz records sell better and more easily than easy listening so
> in the
> interest of generating a few bucks, I've taken a detour from my
> "easy
> listening CDR/ record collection decimation" project and I'm
> digitizing and
> selling a bunch of jazz records. (Now they all fit on one shelf.
> Or at
> least the real jazz do. The Now Sound jazz, organ stuff, acid
> jazz and
> bossa nova aren't kept with the real jazz.)
> Anyway it's been years since I listened to jazz for an
> uninterrupted period
> of this length - a whole DAY and still going - and you know what?
> It makes
> me feel good.
> This isn't the first time I've wondered this but if you can
> ignore your
> anti-jazz prejudices - those of you that have em - and ponder
> this question.
> What comes first, the feeling or the music? Do you play easy
> listening
> almost exclusively for five years because you're in a certain
> mood or are
> you in the mood because of the music you're listening to? What
> IS that
> mood? I won't say that easy listening depresses me but I'm not
> sure it
> ever uplifts me the way this Coltrane solo is doing right now (or
> is this
> Paul Quinichette taking this solo?)
> I switched from jazz to easy listening mostly because I enjoyed
> buying
> twenty records that I knew little about more than I buying one
> record that
> I was pretty sure would be pretty good.
> But is that the whole explanation?
> Was it also because of my mood? If so, what kind of mood was
> that and how
> does easy listening make you feel that way?
> Did I want to feel like easy listening or did I need to?
>
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Date: 24 Oct 2000 13:18:20 -0400
From: Eric Taub <eric_taub@wgbh.org>
Subject: (exotica) Tonga Room/SF
I'll be headed to San Francisco for a mini vacation on Friday and saw =
something about the Tonga Room on the web. Can anyone comment on it?
Here's a quote: A "Pirates of the Caribbean" for grown-ups, this "=
hurricane
bar" is a drunken whirlwind of kitsch.=20
Thanks-
Eric
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:43:35 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <hagar@mindspring.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) jazz
>What comes first, the feeling or the music?
For me, the feeling comes first. I have to be in certain moods to listen
to certain music. Most of the time I am in an eclectic vein, so playing
one style of any type of music usually is preceded by either a mood or a
requirement (i.e., my chiropractor wanted me to make her a Jazz CD as an
introduction to the music. Interesting note: she is learning the cello.)
>Do you play easy listening almost exclusively for five years because
>you're in a certain mood or are
>you in the mood because of the music you're listening to? What IS that
>mood?
I wish I knew! For me, Jazz is work for the listener, which I mean in a
nice way. What is the soloist doing, the accompaniment, etc. Exotica,
while it can be intricate and challenging, I don't always need to "work" as
hard, which is not a value judgment. As for musical highs, I couldn't tell
you whether Conlon Nancarrow "Study No. 7" or Music Machine's "Talk Talk"
in mono made me feel better, but I appreciate both (they were both on the
same tape I listened to on the way to work yesterday).
I can't really speak to easy listening, but I started listening to Exotica
over my joy of finding out that Yma Sumac and Les Baxter weren't just two
flukes, so my mood to listen to that is nostalgic (my Mother loves Yma
Sumac and my Uncle played Sumac for me over 20 years ago) and jovial, I
suppose.
If I am angry, I usually hear a vocal piece I have composed,
unaccompanied. It's LOUD, too. :^)
Brian Phillips
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:49:08 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <hagar@mindspring.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Ted Turner Appreciation Society
>Monday 10/30 11 AM PST Princess Tam Tam (1935) - Pygmalion story with
>Josephine Baker as the North African peasant girl that a french author tries
>to pass off as a Princess to Parisian society. Whoda thunk such an exotic
>lookin girl with the world's strangest eyebrows woulda come out of St.
>Louie?
Now here's a fellow who hasn't seen "The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Baker)" :^) .
For those who have not seen "Black Orpheus", if you see NOTHING else, make
sure you catch the very beginning. It is one of my favorite movie starters
(Martin Scorsese's is "Peeping Tom", which is rather striking). "Black
Orpheus" also features my Mother's most famous dance student, Marpessa Dawn.
HaSlippedmyMomIntoAnotherPost,
Brian Phillips
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:16:36 -0400
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) jazz
At 10:18 AM 10/24/00 -0700, Domenic Ciccone wrote:
>
>As for why I listen to a lot of this easy or exotic music? Well I was
stuck in traffic on the way to work this morning and listened to the Henr=
y
Mancini big band Latin LP=92s I digitized. It=92s hardly mushy strings b=
ut it
kept me cool and occupied in the stop and go traffic.
>
>I think I listen to this stuff because I need to!=20
I tell people that easy listening is what you listen to when you can't
figure out what you want to listen to. I think one of the reasons I
listened to it almost exclusively for the last five years is because I ha=
ve
eclectic tastes and I was tired of trying to figure out what I was in the
mood to play. When you can't figure out what you're in the mood to play,
you're probably in the mood for easy listening.
Once upon a time, I used it as palette-clearing music. =20
"I don't want to listen to any more alternative rock right now so while I=
'm
figuring out where I want to go next, I'll clean my palette with a bit of
this... Enoch Light over here".
But like I said, it's been five years now in which this is virtually all
I've listened to. My palette must be clean by now. Maybe it's been
cleaned down to the bone and there's nothing there for new music to stick=
to.
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:30:51 EDT
From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com
Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) The Ted Turner Appreciation Society
In a message dated 10/24/0 1:49:40 PM, hagar@mindspring.net wrote:
>For those who have not seen "Black Orpheus", if you see NOTHING else, make
>sure you catch the very beginning. It is one of my favorite movie starters
>(Martin Scorsese's is "Peeping Tom", which is rather striking). "Black
>Orpheus" also features my Mother's most famous dance student, Marpessa Dawn.
and the little boy from the movie played with Don Tiki at the closing of the
Kahiki
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:51:40 -0400
From: "m.ace" <mace@ookworld.com>
Subject: (exotica) revenge of the television crypt creepers
Adding to JB's pointers...
TCM has several Lon Chaney flicks coming down the pike within the next
week, beginning with a new documentary about him tonight. This includes
"The Unknown" (1927), early next week. A bizarre Todd Browning tale of
circus performer, Alonzo the Armless Wonder (who's actually an escaped
murderer with a full set of arms). Joan Crawford is the female lead with a
hand-phobia!
Meanwhile, across town, AMC is going wall-to-wall with
horror/sci-fi/monster movies for Halloween, beginning Friday night. The big
deal for them this year is a thorough plundering of the Universal library,
so all of the classics (Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, etc) will be rolled
out for their first commercial-free airings in quite a while. Tons of other
stuff too. Godzilla movies are grouped on Sunday morning/afternoon, I
think. The real rare bird airs late Friday/early Saturday at 4:30am
(eastern): the 1931 Spanish language version of "Dracula" -- this was shot
concurrently with the Browning/Lugosi version, using the same sets at
night. Different cast, different director, said to be superior in some ways
(less static and talky, sexier actresses) and a letdown in some others
(Carlos Villarias is no Bela Lugosi). I'll be glad to finally see it for
myself.
So there you go. Woooo, scary stuff kids! Consult your local listings and
watch out for sneaky tricks from the switchover back to standard time.
But still no "London After Midnight"!
m.ace mace@ookworld.com
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:53:43 -0400
From: "Telstar" <telstar@albedo.net>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Mondo Bongos Oct 25, 2000
Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wednesday morning at 9 on CFRU 93.3fm in
Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The show is also available on the web at
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~cfru-fm
Comments and questions are welcome...
Riz Ortolani - Donna Twist "Women of the World" ost
B.O.M.B. the one man band - This Durn band Ain't Getting Me Laid "Giddy-Up
Go!"
Wesley Willis - Rock 'n' Roll MacDonalds "Songs in the Key of Z"
The Goblins - War Dance "Naked in the Afternoon - a Tribute to Jandek"
Jandek - One the Planes "Telegraph Melts"
Fille Qui Mousse - excerpt from "Trixie Stapelton 291"
Lydia Kavina - Voice of Theremin "Songs from the Ether"
Tom Dissevelt/Kid Baltan - Song of the Second Moon "Electronic Toys 2"
Richard Hayman/Walter Sear - Number 1 Resonant Circuit "Electronic
Evolutions"
Robert Byrne - March of the Space Cadets "Sound in the Eighth Dimension"
Anon - Mon-Gu Tuul "The Secret Museum of Mankind- Central Asia"
Mychael Danna - Scene of the Crime "8MM" ost
Citizen Kafka - Flies "High Performance"
Ivor Cutler - Go and Sit Upon the Grass "V"
Metabolist - Hoi Hoi Hoi "Hansten Klork"
Thanks for reading,
Allan
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:16:46 -0400
From: wlt4@mindspring.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) revenge of the television crypt creepers
>The real rare bird airs late Friday/early Saturday at 4:30am
>(eastern): the 1931 Spanish language version of "Dracula" --
It's been on tape for several years and is included on the "Dracula" DVD. There are quite a few films from the early sound era that exist in simultaneously shot multiple language versions. Buster Keaton did some of his MGM films in French, several Laurel & Hardy shorts are also in Spanish, all learned phonetically which makes them odd viewing.
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