> I have 'Discotheque', i think, and rarely listen to it (though i like the
> version of 'Taste of Honey' which is used for a jingle on Jazz FM here [i
> used to love being home at lunch to hear a Spanish hip hop show, or latin
> music presented in Portuguese and Irish, or African music and Afrocentric
> philosophy, or an R'n'B show with big shouts to the Rathmines posse and
> the
> Northside massive. Some things i love about the place changing)) must
> listen
> to it if I get home.
>
>
>
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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 08:33:35 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <hagar@mindspring.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Raymond Scott
> I don't think it's online yet, but RaymondScott.com will probably make
>it available soon...
It was online as of 1/4/00. I have a fast connection at work and got a
chance to read some of it. It's great stuff!
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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:07:01 -0500
From: "Lenkei, Bruce" <BLenkei@iso.com>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Carol Kaye
Carole Kaye also has a great, great web site, loaded with some great pictures and lots of other info about her exploits. It's a lot of fun
http://www.carolkaye.com/
and dig that opening shot of the 1974 version of Carol. Groovy!
- - Bruce
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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:54:53 -0500
From: "Lenkei, Bruce" <BLenkei@iso.com>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Jazzz
Here in NYC there is a great station, WKCR, that plays a whole lot of jazz. They tend to focus on the swing and be-bop old masters, but there is still a good amount of Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, and some of the more free, experimental stuff.
Phil Schaap, the guy in charge of the jazz programming, and the main DJ, seems to know everything about every jazz musician who ever lived, and he sometimes goes on and on, talking too much, but it's worth it, usually. It's the Columbia Univ.
station, so there is a lot of other great music music too. Country, blues, etc.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/indexb.html
Accross the river in Newark there's another all jazz station, WBGO. But it's usually a little too soft and smooth and has too many singers for my taste.
http://www.wbgo.org/
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> If you want to call vocalists like (Canada's own) Diane Krall or
> (Canada's
> own and my former aerobics class pal) Holly Cole "jazz", I won't
> argue too
> vehemently. But when you do a list of "jazz" records and it's
> almost ALL
> vocalists, I get annoyed.
>
> With jazz you always have to be happy with small favours.
What is Holly Cole's lastest, Romantically Helpless, like? Similar to her earlier stuff? The one before that, Dark Dear Heart, scared me away. And I heard it is fashionable in Canada to hate her. True?
Dig the vocals.
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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:47:25 -0500
From: "m.ace" <mace@ookworld.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ken Burns's's Jazz
>(I'm assuming they won't exactly be focusing on the denser aspects of
>Miles Davis's fusion years either....)
Considering that Wynton Marsalis has characterized "Bitch's Brew" as a
pop/rock sellout, I somehow doubt it.
I think of Marsalis as "the jazz taxidermist," but that's awfully harsh and
I feel bad about it (then again, last night I pulled out Miles Davis'
autobiography and re-read his comments on Marsalis and somehow didn't feel
so bad afterwards). I respect his abilities and commitment, and share his
love for the earlier music, but I resent the way he's become the *official*
jazzman of our era and pushed things toward a classical-scene model of
"these guys did it right, so let's just do it that way forever."
Henry Threadgill (for one) was delving back into early jazz styles in the
early 80s, with much more fresh and interesting results than Marsalis has
ever come up with.
But I agree with Brian that there could be much worse people advising Burns
("John Tesh presents The Wonderful World Of Jazz"). And if it is "merely" a
solid grounding in straightahead jazz, well, it's not like that's such a
bad thing. Considering all the dreck that's out there.
Heh heh -- I mean, what do you think this is, the 70s or something? (when
you could see the likes of Harry Partch on PBS)
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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:03:56 -0500
From: "m.ace" <mace@ookworld.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jazzz
>Are there other dedicated Jazz radios stations elsewhere to anyones
>knowledge? I'm curious.
Out of Temple University in Philly, there's WRTI (90.1fm). They also have
repeater stations covering eastern to central PA and down into NJ and
Delaware. And a web-feed at their site:
http://www.wrti.org/
They were ALL jazz for many years, but in '97 there was a shady takeover of
the daytime hours when a commercial classical station changed format. So
now it's classical in the daytime, jazz at night. It was pretty
controversial. There's a little mention of it in this John Swana interview:
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/IVIEWS/jswana.HTM
Set your find function to "WRTI" to find the paragraph (second mention).
Looks like an interesting interview in general.
Having memories of 'RTI in the mid-70s, when there were a lot of free
artists on the playlist and a solid black power attitude, it's awfully
disconcerting to hear these plummy-voiced classical announcers, who seem to
tape most of the promos.
The jazz playlist is pretty mainstream now, but good stuff. My favorite
show is Harrison Ridley's "Historical Approach to the Positive Music",
Sunday nights at 8.
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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:10:49 -0500
From: "m.ace" <mace@ookworld.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Raymond Scott
>>I don't think it's online yet, but RaymondScott.com will probably make
>>it available soon...
>
>It was online as of 1/4/00. I have a fast connection at work and got a
