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exotica-digest       Tuesday, February 13 2001       Volume 02 : Number 892



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) please allow me to introduce mice governor
Re: (exotica) Lai=Air
Re: (exotica) One more answer to Alan
(exotica) Re: Nature Boys
(exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La
(exotica) Dr. Zweig on the loose (OK, so it didn't rhyme...)
Re: (exotica) One more answer to Alan
Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La
Re: (exotica) One more answer to Alan
Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La
Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La
(exotica) Response to Magnus' response to Alan
Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La
Re: (exotica) top 10/best jazz rekkid
Re: (exotica) Yet another intro - for the record
Re: (exotica) another answer to Alan
(exotica) Alan,Alan,Alan
Re: (exotica) One more answer to Alan
Re:  Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La
Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La
Re: (exotica) One more answer to Alan
Re: (exotica) Alan,Alan,Alan
(exotica) [obits] Buddy Tate,Lewis Arquette
(exotica) Don Tiare @ www.emusic.com
(exotica) basic hip

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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:29:17 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) please allow me to introduce mice governor

In a message dated 2/13/1 2:59:03 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>But I also feel a kinship with the members of this list who are from
>Massachusetts.   To me they're honorary Canadians.

Then you'll love our Italian governor..Paul Cellucci..a film buff BTW, who
also has gambling debts around 750K American. His appeal is minimal on a good
day..it was  a present from Dubya that arrived about two months late. Which
reminds me. Clinton appointed Boston's Irish mayor to be the Ambassador to
the Vatican. back in '93.  He spent most of his time in Rome's Irish pubs and
off on junkets of earth-shattering import....Ciao for niao...J Botticelli


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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:36:27 -0500
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lai=Air

At 04:56 PM 2/13/01 +0100, Moritz R wrote:
>Robert McKenna schrieb:
>
>>  I just bought a Francis Lai record
>> >that sounded exactly like Air.
>
>mind telling us the title?

I'm sorry I can't tell you the title.  I put it on CDR and gave it to my
friend.
It's got a very colorful almost psychedelic cover, it's from the seventies
and he covers "Close to you".  I would buy ANYTHING with his name on it.  I
once had another one of his, a bit older, where he did "This guy's in love"
and "McArthur's park" and the arrangements were just lovely.
Interestingly, I seem to recall that the arrangements on the record which
I'm saying reminded me of Air, were actually by Michel Columbier.
His own stuff was kind of Air-like no?  In retrospect?

Lai is almost Air backwards.  I guess not.

AZ



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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:03:51 +0100 (CET)
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) One more answer to Alan

> Does it really remind you of exotic locales and "exotic people"?  Or
do you
> enjoy the irony of suburban white session musicians pretending they're
> crazed cannibals?
> Jungle exotica is such a bastard genre.

First, I dont find this music dark. Second:
I dont just listens to jungle exotica, what I said was that if there
were one kind of music that I could take with me to eternity it would
be jungle exotica. And Alan, I cant see any irony in this music at all,
off course the albumcovers tell one story and the music another. I
think it compliments one another. Here we had artists with incredible
inner worlds, the way they made their version of an exotic paradise/ a
jungle etc is so stunning sometimes that it borders to genius/Divine
inspiration. The kind of inspiration you get from love and nature. Its
the combination of the ancient drums picked up from Africa and south
America combined with the sweeping strings and brass that makes it so
special, it creates images in you, images that may be false compared to
the real exotic countrys out there, but in a way truer than reality.
The wild beasts in the Jungle becomes thrilling and humorous, All of a
sudden a train appears, IT IS FULL OF BIRDS! Its a safe place to live
in. It is exotica for kids and there are always a friendly female voice
to guide you in this place to see you get home alllright. It is Mans
wish for nature to be. If not in fact natures own music transmitted to
the little monkeys who think they are so special. It is romance of the
kind that makes you dizzy. It is a world that loves you for being in it.
It is my belief that nature loves us this way, You have as a human all
the rights to express yourself in all the ways possible, is not that
fantastic? think how it was like millions of years ago when dinosaurs
ruled the world. How meaningless!! No photographs to document it, no
artists to interpret what was happening, just millions of years for
nothing.

Man is both a beast and a fabulous being, and Exotica is an exellent
example of what we are capable of, when we are trying out something
important and not just machines and computers and other technical
things.

I think it sounds like you need a puff of marijuana so you get the kid
you once was back into you. I dont use it myself anymore because
everything just got too much for me and ended in a terrible psychosis
who took me one year to get over, but when looking at it with a little
manual, I say it surely was worth the trouble i got. And now I can
listen to Eden Ahbez and really understand what he is singing about,
much of the things he described have been my reality too.
Magnus


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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:34:52 +0000
From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Nature Boys

tikiman <[e-mail]> (Fluid Floyd) wrote:

> "Nature Boy." I love that tune as well and I'm
> making a cd based on it interspersed with Eden Ahbez's
> music and the 5 versions of the song that I have by
> 1. Jon Hassell 2. Nat King Cole 3. Miles Davis 4. John
> Coltrane 5. Johnny Hartman. Know of any others?

[e-mail] replied:

> I made a tape compilation of Nature Boy for the exoticaring -
> well, actually, it's one side of a 100 minute tape. I put
> all the versions I had and others filled in the rest of the tape.
> Unfortunately, I can't remember what the track list
> was, so perhaps whoever has it now might be able to send us
> the list.

I was the one who filled Lou's tape with more versions.
Complete tracklist is:

 1. Jon Hassell (from "Fascinoma");
 2. Grand Award All Stars ("Percussion & Brass");
 3. Mickey Katz ("Katz Put On The Dog");
 4. Esquivel ("Other Worlds, Other Sounds");
 5. Tony Mottola ("Tony & Strings");
 6. The Unnatural Seven;
 7. Keely Smith ("What Kind Of Fool Am I?");
 8. Three Sounds ("Black Orchid");
 9. Shirley Scott ("Oasis");
10. George Benson ("In Flight");
11. Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures & Yusef Lateef ("Verona Jazz");
12. Nat "King" Cole.

Lou selected and recorded tracks 1 to 6; I choose and added 7 to 12.
I have a copy of the tape (currently circulating in the exoticaring),
in someone's interested.

Ciao
Gionni


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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:34:53 +0000
From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La

> From: buMp <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: (exotica) The April Fools soundtrack
>
> LA LA LA- Mongo Santamaria
> composer is MARVIN HAMLISCH of all people.
> Pub. 1969 Columbia Pictures
> SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
> >
> great friggin track!

Catch it on "The Mad, Mad World Of Soundtracks" comp. (Motor,
Germany). Notes say: "imagine a bunch of 16 year old babes singing
La La La... and a happily smiling Mongo Santamaria on percussion.
Sounds like heaven, isn't it? Well, it is - just listen, folks! The
creator of this musical candybar - former piano wunderkind  Marvin
Hamlisch - was just 24 years old when he wrote this heavenly piece
for the movie The April Fools. The film marked the beginning of his
rapid rise in the soundtrack business. In 1973 he managed to get hold
of three oscars (best song and best score for The Way We Were, best
song score for The Sting), two years later he composed the Hollywood
smash A Chorus Line. The April Fools - a charming comedy typical of
the sophisticated late sixties - features Jack Lemmon and the
gorgeous Catherine Deneuve. The soundtrack album contains, besides
Hamlisch's music, exclusive recordings by the Chambers Brothers, Taj
Mahal and California. The beautiful title track was written by Brill
Building dream-team Bacharach/David".

I was born on April Fools' day 1964, BTW.

..."sophisticated late sixties"...???
wasn't that the time when hippies and street fighting men were all
around?

Ciao
Gionni


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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:33:58 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dr. Zweig on the loose (OK, so it didn't rhyme...)

>Brian Philips, give us a clue about you.  Tell us the last ten things you
>listened to

Knowing full well that I cannot resist responding to something that rhymes
so much, I will tell you.

The dull stuff:

Pewter
J. B. Stoner
News reports about Kidman and Cruise.

The dull stuff you ASKED about:

I am 37, African-American, Christian, brought up to love and respect the
Arts by my parents and a doting Grandmother.  Rock was welcomed in the
house, but didn't expect to see either parent lining up for Gilbert
O'Sullivan concerts (if they did, would I have admitted it here?).

The last ten things I listened to were:

1. A Mod Jazz Compilation culled from a friend's collection, featuring
songs such as "Cold Duck Time" by Les McCann and Eddie Harris, "Scratch" by
Herbie Mann and "But It's Alright" by Brother Jack McDuff.

2. Love, Peace and Poetry, American Psychedelic Music.  Standout tracks
were "Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo" by the Music Emporium and "Oceans of Fantasy" by
Michaelangelo, which I daresay would please the Now Sound crowd.

3. Love, Peace and Poetry, Latin American Psychedelic Music, standout track
here was Los Dug Dugs' "It's Over".

4. La Dolce Henke - Mel Henke - I downloaded this, actually.  What I heard
was cute and had I found it for a dollar or two I would have said, what a
funny and odd record.  From what I have heard of it, I am glad that I
didn't pay collector prices for it.

5. Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (their first album).  Another download,
however, I will be buying this CD soon.  What a wonderful collection of
psychedelia and Brazillian influences.  Can anyone tell me whether vocalist
Rita Lee was born in Brazil?  Favorite tracks, the wonderfully trippy
"Panis Et Circenes" and the fuzzed-up "A Minha Menina".  Git it, git it,
git it!

6 through 10 has mostly been Northern Soul stuff; not albums per se,
because mostly my buddy and I record singles that we cull from record
shows.  I am ABOUT to hear:

The JFK Quintet, featuring Andrew White,
Inside Sauter-Finegan
The Third Man Theme and others - Anton Karas
Sauter-Finegan - Under Analysis
Les McCann Plays the Hits.
Robert Maxwell - Shangri-La.

Maxwell, Under Analysis, Third Man set me back a grand total of 75 cents.

Off to the Isle of  Letya know,
Brian Phillips





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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 13:40:37 -0800 (PST)
From: tikiman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) One more answer to Alan

Wow Magnus, you've nailed it! that was the dopest opus
on exotica ever. my pardner, Perry Coma, and I call
Hawaii the "irony free zone." that's why i moved here
from L.A. 25 years ago. not paradise anymore, it still
offers the best of mother nature and an aloha spirit
in the people... a true rainbow coaltion of races. our
troup reflects this with the players including a
Hawaiian, a Korean, a Brazilian, a Filipino, a Black,
a Japanese, and of course, the dreaded white man (or
two).
Just like Martin Denny's music stirred a million
backyard luaus around the world, it's the idealized,
romanticized vision of what could be vs what it is.
although i've never been to Brazil and am aware of the
overpopulated squalor of many images and facts, it
remains a sexy paradise in my mind via the gorgeous
music from Jobim to Gal Costa to Bebel Gilberto. when
we played the Kahiki gig in Columbus last summer, the
best compliment came from a cynical, chain-smoking
scenester who gushed "I never had any interest in
going to Hawaii whatsoever till I heard your band...
is life really like this over there?" no, dorothy it
ain't, but we can still try to evoke a jungle paradise
for our collective dreams of a better world. call me
naive, but i'm staying on Eden's Island.

alohaderci,
Fluid Floyd
Don Tiki/Taboo Records

"Life is painful, suffering is optional"
- -Zen quote

- --- Magnus Sandberg <[e-mail]> wrote:
> First, I dont find this music dark. Second:
> I dont just listens to jungle exotica, what I said
> was that if there
> were one kind of music that I could take with me to
> eternity it would
> be jungle exotica. And Alan, I cant see any irony in
> this music at all...

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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:53:00 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La

I haven't heard that, but it sounds reminiscent of Googie Rene's "Smokey
Joe's La La" which is also a good 'un.  It even has folks singing "Lalalalala"!

Which brings us back to...*OUCH*,
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 23:13:14 +0100 (CET)
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) One more answer to Alan

citerar tikiman <[e-mail]>:

> Wow Magnus, you've nailed it! that was the dopest opus
> on exotica ever.

Exotica just inspires me to write, I am happy to be sharing my thoughts
with others, and I hope that someday, we all will return to paradise
together. That would be a blast!

>call me
> naive, but i'm staying on Eden's Island.

I am naive too, very naive but that is just my nature. And Sweden is in
fact an Eden too, those summernights... So sweet and it smells so good.
Kind beautiful people with light in their eyes. I love it here. Even
wintertime. Just some small wants, I wish for an apartment with a
fireplace, and an exotica girl beside me. And a copy of "the
Unexpected" by Raymond Scott.
Magnus


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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:28:24 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La

In a message dated 2/14/2001 5:23:31 AM, [e-mail] writes:

<< Catch it on "The Mad, Mad World Of Soundtracks" comp. (Motor,
Germany).  >>

    How isthis cd? Do you also have the previous one?


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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:37:20 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La

This cd is fantastic!  Still play it a lot.
The Harpers Bizarre tune is only available here I think.
What do you mean by the previous one?   I don't think there was a
previous one, this one came out  in 1997 or 1998.  I hope there
is a previous one.  There is a book associated with the cd that is
still around though out of print.  Its tremendous full size album
pictures , well some are smaller.  This bood drives me nuts, I
havelots of records but only a dozen or so in this Album Cover Art
of Soundtracks book.  It was available at half.com or ebay

 Thanks
 Chuck
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> >     How is this cd? Do you also have the previous one?


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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:40:49 -0600
From: "Colleen Pyles" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Response to Magnus' response to Alan

Magnus,
You are so poetic, that is exactly how I would describe the feeling
of exotica!
colleen


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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:11:37 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La

In a message dated 2/14/2001 6:38:09 AM, [e-mail] writes:

<< What do you mean by the previous one?  >>

CDNow lists two cd's: Mad, Mad World of Soundtracks and Mad World of
Soundtracks, although there is no track listing for the second. It is priced
higher, although it could be the same one.


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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:35:22 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) top 10/best jazz rekkid

> <<  not too sure about exotica  but the best jazz album handsdown is 'Kind
> of Blue' by Miles Davis.....

I had previously wrote that I was really enjoying the Ken Burn's 'Jazz'
documentary, mainly because there was so much of the genre that I was
unfamiliar  with.  I was looking forward to start buying more jazz music, as
soon as I could narrow down a bit my choices from the long list of deserving
artists.

Anyway, the Saturday after the Jazz series ended I was in Tower records, and the
first CD I picked out to purchase was 'Kind of Blue'

I'm still discovering new music, in whatever ways I can.
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:14:07 -0500
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Yet another intro - for the record

At 12:22 PM 2/13/01 -0800, Dan Mastous wrote:
> This isn't because I don't like exotica
>anymore, it's just that most of what I found had a few
>good moments and the rest was boring.
>I joined this list because I felt I might find some
>better suggestions of exotica samples than the ones I
>have.  Outside of Esquivel I have found nothing that
>more than piques my curiousity.
>My musical tastes are very broad. (I'm partial to Styx, Kansas and
>Boston),

This is a classic example of "Make up your own punchline".
You love Styx and Kansas but you can't find much exotica that meets your
standard.
Clearly you prefer your exotica closer to home.

AZ



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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:14:05 -0500
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) another answer to Alan

At 07:38 PM 2/13/01 -0000, james brouwer wrote:
>ummm, by way of introductions. I'm 33, a veteran graduate student in
>Philosophy,

What does "veteran" mean in that context?
Interesting that academics are attracted to this kind of music.

>The compliment is appreciated, though I'm sure most people on this list have
>impressive collections, including yourself -- though I have yet to see it.

You have me beat by a mile.  I've only collected soundtracks for about a
year.  Before that I occasionally bought crime jazz or other ones I
recognized but I wasn't doing it in a purposeful, focussed way.
And once upon a time, I scorned all who collected soundtracks. I scoffed at
them as inferior.
Now of course, I mostly meant those folks who buy new soundtracks.  And
some of my scorn was directed at the endless repetition of themes, present
in most soundtracks.  Which I still stand by.
But I admit that I was wrong on some level. There is something great - or
at least intersting - about soundtrack music that is hard to find anywhere
else.
I do "collect" tunes that remind me of soundtrack music.  Often it's the
original tune written by the artist on a record where he's covering sixties
rock tunes. The generic psychedelic-sounding tune on records from the
Ventures' psychedelic period.
But the best place to hear generic groovy or jazzy tunes is on soundtracks.

I have greatly increased my collection in the last year or so, partly by
paying those painful American exchange prices on ebay where every record
ends up costing twenty dollars.
I never count records but just to convince you...
I now own 75 soundtrack LP's. That's not much. I've seen your list.
I
>I collect lots of different music but got into 60's/70's soundtracks for a)
>the nostalgia (glimpses into my TV-mediated childhood), b) the 'scenic'-ness
>(the way the some film-music converts your everyday surroundings into some
>filmic-narrative from the past)

That's interesting.  I think maybe I experience that with the crime jazz
but not with the groovy ones (such as Kaleidoscope or Up the Down Staircase.)
But that could be because I have a sense of myself as living in a film noir
sometimes.especially my favorites like "Out of the Past" (Is there a
soundtrack for that?) or "Asphalt Jungle".  (I love the Sam Jaffe
character, not to mention Sterling Hayden.)

>
>Some OSTs I like?
>
>Adventurers - Ray Brown
>Barbarella - Bob Crewe
>Bullitt - Lalo Schifrin
>Follow Me - Stu Phillips
>Girl From U.N.C.L.E. - Teddy Randazzo
>Stilletto - Sid Ramin
>Hanged Man - Alan Tew
>Hell's Angels on Wheels - Stu Phillips
>Truck Turner - Isaac Hayes
>Lady In Cement - Hugo Montenegro
>Angel's From Hell - Stu Phillips

As you know, I have one of those.  But that's all I have on that list.
I'll put them on my want list, not that I really need a want list, given
that everytime I see anything interesting I grab it, price allowing.

thanks for responding...

az





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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:38:38 -0500
From: "The Workmans" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Alan,Alan,Alan

I know you did not ask, but here is someinfo about me. My name is J Workman.
I am 34 years old. I am married and have 6 children. I do not have my own
room for music, but would like to (Yes, no one else in my family shares or
cares about my jazz/exotica/easy listening interests...). I am a pharmacist
at Childrens Medical Center in Dayton Ohio. I do read your posts and have
quite a respect for you tastes and your "ramblings". I quite enjoyed (and
agreed with) your recent posts on Ken Burns Jazz. For my own interests in
exotica (all music), here goes:  Martin Denny, Dean Martin, James Bond film
music, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Esquivel, Elvis, The Byrds, Beach Boys, Herb
Alpert, Sergio Mendes/Brazil 66 Neil Young, and I could go on. As far as
used lps, I tend to look for the things I do not have, but have heard of
from you all. Questions? I would enjoy chatting with you (all) at anytime.
See ya, JW
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:41:30 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) One more answer to Alan

In a message dated 2/13/1 4:41:25 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>that was the dopest opus

winner..."Groovies Expression of February" award


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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:43:02 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La

In a message dated 2/13/1 5:29:04 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>How isthis cd? Do you also have the previous one?

All good...Start to finish...no bad tracks


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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:42:25 -0500
From: "cheryl" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Mongo's La La La

CDNow has some of the strangest listings - they often list the same thing
with up to three different prices - try to figure out the difference...There
is, however, a Volume 2 of "Mad Mad World Of Soundtracks" due out within the
month, I believe (it's on Dusty Groove's upcoming releases page - I'm
waiting patiently for it to appear...)

cheryl
>
> In a message dated 2/14/2001 6:38:09 AM, [e-mail] writes:
>
> << What do you mean by the previous one?  >>
>
> CDNow lists two cd's: Mad, Mad World of Soundtracks and Mad World of
> Soundtracks, although there is no track listing for the second. It is
priced
> higher, although it could be the same one.




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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:48:24 -0500
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) One more answer to Alan

At 10:03 PM 2/13/01 +0100, Magnus Sandberg wrote:
> And Alan, I cant see any irony in this music at all,
>I think it sounds like you need a puff of marijuana so you get the kid
>you once was back into you.

I hope there was some irony in that last statement.
In any case, I really enjoyed reading your response especially the bit
about the monkees coming by in a train.  Was that the last train to
clarkesville?

AZ



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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:55:47 -0500
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Alan,Alan,Alan

Please everyone, it's not about me.
I know you like saying my name and setting me up as a target so you can
knock me down.  Luckily my ego can withstand all the slings and arrows.
I was just trying to generate a little old fashioned discussion.  I hoped
that I wouldn't be the only one responding to the responses I generated.
But alas it looks as though I am.
I give up.  For now.
Till I'm bored again.



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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 23:32:38 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Buddy Tate,Lewis Arquette

Buddy Tate

Jazz saxophonist whose relaxed grace and lyricism
were born in the swing era

John Fordham
Monday February 12, 2001
The Guardian

Jazz often confirms that the most wilfully egocentric
performer can produce the most sensitive and
hospitable music; but if ever temperament and style
faithfully mirrored each other, it was in the case of the
great swing saxophonist Buddy Tate, who has died
aged 87. One of the most relaxed, humorous and
amenable of musicians, Tate's personal style was
glowingly reflected in the lissom and occasionally
gently mocking elegance of his saxophone playing.

Like many of the lyrical and romantic jazz performers
of his era, Tate could perform miniature miracles with
minimal materials, and to hear him embroider a ballad
like I Can't Get Started in unaccompanied
performance, merely shuffling a handful of soft,
buttery notes and mingling them with a textural
repertoire of intimately whispering intonations, was
one of the most agreeable experiences in postwar
jazz. But Tate could also be an exciting, hard-
swinging player too, and his control of the horn in its
upper register predated many of the technical
advances in saxophone playing that were made by
the modernists in hard bop and the avant garde.

Tate came up in the 1930s when swing ruled popular
music and instrumental stars were heroes whose
reputations were not far behind those of singers. But
the connection between the song and the sound of a
saxophone, trumpet or clarinet was closer then.
Bebop, with its intricate, cliffhanging melody lines and
unpredictable resolutions had not yet arrived to
launch a jazz sound very different to the shapely
lyricism of vocalised instrumental methods that
mimicked singing. Tate therefore learned from the
examples of saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Lester
Young and Herschel Evans. Young's favourite query
to an improviser who strayed too far from the
fundamentals of the song was "What's your story?"
That accessible notion of an improviser's narrative
was Tate's too.

Tate began working with the territory bands that
travelled around the southwest in the tough years
following the Depression and before swing took off.
He worked with McCloud's Night Owls, the St Louis
Merrymakers and a band led by Terrence Holder that
was later to be taken over by the celebrated Andy
Kirk.

Tate worked briefly for Count Basie on Lester
Young's temporary departure, but this early
incarnation of the Basie band soon broke up for want
of bookings. But Basie's chance came again when
swing became a national craze around the mid
1930s, and in 1939 Tate got his big break when was
invited to join the now successful Basie orchestra
following the sudden death of tenorist Herschel
Evans. The two had been old friends and Tate
maintained later that he had dreamed Evans had died
before he ever heard the news, and was sure that a
call from Basie would come. For Basie's part, the
bandleader said in his autobiography: "Buddy was
enough like Herschel, so he could take care of that
business, but he also had his own thing, which meant
we still had two different styles, tones, and
everything." Tate stayed with Basie for nine years,
until postwar economics forced changes in the line-up
and the saxophonist decided to look for work that
would keep him closer to New York. Tate played for
bandleaders Lucky Millinder and Hot Lips Page, and
in Basie singer Jimmy Rushing's Savoy band. He
eventually secured a residency at the Celebrity Club
on 125th Street in Harlem, and stayed for 21 years
until the rise of jazz-rock and the eclipse of
mainstream in the 1970s.

Tate nevertheless continued to record regularly,
toured with the irrepressible swing trumpeter Buck
Clayton and kept himself in the public eye by
preserving a Basie-influenced small-group music that
was affectionately received by every kind of jazz
audience.

He also appeared with Jay MacShann, the
bandleader in whose outfit the young Charlie Parker's
tentative bop experiments were first heard, and with
trombonist Al Grey, a musician with much of Tate's
own relaxed grace and lyricism.

Tate was badly scalded in an accident in 1981, but
returned to playing through the 80s - sometimes with
a hard-swinging ensemble also featuring the driving
blues-influenced tenorist Illinois Jacquet and called
the Texas Tenors.

=95 Buddy (George Holmes) Tate, saxophonist, born
February 22 1913; died February 10 2001
=3D=3D=3D
From Variety --
LEWIS ARQUETTE
By VARIETY STAFF

Actor and comedian Lewis Arquette, father of actors Rosanna, Richmond,
Patricia, Alexis and David, died of congestive heart failure Saturday
at the UCLA Medical Center. He was 65.

Lewis, the son of comic Cliff (Charley Weaver) Arquette, was born in
Chicago and began his theatrical career on Broadway before returning to
Chicago as a regular at the famed Second City.

His reputation as a stellar improvisational actor lead him to
Hollywood, where he amassed a list of television and film credits that
include roles in pics "Waiting for Guffman," "Scream 2" and "Johnny Got
His Gun." He appeared in several movies as recently as last year,
including "Little Nicky" and "Best in Show."

His numerous television appearances included a multi-episode run
on "The Waltons" in the 1970s, as well as stints on "Matlock" in
the '80s and "L.A. Law" in the '90s.

In addition to his five children, Arquette is survived by a brother and
sister as well as two grandchildren.
=3D=3D=3D=3D
Singer Joan Baez has cancelled her domestic and international concert
tours to be with her younger sister Mimi Farina, who is suffering from
advanced lung cancer.

Mimi was widowed at the age of 21 when her husband and performing
partner Richard Farina was killed in a motorcycle accident on the eve
of the publication of his now cult-classic "Been Down So Long Looks
Like Up to Me."  Mimi and Richard Farina made 2 albums together before
Richard's death.

Mimi established BREAD AND ROSES, a donation-funded San
Francisco-based organization which brought music and entertainment to
institutionalized people.  BREAD AND ROSES recently celebrated its
25th anniversary, but Mimi was too ill to take part fully in the
festivities.

The blue-eyed black-haired Mimi was often introduced to audiences by
her sister Joan as "my outrageously beautiful sister..."

There is a book coming out in March or so about the early uneasy
relationship between Baez and Bob Dylan, and Richard and Mimi Farina.




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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 23:36:57 -0500
From: Paul Wages <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Don Tiare @ www.emusic.com

I've been downloading legit MP3s off of emusic.com the last day or two
(they're running a 30 day free trial on their "unlimited" service right
now), and was suprised to find Don Tiare's "The Music Of Les Baxter" album.
I'm curious as to rather this corresponds with an actual CD re-issue.  I had
never heard of one...

I'm not familiar with all of the Baxter tracks covered here, but I have a
feeling something is out of sequence;  The "Quiet Village" file seems to
contain two tracks, while "Qua Bir Hackeim" is 18 seconds of silence.
Anyone care to comment?

Other exotica-related stuff available at emusic:

Korla Pandit ("Odyssey"/"Exotica 2000"), Arthur Lyman ("Pearly Shells"), and
Les Baxter ("African Blue/Colors Of Brazil").  Also Cal Tjader, Edmundo Ros,
Ted Heath, Ennio Morricone, Goblin, and others.

Hope this info is of use to someone...

Paul





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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:45:56 -0800
From: "basic hip" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) basic hip

Colleen asked:

>>I would like to know who
everyone is also, but was too afraid to ask<<

OK, let's go back to the beginning.  I've been around since the early days -
1994 maybe?  jack diamond turned me onto the list and his KFJC show was the
main influence for my exotica foundation.  Those Incredibly Strange books
and CD's along with the first Esquivel comps pretty much got me hooked.

I've seen many come and go - and come back again.  Otto, Xanadu, the Spy
jazz guy.  Didn't we have two Kevin Kings at one time?  King Kini.  My
favorite, bottom feeder Jessica, queen of the thrifts.  The mod, Jordana.
jack of course, who, by the way, I know quite well and, lemme tell ya, he is
a big pussycat.  check out his show on Luxuria, newbies.  Sundays at 10am.

I've never been much of a poster.  I rarely give an opinion or challange one
and generally just reply to requests for information only when I'm 99.9%
sure of the facts.  I really admire Alan's ability to write and express
himself.  Email goes in cycles for me, most of the time, I just skim and
delete and find it hard to sit down and type.  That's why it sometimes takes
me a week to reply to a yes or no question!  But I do like to think that I
(eventually) get back to people when I say i will.  That's why, Sean
Pearman, you can expect a goodie in your mailbox soon.

Jack and Will (Show and Tell Music) are the only two list (ex?) members I've
met and spent time with - oh, I had breakfast with Preston (Vinyllives!)
Peek when he visited San Francisco.  He used to be on the list.  I live in
the SF Bay Area - just north in Marin County.  Also here in Marin is Mickey
McGowan.  I've been to his bunker in San Rafael - oh me gosh, whatta
collection.  You have to see it to believe it.  My collection is actually
quite small.  You'd be surprised.

I'm in my early 40's, married, guiltlessly childfree - much to the
disappointment of my inlaws.

I love records and put up with CD's, but love records.  to me, it's just
more fun with records, going thru the ritual of slipping a record out of the
sleeve, wiping it clean, manually placing the tonearm onto the lead in
grooves.  looking for them, finding them.  The only CD's that mean anything
to me are the ones I've traded for with other listees.  And Manhattan
Research, or the Fanderson Supercar / Fireball XL5 scores and library
tracks.  Maybe a couple more.  :)

I'm not into the club scene at all, we are usually in bed by 9:30, we don't
drink.  So I am much more inclined to hit delete when I see "tiki news"
opposed to somebody's play list.

I'm not into the new stuff, although Combustible Edison was an important
part of the early days.  I recall hearing carnival of souls on a Sub Pop
freebie and being fascinated.  Breaking out of our rut, we did see them at
Bimbos 365 club a few years ago.  I bought Tipsy, Don Tiki and Dimitri, but
they have all been traded in.  i have a bunch of Martin Denny and Les Baxter
records, but rarely play them.  but I would never part with them either.  I
still don't get The Free Design.  What am I missing?

Somewhere along the way, I decided I was going to collect whistling records.
Actually, I did not decide, it just happened.  Fred Lowery, Muzzy
marcellino, Ralph Platt, Art Coates, I could go on and on.  But nobody wants
me to, that's the trouble.  My interest in whistlers springboarded me into a
related category, actual bird sounds with musical accompaniment.  So, I've
got a bunch of this stuff and even took a crack at writing an artical for
cool and strange music magazine.  I did have a whistling web site up - I'm
not sure if it is still around.  I suppose I am the list's resident expert
on whistling records.  The thing is, they never come up, nobody ever asks.
the fact is, there are quite a few darn good ones out there, many with
exotic and space age pop tunes and Fred Lowery really was quite a
significant star in his day.

I'm getting tired now.

I love soundtracks too.  No particular type - just as long as it's late
50's, 60s or early 70's.  i'm stuck in the sixties, man.  no particular
type, groovy, sci-fi, comedy, secret agents, anything except musicals.  Not
that musicals aren't great.  I love Henry Mancini.  And Kenyon Hopkins.
John Barry's The Wrong Box was a real dud - but That Darn cat was one of the
nicest surprises I ever came across.  I find it hard to believe that the
score to In Cold Blood is not readily available but you can get Me, Myself
and Irene anywhere.

60s radio commercials issued only to stations - i love those.

"Outsider" music appeals to me - incorrect stuff.  Strange without trying to
be strange.  A sincere effort that is a little off.  Like Gordon Thomas.

Live365 webcasts are up for those with DSl or cable connections - more on
those later...

I'm really tired now...

I'm ford, that's my name, but I rarely close with a signature...basic hip
comes from a track on a beatnik record, how to speak hip....Colleen I'll
send ya a CD-R of a couple of hard-to-find exotica titles as a welcome, you
strike me as a very nice person...

My longest post ever...i'll save it and use it again in three years..

I love movies too.  I'll watch Waiting For Guffman ten times, or American
Movie, or American Job, but sleep thru Titanic.

Gotta hit send now or I just wasted an hour

you asked...

*click*




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