Before I decide to sell or trade them, can anyone give me some insight on how to make sense of Joe Maneri? I have the Blessed and Tale Of Rhonlief CD's, and I'm pretty much baffled. Thanks! <BR>
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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:13:51 EST
From: Dgasque@aol.com
Subject: Re: Erstwhile Berne's Frisell
In a message dated 1/12/02 8:56:05 AM Eastern Standard Time,
mwoodwor@is2.dal.ca writes:
<< 3. I'm surprised that more people didn't put the Frisell/Holland/Jones
collab.
in their top discs for last year - while admittedly it vears dangerously
close
to 'elevator material' on a few occassions - all three play so well, and
they
seem to be having so much fun playing together, I'm just surprised to it was
absent from almost everyone's year-end lists. >>
I picked this one up out of a discount rack. It's nice to hear him get out
of the "Americana" thing and back into a jazz setting. I'd label it
"pleasant", but definitely *not* top o' the year stuff.
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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:12:09 -0600
From: George Ahmadi <gahmadi@housing.ou.edu>
Subject: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
I just wanted to let everyone know about a Tulsa trio that I have known for
a number of years. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey has been touring the country for
over 4 years spreading their improvisation. They just finished a tour with
Charlie Hunter from Texas to a spread of the west coast. They have several
albums, one which is on Accurate. If you've never heard of them, please do
so and check out www.jfjo.com. Lots of music, lots and lots and lots.
much peace,
kasra
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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:33:35 -0800
From: "Chris Selvig" <mmlselvig@hotmail.com>
Subject: Plunderphonics
"Again; anyone can sample a bunch of riffs, hooks, excerpts, sounds, etc; it
takes skill to put them all together into something coherent (instead of
Oswald's "just throwing them all together" approach)." - If I may be a bit
presumptuopus about John Oswald's intent, I think it is important to
recognize that Oswald's intent is not to create pop-song or danceable
"pastiche," but rather to use familiar sonic elements as compositional
building blocks. The Plexure CD's beats steadily accelerate over the course
of 32 minutes, and the probability of this happening randomly is
infinitessimally small. That said, the joy of Oswald's music is more
conceptual - I think I said this on this list before: I enjoyed the liner
notes of 69/96 more than the music. I did not get my hands on the first
Plunderphonics CD, but I know Plexure and the Plunderphonics Rubaiyat CD
were both pretty short, I wonder if part of the problem with 69/96 is that
listening to plunderphonics is fatiguing.
On a realted note, John Wall is the guy recently profiled in the Wire who
does plunderphonics-type work with contempo classical sources, right? I'm
intrigued, especially given Mr Wall's big mouth, but I'd like to hear
opinions from people who are familiar with his records.
