Jazz

[madupont]

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/16/lenny-kravitz-dr-john-allen-toussaint-headline-gulf-aid-to

I quite frankly do not where to put this piece at the neglect of some other facet, but I am not going to put it in the Science/Ecology section because hardly anybody contributes there at present but I thought it best to start with the musicians themselves who got this together and what their strong feelings are and have always been.

Gintaras, I'm sure you are familiar with Toussaint's music, I wanted badly to scoot some of it over here from FLYP when they covered a diverse topic but you can only call attention by actual e-mail to a person who may not yet have subscribed but maybe you already did and caught the music?

This article of course belongs just as much in Television forum re: Treme; as it does about an unfortunate fact little known about a movie-maker back when.

[Gintaras]

Unfortunately, this forum won't let you embed youtube videos, but last night I was carried away by the sound of Renaud Garcia Fons on Mezzo,



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXt6htVi3C4

[Gintaras]

Thanks for the link, maddy.  Not sure how Kravitz fits in, but sounds like a lot of good music for a good cause.

[madupont]

Thanks for the link, maddy.  Not sure how Kravitz fits in, but sounds like a lot of good music for a good cause.

He's an organizer:Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer- songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arranger whose "retro" ... etc.

Leonard Albert Kravitz fits in that niche group sort of like Leonard Cohen as a bonafide Buddhist meditator. Dig the names.

[Lhoffman]

http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/07/interview-harvey-pekar-on-jazz/59601/

[Lhoffman]

Start about 1:02   Pekar onstage at Oberlin with Leave Me Alone!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA3qZWw9DiA

[madupont]

http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/07/interview-harvey-pekar-on-jazz/59601/

Thank god, he liked the music written for his opera !; it does have sufficient jazz influences to please his aesthetic sense. Incidentally, I did know Lee Morgan; 33 is much too young an age to become deceased.

[Gintaras]

Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5jFPrx51Dc

[madupont]

Thanks! Dzimas

[Lhoffman]

Yes, Thank you Gintaras.   The Twilight Mist is nice, too.

[madupont]

Gintaras,

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100723/music_nm/us_france_jarreau


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAPd_FMvr7E

[Lhoffman]

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/aug/02/how-my-father-came-meet-duke-ellington/

[bodiddley]

Abbey Lincoln left the planet in her spaceship headed for another sphere.
Singer, actress, activist.  Interesting life.

I saw her once at, appropriately enough, Lincoln Center.
Think that was 1989, before I really got to know her work well.

For her later mature work, I'd rec Devil's Got Your Tongue (1993) in which she re-interprets some of her earlier work.  Probably the Abbey Lincoln I listen tot he most.  And the recent Abbey Lincoln Sings Abbey from 2007 is a similar concept except with rather different instrumentation, featuring some fine guitar work.

I'd have to give a look through to pick out my favorite of her late 50's albums.
Her fourth album Abbey is Blue 1959 springs to mind.

[madupont]

Abbey Lincoln left the planet in her spaceship headed for another sphere.
Singer, actress, activist.  Interesting life.

I saw her once at, appropriately enough, Lincoln Center.
Think that was 1989, before I really got to know her work well.

For her later mature work, I'd rec Devil's Got Your Tongue (1993) in which she re-interprets some of her earlier work.  Probably the Abbey Lincoln I listen tot he most.  And the recent Abbey Lincoln Sings Abbey from 2007 is a similar concept except with rather different instrumentation, featuring some fine guitar work.

I'd have to give a look through to pick out my favorite of her late 50's albums.
Her fourth album Abbey is Blue 1959 springs to mind.

Hi,Bo
           I can see why, from the photo included, they compared her to Billie for her looks, since she then resembled Billie pretty much. Billie's face became a bit more boxier in time.  I did not know her well, but was friends with her piano accompaniest,Mal Waldron, in the same period of time that I knew Max about four years before they married. My mentor had a pretty big crush on Abbey. They had Chicago in common.

Sorry to have to tell you, Gintaras/Dzimas is not here.  We miss him. But he wandered off one day with a passel of our most intelligent posters (although we have one or two left, maybe even three), in rebellion against the more usual sort. I could not pick up the tracks of his dialogue in those places he has frequented prior to his taking off.

[bodiddley]

I never thought they looked much alike.
Abbey Lincoln had strong bone structure.

She did model herself on Billie Holiday somewhat, and even released two albums interpreting Holiday material in the late 70's.  Unfortunately, I always thought that was some of the least interesting Lincoln.  Maybe I'll go back and re-listen and re-assess, but it never caught my ear.

Sounds like madu ought to be writing memoirs.
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