http://www.kungfunecktie.com

This is where the vinyl meet-ups happen - usually on Sunday afternoons.

Looks like fun, Kid

speaking of vinyl, & jazz, have you heard about this...development?

Newvelle Records

I'm not sure I'm a fan; it's a bit too precious for me, in more than one sense of the term

67 bucks per record is crazy

Houshphandzadeh wrote:67 bucks per record is crazy

you got that right

drsmooth wrote:The pressure's on Don Cheadle to get his Miles Davis movie in a box by 2011 (20th anniversary of Davis's death - seems impossible).

Hey Doc - Did you see it? Found it available on demand, began watching the first 5 min and got interrupted. It seemed a bit disjointed - fitting, perhaps, for Miles.

Worth the time to see it? I generally enjoy musical biopics, even some of the soapish ones - Buddy Holly, Loretty Lynn, Patsy Cline, Ray Charles, Richie Valens.

FWIW, I saw Miles in Philly, late 80s or early 90s. He played with his back to the audience, covered a Michael Jackson tune.

https://harpers.org/archive/2015/11/wil ... rg-bridge/

this is a cool story about a guy about to commit suicide of the Williamsburg Bridge, but he also talks about Sonny Rollins a lot in it.

TomatoPie wrote:
FWIW, I saw Miles in Philly, late 80s or early 90s. He played with his back to the audience, covered a Michael Jackson tune.

Very cool, TPie. For me the guy was more a force of nature than a musician - & he was a pretty fine musician

I haven't seen the movie and have totally corrupted my eventual intake by reading a slew of reviews, which are all over the lot. Plus I'm a big Cheadle fan, which only amplifies the distortion.


re: musical biopics, I feel like I'm in your boat on these - you mentioned at least 3 I've found myself re-watching without real intent: Coal Miner's Daughter (big Spacek fan, with Tommy Lee Jones - and Beverly D'Angelo! And Levon Helm! - as bonuses), Sweet Dreams (big Jessica Lange fan, big Cline/Owen Bradley fan, Ed Harris bonus), and even Gary Busey's Buddy Holly Story. I also really enjoyed the embroidered James Brown yarn, Get On Up - Chadwick Boseman's performance is 4-dimensional, and I liked how they handled Pee Wee Ellis's/Maceo Parker's influence in Brown's music; interviews with Parker suggest the moviemakers didn't completely defang the tension between Brown and his talented - & frequently disdainful - musicians

Oh but this HAS to happen:

Q+A: Idris Elba

[Mixmag]: You’ve played real-life figures like Nelson Mandela before, but is there anyone from the world of music you’d like to play?

[Elba]: Thelonious Monk.

Who plays Joni? She has to be in that pic

TomatoPie wrote:Who plays Joni? She has to be in that pic

que? Are you thinking Mingus?

I like to think I knew this before today, but contemporary jazz percussion god Ari Hoenig was raised in Philadelphia. Transcript of interview with him here

Here's his Arrows & Loops

drsmooth wrote:

TomatoPie wrote:Who plays Joni? She has to be in that pic

que? Are you thinking Mingus?

Geez yeah. Conflated the 2 giants with weird names.


http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainme ... ious-monk/

Saw La La Land yesterday.

Would be very easy to dismiss it due to its self-indulgence. Who really needs one more story of just how heart-wrenchingly hard it is to be an aspiring actress or musician? Let's see a series of auditions conducted by cruel people who can somehow be insensitive to all the struggling baristas looking for that big break.

What rescues the film, though, beyond the strong performance of the adorable Emma Stone, is the other plot, by which Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) pursues his old-school jazz purist ambitions. It could even serve to introduce real jazz to a broader audience; in one scene Sebastian explains to Mia (Stone) how the musicians are challenging each other within the tune.

TomatoPie wrote: It could even serve to introduce real jazz to a broader audience

You've probably come across at least one of the surprising number of reviews & commentary on this and other La La possibilities. You could title a compendium 50 Shades of La La Jazz.

I'm not a fan of Whiplash, but loved JK Simmons in it. Not sure I'd be a fan of LLL, but I love that director Chazelle appears to have a genuine affection for the music, if not a genuine feel for its pulse.

I hated this article discussing La-la Lands treatment of jazz, but liked the fact that it's one of the rare times when the comments are a lot more enlightening than the original piece.

Full disclosure: I haven't seen the film, but have seen some of the excerpts pertaining to jazz.

Wait, Don Cheadle plays Miles in something?

My closest friend back in Phila., was friends with Ryan Gosling for a while, they lost touch. He hung hard with him in NYC for a bit. I had no idea there was a sub-plot in LA LA about jazz? I don't like musicals - so... but if there is something worth nothing let me know?

Since the jazz-heads of BSG is a pretty small list - I'm going to offer/introduce a concept for those of who are down...

How bout once a week anyone who's in to jazz - simply post a "track of the week".

Since Slowhand asked me about Larry Coryell for some reason I started thinking about jazz guitarists and I remembered how it took me a few years to track a copy of this record down, as I had borrowed it from my jazz piano teacher at age 15 -- this is a duo of Bill Evans on piano and Jim Hall on jazz guitar...

I still every so often get in a mood for the Bill Evans thing... so this is my 'jazz track of the week' for first week of March 2017.

Over time, we can all get turned on to some new or classic stuff we may not have discovered yet on our own...

BTW - Smooth and others -- a guy named Horace Mansfield does a great jazz show on KPFA 94.1 on Saturday afternoons Calif. time, you can stream it online or use the TuneIn Radio App. Quality stuff played there. Another show called In You Ear with Art Sato follows and often has good jazz cuts as well.

I like your idea Kid, & your first choice is from a disc and by musicians that/who are big favorites of mine.

Here's the trailer for Cheadle's Miles Ahead, something he worked on since forever. It's been out for awhile, to middling reviews:



As for La La Land, it's not about jazz, but a main character - Gosling - is alleged to be about jazz, which a faction of 'serious' jazz fans has adjudged unfortunate. I understand that Gosling does mime at least one Monk number, Japanese Folk Song, early in the flick (it's on his car stereo & then he's seen/heard playing it)

The radio broadcast sounds good, will check out

drsmooth wrote:I like your idea Kid, & your first choice is from a disc and by musicians that/who are big favorites of mine.

Here's the trailer for Cheadle's Miles Ahead, something he worked on since forever. It's been out for awhile, to middling reviews:



As for La La Land, it's not about jazz, but a main character - Gosling - is alleged to be about jazz, which a faction of 'serious' jazz fans has adjudged unfortunate. I understand that Gosling does mime at least one Monk number, Japanese Folk Song, early in the flick (it's on his car stereo & then he's seen/heard playing it)

The radio broadcast sounds good, will check out

Trailer has me piqued, Don is the right guy for the role. I'll track this down. Want to see...

Sadly, I was too young to hear Miles in the late 50's to mid 60's. There was nothing really special for me after '67 but I did get to see him a couple times, I remember in particular '82 at the long defunct Kool Jazz Festival, he used a cordless mic on the horn, so it was hard to know where his chops were. What I do remember was this one loud guy yelling on and off 'wax 'em dewey, wax 'em" - I assumed Miles Dewey Davis was the Dewey and I was never 100% sure what "wax 'em" meant. A close friend and talented saxophonist was there that day too and we always talked about that guy yelling -- we still joke about it.

this is sort of jazz-ish news:

Henry Wu's Yussef Kamaal band denied entry to US, allegedly due to Trump travel ban