Great tune, I just missed out on this one
on the new (not nu) tip
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Mr Soul Supreme doing nice things with his version of Raid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJIYws4wPWI
Just good
The sound of musicians experiencing pure joy with complete freedom. A little challenging in places.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ6lB7FKxi8
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Just over 10 years ago when I was in university I had a jazz radio show at my college radio station (WTBU). It was on on Sunday afternoons and the station was mainly played on the university closed channel TV, online, and in some of the university buildings, so not a huge audience. Still, it was great to play and talk about some jazz for a couple of hours every week.
Once I played the title track off this LP on a Free Jazz themed show on one particular Sunday, and suddenly, someone called into the station. I was very excited about this since no one ever called into my show. Lo and behold, the gentleman on the other line was a different kind of excited than me: “What the hell is this noise? It’s hard enough I’m working on a Sunday trying to correct some student papers and it sounds like a pet shop is on fire! Turn this crap off!”
I couldn’t help but laugh, and suggest that he change the channel, knowing full well that was probably not possible, and that he probably would have to endure some more crazy dying animal music for the remainder of the show time.
Several years later I was offered another radio show here in São Paulo at another university station (this time not as a student, though) and when they asked me what I wanted to call it I did not hesitate before telling them: Call it ‘Pet Shop on Fire’
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Just wanna leave this here because it’s easy to post albums and all that, but there are some truly fantastic musicians still making amazing music and it’s worth seeing them whenever possible. These are 4 legends of the Jazz scene (George Garzone and John Lockwood are 2/3 of the famous Fringe Trio with Luther Gray now having inherited the drum chair after his death last year, so this is basically Fringe +1) Fantastic music.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynA9C2LNgX8
Great performance by a great band. Nice to leave on while doing house chores & such…
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Bill is a real hero of mine—can move through styles and different groups effortlessly. He lived here in Seattle for a while—great guy. Played a solo gig at our friends’s place a few years ago (pic below) which was a dream. Last live concert we saw before lockdown was him with Petra Hayden and they ended with Skeeter Davis’s “End of the World”…well, it was!
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He really is one of the all time greats. So much of his music is sneakily challenging, and I was really surprised to learn he turned 70(!) this year. His music seems sort of timelessly young.
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Love this, never heard of him before…
Wooden hut with door left open few millions hanging on the walls, assuming the are real De Kooning’s?
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He definitely represents what my friend and I call the “Rick Moranis downtown guy”, an under-explorer type of dude in the art scene. No outrageous outfits or outward subcultural trappings but always at knitting factory or bang on the can functions or perusing the racks of Zorn at Downtown Music Gallery or having a cup of box wine at an opening.
These guys used to be everywhere and I miss them and much prefer them to the constantly performative asshats of the present day. It’s okay just to be a guy in a button up shirt who likes art.
Feel the Moranis vibes…
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Bet he’s not got an Insta account…
Sadly Asshats seem to have invaded everywhere round these parts, literally can’t go anywhere.
Great to hear something out of my limited/blinkered sphere. Last Jazz record I bought was Bitches Brew about 35 years ago.
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I ride very hard for this record:
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Ever hear Power Tools? How Frisell managed to get Ronald Shannon Jackson to play Unchained Melody and even kind of sound restrained is a testament to his Moranisness hahah
Fantastic group. This is what they more commonly sounded like. Also, one of the all time greatest track names and weirdly fitting to this day:
Let’s not forget he was also the guitar player in a trio led by GINGER FUCKIN BAKER
That clip above is pretty much the most you’ll ever see the man smile…
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Artwork is by John Little, a De Koonig contemporary.
Despite the wooden hut aesthetic, this concert happened during the summer at the Hamptons, so the artwork is very much real and very much expensive…
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