Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it. You must absorb most of it. The harmonies within the music can relax, soothe and uplift the mind when you concentrate upon and absorb it. Jazz music stimulates the minds and uplifts the souls of those who play it was well as of those who listen to immerse themselves in it. As the mind is stimulated and the soul uplifted, this is eventually reflected in the body.
6/24/2012 - Video
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Live 1998 - Full Show (by vacantmoon)
6/21/2012 - Quote
Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.
6/20/2012 - Photo
Spike Jonze & John Malkovich on the set of Being John Malkovich
6/20/2012 - Photo
Wilco Songbook is a must have for fans. I’m having a blast playing songs from this anthology. The 152-page songbook features easy arrangements for piano/guitar. It includes 27 songs from Wilco’s first five albums - AM, Being There, Summerteeth, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and A Ghost is Born.
http://wilco.kungfustore.com/category/29-books/product/332-wilco-songbook-wil03
6/20/2012 - Photo
(Source: flowerscrackconcrete)
6/8/2012 - Audio
‘Straight, No Chaser’ by Thelonious Monk
The Thelonious Monk Quartet with Charlie Rouse lasted eleven years. October 31st and November 1st, 1964 at the It Club in Los Angeles were just two more nights out of thousands for them, except when it comes to Monk, there were no ordinary nights.
Rouse in his sixth year with Monk had hit his stride, truly becoming Monk’s musical alter ego. Remarkably, drummer Ben Riley had joined the quartet at the beginning of 1964 and bassist Larry Gales had only logged in a month at the time of this taping; yet they already show the first signs of collective greatness on these evenings.
Monk was at a particular high point pianistically during this gig; in fact, he went into a Los Angeles studio and recorded the album ‘Solo Monk’ on the afternoons preceding and following the live taping.
Thelonious Monk - Piano
Charlie Rouse - Tenor Saxophone
Larry Gales - Bass
Ben Riley - Drums
5/23/2012 - Audio
Baby, courtesy of Mick Jagger’s voice.
It’s 33 “baby”s in 40 seconds. I obviously didn’t put every “baby” Mick has ever said, but press play and deal with it.
(via the-crunge)
5/19/2012 - Link
Jöe-ôn'-nä: Getty Research Institute Plans Massive Online Portal for Art History Texts
From GalleristNY.com and written by Andrew Russeth
Almost 20,000 art history texts will soon be a few clicks away for anyone using the Internet. The Getty Research Institute announced that on May 31 it will launch the Getty Research Portal, a search engine of sorts to the digitized content of…
5/19/2012 - Audio
Love/Arthur Lee/Baby Lemonade – ”Feathered Fish”
I love how the guitar solo gets punched out in the mix. Actually, I love just about everything about this recording.
Information on it is scarce, conflicting and mostly officially disavowed. Best guess is that this was a song written by Arthur Lee for Love, which he instead gave to Sons Of Adam, which had the effect of causing Sons Of Adam drummer Michael Stuart to defect to the Love camp shortly thereafter. Then nearly twenty years pass. In 1994 Lee records the above version with Baby Lemonade, who were Love whenever Lee wasn’t doing some hurt piece for the State of California. It’s put on on a 7” in 1996 by Italian bootleg label LSD Records as compensation owed the label by Lee for a previous project. Later, the track surfaced on the comprehensive boot “Black Beauty & Rarities.”
For those wondering about the other tracks on the 7”, “It’s The Marlin, Baby” was a 1964 track from Lee’s then group, The American Four, and “Gethsemene” is a short remix of Love’s “The Red Telephone” mostly played backwards.
Sons Of Adam – “Feathered Fish” via YouTube
5/7/2012 - Photo
White Stripes + Captain Beefheart
”’Party of Special Things to Do’ is a song by Captain Beefheart from the album Bluejeans & Moonbeams which was covered and released as a 7” single by Detroit, Michigan garage rock band The White Stripes. The White Stripes’ 7” record also contains two other covers of Captain Beefheart…The recording was released in December 2000 as part of the Sub Pop Singles Club in a limited edition pressing of 1,300 records on half red, half white vinyl.
“‘Party of Special Things to Do’ will be reissued by Third Man Records in early 2011 as a part of their Vault subscription service. The limited edition 7” record will be pressed as a tri-color record in equal parts red, black, and white” (wikipedia.org).
5/4/2012 - Photo
The New Pornographers
