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Mole

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  1. They only let you slip away out of kindness, I suppose.
  2. Has it been discussed elsewhere what’s up with the MAGA Gig’em thumbs up thing?
  3. I thought the tongue-in-cheek comment was more apparent than it apparently was. My apologies. One of the great and most inventive musical geniuses of the 20th century collaborating with one of the great and inventive orchestrators of the 20th century is like finding out that Beethoven and Berlioz got together for a couple of symphonies. A lot of it doesn't feel like jazz as we'd usually think of it, but it's something amazing and beautiful.
  4. Your Gil Evans opinion is bad and you should feel bad about it. The range of colors that Gil Evans found on those recordings were amazing. Post 1980s Miles often feels like Miles was more interested in being cool than in making great music. Of course, that time period also gave us this great bit of awkwardness. There's a great moment where Miles interrupts to ask who the organ player is only to discover a teenage Joey DeFrancesco. Joey was touring with Miles a few months later. It happens around 32:30. Christian McBride is on bass too, so it's a pretty great house band.
  5. I friend of mine has very stereotypically Black sounding first name. I knew him by that name for years until he got a fancy corporate gig in the financial sector. Shortly before he got that gig, he started going by his middle name. He made a business decision that being seen as too black wasn't in his interest. It seems to have been a lucrative choice for him. I have to question the decision making capabilities of corporations that would frame these issues in terms of too much whiteness. I understand these discussions going on in academia or the broader public sphere, but a company doing this while trying to sell disgusting drinks seems dumb. I avoid getting offended by proxy about stupid things so I don't really care about the video, but I wonder what the future holds for LinkedIn and Coke. This thing won't hurt them all that much, but the fact that this happened isn't a positive sign of their keen business acumen.
  6. Any station that plays Toot Suite regularly is alright by me. Pre-pandemic, their Saturday programming was always a good, fun listen. It doesn’t really translate to the remote world. Weekday NPR is incessant in its NPRness and that can be a beating after a while. Some issues are race issues; some are poverty issues; some are both. Healthcare and the pandemic might be both. On the other hand, portraying these issues as purely Black issues creates a space where the majority population can pretend that it isn’t their problem.
  7. A nationwide boycott of Coke seems like a really good public heath initiative.
  8. I'm not sure if this fits, because it sounds like every song at once, but John Oswald:
  9. Can’t forget Harry Partch. He certainly fits this thread. The documentaries about his music might be more interesting than his music. He made his own instruments dividing the octave into 43 unequally tempered notes and acted as his own publishing company, mailing out records to fans. It’s hard listening, like the music the lizard people might make, but it’s worth a little time.
  10. Written one year prior to the Rite of Spring. I’ll direct your attention to about 1:55 in particular. I’m not saying that Stravinsky stole that lick, but it’s the same thing. This will be my last Ives post, but for most of the interesting developments in the first half of the 20th century, Ives probably did it first. And how about some prepared piano? There were some precedents for the technique, but not much for what John Cage did.
  11. Ives singing his "They Are They!" is a fun time. And how about Daniel Johnston for the Texas connection?
  12. Ives did most of the things Stravinsky did before Stravinsky: Ornette Coleman's playing around 1:10 always gets me and is sort of a proof of concept of the expressive capabilities of free jazz: There were some pretty hip things happening in the late 14th century. Like things that seem 700+ years too early: Whatever you think of Schoenberg, every composer for a generation either had to copy him or intentionally not copy him. The Nazis labeled it degenerate music, which tells me that he was doing something pretty compelling:
  13. Eye'm just hear four the grammer smack-tok.
  14. That Miles picture tells so much of jazz history in a single look.
  15. In this conspiracy (?) world, what should google return instead of whatever it returned? Basically, if this is amazing, what would be the non-amazing result? Also, since this seems to be the appropriate place, why is it so hard to get to various league standings on ESPN.com on a computer? It’s easy on my phone, but the computer version of the website is so hard to navigate. I’ll be back with more questions as things float through my brain. This thread is a real service to our community.
  16. It’s funny to read about what seemed important before the chaos of the last year. I mean, it’s important, but so much absurd and terrible stuff has happened since then.
  17. I have an audio version read by Gilbert Godfrey that I can’t recommend.
  18. It’s been a tough year for musicians. I appreciate Ted’s entrepreneurial spirit in creating work for musicians.
  19. Motto-worthy.
  20. As opposed to do-your-own-research.
  21. For an art form that values innovation so much, there are sure a lot of cats hanging around that think jazz ended in the 1960s. It seems like most of them are writing books rather than playing music though. It’s weird, because Wynton is criticized for being backwards looking yet anything after 1970 is seen as new. It sometimes seems like there’s a very narrow window of acceptable jazz.
  22. There’s something fitting about this and Biden’s quick and apolitical response in contrast with the Republican response. So many Texans despise AOC and Biden yet they still do it because doing the right thing matters. The Republican response has been to lie and politicize this or in Ted’s case, just bail. And none of it will matter on the long run. It’s our current environment in condensed form. It’s normal, decent humanity vs. craven degeneracy.
  23. You should all be thanking Ted. When it’s so miserable, having someone so unlikable to focus your frustrations at can be cathartic. He’s given up himself as the comic book villain to take your minds off of the death and suffering that surrounds you. It’s really quite heroic and may be his greatest moment.
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