Don't forget - starting tomorrow, it's a Movies about Movies blogathon, at the Goatdog blog.
UPDATE: Goatdog's main blogathon page.
Elsewhere - Ted Pigeon looks back at the films of 2007.
Bioscope looks at the history of Kinemacolor - part of its series on color (since they're British, I guess that's colour), and other things.
Screengrab takes a look at the 20 best animated films.
Spoutblog looks at some underrated fictional music.
East Bay View lists his favorite jazz records since 1970 - and before 1970. It's making me think about my own interest in jazz. I have an odd history with jazz - didn't listen to it much at all until the early 90s, though what I did hear I liked, though I didn't quite get - then - I went to New Orleans n the fall of 91, spend a couple nights wandering around Bourbon street mostly popping in and out of jazz bars, came home and decided to listen to Louis Armstrong and was, more or less immediately, completely converted. I listened to jazz, and almost nothing but, for the next five years - almost systematically, though tending to radiate out from Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker and Coltrane, moving forward through time - until, mid-90s, I'd reached fusion. Sonny Sharrock and Electric Miles and John McLaughlin - and that led back to rock... to Richard Thompson, specifically, but then, to everything else. Since then, jazz has mostly been on the back burner, except for where it meets avant garde guitar players... Saw Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue this weekend - documentary about Miles Davis and electric jazz, with his performance at the Isle of Wight the centerpiece: boy oh boy, but I like that stuff... I don't know where this comment is going really, but it might lead to a video...
It might lead to a meme - Samurai Frog offers up an iTunes game - iTunes as magic 8 ball, really. Basically:
1. Put your iTunes/ music player on Shuffle
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must put down the song name no matter what.
That might lead somewhere too.
Though not before noting - fafblog's The Medium Lobster has a new gig!
And now? Since I've stopped doing the Friday Random Tens, I haven't posted much of anything about music. Alas! Miles and company can rectify that - this being a performance of "Ife" from 1973. Broken in two - part one:
And Part Two, which is where things really get me: right now, my jazz world really revolves around Pete Cosey, who lets it rip on 12-strong here....
And good night - and see you at the movies about movies blogathon!
2 comments:
Okay, that video is pretty much the coolest thing I've seen all week. Miles from outer space, almost. You know, seeing and hearing this reminds me how he could be as nuanced and sensitive with a wah-wah pedal as he could with an open horn. Also, a twelve-string is difficult to play, but Cosey sure makes it look easy.
Thanks for posting this.
And Miles is always so tight with the rhythms of the songs - every note is right where it belongs... great stuff.
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