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Grrr, too much to think about here. Some not mentioned, off the top of my head: James Jamerson - Motown session player, mindblowing, foundational, defined the instrument Charles Mingus - needs no introduction Charlie Haden - played with Ornette and Metheny, for starters Deborah Scroggins - ESG...

You may as well start where the genre did, i.e., with Charlie Parker. Any of the early recordings from the 1940s on Savoy or Dial. Numerous live recordings from the late 1940s and early 1950s, often performing with others (e.g., Dizzy). Also check the legendary Benedetti bootlegs on Mosaic...

Ah yes, interesting point, Francesco. The intersection of new technology, new levels of performance expertise, and the lust for myths and old lands seems especially to apply to Gentle Giant, with all of their pseudo-Renaissance musical stylings ("Knots," "On Reflection," "In a Glass House" )...

Not really sure what you mean, there are loads and loads of 'weird folk' people into electronics, animal collective and that bunch, jackie o motherfucker, and on and on. I saw jackie o' last spring and they were full into fusing electronics, folk, 'gospel,' noise, etc. There's tons about and I...

With all due respect to hamarplazt and francesco, I find the suggestion that Yes were sonically 'alien' or futuristic very hard to swallow. Exhibit number one: Steve Howe, whom I consider to be one of the un-grooviest, un-funkiest, and most ham-handed guitarists in the history of recorded...

I take your point but in the interest of history, let's keep the facts straight. Bosnia *was* left to its own devices for three years, or more precisely, to Serbia and Croatia's devices, from 1992-1995, during which period an estimated 200,000 people died at the hands of the Yugoslav and...

Good question, cyst. I've always wondered if there were any way to quantify the influence of blogs and message boards on album sales, and if there were, who has that knowledge and what are they doing with it? My suspicion would be that any attempt to measure message board influence would be...

Out of curiosity, how much time have you spent in "impoverished rural environments throughout the U.S."?

Thank you, Francesco. Actually, earlier this evening I went back and checked your threads on doom metal and black metal. Quite intriguing! As for your link to the "prog metal" page, yes, I know those bands all too well. I saw the grace under pressure tour as a boy and remember when the...

Out of curiosity, what bands do you have in mind? The drone/doom strand of Sunn0))), Khanate, Isis, Pelican, Jesu, Neurosis, etc? I'm genuinely curious, b/c my metal listening ended sometime around the release of master of puppets, though I've been checking all of the so-called newer drone...

Do you mean the July 7 2004 Prestige mix?

Not sure if this will help, but as far as online versions go, there's a german translation here, though you will need to scroll down to p. 84 of the pdf file to find the beginning of the article (even if you don't read german, you can still check the translation for length, references [there are...

He did give the book's title (Flyboy in the Buttermilk) in the post just above the one from which you quoted: If anyone is interested, the book was published in 1992 by Simon and Schuster, and is 270 pages. Paul, if your library doesn't have a copy, I could have a photocopy of the book made...

What a fickle and uncharitable response imho. "Pretentious twaddle"? I would have thought that the article practically reads like a compilation of dissensus views. The sentence about mixing was a bit silly, I agree, but at least the author tried to take the majority of his language from a...

(1) If you look closely at the origins of most genres, I think that you will find that there was a 'fusion' of influences. It was certainly true of jazz and blues, and early rock 'n roll, and so on into the night. I don't think that 'jazz fusion' was anymore a 'fusion' of styles than say house...

Return of the Rogue was released at the end of Nov 2005, so yeah I'd say it was basically this year. :) Not broken beat but a few artists sometimes mentioned in relation: Marc Mac's It's Right to be Civil came out this year. Each track constructed around vocal samples and snippets taken from...

I think I know where you will be Saturday evening, mms - that show looks big! :) Unfortunately I won't be able to make it down to the webster hall gig but am planning to catch Jamie and !!! the night before at hamilton college upstate. Fwiw, Friday night @ 11:00 DJ Clever is hosting a night...

dwele's remix of Ty's "Wait a Minute" is lush nu-soul business

You lost me there, and I have no idea why you referred to me, or what you are asking. In the post above, I simply asked tatarsky for the page number of the paragraph he quoted from the Halliwell book on Badiou - a reasonable request, given the fact that the book is 467 pages. In any case, I...

The new Mission of Burma documentary, This is Not a Photograph, is fantastic.