Comments on: MUSIC: Elegance

By: Chuck vs. Macleans

Chuck vs. Macleans — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:00:48 +0000

5-0 took a epic lost this week. 156,000 in sales, Jimmy Iovine had to step in and make billboard for the first time in history included ditigel sales. So dude only hit 115000.

50 is done in the music industry…..

By: tigerinexile

tigerinexile — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:24:33 +0000

Fiddy Cent…

By: Herb

Herb — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:21:38 +0000

It certainly is bouncier than a Brahms trio, but it does not soothe my savage breast.

By: kcm

kcm — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:42:34 +0000

That was great PW A pity i'm such a jazz illiterate…more of a blues guy i guess. Although i did once catch this guy at the quasimodo in Berlin…one of the great concert experiences in my life. Not sure if he's your cup of tea?
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21 Oct 2009 … Airto Moreira (born August 5, 1941) is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. Airto is married to jazz singer Flora Purim, …
Sublime experience.
The only thing close was catching John Hammond in a little underground club in Edmonton one winter. Great city for blues…well it was…hope it still is.

By: madeyoulook

madeyoulook — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:05:50 +0000

It is entirely unfair to these artists that you would even attempt to showcase them on a day that we celebrate the online revival of the Muppets. Remind me not to hire you as a talent agent. For two reasons: you'd make a lousy agent, and I have no talent. Ba-dum.

By: shouldIsellyourwheat

shouldIsellyourwheat — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:43:36 +0000

I've been to New York once in my life. I went to see the Tragically Hip in Central Park on Canada Day in 2000. A triple bill of Jeff Healey, Great Big Sea, and the Hip actually. Later that night, I went to CBGB's where Sarah Harmer was opening for Chris Brown and Kate Fenner.

The next night, I wandered down to a jazz club in midtown near the hotel I was staying at. I think it was called The Jazz Standard. The Tommy Flanagan trio was playing.

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:34:50 +0000

You can tell the real talented jazz players apart when their music is ageless and doesn't seem to be coming from any particular time. In this piece I'm detecting a faint late '70 tinge but it could just as well be inspired by a Charleston and still fit right in with modern day jazz.

*sigh* I wish that in my youth I'd had more jazz and less pop.

By: DLee

DLee — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:34:22 +0000

D'oh! I purchased the Complete Original Recordings before reading this. I won't be disappointed I'm sure.

By: Chuck vs. Macleans

Chuck vs. Macleans — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:21:38 +0000

Wow, that was awesome, great post. You are sleeping Paul, on your music post…

As a young lad who grew up on rap I really love these types of post. The depth that the rap world sampled from jazz and other music during the 80's and 90's is unreal….

By: Orson Bean

Orson Bean — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:17:59 +0000

Thanks very much PW. I'd always been aware of Flanagan as a backup man, but not a front man. As a backup man, BTW I love him and some other oldsters when they back up Dusko Goykovich (one of the best "School of Miles" trumpeters I've ever run across) in his album Soul Connection. If you're not aware of it, I recommend it: http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/149...

By: Chuck vs. Macleans

Chuck vs. Macleans — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:17:01 +0000

Jay-Z is the new Sinatra…

By: Inkless

Inkless — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:41:18 +0000

Yes. Or Nights at the Vanguard, by a nose among many fine late albums, if you want to hear him in his sunset years. Mostly because I can't believe how subtly and well Al Foster, a more modern drummer with a very particular style, fit into Flanagan's conception. And because the program on Nights gives you a good indication of the broad array of styles and arrangements Flanagan could throw at you.

OK, looks like I'm saying No, go for Nights at the Vanguard if you're only getting one.

By: Orson Bean

Orson Bean — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:35:52 +0000

So PW, if you were to recommend one Tommy Flanagan disc for the uninitiated, would it be that Complete Original Recordings one that you linked to?

By: SisyphusThis

SisyphusThis — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:04:37 +0000

Brings back an old memory. Back in the early 70's I was working a midnight to morning job
while taking a few university courses. During those clear hours I could pick up a jazz show out
of Rochester ( Harry Abraham, I think ). The only jazz that leaked into NS in those days.
Anyway, one night he had an "identify this player" contest. By blind dumb luck I made a stab
at Flanagan and won. ( my fall-back was Cedar Walton , which would have been another wild guess).
A couple of weeks later I received a stack of LPs as my prize. Still have a couple .. Roland Kirk and the
Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band.
I'm not sure if the boss ever noticed the call to Rochester on the phone bill or not.
Thanks … for the memories.

By: Inkless

Inkless — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:59:55 +0000

No, that would be Sinatra.

By: Big Dave S

Big Dave S — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:56:27 +0000

Rich. But can he mastermind a gradual and hidden shift of the country to the right?

By: SeanStok

SeanStok — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:54:21 +0000

Very nice! I enjoyed Mraz as much Flanagan.