Yes, indeed. What I love about Maupin is that he's art-first, he never sweetens the pill, and that he played with Dolphy, Coltrane, and all my heroes. He also...
Nah, missed the game - but then I frequently sleep through entire night- fulls of incomprehensible American Football. They all seem to periodically run around...
Huh? Just kidding - lot's of points you made make sense and zero in on the age old difference between perfection and performance. Even among jazz and fusion...
He of the caste-iron hair? Who tells everyone who will listen that he's the commercially successful orchestral composer in the World? Who does long new age...
Indeed. That's a good way of putting it. Perfection - like a score that can never be perfectly performed - and performance, in this case improvisatory, that...
That should read MOST commercially successful (poppycock!) ... In all serious matters concerning music, art, and cross-cultural activities, contact: Mr....
I have always felt that way myself re: "Inner Mounting Flame" vs "Birds of Fire", because ".."Flame" was just so explosive and extreme. MY poor brain has...
pete
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Nov 1, 2007 6:08 pm
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McLaughlin has released the album "Official Pirate" as a digital download through Abstract Logix. It's a collection of 8 live tracks from various stops on his...
So are the hillsides now less welcoming, and lacking the sound of music....? ... From: "wjazzuk@..." <wjazzuk@...> To: fusenet@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Now, you've lost me... ... ... . . ... - - - ... - - ... Oh, excuse me - just went to the Bahamas there for a moment Karl J. looks just like that bad bust of...
pics sent in separate e-mail. I found many more pics found from Wales than I remember. I DO exaggerate and fabricate as a matter of course, being a devotee to...
Dear Don-Don-Dorito! and all at Fusenet Towers (some further clarification re. thoughts on 'Improvisation' CD Thankyou so much for the work-harried musings,...
That's Beni for you - and if you think the writings are intense, check out the music! The Deep Ones ain't got nothing on him! Nice one mate - careful you...
Enrico Carpanini
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Nov 2, 2007 10:33 am
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Sorry Beni Trying self produce a live radio broadcast, and make e.mail conversations at the same time sem to have lead to lots of concurrent lines of thought...
Funny, from what I saw in those prior beni-grams, those welshian hills are alive, not with music but with satan's spawn, black magic, human sacrifice, horrific...
Is Gibberish improvised or composed, I can't remember... The improv/compose issue is not black and white, I like both and I think, so too, do many others....
mr. beni-wa-wa-williams; your posts make my head spin (in a good way, as Myles na gCopaleen). but as you make allusions to some sort of music-making on your...
Hear Hear! Getting into that zone, that oneness, it's a great thing... And you can hear that telepathy from inside and out. Hank Jones - who along with Miles'...
Howdy Folks, here's a response from our drummer Marko Anderson. With some great points about post-session editing: (By the way, he does the more radical edits...
Yes. I am currently looking for the best option that will make some files grabbable for the - ahem! - select few... I will not forget to do this, and a full...
Addendums & Errata: I should add that Herbie Hancocks does all that self-revisiting at a mad dash - imagine him keeping pace with the train, while stick ...
Re. making some pre-views of my forthcoming rubbish freely available: Have checked out 'soulseek' for file hosting, but it's too P2P for my level of paranoia....
Hello Fuse-neteers, A BIG TOPIC!!! (I must remember not to bury potential worthy topics in responses to non-related threads. I apologise for my beginner's...
... Any suggestions for a simple 'I upload, you ... rights, ... Our Yahoo Group web page includes a Files area. I don't know what the size limit is, but I'd...
Hi Beni... Welcome! Guess I am the sole female voice here… but I am primarily a READER of the Fusenet posts.. As a bit of background, I had been editing a ...
Dear Susan, Thankyou for your considered response. Regarding fusion and the jazz tradition, I guess we're all singing from the same hymn-sheet here, but Wynton...