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Re:_'The_Real_Jazz'_by_Hugues_Panassie (Remco Takken)
by Ricardo Reis 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

If you have no problems with french there's a pocket book on Lgf which contains all the writtings of Vian about Jazz published in various magazines of the time. His duel with the conservative front is well documented there (and has also one of the best-to-be reviews I've read (at least in the hilarious standpoint) on any jazz musician (Charlie Parker by the way)). I don't have the book with me right now but i think it's called "ecrits sur le jazz". greets, Ricardo Reis "Non Serviam"

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Re: zorn-list digest, Vol 1 #142 - 12 msgs
by francko.lamerikx＠philips.com 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

> As far as Witte, I tend to be a fan of just about anything he is on: Human > Remains, Discordance Axis, Burnt by the Sun (esp. the EP), etc. I still > haven't heard much of his stuff with Black Army Jacket or Major Burns, or > his duet CD w/ Chris Dodge. Anyone? (Am I getting too far out of list > territory here?) I don't know where list territory ends, but it certainly is interesting. I am familiar with Burnt by the Sun's "Soundtrack to the Personal Revolution". I think it's a good CD, but it could've been better if the production wasn't so muddled. I've been wanting to get into Discordance Axis for some time, but so far I haven't been to find a good starting point - so some help in this respect would be highly appreciated. Burnt by the Sun's drummer kicked major ass, by the way, when I saw him with Melt-Banana last year. Any thoughts on the Mastodon album, "Remission"? I like it, but it suffers from the same problem as the Burnt by the Sun album, which is a very muddled and unclear production, which buries a lot of what is going on under hiss. Frankco.

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Willner's Nino Rota tribute
by smobipliap＠netway.at 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

> >The eighties tributes I know (Nina Rota Amarcord, [...]) have stellar momen ts to say the least, but they REALLY stand out for > their togetherness, combining at the same time the throwaway feel of a > regular various artists album. >[...], or Jaki Byard playing La Strada). good point. The flow (sequencing, segueing) was particularly good on that one: back in the LP days, whenever I put the needle on Side 2, I knew I'd be held in rapt attention all the way to the end, despite my not necessarily wanting to hear Steve Lacy solo or Jaki Byard solo per se -- it was all so seamless, who want want to interrupt any of it? Also, this is a case where Scott Yanow, writing on allmusic.com, kind of botches things by characterizing the performances/arrangements as "eccentric": oddly enough, it was Willner's versions of these melodies that stuck in my mind's ear for years afterwards, and not the film versions, regardless of how many times I went to see them.

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Bill Laswell "Boniche Dub"
by Arthur Gadney 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Hi. I just read a bit about Laswell's "Boniche Dub" and it sounds interesting, btu I've burned my finegrs one too many times on "interesting" Laswell projects. Is this one worth picking up? Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

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Bill Frisell & film music question
by Arthur Gadney 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Hi. I recently saw "Finding Forrester" (which was dissapointing, btw) and was quite surprised. Bill Frisell wrote a lot of music for it, but as it's main theme it uses the last song from the "Quartet" CD. However, in the "Quartet" linernoted it's mentioned that this piece of music was originally composed for the Italian film "La Scuola". This must be a first. At least I can't think of any other examples, where somebody just took the theme from one film and usd it in another. Lets blame it on Hal Wilner. He seems able to destroy anything he gets his hands on. What a shame. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

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Golden Palominos
by Hayes 25 Aug '02

25 Aug '02

Anyone know if the first Golden Palominos record is available on cd? H

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'The Real Jazz' by Hugues Panassié
by Tosh 25 Aug '02

25 Aug '02

This is an obscure question: Last night at my favorite record store (while listening to a live Frank Black performance, I picked up an used book by Hugues Panassie called 'The Real Jazz.' The book is copyrighted 1942 (not exactly sure when the book came out originally in France). Right now I am working on my TamTam Books edition of Boris Vian's L'Ecume des jours (Foam of the Daze), which was written in 1947. This novel is jazz-obsessed with a lot of the charaters named after Ellington songs as well as the streets, etc. It seems that M. Panassie shares the same passion & taste in jazz with Vian and I am presuming that they may have known each other (being a small world in Paris at that time -especially if you were a jazz fan.) Does his name ring any bells to anyone on this list? Anyway it seems to be a fascinating document on how a Frenchman feels about American jazz - especially during the early 40's. If someone can bring some info on Panassie, I would deeply appreciate it. Thanks! -- Tosh Berman TamTam Books http://www.tamtambooks.com

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Phantomsmasher
by Arthur Gadney 24 Aug '02

24 Aug '02

hello. any comments on the new Phantomsmasher CD om Ipecac? Bye! _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

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[OT]: Japan Psych list
by Arthur Gadney 24 Aug '02

24 Aug '02

Hi! It seems I was kicked off the Japan Psych list for some reason. Can somebody remind me how I subscribe again? Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

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Richard Einhorn
by Stephen Fruitman 24 Aug '02

24 Aug '02

Has anyone got a copy of the Richard Einhorn CD single _Red Angels_? And if so, would they be willing to discuss a trade? Please get in touch off-list. Regards, Stephen -- Stephen Fruitman Dept of Historical Studies Umea University SE-901 87 Umea Sweden

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