Tav
Falco while humanly wishing for what he does not possess, the condition
by which Dylan is bound, ultimately to appreciate the benefit of one
for another, as human; no longer consider rank in the negative, as Dylan
many decades having ceased this wish, not offered but granted to him, his enjoyment of life, leaving lives to
experience expectation, dashed or exceeded.
Tav Falco while humanly wishing for what he does not possess, the condition by which Dylan is bound, ultimately to appreciate the benefit of one for another, as human; no longer consider rank in the negative, as Dylan many decades having ceased this wish, not offered but granted to him, his enjoyment of life, leaving lives to experience expectation, dashed or exceeded.
Everybody Shreds Sometimes (BrandonShred)
Baby grandiloquent jazz! (Brandon Shred shredded these, BUT he forgot to send me the MEMO)
I HOPE IT'S NOT because, he's trying to be a serious jazz composer; however, when you see these VERY SUBTLE -- JAZZBO KNOW -- IN MY HUMBLE, funniest UNTIL today ...
Removed, Fri., April 15th, 2011...and remembered, thankfully, my DIGITAL HOARDING (Internet Addiction), as its few positive side-effects, ordering me to preserve all three:
TO BE SUCH TERRIBLY TEMPERED TIMING OR ILL INSERT (bright side-effect of my disease is having posted these somewhere on one of my fifteen-thousand garbage-disposable blogs).
FUNNIEST YouTube JAZZBO HATE-COMMENTS REGARDING THESE MASTERPIECES, which will, for eternity serve as reminder to YOU to what dour, dull, JOYLESSLY deluded DUDES comprise the less greater part of perfect pitched, much-better-by-half 'Jass' connoisseurs which Berkley is, and ever shall be barely-surviving.
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This video and next are remarkable jazz performances which are favorites of musicians AND those whose criticism is firmly accepted as legitimate, like, no less than writer Stanley Booth (Rolling Stones embedded author whose harrowing tale of the 1972 Greatest Tour of All Time by that band goes down as forever top-5 Rock n Roll Journo Lit -- by no means, Rock Crit shit -- and forever those who read and know, shall be far ahead of those who do not and stay below, so get it now before everyone is dead; and my favorite dead (also ex-junkie -- he's dead),
NYTimes Music Critic Robert Palmer (no, not that one. Remember HE, our Bob, was NOT immune to the STUFF, but you might as well face it if you haven't read it when it was coming out hot and heavy daily from the paper who knows what's fit and printed it: this cat could write his habit under the table; and one more, whom most of you who know, don't know, really, the varied and always hyper-manic creative, deeply woke artistic madman mind of the moan who speaks like Buddy Holly, wears a Chaplin mustache, invented and was master of his own musical genre, enlisting Alex Chilton, in Memphis to sign on, as well as legion drummer Ross Johnson: the art form, genre bender fusion of just his type of Rockabilly which pre-dates the Cramps and inspired them to record their debut album with his friend and guitar sideman Alex Chilton, who did produce their first record which if it weren't so legendary and with it usurping the more reclusive, subtle, cerebral style of the same fashion whose luck was with him when he got to keep his called Art Damage and they had to have theirs pigeonhole them forever until death, strictly as Psychobilly: my expat friend whose got more exotic locales than a Cruise Ship whore, and is more savoreur than connoisseur of his art, morphing it twenty years ago upon playing and performing until this day his first step into the storied music and avocation of passion which he now practices with mastery, the song he first played, "Throw Your Mask Away," among many others, the musical art form from the Pampas to Las Villas Buenos Aires, and now the world, of course, The Tango.
His is a never-ending tour which Bob Dylan wished to find him everywhere, without the encumbrance and inability prohibiting him from being universally locked inside once there, rarely able to enjoy the freedom this freedom-loving traveler wanted.
In each I think you'll take away not only a piece of those who're playing, but of the writers, critics and musicians who hold these performances above all others in the vacuum created by each of their respective deaths.
I hope you will enjoy a short journey into this hemisphere, and take something away which you had not known before.
I know that during the compilation of this extensively researched labor of love, I discovered not just something about the musicians represented not previously known, but the writers and musicians who I have been fortunate to call friends.
Thank you for taking the time to read (what for me is a very rare intrusion) this introduction.
GUK
Baby grandiloquent jazz!
They try to teach you something
Best of Jazz Greats Video (intro to Tav Falco's video):
'Imagine yourself a prodigy, a jazz virtuoso of the 1950s. You have played with everybody from Duke Ellington to Charlie Mingus.
Then
POW!
You are lost for twenty years. Your achievements and talents put into chemical and canvas straitjackets. Living with your mother. Treated like a miscreant.
Then you begin to rise to the top again.
This is one of the man's first public performances before a public eager and waiting so long for his return.
Phineas Newborn Jr., a leading jazz pianist, died at his home in Memphis, Tenn., Friday. He was 57 years old.
The cause of death has not been released. Irvin Salky, Mr. Newborn's agent and friend, said X-rays six weeks ago showed a growth on one of his lungs.
Phineas Newborn Oleo Parkay His albums included ''A World of Piano,'' ''The Newborn Touch,'' ''The Great Piano of Phineas'' and ''Piano Artistry of Phineas Newborn.'' i couldn't top the master brandonshred but i gave it a good tribute. May 28, 1989.
Web Essay
Phineas Newborn Jr., Sweet Basil, 88 Seventh Avenue South, below West Fourth Street (242-1785).Born into a musical Memphis family and a pianist with his father's big band and on early
B. B. King recordings while still in his teens, Phineas Newborn Jr. was in every sense a prodigy.
By the time he made his classic Atlantic, RCA, and Contemporary Jazz albums, of the 1950's and early 60's, that abundance of technique had him compared with the virtuosic Art Tatum, and dismissed by some as all fingers, no heart.
That was never true, and certainly isn't
Although Mr. Newborn was not a celebrity, he was highly regarded by jazz aficionados, especially in the 1950's and 60's. ''In his prime, he was one of the three greatest jazz pianists of all time, right up there with Bud Powell and Art Tatum,'' said Leonard Feather, a jazz critic for Downbeat magazine and The Los Angeles Times.
His father, Phineas Newborn Sr., led a big band that played on Memphis's celebrated Beale Street in the 30's and 40's. Mr. Newborn grew up playing saxophone, trumpet and vibraphone in the band, which included his brother Calvin, who played guitar.
Besides his brother, he is survived by his mother, daughters, a son and two grandchildren.
A racial attack took him out of the playing circuit in 1974.
He was admitted to the Veteran's Hospital with a cracked jawbone, broken nose and several broken fingers.
The day Phineas was discharged from the hospital he went to Ardent recording studios and recorded a Grammy nominated album, 'Solo Piano'. The tracks included a version of 'Out of The World' which contained stunning left-hand virtuosity.
Stanley Booth says
hearing that performance while looking at the X-ray photos of Phineas's broken hands is enough to make you think that Little Red (Phineas Newborn), like Jerry Lee Lewis is a little more than human.Rhythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music
Phineas Newborn Jr
In the beginning the Web was a simple thing. A bit of HTML running on a server you probably had root access running under your desk. Fast forward 20 years and most of the Web's content resides in silos, like Twitter and Facebook and Instagram.
Our Web sites [sic]
- (while "web site" was the original spelling [(sometimes capitalized "Web site", since "Web" is a proper noun when referring to the World Wide Web], this variant has become rarely used, and "website" has become the standard spelling).
- (All major style guides, such as The Chicago Manual of Style and the AP Stylebook, have reflected this change.)
have become Tumblrs or blogs hosted at wordpress.org -- this poses huge challenges for longevity, integrity, and ultimately, ownership of content we create.
In this presentation, Tantek Çelik, one of the great contributors to the open Web, challenges us to re-imagine the "IndieWeb" from long ago.
Tantek Çelik - The once and future IndieWeb
In the beginning, the Web was a simple thing. A bit of HTML, running on a server you probably had root access to, and maybe even had running under your desk. Fast forward 20 years, and most of the Web's content resides in silos, like Twitter and Facebook and Instagram. Our Web sites have become Tumblrs, or blogs hosted at Wordpress.org. But this poses huge challenges for the longevity, integrity, and ultimately ownership of the content we create. In this presentation, Tantek Çelik, one of the great contributors to the open Web challenges us to re-imagine the "IndieWeb" from long ago.
Transcript
John asked me to come talk to you about
the indie web and I thought well you
know I've I spoke for John about nine
years ago and a lot has changed since
then
but there's there's some good things
coming up so let's talk about this
presentation text is all under Creative
Commons so what that means is you can
copy any of the text in the presentation
you can cite it you can use it for
whatever purpose you want as long as you
just attribute it and that's I do that
deliberately because I also have other
folks as text and things in here that I
want you to attribute so if it's if it's
mine attribute to me if it's other
people's use their attribution it's all
in the good spirit of sharing the second
thing I've done is if if you happen to
be online and with a laptop you can use
this etherpad to take notes or to note
any questions you have
ether Padma's lorg such WD c14 pretty
straightforward I have it open on a
separate laptop so I can sort of watch
to see if anyone anything pops up in
particularly like hey that's that's
wrong or there's a problem there you
know feel free to point anything out you
want well now we've gotten that out of
the way let's let's go ahead and this is
the basic outline I'm going to talk
about and that is how do we get from
sort of this this notion of the the
independence and independent web that we
used to have back in the late 90s and
early 2000s to the rise the silos which
is kind of dominating our lives on the
web these days to finally a return to
what we're calling the indie web a new
approach to having an independent web so
the three basic areas gonna cover how
many of you recognize this logo anybody
okay so this is from 2001 and I had a
site in 2001 but I didn't have a blog it
just had a static site where I would
throw various different files on up
there you know things like various hacks
and such which I hope none of you are
using anymore
this was this Independence Day effort
was a great effort
done by Jeffrey Zelman and a couple of
friends and colleagues to just basically
celebrate independent work online and
they put up a manifesto they had a
beautifully designed site it was done by
designers you could tell they were
passionate about it
I'll show you a bit for the manifesto
indepence Day is a worldwide project
celebrating independent content and
design on the web now that sounds really
familiar and sound that something we can
all get behind they promoted this they
had sessions about it they organized
tracks even at South by Southwest but
folks that were really passionate about
this and it seemed like well yeah this
is this is exactly the way the web
should be built the web was meant to be
everyone's got their own independent
site a company site or family site and
all inter links together using all this
wonderful technology and those of us
that had the good privilege to go to
South by Southwest especially the early
days in fact I should ask how many of
you here have been to South by Southwest
anybody at least a few people okay not
many interesting pretty new crowd I'm
guessing then so back in the old days
South by Southwest was this amazing
conference in spring of every year in
Austin where the interactive portion of
it 10 to Bea's became this like meeting
of anyone who's creating anything on the
web that could actually get there if
whether you were in the US or whether
you were in Europe or anywhere else you
had started it was very sort of us
centric and then more folks start coming
over in different years but here you can
see a picture and in this photo this is
from 2002 you can see a few folks that
you might recognize like Stewart
Butterfield here in the front he's like
one of the cofounders of Flickr Matt
Howie here he co-founded metafilter and
really the the South by Southwest
Conference was this gathering of people
that were all multidisciplinary
creatives so they had one or more had
multiple things they were creative about
either they designed or they coded or
maybe they were a visual artist or maybe
they were a filmmaker or musician or at
least two out of those above and it was
kind of this magical gathering where you
just assumed that anyone you met a was
creating something interesting on the
web and B had some story that you didn't
eat that was gonna surprise you like you
would never know when you're going to
run into the
the author of one of your favorite blogs
and that and that actually takes me to
the next point which is that back then
the gatherings at South by Southwest a
lot of us just knew each other through
our domain names because we've found
each other on the web we would read each
other's blogs and people people's brand
their names were oh your photo Matt yes
