From the earliest...an interesting combo: in '59 and '60 (my second and
third years) Brooks Benton, Eddy Arnold, Solomon Burke, Elton Britt and the
Ink Spots...those were the "charts" until my uncle wondrously infected me
with Eric Dolphy and Hank Williams...which is not to say that the
afore-mentioned listees didn't work their work on me as well.
Nowadays...it's everything and anything from Sidney Bechet to Billy Joe
Shavers to Eugene Chadborne to Doves to Billy Bang to Damian Catera...on and
on...
Gerald Schwartz
57,000 weeks on the Hit Parade
> I own more Coltrane and Miles now than any other artists in my CD
> collection....and agree with your mentions too, Lawrence.
>
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> >poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> >Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 7:52 AM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: musical awakenings
> >
> >
> >Someone mentioned Shostakovitch. He's going up for me, up my personal
scale,
> >for which I claim no objectivity, because sometimes all sorts of things
are
> >my # 1, for a week last April, a dribbling intake to a cistern on a
campsite
> >toilet cistern which chanted sections of Finnegan's Wake to me in the
> >shivering morning visit was my favourite sound. And Stravinsky is tending
to
> >go down.
> >
> >Very big yes to Cassandra Wilson & Maria Farandouri
> >
> >anyone into Marion Montgomery? not the same level as those mentioned but
> >frequently still superb phrasing
> >
> >& Miles Davis of course but I found about him later
> >
> >Coltrane was my first big discovery in teens / adulthood - heard a track
> >somewhere and thought WHAT IS THAT?! as in _where can i go to listen to
that
> >nonstop for a few years?_ & that remains, still my favourite things,
vying
> >with J S Bach
> >
> >Ludvig Van B is there all the time
> >
> >I was also immediately obsessed when I heard the Mahavishnu Orchestra The
> >Inner Mounting Flame, but I got over it; more to do with altered states I
> >think
> >
> >did have a fair obsession with Messiaen wch is dormant rather than dead
> >
> >& Sun Ra & Charles Mingus & Sonny Rollins
> >
> >&... dont get me started
> >
> >(dylan i became obsessed by fairly early on tho i didnt go on buying the
> >records after early 70s - they didnt quite grab me in the same way)
> >
> >& who could forget tears for sourvenirs by Ken Dodd
> >
> >
> >L
> >
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