On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:15:48 -0800, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I had heard Monk in San Francisco. I had not heard anything like that
> either. Nor John Coltrane in 1964. Nor Cecil Taylor in 1974.
> Autobiographic acoustic footprints, all.
I love all the musicians you mention and Sun Ra too. The first time I
heard Miles on record was on Charley Parker recordings from the forties.
What a sound, even then. Such a foil for the pyrotechnics of Bird! I was
in my teens in the mid-sixties. My first record album was Bird and Diz
with Thelonius Monk and Buddy Rich. I recieved that and Herbie Mann
Returns to the Village Gate for my thirteenth birthday if you can imagine
that. I marvel at those recordings today. I came to Coltrane and Cecil
Taylor later. I still love the early Taylor, especially Jazz Advance and
the other recordings from that era with drummer Dennis Charles. Sometimes
though I think Sun Ra is my favorite, any period. Today I was listening to
his Super-sonic Jazz. I have thirty or more cds of Sun Ra and would have
more if I could afford them. So much great music. Autobiographic acoustic
footprints, indeed!
Being as this is a poetry list I'll also mention that I've been listening
to a recording of Kerouac's Dharma Bums read by Allen Ginsberg. There's
just something magical hearing that book read by one of the principal
characters and AG at that. I like hearing him say the name Alvah Goldbook.
I identify with the line from On The Road "Their energies met head-on, I
was a lout compared, I couldn't keep up with them." I often feel that way
especially when following the threads of groups like this, just sitting
back and watching it go by...r.
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