Pick up! It's the innanet callin'

Although it's sad to report, I have no access to the internet, accept for right now. I decided to cancel my innanet subscription to save $25 a month. This of course means that the people who rely on this blog for their total and absolute music input will now be relegated to much, much, much lesser forms of musical consumption. Watch your health. Bad jazz causes herpes and other awful shit.

I'll attempt to post some more music in the near future...

Soft Machine "Six" 1974 (Columbia)

Chloe and the Pirates

Hugh Hopper-Fender Bass
Mike Ratledge-Electric Piano, Organ
Karl Jenkins-Electric Piano, Saxophone
John Marshall-Drums

Tennyson's Memories

"A kind of waking trance I have frequently had, quite up from boyhood, when I have been all alone. This has generally come upon me thro' repeating my own name two or three times to myself silently, till all at once, as it were out of the intensity of the consciousness of individuality, the individuality itself seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless being, and this not a confused state, but the clearest of the clearest, the surest of the surest, the weirdest of the weirdest, utterly beyond words, where death was an almost laughable impossibility, the loss of personality (if so it were) seeming no extinction but the only true life"

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Gateway "Homecoming" 1995 (ECM)

Calypso Falto

John Abercrombie-Electric Guitar
Dave Holland-Double Bass
Jack DeJohnette-Drums

Steve Reid Ensemble "Spirit Walk" 2005 (Soul Jazz)

Which One (244 kbps)

Steve Reid-Drums
Kierran Hebdan-Electronics
Boris Netsvetaev-Organ, Moog, Electric Piano
Chuck Henderson-Soprano Sax
John Edwards-Double Bass
Tony Bevan-Bass Sax

Rain

A teacher asked Paul
what he would remember
from third grade, and he sat
a long time before writing
"this year sumbody tutched me
on the sholder"
and turned his paper in.
Later she showed it to me
as an example of her wasted life.
The words he wrote were large
as houses in a landscape.
He wanted to go inside them
and live, he could fill in
the windows of "o" and "d"
and be safe while outside birds building nests in drainpipes
knew nothing of the coming rain.

Naomi Shibab Nye

Keith Jarrett Quartet "Nude Ants" 1979 (ECM)

Chant of the Soil

Keith Jarrett-Piano
Jan Garbarek- Tenor Sax
Palle Daniellsson-Bass
Jon Christensen-Drums

Julian Priester/ Pepe Mtoto "Love, Love" 1974 (ECM)

Love, Love (320 kbps) Twenty minutes of unadulterated love for your mind.

Julian Priester-trombones, whistle flute, cowbell, small percussion, ARP 2600 synthesizer
Pat Gleeson-ARP 2600 synthesizer, ARP Odyssey synthesizer, Moog III, Oberheim digital sequencer
Hadley Caliman- flute, saxophones, bass clarinet
Bayete Umbra Zindinko- fender rhodes, piano, clavinet D-6;
Kamau Eric Gravatt-drums, congas
Ron McClure-fender bass
Bill Connors-electric guitar

Elevator Music

A tune with no more substance than the air,
performed on underwater instruments,
is proper to this short lift from the earth.
It hovers as we draw into ourselves
and turn our reverent eyes toward the lights
that count us to our various destinies.
We're all in this together, the song says
and later we'll descend. The melody
is like a name we don't recall just now
that still keeps on insisting it is there.

Henry Taylor

Excuse the delay!

Hopefully the music below and this video of Hermeto Pascoal traveling to sonic planets will fasten you with great happiness! I hope.

Anouar Brahem "Thimar" 1998 (ECM)

Talwin (192 kbps)

Anouar Brahem (Tunisia's Keith Jarrett)-Oud
Dave Holland-Double Bass

Andy Bey "Experience and Judgement" 1973 (Atlantic)

Hibiscus (192 kbps) Baby making bassline.

Andy Bey-Vocals
Bill Fischer-Organ, Piano, Electric Piano
George Davis-Guitar
Wilbur Bascomb-Bass Guitar
Buddy Williams-Drums

Lee Morgan "The Last Session" 1971 (Blue Note)

Some incredible modal funkiness. It was the last recorded session before the beloved trumpet player past from this rock.

Capra Black (320 kbps)

Lee Morgan-Trumpet
Grachan Moncur III-Trombone
Bobbi Humphrey-Flute
Billy Harper-Tenor Sax
Harold Mabern-Piano
Reggie Workman-Bass
Freddy Watts-Drums

RAW

DOKTOR SNAKE : When the ideas of quantum physics are eventually assimilated into everyday culture, how do you think they will effect the man or woman in the street?
RAW : I think that when the ideas of model agnosticism, the Uncertainty Principle, fuzzy logics, etc, become generally known it will cause a social revolution bigger and more global than the Renaissance or the Age of Enlightenment. I have no prediction of how soon this will occur... If I judged by the people I meet on my lecture tours, I'd say it has already happened. But if I judged by that statistical sample I'd assume marijuana legalization would have happened already, too, none of our recent wars would have occurred, and televangelists couldn't get any audience except on the Comedy Channel.

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font.
The firefly waken; waken thou with me.

Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,
And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.

Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars,
And all thy heart lies open unto me.

Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.

Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake.
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Cosmic Eye "Dream Sequence" 1972 (Regal Zonophone)

Three tracks from the rare "indo-jazz" album. Feelin funky, feelin sultry yaow.

Part 1

Part 4

Part 8

(320 kbps)

A. D' Silva- Guitar
V. Jasani-Sitar
J. Mayer-Violin
R. Swinfield-Flute
D. Grossman-Alto Flute
C. Taylor-Bass Flute
A. Branscobme-Saxophone, Percussion
T. Campo-Electric Bass
K. Sati-Tabla
D. Wright-Drums

Joe Henderson "The Elements" 1974 (Milestone)

Earth (256 kbps)

Joe Henderson-Sax, Flute
Alice Coltrane-Piano, Harp, Tamboura, Harmonium
Michael White-Violin
Charlie Haden-Bass
Leon Chancler-Drums
Kenneth Nash-Percussion

Tour

Near a shrine in Japan he's swept the path
and then placed camellia blossoms there.

Or--we had no way of knowing--he's swept the path
between fallen camellias.

Carol Snow

Triosk meets Jan Jelinek "1+3+1" 2003 (~scape)

Vibes/Pulse

Triosk (Australian)
Jan Jelinek (German)

Paul Berliner "The Sun Rises Late Here" 1979 (Flying Fish)

Zimbabwe (256 kbps)

Paul Berliner-Vocals, Mbira, Foot Bells
Steve Eisen-Soprano Sax
Eric Hochberg-Bass
Paul Wertico-Traps
Howard Levy-Sticks









(Couldn't find a picture of the album,
and unfortunately I don't own a camera)