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Charlie Parker Recordings – Personnel
Here’s the personnel listing for the Charlie Parker recordings we’re studying this month: Billie’s Bounce (1,3) Now’s The Time (1,3) Ko-Ko (2,3) Charlie Parker’s Reboppers: Miles Davis, trumpet (1); Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet (2) piano (3); Charlie Parker, alto sax; Curley Russell, bass; Max Roach, drums. New York, November 26th, 1945 Moose The Mooche Yardbird Suite […]
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Video: Charlie Parker Celebrity
Great video of Charlie Parker playing with Buddy Rich. [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=XFx9ZBlBUuc]
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Thomas Albright on Art and Artists
From Terry Teachout’s About Last Night blog – a great quote on the mysteries of art: It is perhaps the unique capacity of art that its most monumental achievements manage to embrace and resolve polarities which, in other areas of life–including philosophy–seem hopelessly unbridgeable: positive and void, the boundary between subjective and objective worlds. Where […]
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Charlie Parker’s Koko – the Sound of a Revolution
Charlie Parker’s recording of Koko is an extraordinary creation. A powerful, raw, aggressive performance, the sound of boundaries being busted and rules being broken, of a genius improviser tearing up the rulebook with ferocious virtuosity. Parker is on inspirational form, totally ‘on it’, in the jazz parlance, and he’s out to prove that the new […]
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The Culture Club: Theme For June 2007
This month we’re looking at the Beats: On The Road (Novel) – Jack Kerouac Howl (Poem) – Allen Ginsberg The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Non-Fiction) – Tom Wolfe Easy Rider (Movie) – Written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern, Directed by Dennis Hopper Also the following recordings by Charlie Parker: Billie’s Bounce Now’s […]
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Happy Birthday Sgt. Pepper
I feel the need to throw my penny into the pot and publicly celebrate the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the seminal album by the Beatles that was released 40 years ago today. So much has been written about this album, but here are some of my own personal highlights of […]
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Resonances in the Poetry of J.H. Prynne
Since I have spent more time with the work of J.H. Prynne, I am forced to revise my statement from an earlier post on ambiguity in Marvell and Prynne, in which I concluded that we miss the point if we look for meaning in his poetry. At the last meeting of the Culture Club we […]
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Marvell and Prynne – The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
Andrew Marvell and J.H. Prynne make for an illuminating comparison if you consider both in terms of their approach to ‘poetic ambiguity’. Leonard Bernstein, in his lecture The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity, makes much of the role of ambiguity in the history of music and poetry (and by implication the other arts also). He […]
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The Culture Club: Theme For April-May 2007 (update)
No theme this month (unless you count the fact that they’re all English, which is a bit tenuous). Here’s what we’re looking at (and we’re still waiting for more specific information on exactly which poems – come on KC!) in detail, now that KC’s provided us with the specifics: JH Prynne Living in History The […]
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Inappropriate Applause in Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony
After my earlier article about Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony and its innovative ending, a recent post on OregonLive.com reinforces the point that this symphony has an enduring capacity to surprise: OregonLive.com: Classical Music: Applause applause I don’t want to belabor the subject of inappropriate applause at concerts (see my review of Saturday’s Oregon Symphony performance of […]