RAY JOZWIAK Provides the Piano Prelude playing a preposterously paced program precluding the ponderous and pedestrian postmortems practiced proactively by poseurs
at The Brewer’s Alley Songwriters Showcase on Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 7:30PM
Brewer's Alley Restaurant & Brewery (Songwriters Showcase-Upstairs)
124 North Market Street
Frederick, MD 21701
Telephone: 301-631-0089 Fax: 301-631-1874
http://www.brewers-alley.com/
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(Quotes from Miles Davis. . . )
"I've changed music four or five times. What have you done of any importance other than be white?"
Davis attended a reception in honor of Ray Charles at Ronald Reagan's White House in 1987. This was his reply to a Washington society lady seated next to him who had asked him what he had done to be invited.
"If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow." During an interview, after growing aggravated about questions on the subject of race.
"A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it." On being called a legend.
"Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin"
"Who's that motherfucker? He can't play shit!"
on Cecil Taylor
"You a motherfucker." a compliment to Chick Corea, who thought he was about to be fired.
"He plays like somebody is standing on his foot." on Eric Dolphy
"He could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll." on Prince
"Why'd you put that white bitch on there?"
To George Avakian after seeing the cover chosen by Columbia for Miles Ahead.
"You can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played." and "I love Pops" (Louis' nickname)
on Louis Armstrong in a Playboy magazine interview.
"I’ll play it and tell you what it is later." During a recording session for Prestige, on the album "Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet" (1956).
"Listen baby, when I say later, I mean it! Later!" After being approached by a relentless interviewer.
"There are no wrong notes." My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
On being asked what he looked for in musicians. "When you are creating your own shit, man, even the sky ain't the limit."
"Try taking the fucking horn out of your mouth." Davis was questioning the increasing length of John Coltrane solos, and Trane answered "I don't know how to stop."
"Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
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". . . I didn't evaluate
music or entertainment for its sophistication, its level of technique or
virtuosity or any of that stuff; and still don't, for the most part.
My preferred entertainments are ones that quite simply MOVE me. I can't
always explain why, nor should I have to, but if I am moved in some
small form or fashion, I deem it desirable. And it doesn't have to move
me the first time I hear it like 'love at first sight'; only in this
case, at first 'listen'. In fact, some of the most rewarding (or MOVING)
music that I now appreciate most did not bowl me over the first time I
heard it. . . "
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. . . but it's true. It's a party with live, original music.
It's almost here.
Who? OHO (Jay,
Dave, Ray with guest vocalists Lisa
Griffee and Kelly G), Easy Cowboy (w/Matt Rose), Jason & The
Butchers and El
Sledge (+)
What? Shlongtasm 2012; each band will
perform a 25-30 minute set
Where? Joe
Squared Pizza (133 W. North
Ave. at the corner of North Ave. and Howard Street,
Balto.,
MD21201;
phone: 410.545.0444)
When? 9:00 PM
till closing, Friday January 20, 2012
Why? To
celebrate El Sledge (+) manager, Dan Long,
to rage against the dying of the light (“It’s a cold stare at humankind
masquerading as happy beer-hall music—Lift your flagon to this, you
f*&k.’”-Stan
Ridgway), ingest some delicious pie, & to quaff steins brimmed with
delicious,
foaming hops-infused beverage.
. . . about the rich or the poor gets us nowhere . . .
Mitt Romney says that since our current President practices the "politics of division" (he obviously lives in a cocoon), many intelligent (maybe that's the missing element) Americans are quite conscious of the existing rift between rich and poor in this country. Pew Social & Demographic Trends found 66% of Americans see strong conflicts between the two groups, and a full 19% more than did in 2009.
Almost half of the people interviewed said they thought rich people are rich because they were born into rich families or know the right people and a comparable percentage thought the rich earned their riches through hard work, ambition or education.
Well, both groups are correct. And like any other group of two or more human beings, within each of those rich populations there are good, honest, principled people and there are lying, cheating, dishonest charlatans as well.
Much like the perception that rich (sometimes not-so-rich-yet conservative, white-collar-middle-to-upper-middle-class) people hold that poor people are poor because they are lazy and therefore do not work hard, have no ambition and are as a result (or as a cause) have no education. And they are right also. . . that is about SOME poor people. But if they are speaking of a group of two or more poor people, they are not considering the good, honest, principled people who have tried but have suffered setbacks, disadvantages, discrimination, bad luck, bad circumstances or bad timing who have not been able to attain the success that some may THINK these poor people could have attained.
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So maybe Barack Obama will be the lesser of two evils come November's presidential election, and I
don't think he is necessarily evil, but he most certainly is
conventionally political. Just heard on the news that a fundraiser in Chicago will be held and admission is $7,500 a ticket.
How can we expect to have a president to represent the American people when only RICH PEOPLE have a real say (read: MONEY) in choosing our candidates?
Occupy America must concentrate their efforts on, among other things, election reform.
This has got to stop.
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(thanks to Wikipedia.com)
Cecil Taylor began playing piano at age six and studied at the New York
College of Music and New England Conservator. After first steps in R&B and swing-styled small groups in the early
1950s, he formed his own band with soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy in 1956 and with whom he made his first recording that same year. Some critics said it already pointed to the freedoms in which he later became immersed.
Through the 50s and 60s, Cecil's music grew more complex and
moved away from existing jazz styles. Gigs were often hard to come by,
and club owners thought his lengthy pieces were not easily accessible to the general jazz-going audience.
Landmark recordings, like UNIT STRUCTURES followed later, in 1966. Alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons later joined Cecil and became one of his most important and consistent collaborators.
Taylor, Lyons and drummer Sunny Murray (and later Andrew Cyrille) formed the core personnel of The Unit,
Taylor's primary group effort until Lyons's premature death in 1986.
With 'the Unit', musicians developed often volcanic new forms of
conversational interplay.
Cecil began to perform solo concerts in the early 1970s. Many of
these were released on album and include INDENT (1973), side one of Spring of Two Blue-J's
(1973), SILENT TONGUES (1974), GARDEN
(1982), and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973 and then a MacArthur Fellowship in 1991.
Cecil recorded sparingly in the 2000s, but continued to perform with
his own ensembles (the Cecil Taylor Ensemble and the Cecil Taylor Big
Band) as well as with other musicians such as Joe Locke, Max Roach and Amiri Baraka. In 2004, the Cecil Taylor Big Band at the Iridium 2005 was nominated a
best performance of 2004 by All About Jazz,
and the same in 2009 for the Cecil Taylor Trio at the Highline Ballroom
in 2009.
The trio consisted of Taylor, Albey Balgochian, and Jackson Krall. An
autobiography, more concerts, and other projects are in the works. In 2010, Triple Point Records released a deluxe limited edition double LP
titled Ailanthus/Altissima: Bilateral Dimensions of Two Root Songs,
a set of duos with long-time collaborator Tony Oxley that was recorded
live at the Village Vanguard in New York City.
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