What Are You Listening To?

Yada wrote:
Other You - Steve Gunn

what he did with the 2021 Suicide Squad was outstanding

Slyhatch wrote:

Yada wrote:
Other You - Steve Gunn

what he did with the 2021 Suicide Squad was outstanding

I unfortunately don't get this reference and/or joke.

James Skelly & The Intenders - Love Undercover

this must be the Ricky that was returned to it's original owner

Yada wrote:

Slyhatch wrote:

Yada wrote:
Other You - Steve Gunn

what he did with the 2021 Suicide Squad was outstanding

I unfortunately don't get this reference and/or joke.

No fun when you don't get the joke
The Suicide Squad (2021)

was written and directed by James Gunn
Highly recommended viewing with the golden teacher

kosmo wrote:
James Skelly & The Intenders - Love Undercover

saw that Ricky is on the cover!

Slyhatch wrote:

Yada wrote:

Slyhatch wrote:

Yada wrote:
Other You - Steve Gunn

what he did with the 2021 Suicide Squad was outstanding

I unfortunately don't get this reference and/or joke.

No fun when you don't get the joke
The Suicide Squad (2021)

was written and directed by James Gunn
Highly recommended viewing with the golden teacher

Steve's cousin?

come on man
it's a board trope to say Bryan Adams, when the post is about Ryan Adams…that is where I was going
You said Steve Gunn and I posted about something done by James Gunn, knowing full well that they are not the same person

who knows they may be related?

Slyhatch wrote:
come on man
it's a board trope to say Bryan Adams, when the post is about Ryan Adams…that is where I was going
You said Steve Gunn and I posted about something done by James Gunn, knowing full well that they are not the same person

who knows they may be related?

ohhhhhh!!!!

One of the reasons I got into record collecting was that back in the day -late 90s early 2000s - stuff on cd was expensive, a lot of the old stuff was either not on CDs or transferred haphazardly and nobody seemed to want the records which looked great, represented the original intention/vision of the artist for release, sounded great etc.  It allowed me to listen to all kinds of music cheaply and discover entire new genres… growing up today I would just stream or listen to stuff on YouTube I suppose…

It still happens that I find and discover something new to me and cool but far less often

Like today I went to the record store and found this LP for a buck..anyways what jumped up at me was the name Christlieb cause he played sax on a ton of Tom Waits 70s stuff…including my current favorite by Tom Nighthawks at the Diner… so I was like what the heck… when I got home I saw there was a song - Rapunzel- that I had never heard off written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan (pretty much my current favorite band)…then I noticed the entire album was produced by them! Score… apparently Christlieb played the legendary saxophone solo on Deacon Blues and a few months later Fagen and Becker returned the favor by producing this album… it’s straight ahead jazz… Warner Brothers wasn’t even releasing new jazz in 1978 but they did this time.. obviously the Dan was hot having just put out the Aja album so Warner made an exception

Ennio Morricone is someone I will alwaypick up for cheap

Soundtracks usually bore me but ever since hearing his stuff on the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns and then his brilliant work on Almodovar’s Átame, I always pick him up

A few years ago I was reading Bernard Sumner’s autobiography where he goes on about how much Ennio’s work meant to him - I had never realized Blue Monday was influenced by Ennio but now I can’t not hear it… then I was reading that autobiography by one of the Pogues and he goes on about in their early days they would drive around listening to Ennio’s soundtrack all tour long..

Anyways I put this on and I swear to god New Order’s Elegía definitely got something from the music to the title song (sung by Baez)…really reminds me of it

I paid $3 but note old $0.99 sticker from 6-14 and based on typesetting fairly confident this was purchased from the dollar bin at Som Records on 14th Street… I don’t get out there much but when I lived off of 14th those dollar bins where the best in town..not even close…made me regret moving

Slyhatch wrote:

Bagley wrote:
.  What about On The Corner?

to me..a weird but fun one
would have been such a fun time to have been a fan…like totally different thing can he come up next
but I'm the last one to get jazz reco's from

Oh I don’t know .. you had some cool jazz CDs when I met you…some of my earliest exposure to jazz: things like Grant Green, Charlie Parker, Dizzy…more am sure I forget

is it just me or does Dizzy not get the respect he deserves

was he too white bread to parker's whacked out manifestos

Slyhatch wrote:
is it just me or does Dizzy not get the respect he deserves

was he too white bread to parker's whacked out manifestos

Other than Dizzy’s Afro-Cuban stuff which arguably has a lot to do with guys like Machito and Chico O’Farrill- and of course his bebop work with Charlie Parker and on his own- his stuff from the late 50s on is just not very appreciated..the records are a dime a dozen… I can’t think of one I or most people really value…

I think this hurts his reputation although he is considered one of the bebop pioneers and respected

I mean just compare his evolution to his successor in Parker’s quintet, Miles. Davis reinvented himself many times…kept pushing limits and exploring. Dizzy tread much more conservative ground. It’s not really Gillespie’s fault that his career went on so long from one boring record to the next…he put in his 15 years of creativity…  Louis Armstrong is sort of the same….very appreciated for his 1920s-1930s stuff and then nothing (although I like some of his stuff)

Maybe there was also a bit of backlash against Armstrong and Gillespie got being considered too willing to smile for white people and not doing enough for black people… Satchmo was definitely considered an Uncle Tom… I think Miles couldn’t stand that about him…

Guys like Ellington that are able to find popular acceptance over decades are rare but even he recorded a lot of records that do nothing for most people

And I don’t think Dizzy is whitebread on those early bebop masterpieces


But we have to admit that Dizzy did write a lot of early bebop novelty type numbers like Salt Peanuts, right?


It’s hard for those funny bebop tunes to connect across multiple generations


Whereas Bird wailing away on the changes to the harmonic scale (note: not sure if this is what he did cause I don’t get it) of Gershwin’s I got rhythm to come up with seven different bebop masterpieces seems pretty out there

I saw Dizzy perform at least a couple times growing up and Salt Peanuts was one his standards, wouldn’t consider it novelty song

Good point

I guess I was thinking of something like He beeped when he shoulda bopped


But I just don’t know all that much about early Dizzy

In a way he was the face/public image of be bop

With the passing of Charlie Parker, Dizzy probably was the public face of BeBop, but you also had Dexter Gordon, Bud Powell and Monk…

My dad having grown up listening to Big Band was a big fan of BeBop in particular the Four Brothers out of Woody Herman’s band.  The best known of which were Stan Getz and Zoot Sims.

And for further proof of dad’s coolness, he at one point was driving around Columbus a young  Roland Kirk better known as Rashsaan Roland Kirk

A new album hasn't hit me like this in a while… great listen.