Music

Just read about the Shaggs in This Is What It Sounds Like.  I'm listening to them. I'm reading the New Yorker about their 2017 concert ( Archive ). Wikipedia: The Shaggs composed seemingly simple and bizarre songs using untuned guitars, erratic time signatures, disconnected rhythms, wandering melodies and rudimentary lyrics. According to Rolling Stone, the sisters sang like "lobotomized Trapp Family Singers", while the musician Terry Adams compared their music to the free jazz compositions of Ornette Coleman.  The Shaggs formed at the insistence of their father, Austin Wiggin, who believed that his mother had predicted their rise to fame. For several years, he made them practice every day and perform weekly at the Fremont town hall. The girls had no interest in becoming musicians and never became proficient in songwriting or performing. In 1969, Austin paid for them to record an album, Philosophy of the World, which was distributed in limited quantities in 1969 by a ...

Friend said she did Gypsy in high school. I've never seen it. Good musical. She said yes. I'm always looking for a famous musical I've never even seen once, there are so many. Turns out I recognize a lot of the big numbers.  I created a playlist with many version of Gypsy soundtrack on spotify.  Couldn't find the movie. Could find a version on YouTube with the recently canceled  or snickered at her tone deaf diva comments, Patti Lupone. (New Yorker Archive ) ...  She apologized Bette Midler: Rose's Turn YouTube Tiny Desk Concert YouTube  April 22, 2025

I'm educating myself by listening to albums.   6/1 Salah Ragab  Egyptian Jazz 2006 spotify 6/2 Salah Ragab The Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab 1983 spotify 6/3 Ivo Perelman Shammanaism 2020 spotify 6/4  Toshiko Akiyoshi The Village YouTube 6/5 Toshiko Akiyoshi was born in China to a Japanese family. In 1953, during a tour of Japan, pianist Oscar Peterson discovered her playing in a club on the Ginza. Peterson was impressed and convinced record producer Norman Granz to record her. Akiyoshi studied jazz at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. Toshiko's Piano was her first album in 1953 spotify . 6/6  Terumasa Hino Taro's Mood 1973 spotify 6/7 Prince Rogers Nelson was born June 7th. Listen to The Gold Experience 1997 spotify Read some oral history about him BBC 6/8  Jun Fukamachi On The Move 1978  spotify 6/9  Akio Sasajima  Quiet Intentions 2013 with Carla Helmbrecht ( artist site ) spotify 6/10 Marcus Miller Su...

This is What It Sounds Like  by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas suggested the idea of "Pulling Records" where you play records for people to they know what you like.  Cyrus Chestnut Baroque Impressions ( spotify ). I love how he goes from classical to jazz and back again. Katherine Kim "Les oiseaux dans la charmille" from Les Contes d'Hoffmann YouTube : I just find this singing sublime Katherine Kim. She's so good. I've watched a lot of different versions, they're not as good as this. I thought it was the music I really liked, but her actual performance is so amazing. I don't think anyone gets close to it compared to her. I'd say my roots are my stepfather's record collection, in which I listened to the Beatles and The Who and Bob Dylan. I'd say Sergeant Pepper is the height of that ( spotify ). Who's Next (1971) ( Spotify ). Here's my Bob Dylan post . In 4th grade someone had a Barracuda single by Heart ( spotify ).  My neighbors ...

His obituary appeared yesterday.  John Ruocco (1952-2025) was born in New Haven, Connecticut, played with  Dizzy Gillespie, Art Farmer, Slide Hampton, Ed Soph, Beaver Harris, Teddy Edwards, Toots Thielemans and many more, and was the director of the Dutch Jazz Orchestra and of The Hague Conservatory big band.  He has been living and working in Europe since 1979. I listened to Leib Plays the Beatles 2013 spotify , which he plays on. No, maybe... YouTube . Like someone in love YouTube  10/01/2014.

When you love music, there is also a tendency to develop, perhaps Misophonia. Car alarms and honking really get to me. I get inordinately upset with my daughter drumming her fingers. Noise pollution maybe isn't misophonia, it's just natural. I sometimes get really sensitive when I meditate a lot and I just cry at the littlest thing. Sound sensitivity also seems to be really rampant from lots of meditation. Got a book called This is What It Sounds Like by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas. Really fascinating because she was a sound engineer for Prince, who was her favorite artist, and she lived out her dream of working as a sound engineer. And she got to talk to Miles Davis. And then she went to study neurology.  There's a soundtrack to the songs she mentions in the book on spotify .  “It doesn't happen automatically. Listening is not the same as hearing. Listening is an active process, not a passive one, and becoming a competent musical listener requires curiosity, effort, and...

I haven't seen him in a while. His music is complex, dissonant. I think I bought a CD of his. Moved so many times, can't remember where all my CDs are.  He's in the news because he criticized another artist's work ( Consequence ,  Stereogum ). The first article has a link to Amazon music of the Andre 300 album. I'm not going to listen to it. (Also  review of album .) Outside the controversy, the moment reminded me of him. It's a shame something like this is something that reminds me of him, but maybe he's right to draw attention to himself, and criticize another.  When people in the know think you're a genius, and you're not getting any attention, it's got to be hard.  Shipp recorded with David S. Ware from 1991-2016, then he played with a bunch of different people, and he's played with  Ivo Perelman since 1996 to 2022. Meanwhile he's put out his own records, his trio with Michael Bisio, Newman Taylor Baker is the most frequent collabora...