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You can see a kid trying to navigate an unformed world, a world we now know as the modern music business. He was self-aware, though, and brought a new vulnerability and disregard to performing. In Hollywood he becomes commodified and put under a kind of artistic house arrest. It is frustrating to read how often his intentions and creative ideas were thwarted.
His music had become carefully controlled and the way he had made his great early music was undermined. When I want to cheer myself up, I think of Ian Dury — the best lyricist in English music, who fused music hall and funk, the first Cockney rapper. The Lyrics of Ian Dury , edited by his daughter, is sublimely useful.
Along with great photographs and a tender memoir, it collects the words for all the songs. This letter is utopian: I thought, well, if she can write a book, I can. And it is really entertaining.
I feel like I have to work and produce things in order to feel good about myself. She felt good about sleeping with somebody who did something. And I know that sounds really regressive, but I think she had a great sense of self. I instantly fell in love with the band on first hearing their album 20 Jazz Funk Greats. They were, and maybe still are, the band that gets the most polarised reaction when I play their records — as the book makes clear, they got under the skin of almost everyone, causing either outrage or infatuation.
What they were doing still sounds cutting-edge now, but in , it was enough for people to call for them to be jailed, deported or banned from public performance. The book stands as a blueprint for what bands need to do to shake up the landscape. Life by Keith Richards with James Fox Life is much more than a ghosted rock autobiography. Keith Richards is a voracious reader, and in James Fox he hired no mere pop hack but a proper journo and author. Richards should have been dead years ago.
Then again, he can afford not to be circumspect, knowing Jagger ultimately needs him more than he needs Jagger. But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer But the author, drifting between fiction, photographic criticism and cultural history, makes them new again — vivid, raw, romantic. Of heroin-addicted saxophonist Art Pepper, back at the age of 52 for yet another comeback show: Writing about music is like dancing about architecture, so goes the famous quote.
Reading about it is even worse. I have friends with shelves full of music biographies: Everything is scrutinised to death: The first is Lost in Music by Giles Smith. Rock biographies are often worthy and self-aggrandising but this is brilliantly funny and self-deprecating. Too much is written about pop success: As a musician, Everett battles corporate rock to the point of self-destruction. After beating an attempted murder charge, he shifted focus to musical production, combining eastern esoterica and Five-Percent Nation of Islam doctrine — along with a sprinkling of angel dust — to forge the Wu-Tang myth.
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The book portrays Clan members as bright kids from tough environments, at once both nerds and gangsters, who used the adolescent vocabulary of chess, comic books and kung fu to interpret the adult world of drug-dealing and violence. Paradoxical Undressing by Kristin Hersh Kristin Hersh is no ordinary musician, and her mind is unlike any other. It was a year when everything happened.
She was diagnosed as a schizophrenic, then bipolar.
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She was offered her first recording contract, with 4AD. She discovered she was pregnant. And she became unlikely friends with faded Hollywood movie star, Betty Hutton. This female Kurt Cobain — he was a fan of her work — has forged her own brave path, often against enormous odds.
And she writes better sentences than most writers do.
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He devotes more space to one-hit wonders Edison Lighthouse than to Led Zeppelin , delivers a withering verdict on some surprising sacred cows — Joni Mitchell , Patti Smith , Steely Dan — and is great at unearthing a forgotten quote that challenges what you might call the authorised version of events: Best of all, he makes you laugh out loud while getting directly to the heart of the matter. Alan spent a lifetime taking his research further afield, recording in remote corners of the globe.
In so doing, he began to notice relationships between how people sang and what their societies were like. He noticed, for example, that polyphonic choral singing flourished in matriarchal societies, which also cherished purity of vocal tone. Male-dominated societies pearl fishermen, native Americans , on the other hand, valued strong, harsh, single voices — individualistic narrative voices.
Lomax also noticed that the more levels of social hierarchy a society exhibited, the more intervals notes in the musical scale they used think of Indian singing versus pygmy singing. For me, it is a most provocative work in that it isolates a lot of the things that singers do in such a way that you can start thinking about them and pondering how they came to evolve and what use can be made of them. It makes you think about music in an entirely different way. This is the ultimate account of the punk rock movement in the UK. It manages to tell the story of a fascinating cultural explosion in vivid detail and places the events in social context while at the same time making it seem a personal discovery.
The combination of the events, historical facts and the authoritative skill in the writing makes it not just academically brilliant but a book about people whose story changed everything. Memoirs by Hector Berlioz The temperament of a composer is an unusual one. He needs to be outgoing, to engage with performers, impresarios and audiences. But he must spend long hours in solitary contemplation, reflection and withdrawal, considering individual notes and sounds. Berlioz wrote much of the Memoirs in a foul mood, and they have both an irresistible buoyancy and absurdity, and often return, lovingly, to the bastards who have done Berlioz down over the years.
Berlioz was born into an energetic, patchy, philistine musical environment, and some of the best stories in the book are about his single-handed attempts to restore standards. Later on, the fates of some of his greatest works were placed in the hands of his enemies; at the first performance of the Requiem , the conductor chose the worst possible moment to put his baton down, mid-movement, and take a pinch of snuff.
The detailed, disgruntled account of his professional life is part of it, but the magic, I think, of the Memoirs is also in his absurd, ardent accounts of falling in love — with Harriet Smithson, an actor in Shakespeare, or, most entrancingly, a girl called Estelle when he was a mere boy.
To illustrate how new immigrant music continues to influence older forms as it becomes part of the American experience, the New-Trad Octet perform a concert at the end of the residency. Students also learn about the various roles of wind instruments of the brass and woodwind families in the history of American music. The residency also addresses fifth-grade curriculum with its social studies focus on American history, Westward expansion and regional history by studying the musical traditions of Mississippi blues and Missouri ragtime through the examples of Robert Johnson, W.
Handy and Scott Joplin. A testimonial to the value of the residencies comes from Julie Schultz, a fifth-grade teacher whose students participated in the program. It is the inclusion of Mr. Newell does not forget his own roots in describing his ongoing attraction to American roots music of all sorts and how it leads naturally to these residencies.
The seeds of my interest in brass bands and their ubiquitous presence in 19th-century America also came out of some conversations I had with Jack Snider years ago, while we were both playing in the Lincoln Municipal Band. We extend our congratulations to Jeff Newell and the New-Trad Octet for their good work in the classroom as well as on the bandstand. It still provides a venue for local artists to ply a trade, sharpen a lick and develop a following.
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Some have been taking the well-worn stage for decades, while others are relatively new to the experience. Here we take a look at three live music events held at the venerable Zoo in recent months.
The Tijuana Gigolos are a group of talented local musicians who have found a very compatible groove and a very loyal following at the Zoo, packing the place on Friday afternoons about once a month and also bringing out fans on special occasions, such as the recent early show p. In recent years, they added secret weapon Joshua Hoyer, with his soulful vocals and saxophone. Jones also handles an assortment of percussion instruments, including timbales, congas, bongos, percussion, and coros. The horn section of Mike Brownson on trumpet and Ed Love on saxophones and flute provide brassy punctuation, while bassist Brian Morrow and versatile keyboardist Tom Harvill add their own flair.
At the heart of their sound is Son Cubano, combining a Spanish influence with African-derived rhythms and percussion instruments. Son was popularized in Havana in the early 20th century, but the modern sound began in the s, adding bolero and mamba influences and leading to the development of salsa. After several years of gigging at a local dance club and a few other venues in the Capital City, they recently completed their first recording, which should be available soon. He was heading east with his wife to settle in New Jersey. A large contingent of friends, fans and fellow musicians turned out on a Sunday afternoon to see them off and to hear Cidlik play one more time.
Among the musicians who took the stage with the guest of honor were guitarists Jeff Boehmer and Doug Rosekrans and bassist Dave Morris, but the spotlight was on Cid, who showed us he still has what it takes to move an audience with his heartfelt vocals and killer piano. Cidlik had been a touchstone of the Zoo Bar since its inception, performing a variety of rock, blues and jazz. His gravelly voice and hard-swinging piano were heavily influenced by the Kansas City boogie-woogie style of Jay McShann. Alaadeen himself died of bladder cancer Aug.
The feeling was mutual. Here are a few choice excerpts: We had Grace and him over to the house for dinner once. Grace loved our pear tree… said it reminded her of home in Nigeria. So quite a few times, Fanny and I drove up for a weekend.
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