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And those Counce records are dazzling. Glad to see I'm not the only one who owns 'em.
Thanks to my local public library, those Curtis Counce (or at least ONE of those Curtis Counce albums) was one of the first things I heard (and DUG!) when I was in 8th grade and trying to educate myself about 'jazz'. Also there: Charles Mingus - ? (some two-fer on Impulse that had basically all of Black Saint and the Sinner Lady and Mingusx5 with a track or two from the solo piano album tagged on. Changed my life and made me Silver Spring's biggest Mingus fan) John Coltrane - Ascension (didn't know what to think of it, but I kept checking it out over and over again and playing it - hey, I was only 14 years old!) Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz (ditto) Bless the libraries. Steve
CuneiWay@aol.com wrote:
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And those Counce records are dazzling. Glad to see I'm not the only one who owns 'em.
Thanks to my local public library, those Curtis Counce (or at least ONE of those Curtis Counce albums) was one of the first things I heard (and DUG!) when I was in 8th grade and trying to educate myself about 'jazz'.
Also there:
Charles Mingus - ? (some two-fer on Impulse that had basically all of Black Saint and the Sinner Lady and Mingusx5 with a track or two from the solo piano album tagged on. Changed my life and made me Silver Spring's biggest Mingus fan)
John Coltrane - Ascension (didn't know what to think of it, but I kept checking it out over and over again and playing it - hey, I was only 14 years old!)
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz (ditto)
Bless the libraries.
Oh yeah...I heard Miles Big Fun, Partchs The Dreamer That Remains b/w Cage (New World?), A Love Supreme, L. Shankar playing Palavi (Nonesuch Explorer)....all by the time I was 18 or 19. I knew who Shankar was because of the Shatki connection, but it was a trip to hear real Indian Classical music. -- * David Beardsley * microtonal guitar * http://biink.com/db
on 12/19/03 12:24 PM, David Beardsley at db@biink.com wrote:
CuneiWay@aol.com wrote:
Bless the libraries.
Being in South Philly circa 1976 (not a bastion of enlightenment by any standards, except those of a hockey fan), our libraroes were quite quite the cultural havens that others enjoyed. Most of the LPs were Eugene ormandy/Phila Orch classical recordings. Occasionally, something like the Columbia 50 YEARS OF JAZZ GUITAR set or THE WORLD OF JOHNNY CASH would find their way in, and I took those records out over and over again. Books on the performing arts were relatively scarce -- mostly movie star bios -- but one book that I loved (and eventually stole) was Pete Seeger's THE INCOMPLEAT FOLKSINGER, which I think is one of the fascinating books about music in the 1960s. nother book they had that I read a few times was LeRoi Jones' BLACK MUSIC, which then I suspected was largely some guy raving. His dismissal of a pre-Miles Wayne Shorter (and the book was written before Wayne joined Miles) is hilarious in retrospect. My wife is now getting her master's in library science. Please don;t tell her about the Seeger book. skip h
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