B_hungprepjock
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Sorry about that! Back to the topic...
2009-10 marks the fiftieth anniversary of two of the most seminal albums in contemporary jazz history: Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and John Coltrane's Giant Steps. Two Absolute Must Haves!
I listen to WPFW, the Pacifica Foundation radio station in Washington, D.C., a lot, but especially the very knowledgeable Rusty Hassan on Monday nights and Tim Masters on Thursdays, as well as the various 'hip-hop collectives' of DJs that follow the weekday evening line-ups at 11 p.m. (like Bushhead Ed and the Decipher Soul Controllers on Thursdays; Big Ups, Ed!). I've learned a lot about jazz, the blues (The Stoop-Down Song; Baby, Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On; I'm Leaving Footprints on the Ceiling) and hip-hop, just by listening to that one station. You can pick it up on the Web as well as in podcasts. As Dizzy Gillespie says (in the station promo): 'Hope you got wit' dat, baby!'
My mom is really into Bossa Nova, and those catchy Samba rhythms are usually always playing on the Bolton system in our house. For the last couple of years, however, I've got more into other 'Sounds of Brazil' than just Sergio Mendes, such as the hawt girls of CSS and Marina Gasolina (title of a song by, and public image of the former lead singer of the group Bonde do Role; it just ain't the same group live without Marina, but the CD still rawks to a danceable hip-hop beat). I've been lucky to know some Brazilians in my life, and I think they all must be born dancing.
Growing up in the nineties, I was also inordinately fond of Kriss Kross' Totally Krossed Out (Check the track Little Boyz in tha Hood: 'Straight up, Homie!'), though as I got older I got into more sophisticated hip-hop; e.g., Public Enemy, NWA, De La Soul, Eric B and Rakim, A Tribe Called Quest, Snoop Dogg (especially Tha Chronic; Word up, White People, you need to listen to it!), M.I.A. as well as those artists already mentioned, while still remaining true to those two icons of my misspent youth, Run DMC and Eminem. You can basically blame Russell Simmons and Dr Dré for corrupting me!
For current trends in funk and soul, I, too, like Karl Denson's Tiny Universe (Check Where It Counts for some tricky syncopation); Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings (the house band at Daptone Records who also backed Amy Winehouse on her mega-selling, award-winning album); The-Dream (Rockin' That Thang) who also produced Mary J. Blige's last multi-award-winning album) and Les Savy Fav.
It's always struck me as curious how music, as much as it changes, still seems to evolve and to advance more slowly than the other arts (e.g., painting and sculpture), but always somehow stays the same in so many fundamental ways, from Bach to the Beatles, as they say...
Now, back to listening to Belle & Sebastian's respectful but also totally dope cover of Here Comes the Sun...
2009-10 marks the fiftieth anniversary of two of the most seminal albums in contemporary jazz history: Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and John Coltrane's Giant Steps. Two Absolute Must Haves!
I listen to WPFW, the Pacifica Foundation radio station in Washington, D.C., a lot, but especially the very knowledgeable Rusty Hassan on Monday nights and Tim Masters on Thursdays, as well as the various 'hip-hop collectives' of DJs that follow the weekday evening line-ups at 11 p.m. (like Bushhead Ed and the Decipher Soul Controllers on Thursdays; Big Ups, Ed!). I've learned a lot about jazz, the blues (The Stoop-Down Song; Baby, Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On; I'm Leaving Footprints on the Ceiling) and hip-hop, just by listening to that one station. You can pick it up on the Web as well as in podcasts. As Dizzy Gillespie says (in the station promo): 'Hope you got wit' dat, baby!'
My mom is really into Bossa Nova, and those catchy Samba rhythms are usually always playing on the Bolton system in our house. For the last couple of years, however, I've got more into other 'Sounds of Brazil' than just Sergio Mendes, such as the hawt girls of CSS and Marina Gasolina (title of a song by, and public image of the former lead singer of the group Bonde do Role; it just ain't the same group live without Marina, but the CD still rawks to a danceable hip-hop beat). I've been lucky to know some Brazilians in my life, and I think they all must be born dancing.
Growing up in the nineties, I was also inordinately fond of Kriss Kross' Totally Krossed Out (Check the track Little Boyz in tha Hood: 'Straight up, Homie!'), though as I got older I got into more sophisticated hip-hop; e.g., Public Enemy, NWA, De La Soul, Eric B and Rakim, A Tribe Called Quest, Snoop Dogg (especially Tha Chronic; Word up, White People, you need to listen to it!), M.I.A. as well as those artists already mentioned, while still remaining true to those two icons of my misspent youth, Run DMC and Eminem. You can basically blame Russell Simmons and Dr Dré for corrupting me!
For current trends in funk and soul, I, too, like Karl Denson's Tiny Universe (Check Where It Counts for some tricky syncopation); Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings (the house band at Daptone Records who also backed Amy Winehouse on her mega-selling, award-winning album); The-Dream (Rockin' That Thang) who also produced Mary J. Blige's last multi-award-winning album) and Les Savy Fav.
It's always struck me as curious how music, as much as it changes, still seems to evolve and to advance more slowly than the other arts (e.g., painting and sculpture), but always somehow stays the same in so many fundamental ways, from Bach to the Beatles, as they say...
Now, back to listening to Belle & Sebastian's respectful but also totally dope cover of Here Comes the Sun...
