Tag Archives: Jazz
Logan Walters’ Wu-Tang Design Remix project
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | Logan Walters As you see, Logan Walters is doing a complete set of parallel universe Wu Tang album covers, primarily inspired by the Blue Note catalogue. It could be very tacky, but manages not … more…
Quintette du Hot Club de France
(lots more Django links at MeFi, thx nicolin)
links for 2007-08-29: graphics tablet, reefer madness, Cecil Taylor
Bongofish – DIY Cintiq homebrewed graphics tablet / screen, step by step… (tags: howto graphics tablet hardware DIY) AlterNet: DrugReporter: Pot Growers Are New Target in “War on Terror” Under Bush, terror has become a justification for any and every … more…
Max Roach 1924-2007
Max Roach, 1948 Max Roach, pre-eminent jazz drummer, teacher, first jazz musician to recieve MacArthur “genius” grant, is dead at 83. “You used to play with Charlie Parker. How can you work with those guys?” he was asked by those … more…
links for 2007-08-01: roots music, sourdough
The Roots Music Listening Room Lots of early C20th folk and roots music. Debatable whether or not the low bit rate rendering of what is already low-res recordings is as much of a problem as it would be for modern … more…
Bagpipe Jazz
The essence of a great music blog is devotion to some kind of niche, and bagpipe jazz is indisputably a niche of the most extreme kind. Office Naps offers MP3s of what he claims are all three examples of bagpipe … more…
Hellfighters movie, and Buddy Bolden
Further to last night’s humungous post on the Harlem Hellfighters, today I’ve stumbled across testimony to the existence, somewhere out there in the world, of Our Hellfighters, aka Our Hellfighters Return (1918), a silent documentary short. No sign of any … more…
Harlem Hellfighters
Not entirely sure how I got here — possibly something to do with my current book-reading, Richard Powers’ The Time of Our Singing, about which I will report when I finish it — but I’ve just been reading about the … more…
Jazz-poetry in Flash
Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES Jazz / poetry in Flash. It works. Check out Beckett Bounce, All Fall Down, Lotus Blossom… multilingual versions available. Hard to look away. (via wood s lot)
Lord Buckley revisited
A couple of weeks ago, I blinked a couple of Lord Buckley sites, and suddenly the hipster leviathan breaks the surface with a new biography, Dig Infinity! The Life And Art of Lord Buckley, reviewed by Douglas Cruickshank in Salon: … more…