Maybe i will never appreciate jazz
Comments(0) Maybe i will never appreciate jazz like a musician can do but, how my friend uses to say, “this is THE MUSIC” so open your ear and let it touch you.
Nice sentence (a little bit solemn ah?!), anyway it’s the nitty-gritty.
This time Les McCann is the teacher, topic is “how you can play jazz piano in a non-regular way” and “Much Les” is going to be the issue.
Les McCann is a really under-rated jazz artist from the 60s. He plays a very soulful piano. “Much Les” features some driving riffs and great backing rhythm. The music on here is very accessible, even to non-jazz-heads.
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It makes you wish he did an entire album with vocals since he pulls it off nicely. This is definitely good soulful piano-trio jazz.
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Entirely beautiful free-form, improvisational playing from some of the most talented players in the then-LA session scene. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Stevie Wonder was
listening to Les McCann’s songs HEAVILY when he recorded his mid 70’s triumphs because the electric piano sounds and textured melodies on this album bare the stamp of no one else-the overall record ranking in artistic influence right up there with Wonder’s,Gaye’s and Isaac Hayes’s recent work. But Les did it first.
Gotta love the Losties. Wednesday’s season finale was gripping — and so was, no shock, fans’ subsequent efforts to solve some of the show’s lingering mysteries.
For example — and warning, SPOILER AHEAD:
The finale’s flashback — excuse me, flash forward — shows Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) reading the newspaper on a plane landing at LAX. Jack sees an obituary, looks upset, and tears out the short article.
The episode later takes us to the funeral home where the victim’s body rests. The casket remains closed, and we never learn who died. But never fear, we can find some clues to the dead person’s identity thanks to fans’ captures of the newspaper obituary online. This image seems to suggest that the victim was a man whose name begins with “Jo” (or “Ja”). The man, described as being “of New York” may have committed suicide, possibly by hanging himself, in the middle of the night, in a downtown L.A. loft. (See another image here.)
As my cohort Erik Malinowski notes, imagine the effort that producers go to for this screen grab: they create a full obituary, and then have Matthew Fox hold it in such a way that key details are both visible and obscured. Because they know the fans are nuts enough to analyze the screen grab.
can’t exactly argue with the crowd’s verdict, and in most cases I agree with it. We’ve had tremendous response to a handful of subjects, including the creation of Citizendium (we recently published the resulting article on Wired.com); and crowdsourcing in the novel, journalism and film. Clearly there’s a thread to be teased out here. People get enthusiastic about culture, and how participatory technologies are changing the way it’s produced and distributed. Likewise the topic of crowdsourcing in religion has drawn thoughtful, insightful reportage, and this too is understandable and to be applauded. I look forward to the results from all these projects.
But that said, I fear we’re being forced to discard a few topics that I view as indispensable to any exploration of this phenomenon. Chief among these lacunae is the rise of the microstock industry. Stock photography has been irrevocably changed by the emergence of cheap, royalty-free photography, much of it shot by amateurs and sold through the so-called “microstock” agencies. Microstock undercuts its traditional stock photo competitors by well over 90 percent, and comprises, as far as I can tell, the most mature development of a crowdsourcing model in any industry. Anyone interested in how user-generated content is going to transform mass media needs to pay serious attention to the roiling waters in the photography world.
I know that a lot of photographers subscribe to my feed, or check this blog out regularly, and I’m hoping a few of you will agree with me and decide to contribute. We need people to interview key players involved with iStockPhoto, Fotolia, and ShutterStock, et. al. in an effort to determine how these companies have helped transform the world of stock photography. Who else should we interview? Are you ready to take some time to pitch in and increase our coverage of micostock houses? Let the editors of Assignment zero know here.