Burl Veneer’s Music Blog Vox 2008-04-27T13:57:28Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d4144aef1d3c7f/tags/jazz/ Songs I Like Miles Davis: Prelude tag:vox.com,2008-04-27:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cf26d610002 2008-04-27T13:57:28Z 2008-04-27T13:57:28Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

04 - Prelude

As an addendum to my previous post, I've found a usable (i.e. under 20 minutes) edit of "Prelude" from Agharta, the electric-era Miles Davis tune that opened up a whole new area of music to me in 1991.

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]]> Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood give me goosebumps tag:vox.com,2008-04-26:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48d10e4d60001 2008-04-26T16:00:13Z 2008-04-27T13:10:52Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I've liked Medeski Martin and Wood ever since I first heard them on the Get Shorty soundtrack (one of the grooviest soundtracks to a mainstream movie since the 70s), but I only ever got a couple of their albums. One that I bought was their first ...

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02 Sorcery Keith Jarrett-Charles Lloyd - Sorcery

More often than not I learn about music backwards, that is, in reverse chronological order. When I posted "Sorcery" by Poland's Big Band Katowice back in October, it did not occur to me to wonder about the song's origin. It was just today, liste...

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Build An Ark - Track 4

Catching up on my music backlog today I discovered a definite keeper, Dawn, the newish album by twenty-member L.A. jazz collective Build An Ark. They seem to be channeling spiritual jazz and folk straight out of the 70s with real authority, proba...

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]]> Bass porn: Mark King tag:vox.com,2007-11-12:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398bcf6b40004 2007-11-12T23:08:30Z 2007-11-13T20:42:29Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Mark King live at the Jazz Café [Mr Pink bass solo] Level 42 - Good Man in a Storm Level 42 on The Fast Show

No thread about Bass Porn would be complete without Mark King; here he is at his most indulgent in a live performance at the Jazz Café. Can you listen to the opening notes without thinking of Jerry, George, Kramer, and Elaine? For all the slapp...

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Black Rock

Nowadays James Blood Ulmer is making blues albums, produced by Vernon Reid, and they're pretty good. But it's his albums for Columbia in the 1980s that I love the most: the upbeat tempos, Ulmer's growling voice and singular guitar soloing, Ronnie...

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Big Band Katowice - Sorcery Hattie_Wall

When last I blogged I was trying to decide what to do next from among three choices; I have decided to knock out two of them in this post and save the third for its own, as it is a rarity that I don't want to bury. So continuing the Deep Funk Aro...

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Big Organ Trio - Road Rage

I thought I was done with the Cruisin' thread, but I just picked up the debut album by LA's slyly-named Big Organ Trio and "Road Rage" cried out for inclusion. Mike Mangan mans the B3 here, getting an almost guitar-like sound on his leads via a w...

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Robert Musso_Active Resonance_03_All Funked Up

Robert Musso's "All Funked Up" isn't fast enough to be a cruising-down-the-freeway song, so it is my official "cruising-down-the-boulevard-with-the-top-down" song (with the same qualifications as the previous entry, plus there is no boulevard in I...

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01-Scratch

My earliest musical memory is watching my dad play his flute along with Herbie Mann's Our Mann Flute album, from 1966. The title is a pun on Our Man Flint, the James Coburn superspy movie with a cool theme song by Jerry Goldsmith, covered on this...

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