Dutch Baby with Bananas Foster topping and thik cut bacon. Health food....
9:15am
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Never lost power, as we're just west of the border PG&E fixed. However, my employer was out for days, so...no work! At least, no work *at* work. Such a fiasco, PG&E.
I do, a little, @LG. He had music from some Japanese animated series in there, iirc.
9:46am
Dean:
You're welcome.
The oldest record store in California closed yesterday after 75 years, a gospel record store with a stock of books, Bibles, study aids, choir robes, and assorted paraphernalia.
The thing that revolts me about Ken Burns’ work is that it feels the necessity to present each of its subjects, individual sources and broad themes alike, through the rose-colored lens of absolute positivity. As if showing history in all its messy complexity wouldn’t be compelling or, dare I say entertaining, enough.
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9:49am
Dave in St Albans UK:
Today's show is going down well with me. Had a rough night after my flu vaccine yesterday. The music has lifted me out of my mood of self pity. Thanks.
The Falcon and the Snowman (I almost repeated your typo) music was written by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays. Wikipedia informs me that Lyle Mays is currently working as a "software manager." What??
Speaking of things ending, I understand John Schaefer is being canceled at WNYC. Almost makes me want to cancel my membership. Listen to him, at least the Gig Alert, almost every day (could FMU, the main station or the Drummer Stream, possibly give him air time? Just a thought...)
@doctorjazz... John Schaefer canceled???!!! They got rid of all the live djs at Newsounds, their contemporary classical stream. Some of them were very good, like Phil Kline and Nadia Sarota. Now this?
But you do know Coleman's music was not used in the movie. The movie guys decided it was too intense or whatever and got music from Ravi Shankar instead. Not that I am complaining, just spewing random trivia that may or may not matter.
Ah, right, @WRfromElmhurt! I think I once knew that but had forgotten. I guess it's still "film music" in inpiriation, so I think we can allow it on a technicality. If not also basic musical grounds.
Public radio has consistently reduced its commitment to music and moved to a (more popular) all-news/talk format over the past 20 years. It used to be that you could listen to music in the afternoon and then hear All Things Considered. Now the entire afternoon and evening are filled with rehashing the news. But if they play Ornette Coleman, some listeners might turn off the radio, so instead we hear pundits. This is really awful.
Seems there's not enough talk at WNYC...they got a new station manager, and they're reclaiming that 11-midnight hour. (Some years back he had a great afternoon show, Soundcheck, an hour long, that featured a live set by a musician in the studio. Don't know the circumstances of that cancellation, though).
Loved Soundcheck. Schaefer was --is!-- such a wonderfully friendly guide to wild and wooly and NEW sounds.
10:16am
Dean:
That NYT article reminds me of the shittier days of LA's Pacifica radio station, KPFK, when Mark Schubb was GM, cutting and canceling shows left and right due to some imagined ideal listener's preferences. Cynical bullshit.
Public radio is supposed to preserve our culture and provide services that AREN'T popular (which is why they aren't on commercial radio). They have drifted far away from that.
i think similar things have happened at WGBH, the Boston public radio station. they used to have jazz all night long every night, but i think Eric in the Evening is now just 3 nights a week for 3 hours. Though honestly I don't ever listen to public radio anymore here, what with WMBR and WHRB filling most of my non-WFMU listening.
In the end, they are commercial in their well. They have commercials (though they don't call them that). They probably keep an eye on ratings, who generates the most donations, etc. It IS expensive to do something like this in places like NYC, I'm sure, but still...
On a different, ahem, note, saw Wilco last night. Man, I really like that band (and Nels Cline alone is worth the price of admission, though that price is getting quite hefty these days).
@UM... "Somewhere" does sound a bit like Nature Boy.
10:28am
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When I first arrived in NYC in ‘83, I was blown away by the record stores. I had haunted some good shops in DC, and I regarded the annual catalog of the New Music Distribution Service as a record store-by-mail (and treated it virtually like a porno mag). But the variety, abundance and accessibility of vinyl in New York was breathtaking. That said, I was on a very tight budget, so I did a lot of record-bin flicking and liner note scanning, and only occasional purchasing. Some record shops had their most desirable and rare offerings mounted in plastic sleeves on the walls, and I experienced these places like museums. I liked to just go and be in the presence of the wonderments. One such place was Bleecker Street Jazz (am I remembering them name right?), which for at least a decade had a copy of Chappaqua Suite on the wall bearing the absurd price tag of $75. I gazed up at that object for years and years. When the record was finally reissued by some Italian outfit, I spent $20 and snarfed it up. For a while, the music kind of let me down, impossible to meet my outrageous expectations. But over the years that disappointment has melted away and now I just adore every moment.
WNYC pretty much gutted music programming with 9/11. New Sounds, and Jonathan Schwartz's Saturday sands Sunday shows (which were taken over by someone else in a blander version) were all that remained of music... And, from the Times article, they will cut the Sunday show, but the Saturday night one will stay.
we had absolutely fantastic record stores when i lived in ny, 1970 - 1994. absolutely fabulous.
the Soho Music Gallery on Wooster near Canal was amazing. an old industrial space just filled with light & music. superb.
I'd guess that $75 album sells for a good bit more now (hell, vinyl reissues go from $30-50; some,like the Hendrix "Limited Edition Audiophile Remastered" Axis Bold As Love, sold at $100... And sold out quickly)
'83 is before my time. When I took my job in NYC in 2001, my office was across the street from Tower Records and a block away from New Music. Downtown Music Gallery was then a few blocks' walk. When I left this year, the only place one could buy new music nearby was at the Barnes & Noble at Union Square. Kind of light on the Ornette Coleman there.
I used to go to three Jazz Record Center on 26th Street, up an elevator, would leave weighted down. (They moved there from another site,but I don't recall the address of that one).
knew Yale Evalev intimately (as they say) when he managed the place. his knowledge of music was phenomenal & he loved sharing what he knew. opened my eyes & ears for sure.
@doctorjazz: The folks at Modern Harmonic have commercially released a DVD of the entire Sun Ra/John Cage show at Coney Island. I watched with me mouth agape for the entire thing: www.modernharmonic.com...
Doug. Super wonderful that you were there for the Cage / Sun Ra performance. Got that release recently. So bizarre and lovely in so many different aspects. I gotta jump. Thank you Jeff and all for the sounds and thoughts. Fuel for keeping on.
Only just getting started here on the Drummer stream! Up in about 20 min, it's The Stork Club, over here: wfmu.org...
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