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As a Baby Boomer, I have been around when virtually every form of music has been vital. It occurs to me that my ear really hasn't been to the ground to what has been out there this century, though, and that does not make me happy. In another thread, I'm going to ask you to get me up to speed but, first, I thought to hep you guys on great stuff from my gen that may just have skipped over, under, around or thru your notice. Some jazz, some rock, some ladies gettin down to their places. Will add more later if there's response and welcome other boomer/Xers to hook up the millenials wid dey thangs. Here goes:
Gato Barbieri - Last Tango in Paris Jazz Suite: When i became an adult, women were 100 times more a mystery than they are now. Hell, just then breaking out of their societal boxes, they were kinda mysteries to themselves. Last Tango was one of 1st bits of popular art to explore that and it was underlined by perhaps the sexiest score ever. This sample is my favorite piece of orchestral jazz, even better than Charlie Parker's April in Paris kinda stuff.
Small Faces - Happiness Stan: The first, and perhaps last, rock and roll fairy tale.Pure nonsense, pure fun. "Are you all sitty comfytbold 2Square on your botty? Then I'll begin..."
Blues Project - Flute Thing: This introduced a lot of rock fans to the jazz idiom. Mahavishnu Orchestra and Miles Davis's #####es Brew completed the transition to the fusion form that gave us Weather Report et al. The video is interesting for the eastereggs of shots of famous musicians among the crowd reactions and the 1st-i-know-of use of sequencing in the flute solo is still pretty cool.
Laura Nyro - You Don't Love Me When I Cry: Nyro's 'NYTendaberry' was the first window into the female soul for many boomers. Caused young men and women to look at each other differently as dramatically as the Beatles on Sullivan had changed things for us when we were kids.
Zappa and the Mothers - Mudshark Suite (have to hit both links to get the whole thing): So much for sensitivity. Inexplicably, Frank hooked up with the gone-to-seed singers from the Turtles (Happy Together) for an album and a tour before a car accident ended the Mothers thang completely. Disgusting - Howie&Mark were known to hump each other onstage and do a lot of stuff that anticipated Howard Stern and had a ball doing so. The mudshark thing had become a basic groupie test by the time i entered the biz.
Dr. John - Walk On Guilded Splinters: Those who watched Treme may already been put on to this. You wanna gitchoo some gris-gris? Jazz up yo juju? Go no futha than ri'chere, cher.
Humble Pie - I Don't Need No Doctor: Kind of a segue, cuz Pie did "Guilded Splinters" and Marriot sang for Small Faces in "Happiness Stan". ####in' Marriot, maaaan. 5ft-nothin, 12 pounds, little mutha could be heard without a mike. Frampton you likely know, but Li'l Steve is the greatest rock vocalist you may never have heard.
Pointer Sisters - Black Coffee: My favorite torch song performance of all time. Fuhgit Holliday, Vaughn, Garland, Winehouse - Bonnie Pointer is the queen ##### up in heeaaah. Pointer Sisters' !st 2 albums are wildly different from their famous 80s work and, just mebbe, from anything you ever heard.
McCoy Tyner - Song of a New World: Wrapping up this sesh w another orchestral jazz suite, this time from Coltrane's piano man, that i bet not 1-in-a-hundred of my own gen has even heard. Masterpiece.
nufherd
As a Baby Boomer, I have been around when virtually every form of music has been vital. It occurs to me that my ear really hasn't been to the ground to what has been out there this century, though, and that does not make me happy. In another thread, I'm going to ask you to get me up to speed but, first, I thought to hep you guys on great stuff from my gen that may just have skipped over, under, around or thru your notice. Some jazz, some rock, some ladies gettin down to their places. Will add more later if there's response and welcome other boomer/Xers to hook up the millenials wid dey thangs. Here goes:
Gato Barbieri - Last Tango in Paris Jazz Suite: When i became an adult, women were 100 times more a mystery than they are now. Hell, just then breaking out of their societal boxes, they were kinda mysteries to themselves. Last Tango was one of 1st bits of popular art to explore that and it was underlined by perhaps the sexiest score ever. This sample is my favorite piece of orchestral jazz, even better than Charlie Parker's April in Paris kinda stuff.
Small Faces - Happiness Stan: The first, and perhaps last, rock and roll fairy tale.Pure nonsense, pure fun. "Are you all sitty comfytbold 2Square on your botty? Then I'll begin..."
Blues Project - Flute Thing: This introduced a lot of rock fans to the jazz idiom. Mahavishnu Orchestra and Miles Davis's #####es Brew completed the transition to the fusion form that gave us Weather Report et al. The video is interesting for the eastereggs of shots of famous musicians among the crowd reactions and the 1st-i-know-of use of sequencing in the flute solo is still pretty cool.
Laura Nyro - You Don't Love Me When I Cry: Nyro's 'NYTendaberry' was the first window into the female soul for many boomers. Caused young men and women to look at each other differently as dramatically as the Beatles on Sullivan had changed things for us when we were kids.
Zappa and the Mothers - Mudshark Suite (have to hit both links to get the whole thing): So much for sensitivity. Inexplicably, Frank hooked up with the gone-to-seed singers from the Turtles (Happy Together) for an album and a tour before a car accident ended the Mothers thang completely. Disgusting - Howie&Mark were known to hump each other onstage and do a lot of stuff that anticipated Howard Stern and had a ball doing so. The mudshark thing had become a basic groupie test by the time i entered the biz.
Dr. John - Walk On Guilded Splinters: Those who watched Treme may already been put on to this. You wanna gitchoo some gris-gris? Jazz up yo juju? Go no futha than ri'chere, cher.
Humble Pie - I Don't Need No Doctor: Kind of a segue, cuz Pie did "Guilded Splinters" and Marriot sang for Small Faces in "Happiness Stan". ####in' Marriot, maaaan. 5ft-nothin, 12 pounds, little mutha could be heard without a mike. Frampton you likely know, but Li'l Steve is the greatest rock vocalist you may never have heard.
Pointer Sisters - Black Coffee: My favorite torch song performance of all time. Fuhgit Holliday, Vaughn, Garland, Winehouse - Bonnie Pointer is the queen ##### up in heeaaah. Pointer Sisters' !st 2 albums are wildly different from their famous 80s work and, just mebbe, from anything you ever heard.
McCoy Tyner - Song of a New World: Wrapping up this sesh w another orchestral jazz suite, this time from Coltrane's piano man, that i bet not 1-in-a-hundred of my own gen has even heard. Masterpiece.
nufherd
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