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    What are you listening to?

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    8 hours ago, Aethelwine said:

    My introduction to music as a young teenager was mainly through picking up albums at the lending library taking them home and recording the ones i found interesting on to cassette. One of them was the Sun Ra Strange Celestial Road album.

    I love that track but I have struggled to get a grip on the huge catalogue of his music, so much of it from ones I picked out were too freeform jazz influenced for my taste. There is a funkiness and maybe even afrobeat influence to the live performance you linked to that I wasn't expecting. I recently got a compilation of his late 50s recordings that surprised me and are great, way ahead of their time. I really need to put a bit more effort in to checking out his catalogue of music. 

    After a screechy start this moves in to a great groove...

     

    I grew up with classical music. Both parents professional musicians.
    In my early twenties I took my first saxophone lessons. My teacher was a Charlie Parker fan. 
    Every saturday I went to the music library and copied every LP of Parker I could find on cassette. 52 LP's. Even some Bean Denebetti recordings. I stll have that collection. The sound quality is bad but I cherish it.

    I have a classic taste for jazz. bebop, hardbop, west coast. I tried Ornette Coleman and such but always go back to my old heroes.

    About Dean Benedetti :  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Benedetti


     

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    What are you listening to?

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    9 hours ago, Aethelwine said:

     

    Great album !

    Sun Ra is a band you should hear live. I saw  the band twice. Somewhere in the late 80ties at the NSJF when the festival was still at the Hague and again in 2014 when the festival was in my home town. 

    Found a nice video from the Hague 1979  :
     



     

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    What are you listening to?

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    Jutta Hipp, I heard her for the first time in  in a set of a DJ in SL
    I looked her up in You Tube and found a lot. Downloaded a lot of tracks and even bought some Japanese import CD's
    She played together with Zoot Sims. They made some albums together. I found her style special.

    She had a kind of sad life
    A special story is when she lives alone in New York at old age, forgotten as a jazz musician. She receives a letter from Blue Note. There were still forgotten royalties of her Blue Note recordings. Blue Note payed her more than 30.000 USD....a bit late, but better late than never...
    Jutta died in 2003

    Wiki  :   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Hipp
     

     

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