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CheKi-CheAu เชกิ เชอู

Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2012 05:47 PM Subject: RE: The Chaeki-chaeue PR From: ดิปุ๊นุ คีปูซู To: jfl@robinlea.com Hi…John Francis Lee part 01 http://youtube.com/watch?v=BSJiRr_iZKg Part 02 http://youtube.com/watch?v=qGJ5aQJLrOY > Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 16:22:39 +0700 > From: jfl@robinlea.com > Subject: The … Continue reading

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Charlie Parker and friends

Clyde Hart’s All Stars Dizzy Gillespie – Trumpet Trummy Young – Trombone, Vocal Tiny Grimes (?) – Guitar Charlie Parker – Alto Sax Don Byas – Tenor Sax Clyde Hart – Piano Al Hall – Bass Specs Powell – Drums … Continue reading

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Peace and love

Peace, love, and a fanciful global consciousness were salient themes in the 1960′s and they had an effect on jazz just as they did on folk and rock. In 1964 John Coltrane recorded A Love Supreme, and the first track … Continue reading

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Musica del Sur de Tejas

That last town I lived in the USA was Corpus Christi, TX. On the mouth of the Nueces River it’s the ‘border’ between Tejas and Texas. All of Texas south of the Nueces was Mexico… invaded, occupied, and annexed by … Continue reading

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He insisted he was only trying to emulate the sounds he heard in his head

Rahsaan Roland Kirk is a great, great figure in jazz. Jazz musicians are often magnetic personalities along more than ‘just’ their musical dimensions… although music seems the purest of the expressive arts and perhaps for that reason seems the preferred … Continue reading

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John Sinclair – “Monk’s Dream”

Some folks draw inspiration yet… View Google Map …as do we, on the other side of the world. John Sinclair – “Monks Dream” In the middle of the night. On the east side of Detroit. Off behind Mack and Gratiot, … Continue reading

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Do you like jazz?

I love jazz. I’ve listened to it for years. But youtube has pictures. Moving pictures of actual performances! Here are three of my favorite musicians. All long dead now. But I remember… Eric Dolphy died at 36, John Coltrane at … Continue reading

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