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Looks like the number of viable alternatives to avoiding the record companies to distribute music just went up one.

And the name of the song is actually Naima, off of Coltrane's 1959 Giant Steps, not "By The Time I Get To Phoenix." This is just before his original quartet left because Coltrane was diverging from the "old" hard bop structures and going off into some fairly radical free associative phrasing...if you listen to the original on Giant Steps and then this you can hear how far out his solos are becoming. The last two years of his career before his death were spent exploring the edges of free jazz, of which these performances in 1965 were just a harbinger. Nice find

Go onto any filesharing site and type in "remix" or "mixset" into the search. Great way to find totally random cool and hitherto unheard-of stuff, though not find is going to be a keeper.

Oscar Peterson, whose early talent and speedy fingers made him one of the world's best known jazz pianists, died at age 82. His death was confirmed by Hazel McCallion, mayor of Mississauga, Ontario, the Toronto suburb where Peterson lived. McCallion told The Associated Press that he died of kidney failure but that she did not know when. The hospital and police refused to comment. "He's been going downhill in the last few months, slowing up," McCallion said, calling Peterson a "very close friend." During an illustrious career spanning seven decades, Peterson played with some of the biggest names in jazz, including Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie. He is also remembered for touring in a trio with Ray Brown on bass and Herb Ellis on guitar in the 1950s. Read the rest here.

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Too fucking funny. Stupid, too. Wow.

They ruined Lollapalooza. Now Bonnaroo. IS NOTHING SACRED?

Hmmm, velly velly intellesting. You vill come vith me now.

I've stirred up bit of excitement over in Newport, from time to time back in the day Dude! Anyway. A fine lady. A great loss, this, though dying in your sleep at 93 is not a bad way to go. A venerable institution, the Newport Jazz Festival. A tremendous contribution to the elevation of culture and the arts here in RI. The Providence rag hence had a bit more on Mrs. Lorillard than did the Times: Read the rest here

lol I remember seeing David Bowie live about 10 no (that would have been with NIN opening, it wasn't that show) at least 15 years ago singing "Young Americans" and when he got to the line "Break down and cry!" he stopped, the band stopped, and Bowie sat down on the stage and hung his head...then the band churned into a lower key, reggae-version of the tune to which Bowie sung "Break down and cry" over and over. Very cool, but that's Bowie. Of course, Zeppelin can't do something that for every tune...

Happy Turkey Day to everyone here at BeatKing! :D

xcellent video! Here's to all of us getting tickets to see them when they go on tour... We're all going, right?

I hope they come to Boston. Massachusetts. Not Lincolnshire. Well, they can play in Licolnshire as long as they also come to Massachusetts.

I bet they tasted like lobster!

US/UK/AUS: A Hard Day’s Night - The Beatles :rolleyes:

Those maniacs and their crazy flying machines!! [those open tuning settings are pretty cool...]

So are they going to let Demonoid back online? *sits with arms folded, tapping foot.

997,97o

Takes all the fun out of it, and then some, imho. Part of being a (decent) musician is being able to sense pitch and not just to know when something is out of tune, but to know what is out out of tune. Developing a sense of "in-tuneness" helps one to develop a sense of pitch and to be able tell what notes one is listening to. Playing an instrument that goes out of tune from time to time, one can tell something is off--the "seasoning" of a musician involves being able to figure out what that is and fix it. If all one is ever going to do is cop solos from tablature, then it doesn't matter I suppose, but if one aspires to composition, then one should play on an old-fashioned "organic" instrument to gain that expertise. Striking the strings too hard will also induce an instrument to go out of tune--if a guitar is just going to keep readjusting itself then one may never learn the finesse of playing gently or with a sense of dynamics--you learn to let the effects pedals do the work while plucking the strings without slamming them out of tune every 2 minutes. Beginners figure this out sooner or later on a non-robotic/"organic" guitar, but maybe never on one of these robot guitars. I can see this being useful for professional musicians onstage needing to replace a broken string and get back into the fray asap, but for beginner guitarists I would not recommend a robot guitar, unless it's just to get better at Guitar Hero.

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Happy belated 20th bmc! Don't worry--a year goes by like *snap*

Thanks for the cut and paste Dude! Soma.fm is a great resource for anyone looking to hear the interesting and the new in electronica -- I have made a number of new discoveries there. It's in the "BeatKing Recommends" section to the right for anyone interesting in giving soma a spin!