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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog: November 2014

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog. Writing, poetry, music, art, some nostalgia, maybe a little politics. Thursday, November 27, 2014. Listening to Prestige Records Part 54 - Joe Holiday. Like the art for mambo album of the 50s, for which I give them credit. Actually, looking a little farther, I find a second cover, also with the OJC logo, that must certainly be from the early 50s. Joe Holiday is still around. From Wikipedia:. Holiday also does abstract. Joe and his wife, Kelly Holiday are presid...

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog: December 2014

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog. Writing, poetry, music, art, some nostalgia, maybe a little politics. Tuesday, December 30, 2014. Listening to Prestige Records Part 64: Joe Holiday. I know what Bennie Green sounds like, and I would love to hear more of what he sounded like with strings, but this recording is also not on Spotify or YouTube. I was able to find it on Slacker, but without a subscription I couldn't listen to more than one cut. Bennie sounded in fine form. Sunday, December 28, 2014.

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog: June 2015

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog. Writing, poetry, music, art, some nostalgia, maybe a little politics. Monday, June 29, 2015. Listening to Prestige Part 126: Juan Tirado. Which makes it ironic that the only cut from the session that still seems to exist is one of the unissued ones - in fact, the very same "Farmer's Market Mambo," which exists on a DJ copy, and can be found on YouTube and on the Office Naps. Roundup of Latin jazz on Prestige. Turned by Jack Costanzo into the " Peter Gunn Mambo.

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog: August 2015

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog. Writing, poetry, music, art, some nostalgia, maybe a little politics. Saturday, August 29, 2015. Listening to Prestige Part 140: Freddie Redd. Freddie Redd is probably best known for Jack Gelber's 1959 play about junkies waiting for their pusher Godot, The Connection. Have been on them like a ton of bricks. Did he ever do anything else? And because in The Connection. He plays a heroin addict, the person you were talking to would probably assume he had died young.

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog: Listening to Prestige Part 133: Wrapping up 1954

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog. Writing, poetry, music, art, some nostalgia, maybe a little politics. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Listening to Prestige Part 133: Wrapping up 1954. What did 1954 in jazz look like? I wonder if jazz has a sort of an ongoing death wish. What's that you say? Jazz is the most popular form of music in America? We'll invent a new kind of jazz that nobody likes! Waitwhat's that you're saying now? People are getting used to bebop? It's getting popular again? One of the big...

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog: February 2015

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog. Writing, poetry, music, art, some nostalgia, maybe a little politics. Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Listening to Prestige Records Part 87: George Wallington. Still, the floor belongs to Wallington here, because that's the kind of music it is- a setting for Wallington's stylish piano. No real space for Max Roach to stretch out, and Curly Russell never soloed. Was this partly because recording techniques were changing, and the bass could be picked up better?

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog: July 2015

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog. Writing, poetry, music, art, some nostalgia, maybe a little politics. Friday, July 31, 2015. Listening to Prestige Part 135: Modern Jazz Quartet. I've mentioned that the MJQ was formed in part out of John Lewis's dissatisfaction with the head-solos-head format that had become ubiquitous in bebop, and this recording session, in its own unique way, is a break from that format, in that it's solo-solo-solo-solo. Is a fin de siecle. Kenny Clarke is the drummer for t...

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog: Listening to Prestige Part 136: James Moody

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog. Writing, poetry, music, art, some nostalgia, maybe a little politics. Saturday, August 08, 2015. Listening to Prestige Part 136: James Moody. Seeing James Moody later in his career, after his seven-year stint in Vegas, was a show and a half. He was slick, his patter was hip and glib, he told jokes, he would have fit right in with Frank and Dean and Sammy. And did his musicianship suffer? You had better believe it did not. What's the place of showmanship in art?

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog: January 2015

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Tad's Night With the Language Thieves Blog. Writing, poetry, music, art, some nostalgia, maybe a little politics. Thursday, January 29, 2015. Listening to Prestige Records Part 78: Teddy Charles / Hall Overton. I finished up my first four years of listening to Prestige Records, session by session, and came into 1953 ready to revisit old favorites and encounter new surprises. And my first 1953 session was very new, and very much a surprise. Did he influence electronic music? Written in 2009, because Lange...