the bad plus are great musicianwho are doing deeper work than the Rock
covers that got them noticed initially.
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017, 12:21 PM Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 56 lines Right - sorry. I was thinking about the Blue Series, part of Thirsty Ear.
> Right - sorry. I was thinking about the Blue Series, part of Thirsty Ear.
>
> This MBM record is pretty cool, thanks for the tip.
>
> Is the Bad Plus worth checking out? I have an unfavorable impression of
> them that's probably unfair. I thought their Aphex Twin and Nirvana covers
> were corny.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Alan Lucas <alucas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, Meat Beat Manifesto's "At The Center" was part of Thirsty Ear's
>> Blue Series, and features Taborn on keys, Dave King (of The Bad Plus) on
>> drums, and Thirsty Ear owner Peter Gordon on Flute. Really good album, well
>> worth checking out. When I first heard this back in '05, a friend of mine
>> was talking about how great Taborn was, but I never realized until five
>> minutes ago that it was King on the drums. Talk about being ignorant about
>> things!
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd listened to a record with him and Tim Berne after seeing he had a
>>> credit on the Innerzone Orchestra album - the Tim Berne duo (or trio -
>>> can't remember) wasn't particularly electronic but was very nice, lyrical
>>> free jazz. Taborn is obviously an extremely gifted player.
>>> That NYT piece was really good and it also lead me to Junk Magic, which
>>> exceeded my expectations. Hyper-intelligent is right - really rewarding
>>> harmonically and the electronics programming was adventerous. I'd like to
>>> check out more of the Thirsty Ear series - seems like this sort of
>>> idm/dance/jazz/hip hop fusion stuff got a push with some interesting people
>>> involved like El-P, Spring Heel Jack, Matthew Shipp etc.
>>> There's a lot of good jazz related music coming out with electronics,
>>> but more on an "experimental" tip by way of musique concrete/EAI and not
>>> rhythmic programming/dance related. Maybe I'm wrong but I can't think of
>>> anyone doing that right now...
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:43 PM, kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I always feel ignorant when I discover music that I should have known
>>>> about for years. Craig Taborn is a jazz pianist who rated a long piece in
>>>> the New York Times last week (link below) and it turns out he is a longtime
>>>> synthesizer lover, and he made an album 11 years ago (!) called "Junk
>>>> Magic" which is nothing if not hyper-intelligent dance music.
>>>>
>>>> https://open.spotify.com/album/6YFRoF4ZfN8P93Oj5AAWUS
>>>>
>>>> The Times article:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/magazine/the-ethereal-genius-of-craig-taborn.html
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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