Books Found

Yesterday was a lovely sunny warm day - today we have an overcast day ,some rain , and a cooler aspect to the weather. I have popped over to Faversham and sold some paperbacks ,a few i picked up for ten pence each which i mad a bit of a profit on. I am taking the day off after the long one yesterday.

I found these books on my trip yesterday -



An awkward moment occurred last night when i alighted at Sittingbourne last night form my Bluewater visit. I was crossing the rail via the footbridge and descended down the lift to the exit, and guess who should be entering the lift for the footbridge to go back to the village at the same time i exited? That erstwhile detestable cousin. I think we just grunted a "Hello" to each other and left it at that - the air crackled with animosity on my part and guilt on his part. He must have had a late shift. So he is back at work after all the so called knee problem. I headed off to Spoons for a beer to forget that face.

Anyway, tomorrow i have a supermarket visit on the island for lunch.

The Friday Five - Modern Classical

More modern classical music for new LJ friend anna_wing. All composers have been given retrospective articles and reviews from the Wire magazine. Still the best mag on anything modern , and slightly avant garde.



Edgard Varèse - Octandre (Full)

Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)
Octandre
I Assez lent
II Très vif et nerveux
III Grave - Animé ed jubilatoire

Ensamble Intercontemporain
Conductor: Pierre Boulez

( More modern classical )

RIP Rudy Van Gelder

Recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder has died
26|08|2016


http://www.thewire.co.uk/news/43257/recording-engineer-rudy-van-gelder-has-died





The legendary jazz recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder has died at the age of 91, The New York Times reported.

Van Gelder, an optomistrist by trade, began making recordings in a makeshift studio in his parents' house in Hackensack, New Jersey. He was recommended to Blue Note Records in 1952 and the following year took over responsibilities for recording engineering at the label. The painstaking detail of his recordings came to define the sound of jazz. Richard Cook, former Editor of The Wire, called Van Gelder's method of recording and mixing the piano “as distinctive as the pianists' playing itself” in his book Blue Note Records: The Biography. Electronic producer Kirk Degiorgio, interviewed in The Wire 160, declared that “before Blue Note you couldn't really hear a cymbal on a jazz record. Rudy Van Gelder pioneered that whole idea of the importance of the recording.” But Van Gelder himself, however, was deferential: “the Rudy Van Gelder sound is really the Alfred Lion sound,” he said, crediting the Blue Note producer.

Van Gelder was so prolific in the 1950 and 60s that putting a precise figure on how many albums he had a hand in is almost impossible – including engineering, mastering and remastering, the total runs into thousands. He recorded all styles of jazz, from bebop to fusion to free jazz, and worked not just for for Blue Note but for Verve, Prestige and Impulse!. It was for the latter that he recorded John Coltrane's A Love Supreme in 1964.

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme - Full Album

A Love Supreme (released in 1965) masterfully combines modal jazz and hard bop, and is considered by many to be the pinnacle of John Coltrane's musical career (with Mccoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones).

Tracklist:
Part 1: "Acknowledgement" 00:00
Part 2: "Resolution" 07:42
Part 3: "Pursuance" 15:01
Part 4: "Psalm" 25:44

Silver Apples

Simeon Coxe III (The Silver Apples) has been oscillating between rock and electronics since the late 1960s. With a new Apples album imminent, his electric dream is far from over (The Wire). Old rockers never die.

Classic 1968 album -

Silver Apples - Contact (Full Album)

Song List:

01 - 00:00 - You and I
02 - 03:24 - Water
03 - 07:43 - Ruby
04 - 10:15 - Gypsy Love
05 - 15:52 - You're Not Foolin' Me

06 - 22:19 - I Have Known Love
07 - 26:12 - A Pox on You
08 - 31:24 - Confusion
09 - 34:59 - Fantasies

Just Wondering Musically

What was the first record (or CD) you bought yourself?

What music do you still enjoy from your childhood?

Has your musical tastes changed over the years?