RE: Keeping It Cool

From: Philip Sherburne (philip@askjeeves.com)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 00:10:16 CEST

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    Could someone tell me a little about Ramp? I know it's a Roy Ayers project,
    but I know little else about it. I was surprised, however, when Jan Jelinek
    cited it as an example of the kind of minimalist soul that's influenced him.
    Is this still available on repress? I saw it in my neighborhood store in
    SF, but slept on it, and now it's gone.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Beau Young [mailto:bjy07@hotmail.com]
    Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:55 PM
    To: stevencatanzaro@sprintmail.com
    Cc: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
    Subject: Re: Keeping It Cool

    I'm playing Thrust a lot too since I just got a copy last week. I'll never
    get tired of this one. Lots of samples I've heard in all kinds of songs.
    And everytime I go into a used record shop lately the first artist I look
    for is Airto. One of the best drummers/percussionists ever. I'm about to
    drop most of the new stuff in a minute and head straight for the old!

    P.S. Here are a few old tings I'm feeling ... I'm after so much more.

    Ramp - Come Into the Knowledge..... "I wanna see daylight, daylight..."

    Lonnie Liston & the Cosmic Echos - Expansions

    Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping ... damn! this is sweet

    Kool & the Gang - Light of Worlds

    Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse

     

     

     

    >From: "Steve Catanzaro"
    >To: "acid jazz"
    >Subject: Keeping It Cool
    >Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:54:55 -0700
    >
    >Calling in from AZ where the 100 degree plus temperatures are right around
    the corner.... as in Friday...
    >
    >
    >Here's the sounds currently keeping me cool as I wannabe
    >
    >Miles Davis. Panthalassa (reconstruction by Bill Laswell); I've had it for
    well over 2 years, and I'm just now starting to plumb the depths. How can
    you write music that sounds hot and new 25 - 30 years into the future? Just
    be Miles Davis, that's all. These are badass originals, reloved nicely.
    >
    >Track 1 is the mellow, deep, awesome In A Silent Way highlights reel.
    >
    >Track 2, Black Satin, the nastiness from On The Corner, rugged and raw.
    >
    >Track 3. Rated X rawness, all the funk you love, the psycho-sound collage
    textures you need. Morphs into sweetdrippingwithfunk at Billy Preston, about
    (6:10 minutes in). Begging for still more MORE remixes, here....
    >
    >Track 4. He Loved Him Madly... Miles' Duke Ellington tribute, this is the
    downtempo flute psychobizness here.
    >
    >Buy it, get it, study it, live it, love it, be it.... (cf. the article
    about the making of Bitches' Brew in this month's Jazz Times magazine.)
    >
    >What else we've got in the cooker...
    >
    >Rae & Christian. Northern Sulpheric Soul, Sleepwalking.
    >Airto. The Best Of, The Other Side Of This.
    >Herbie Hancock. Thrust (can't / won't stop playing this one)
    >
    >Stuff that didn't grab me too much...
    >
    >Hefner, Residue (UK version), smooth downtempo shuffly biz..
    >MJ Cole, Sincere (UK version), hey, I like the DJ's ting, too.!
    >Soullive. Doin' Somethin. Funky organ trio, (hot left hand, no doubt) with
    Fred Wesley cropping up here and there... "Shack-Man" is a bit
    naughtier/funkier, ihmo.
    >
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