tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.comments2024-01-16T03:26:55.902-06:00improvisedAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06202593018766467919noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-88806773259038510892024-01-16T03:26:55.902-06:002024-01-16T03:26:55.902-06:00First time reading, much appreciate itFirst time reading, much appreciate itSansa Starkhttps://ssansastark.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-55146883231121959042023-05-25T20:55:24.414-05:002023-05-25T20:55:24.414-05:00Lovely blog you haveLovely blog you havePasta Recipeshttps://www.pastacooks.com/pasta/ground_beef_fettuccine_5487393270.shtmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-65439480847783605182022-01-17T09:13:46.549-06:002022-01-17T09:13:46.549-06:00Great blog you have herreGreat blog you have herreLukashttps://www.lukascarter.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-8166505185788561802021-12-29T03:46:49.137-06:002021-12-29T03:46:49.137-06:00Very nice dear…nice to see you
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highly recommended this album is gorgeous!! <br />highly recommended danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14215554400845430748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-17034758665346757652017-09-20T11:54:14.608-05:002017-09-20T11:54:14.608-05:00Hi Maria, thanks for contacting me. Unfortunately ...Hi Maria, thanks for contacting me. Unfortunately due to time constraints, I'm no longer reviewing records on any regular basis.<br />Craig Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14809037605180086189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-41841447268577398962017-09-12T15:38:38.144-05:002017-09-12T15:38:38.144-05:00Thank you for sharing this...would love to dig int...Thank you for sharing this...would love to dig into more music from Portugal myself.<br />Craig, how might one go about submitting other albums to you for review?Maria Schaferhttp://www.mariaschafer.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-79346417285808994372016-05-24T18:06:56.011-05:002016-05-24T18:06:56.011-05:00Thanks for the kind words Stefan! Good luck with y...Thanks for the kind words Stefan! Good luck with your new CD.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06202593018766467919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-21075807248266288002016-05-24T09:21:23.377-05:002016-05-24T09:21:23.377-05:00That was sad to hear, since I have read so many im...That was sad to hear, since I have read so many important reviews on your site. You also made a very nice review of GuitCussion´s Blue Congo, and we now a new CD out called Exit Wonderland that we hoped that you wanted to hear. Hope you will be back soon.<br />Stefan, GuitCussion, Sweden Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13034939203792418704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-78951188525196964652014-12-13T18:13:33.509-06:002014-12-13T18:13:33.509-06:00Thanks man. "Please point me to more of your ...Thanks man. "Please point me to more of your writing!" You're on: http://themusicblogspot.blogspot.com/<br /><br />That's the probably the best page to start at. Some of the write-ups have accompanying video. And then over in the more "pop/rock" section are some of my personally favorite write-ups. Rock on Mr. Premo... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-70103106376238228222014-12-03T10:50:59.077-06:002014-12-03T10:50:59.077-06:00I thought by the structure and content of this art...I thought by the structure and content of this article that it was clear I was providing a commentary on the Blue controversy, not one of my usual reviews. If that wasn't clear, please accept my apology. <br /><br />Any review I do will always list artist/title/label/personnel at the top. I listen to any record for which I'm doing a review several times before writing about it. <br /><br />Thanks for asking and giving me a chance to clarify, and thanks for viewing my blog.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14809037605180086189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-36271462808390783332014-12-03T10:40:12.514-06:002014-12-03T10:40:12.514-06:00Unless I misunderstand you when you write "It...Unless I misunderstand you when you write "It's interesting that you haven't listened to Blue the entire way through; I haven't either" I find it strange that you can post a review and only mention in the comments that you haven't listened to the album reviewed all the way through. <br />This surely makes it a review of just those parts you have heard? Is it only this review on this blog that is a partial review?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-6137692966194596272014-11-14T12:02:01.627-06:002014-11-14T12:02:01.627-06:00Thanks for including that excerpt from your writin...Thanks for including that excerpt from your writing - you really "got" Frank Rosaly's approach! It was amazing to see him live after having heard him on various records. I particularly like these thoughts:<br /><br />"Rosaly is occasionally like a dancer following after the cues from his body. His drums happen to be there and function as extensions of his limbs and movements. " and "...he can also lay down a groove that lifts the room and simply makes the space feel good."<br /><br />Please point me to more of your writing!<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14809037605180086189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-73101353503754613792014-11-14T11:55:44.677-06:002014-11-14T11:55:44.677-06:00Yes, I imagine it took a lot of practice and effor...Yes, I imagine it took a lot of practice and effort to get the final product out there. It's interesting that you haven't listened to Blue the entire way through; I haven't either, but partly that's because Kind of Blue is not my favorite Miles album by a long shot.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14809037605180086189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-66981674469008067402014-11-14T02:29:17.925-06:002014-11-14T02:29:17.925-06:00I think I'm in agreement with you, Craig. At f...I think I'm in agreement with you, Craig. At first I took "Blue" to be a prank, but it took me only a few seconds of thinking to realize, "if this is a prank, they put in enough effort to make it actually admirable..."<br /><br />Somewhere out there (too lazy to locate at the moment) is a good interview with Moppa explaining some of the thought process. And it's got a great quote where he notes that people will be playing "Blue" side-by-side with "Kind of Blue" to dissect the playing -- and maybe they'll wonder why they don't *always* listen to music that way, he says.<br /><br />I've asked myself that about music, under normal circumstances, many a time. I haven't listened to "Blue" all the way through yet, but I'm sure my time will come. Whether I'll get something out of the exercise, I don't yet know. Craig Matsumotohttp://wedgeradio.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-46333671237581729162014-11-08T12:11:49.571-06:002014-11-08T12:11:49.571-06:00Hey Craig,
Nice write-up. Thanks for doing it. I ...Hey Craig,<br /><br />Nice write-up. Thanks for doing it. I hadn't known that this was released so it's a service to get the information out there. Terrific quartet here - Bradford of course having a lot of history and being a known master - but I'm also very interested in Rosaly as well. I've been listening to/watching him for a while. I also write and have done a couple things involving him. Pasted below is an excerpt from one of them if interested. Thanks again Craig!<br /><br /><br />Hearts and Minds’s drummer is the wild card – the “unstable molecule” (yes, Chicago music scene pun/reference intended): Yet a paradoxically controlled, selective and intended instability; that swinging, driving clatter coming from all directions, often with no discernable starting point; this undefined, non-localized, deconstructionist/reconstructionist force moving ever forward searching for more, more. What is this force called? Yeah, it’s Rosaly. At times, there’s so much happening in his drumming that you sense an oncoming system overload; yet it never arrives. Some fitting, idiosyncratic musical balance is always achieved. It just works itself out. Like in some of Cecil Taylor’s solo piano work when it’s hard to believe all that music is coming from one person. But it is. <br /><br />Rosaly is occasionally like a dancer following after the cues from his body. His drums happen to be there and function as extensions of his limbs and movements. Part of what creates this dance is his searching through his trove of instruments, in media res, for the right sound at the right moment. Occasionally he used two sticks in one hand; a technique I had never seen used on a drum kit before - only on vibes or marimba. It reminded me of when I was a line cook and a chef taught me to use two knives in one hand for prep. I could chop twice as much. It was a very smart, simple solution: Two knives, more food. Two sticks, more sound. Rosaly is simply smart. He just gets more done that way. But it’s a unique technique that undoubtedly took a good deal of practice before being able to incorporate into performance. Cool stuff… <br /><br />As creative, reactive, and free as Rosaly’s playing can get, he can also lay down a groove that lifts the room and simply makes the space feel good. But more than half of the evening’s music was quite “outside.” His approach in these more unpredictable contexts often seems to create an abstracted shadow of a concrete object. Or he can seem to be using a sort of Completion Principal or “Beat” style “cut-up” poetry technique: like writing sentences/paragraphs, then taking out randm words or ltters. Lke ths mayb o lie his. Bt ith msic and with ore textcon than this ampleex is gving.<br /><br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-62865236166418912802014-08-28T05:24:41.112-05:002014-08-28T05:24:41.112-05:00well...thank you very much for your kind words.
(A...well...thank you very much for your kind words.<br />(Alessandro Seravalle)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13544177493593322319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-54040603341158432072014-08-05T05:43:25.994-05:002014-08-05T05:43:25.994-05:00Sorry tor mistakes... i hope giu fan understand......Sorry tor mistakes... i hope giu fan understand...<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-35952230046466265942014-08-05T05:40:42.718-05:002014-08-05T05:40:42.718-05:00Thanks, my heart id dreaming about tour words. The...Thanks, my heart id dreaming about tour words. The translation or due title is "Time don't fail in va in". I meet Guido since 1971, playing bass in bis "Gruppo Contemporaneo" tor three years. Se meet again sometimes during due decades, but only recently se ha ve tried to play together in this way. And only for a magic aafternoon. Roberto Del Piano<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-83769202701211318052014-05-26T16:23:23.340-05:002014-05-26T16:23:23.340-05:00Thanks Gordon, I've always intended to watch t...Thanks Gordon, I've always intended to watch the show at some point.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14809037605180086189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-10625621352566836342014-05-26T15:35:28.753-05:002014-05-26T15:35:28.753-05:00Craig, The Prisoner is one of my all-time favorite...Craig, The Prisoner is one of my all-time favorite TV shows, innovative for 1967 but holds up well today. You should check it out.Gordon Blewisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-87165045043733498042014-04-19T14:00:33.240-05:002014-04-19T14:00:33.240-05:00Boshnack's group Reptet is also worth checking...Boshnack's group Reptet is also worth checking out. Rowdy stuff with some odd time signatures and a sense of humor. Might not be your cup of tea, Craig (there's kind of a marching-band aspect to it) but they're loads of fun. I'll have to check out Exploding Syndrome, though -- sounds really interesting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245133514522196084.post-54134598186287761082014-03-17T05:33:46.282-05:002014-03-17T05:33:46.282-05:00Hello Craig,
We are preparing a promo mailing for...Hello Craig,<br /><br />We are preparing a promo mailing for one of our clients and would like to include you.<br /><br />Please advise your current mailing address and writing affiliations.<br /><br />Thank you for your cooperation. We look forward to receiving your reply.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Jim Eigo<br />Jazz Promo Services<br />272 State Route 94 South #1<br />Warwick, NY 10990<br />T: 845-986-1677 / F: 845-986-1699 <br />E-Mail: jim@jazzpromoservices.com<br />Web Site: www.jazzpromoservices.com/ <br />"Specializing in Media Campaigns for the music community, artists, labels, venues and events.” <br />Jim Eigohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18004652405471292036noreply@blogger.com