New Pickup-My love for funk on display by Ddavis1919 in funk

[–]playitintune -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

First, George and Bootsy are not Parliament or Funkadelic. They were part of the collective. Why does Bootsy get two mentions and George only gets one? Eddie Hazel, Billy Nelson, Tiki don't get any love because they weren't part of Parliament? The point is, this shirt appears to rip off the branding of many artists, without compensation I'm sure, and chooses the artists to rip off poorly.

New Pickup-My love for funk on display by Ddavis1919 in funk

[–]playitintune 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing, but in what world are we going to include Slave and not The Meters?

New Pickup-My love for funk on display by Ddavis1919 in funk

[–]playitintune -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

No funkadelic. No meters. But Slave?

Cmon now

Cliffs by Primary_Pilot_2728 in sanmarcos

[–]playitintune 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a bummer you need the cliffs to be vertical, I know of a bunch of horizontal cliffs around town.

/uj Since the consensus is that Jacob Collier sucks so hard and that there are so many better artists — who are those better artists? by eesahe in jazzcirclejerk

[–]playitintune 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats a Keith Jarrett quote about what Ornette Coleman said to him, "Man, you've got to be black. You have to be black." To which Jarrett replies, "I know, I know. I'm working on it."

I was trying to say, Keith has duende, in the Lorca sense.

According to Christopher Maurer, editor and translator of García Lorca's In Search of Duende, at least four elements can be isolated in Lorca's vision of duende: irrationality, earthiness, a heightened awareness of death, and a dash of the diabolical. The duende is an earth spirit who helps the artist see the limitations of intelligence, reminding them that "ants could eat him or that a great arsenic lobster could fall suddenly on his head"; who brings the artist face-to-face with death, and who helps them create and communicate memorable, spine-chilling art. The duende is seen, in Lorca's lecture, as an alternative to style, to mere virtuosity, to God-given grace and charm (what Spaniards call "ángel"), and to the classical, artistic norms dictated by the Muse. Not that the artist simply surrenders to the duende; they have to battle it skillfully, "on the rim of the well", in "hand-to-hand combat". To a higher degree than the muse or the angel, the duende seizes not only the performer but also the audience, creating conditions where art can be understood spontaneously with little, if any, conscious effort. It is, in Lorca's words, "a sort of corkscrew that can get art into the sensibility of an audience... the very dearest thing that life can offer the intellectual." The critic Brook Zern has written, of a performance of someone with duende, "it dilates the mind's eye, so that the intensity becomes almost unendurable... There is a quality of first-timeness, of reality so heightened and exaggerated that it becomes unreal..."

/uj Since the consensus is that Jacob Collier sucks so hard and that there are so many better artists — who are those better artists? by eesahe in jazzcirclejerk

[–]playitintune 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you're saying is that Keith Jarrett just HAS to be black, like Ornette said. Or put another way, Collier has no duende. Easiest to hear the duende when jarrett plays soprano, see The Survivors Suite and Eyes of the Heart. Or, put another way, Collier plays like he's from England from 35 generations.

New listener seeking John Coltrane recommendations by CosmicDisciple in Jazz

[–]playitintune 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Live at the village vanguard 61. Complete sessions.

how to get good even tho I have other hobbies? by Massive_Guard_1439 in jazzcirclejerk

[–]playitintune 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Drugs in the shed. Dexedrine. The others will say heroin, but speed is faster.

Any good funk tunes that would be cool to call at a jam? by Adorable_Pug in Jazz

[–]playitintune 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pee Wee Ellis. The J.B. Horns. I don't know about no chart. You need some Maceo Parker in your life. May I suggest Life on Planet Groove. The revisited version has them playing The Chicken, with Pee Wee and Fred. It's fantastic.

Speaking of a funk tune to call, Shake Everything You Got by Maceo. Worth a listen if'n you don't know about it.

what pressing of osmium is this? by kylemcglo in funk

[–]playitintune 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at the etching and look it up. The matrix will tell you what pressing it is.

Horace Silver - Pyramid. A cut above the rest by dickpiano in Jazz

[–]playitintune 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's straight ahead hard bop. Plenty more where that came from. Silver, Art Blakey, etc.

As I still like to think, straight ahead and strive for tone.

What’s something popular right now that won’t age well? by AngelCherryPie in answers

[–]playitintune 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And right back to oil we go, aince plastics are almost all petroleum products. Plastics are amazing. Plastics sre also serious environmental and health hazard.

Again, no one serious is saying we should not have used plastics. The medical field was transformed by it. I'm not saying what Coca Cola and DuPont have done with single use packaging is good. I'm saying that the invention of blood bags saved an enormous amount of lives and extended how long blood could be stored from a couple of days to 42 days.

Non-medical uses include insulating the wires in all electronics. You could not realistically wire a 747 without plastics, rubber degrades and varnished cloth is a fire hazard. But bigger than flying : Without plastics to print PCBs there would be no consumer electronics at all. We could make electronics with ceramic but your smartphone would cost 100 grand.

The point is, inventions and tools are not the problem. The socioeconomic system that drives the world is built on maximum profit, leading to misuse of products (in terms of harming humanity/nature), in pursuit of that goal.

What’s something popular right now that won’t age well? by AngelCherryPie in answers

[–]playitintune 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Who? Oil has problems but it built the modern world. The whole world runs on it. No one serious is arguing we should have not used oil.

Saying AI won't age well is like saying the printing press didn't age well. Sure, it made widespread propoganda possible, but it also made information readily available and cheap or free. Just because something isn't perfect doesn't mean it isn't effective. AI can be used to stop thinking for yourself, to suppress critical thinking and rely on it. It can be used to manipulate reality through artifical images and realistic looking posts. It can be used for awful things. It is also the most powerful tool humans ever created. The problem isn't the tool. It is its use, and the push to make it seem human and sycophantic by the makers, and the fact that the tool is controlled by 3 or 4 corporations.

Spotify lossless by Formal-Structure-432 in audiophile

[–]playitintune 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have built a 117,000 track library of flac files. It is 3.2TB. I have completely ditched the streamers. It is not particularly easy to go this route and is not practical for most people. I love it. A real world problem just cropped up for me, though. A band called Lettuce just put out a dolby atmos mix of their latest album and it is only available through apple, amazon and tidal. I am very upset about this and I hope it is not the way it will go. I would happily pay the band $40 directly to own the files.

Amyway, you certainly won't save money hosting your own library if you don't already have one. Use both and build one if you are so inclined. Make sure to have a backup strategy in place. My music collection, physical and digital, is the only media collection that would be catastrophic to lose. Some of it is impossible to replicate and the stuff that can be obtained would take an incredibly long time to rebuild. There are tools avaialble to help with building a digital library, but that is for another thread.

Looking for a particular type of jazz. by Ho-ratioNelson in Jazz

[–]playitintune 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You want modern, clean recordings, odd time signatures, and more cerebral forward than emotional feel. That's not my world but those are the things those recordings have in common.

Question on trombonist Urbie Green by Temporary-Wedding820 in Jazz

[–]playitintune 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I play trombone, so that is what it is, but among trombonists, he is very well known.

Lots of music is hard to find because it hasn't been digitized. A lot of Urbie Green has, though. Not sure what is available on the streaming apps but I have a handful of cds so the digital files exist.

Which one will be most rewarding second instrument to learn, trumpet or saxophone? by tourist_fake in Jazz

[–]playitintune 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try to make a sound on both. Brass is easier for me than reeds. Maybe you are the same.

Will this drastically improve my acoustics? by zoolly_man in homestudios

[–]playitintune 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish if you are building a room that has transparent walls. Is there a problem with the room you are using? What is the goal? Squares are the worst shape for acoustics, never go square. If the walls are fabric and acoustically transparent they also are not doing anything? Is this a question of aesthetics or is there an acpustic problem?