| shapeshiftah: @MNewYork Not sure bro. Sounds like it could be Coltrane, Monk, or even Dr. Donald Byrd. Very Blue Note sounding sample. about 24 hours ago |
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| jennyland: @cookiefriend or, w/the page w/individual file names & blue note icons, @ the top select d/l as .zip file & should do all in folder ♥ about 5 days ago |
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| By Bobby Tanzilo Managing Editor E-mail author | Author bio More articles by Bobby Tanzilo |
| Published Dec. 11, 2007 at 12:18 p.m. |
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There have always been bookish rockers and the likes of The Decemberists' Colin Meloy carry on that grand tradition. If the music fiend in your life needs a stocking stuff, here are two very different options. Neither, however, will fit that easily into a stocking without straining the seams.
Blossoming jazz fans will devour "Jazz: An Introduction to the History and Legends Behind America's Music," written by noted expert Bob Blumenthal, who often pens the liner notes to Blue Note's Rudy Van Gelder Series of reissues.
Published in paperback by Collins, this slim volume is heavily illustrated and might not have a lot to tell a veteran jazz fan, but as the title suggests, it provides a great general history of the music and introduces everyone from King Oliver to Cassandra Wilson.
Also in paperback, but from Backbeat Books -- distributed by Milwaukee's Hal Leonard Corporation -- comes the light-hearted but spirited "The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists," by Amy Wallace and The Dictators' Handsome Dick Manitoba.
We're not sure what makes this "official," or what makes it -- as the cover boasts -- "Genuine 100% Punk!" (Both statements seem anathema to punk, to me), but it's fun reading, mostly.
There is Debbie Harry's list of people she'd like to, ahem, make sweet love to; Jim Jarmusch's top 25 pre-punk films with "punk attitude"; and the like. Other contributors include, among others, Steve Jones and Johnny Rotten of Sex Pistols, Captain Sensible of The Damned, Lenny Kaye, Chris Stein, Kid Congo Powers, Tommy Ramone and rock lensman Bob Gruen.
Why a guy from Pearl Jam is included is a mystery.
Some of the lists are pretty lame, like "101 Ridiculous Punk Rock Names," which is basically a list of every punk with a nom de punk or nickname. For example why, exactly is "HR" ridiculous? And why is Ian Woodcock on there? You might find his name witty, but I think it's his real name.
More interesting is the follow-up, "How 20 Punks Got Their Names," which actually tells the stories of, well, you get the idea.
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Posted by upofan on Dec. 11, 2007 at 1:05 p.m. (report)
Every Pink Floyd fan must by Nick Mason's personal autobiography of the drummer's perspective. "Inside Out"
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