anyone living in the state of Colorado must go see kimEOTOver on the 30th and 1st...and also try to meet anyone taping it and see if you can get your hands on it later...kimock, travis, janover hann....i have the accidental zilla kimock show from last december and its mindblowing shit....and nobody should have to scream at the top of their lungs, somebody for god's sakes dose me!!!!!
Here's a quote from the bassist of Jacob Jazz Fred who's taking over for Tea Leaf Green...he wrote this in response to some complaints about the change that i think is tight
First, Jacob Fred is the greatest band in the history of the universe. I just got word that we are actually Beethoven’s favorite band of all time. Hendrix, too. and Bird. They all like Jacob Fred almost as much as I do. We just confirmed a 20-night run at Carnegie Hall in 2010, and I’m pretty sure the record we’re working on is going to go triple-platinum. For real. I hear you, though. It is, possibly confusing.
Jazz didn’t start out elitist. Originally, it was FOLK music. Made by semi-illiterate accidental-scholars who simply wanted to party and let people party. The fact that the opera houses of 1890’s New Orleans could only afford a single pianist (rather than a full orchestra), who coincidentally had a night gig at a brothel and a buddy in a brass band is a happy accident in the culture, and the upside of the karma of slavery. We are so fortunate that this happened. Elvis, Dylan, and the Beatles were created by SOCIETY to fill the gap that Bird opened. Young people need to dance and get laid, and sing along. Jazz once provided this service. Then it became “higher music.”
We have to worship what is already here. We have to play the music that all people are composing. I believe that Tea Leaf Green does this. I believe Jacob Fred does this. All musicians express the music of all people. Some musicians express the fear and isolation of the socially excluded. some musicians express the joy and comfort of being a tribal people. some musicians express both, because most of us feel both extremes. The RANGE of human experience… this is our subject.
I’ve learned a lot from Mr. Josh Raymer. And I don’t have to tell you that I’ve learned a lot from Mr. Brian Haas and Sean Layton, and Matt Leland, and Jason Smart, Steve Kimock, Robert Walter, Marco Benevento, Matt Chamberlain, Zack Najor, Karl Denson, Skerik, Mike D, the brothers Barr, Stephen Perkins, Joe Russo, Jon Fishman, Peter Apfelbaum, Jamie Janover, Jeff Coffin, my parents & uncles, Peter Tomshany, Annie Ellicot, and a hundred amazing others. Should I not add to this list?
To me, the whole concept of hierarchy is fear-based. The musical continuum is, if anything, a SPHERE…not a line. 3-D, baby! Nothing in front, nothing behind. nothing above, nothing below. it’s all spinning and equal. Plus, in the words of the great John Cage, “A music’s only value is in it’s USE.”
Any thoughts? Let’s blog it down, friends.
love, Reed
and lastly...check out this feature article on jambase w/ Dr. Cornell West.....he really lays it down clean http://www.jambase.com/Articles/Story.aspx?StoryID=12040
"once a pond discovers ripples, could it ever forget these waves?" hornings, 2012
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