Seshjawn Notes 8/16/21

Playlist

Dan – Larry Young “I Ching” This is so Weather Report-ish and has such an irrepressible groove. I was dissuaded from listening to Larry’s 70’s stuff because Jazzers dismissed everything after his classic Blue Note releases. His fusion is really fresh and his out playing is great too. I am thrilled to have discovered this album “Fuel” & “Lawrence of Newark”. This song reminds me of Zappa, King Crimson, Allman Bros. and Mahavishnu in places.

Rich – Warns us that he is about to play just noise and then threatens us with “Do you ever really listen to your refrigerator.” And then confesses that he dances to the melodies of the overtones of his fridge! Lol, he just said about my song = “He liked it but he never needed to hear it again…”. He’s got some nerve to be playing me refrigerator sounds… I say it sounds like “Extremely amplified spider spinnerets” – Actually it is sounds from the Mars Rover. Nasa Sound Page This sparks an ambient field recording discussion.

Bart – “Til There Was You” – Bart’s in a song hole, he is playing Sue Raney’s version. The song is from the “Music Man” though it was released before the play was. Then a versionby Anita Bryant. The Jimmy Giuffre’s version, the one I know well. Next Sonny Rollins’s (One of the greatest song curators of ever), version that is also well known to me. Bart is playing choruses from each version. Now Beto Guedes’s. Song holes are my favorite thing right now, just falling into them and discovering so many interesting takes as well as discovering the life of a song.

Kind of Bloop – Side trip!

Travis – Something funky. Sounds like a mutant Bill Withers vibe but I don’t know it. Way murkier sound, but the song feels like Bill. “A House Full Of Girls” by Isaac Hayes from the Truck Turner soundtrack. There is some golden music hiding in Seventies soundtracks.

Dave – “Woody n’ You” playful and with some latin moments. Just walking bass for the solo though? Gonzalo Rubalcaba – he is killing it, just really playing everything. From an album called “Diz” with Ron Carter. Makes sense, he is playing Diz’s song but there many other versions of Gonzalo playing this song, even with Ron Carter, but also as a young man and with a big band in Cuba.

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