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eavesdropping on jazz giants

madamjujujive — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:31:05 -0800

The Jazz Loft Project - From 1957 to 1965, celebrated photojournalist W. Eugene Smith made 4,000 hours of surreptitious recordings and took 40,000 photographs in a loft in Manhattan's wholesale flower district where Roland Kirk, Thelonius Monk, Hall Overton, Charles Mingus and other jazz greats jammed until dawn. Archived in the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the project is now accessible via a book, a traveling exhibit, a 10-part Jazz Loft series on WNYC, NPR's Jazz Loft Project Sights & Sounds, and an interview with JLP author Sam Stephenson, which includes some images from the book. Via a Grain Edit post, which also has some great images. More about the passionate W. Eugene Smith, who abandoned his successful career at Life magazine and his family to devote himself to obsessively documenting the jazz loft. Non-jazz photography: Various images, including Tomoko Uemura in her bath, Minamata, Japan Life series The Country Doctor Life series Spanish Village Life series Man of Mercy, and essay on Albert Schweitzer The Pittsburgh Project An excellent documentary on 1950 photos from Wales: The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith Part 1, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4

WTF? Trippy music video from the USSR.

grumblebee — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:53:56 -0800

I'm not a fan of front-page posts that don't describe their link, but I seriously have no idea what this is. It's Russian. It's from the '60s. Now that I've watched it, I feel my life is complete, yet I somehow simultaneously want my eight minutes back (you've been warned). SLYT.

All Day Long Singin' His Song

The Whelk — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:54:20 -0800

60s Pop Friday! Ladies and Gentlemen, from Queens, NY, it's the Shangri-Las! Mostly known for their grandly melodramatic songs about teen love gone awry, they aren't all downers. They've been covered by bands from France to Japan.

A legend takes the Rainbow Bridge

rdone — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:06:21 -0800

The great British guitarist Davey Graham died Monday at 68. Every aspiring acoustic guitar player who came of age during the 60s knew of Davy Graham, composer of Anji and inventor of the DADGAD tuning. His own records were never commercial smashes, but his influence was felt by all his contemporaries in the world of folk music and by legions who came after who knew nothing of him personally. The Guardian has a brief obit and assembles a fine video tribute .

Learn from us, very much...

Artw — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:51:53 -0800

Some Velvet Morning When I'm Straight - the "Cowboy Psychedelia" of Lee Hazlewood in duet with Nancy Sinatra, and its many, many, covers.

Pop Art in motion.

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:46:54 -0800

Clever! Peppy! Immensely entertaining! The opening sequence of the Dick Cavett Show was a little masterpiece of 60s pop graphics. A similar aesthetic is at work here in this 60s era PSA reminding you to vote. Here's some jazzy 60s animation: a commercial for Beechnut Gum. And lots more typically 60s animation and graphics on display here in this Animation Commercial Collection.

Grievous Angel

madamjujujive — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:56:37 -0800

Gram Parsons fans take note - there's a recent new biography and a release of 90 minutes of vintage Flying Burrito Brothers. Some rare footage has also recently surfaced online: performing with FBB and duets with Emmylou Harris 1, 2, 3. Other items of note: Emmylou talks about Gram in 2000; British biographical sketch; Keith Richards on Gram in Rolling Stone; an interview with Manuel, the designer of the famous Nudie suit. Prior mefi post by transient with much biographical info. Obit post by keswick for Sneaky Pete Kleinow - Flying Burrito Brothers steel guitarist extraordinaire who died last year Trailer for Fallen Angel, documentary about Gram's life. Emmylou's career after Gram's death 1962 Gram singing Rip It Up with the Legends - sound and photo only Free Parsons downloads offered by Amoeba NYT review of the new Gram biography Prior mefi post on Manolo by IndigoJones - the man who tailored Gram's famous suit Hickory Wind - 1975, performed by Emmylou Harris Hickory Wind - performed by Keith Richards at the Gram Parsons Tribute Concert

Moby Grape Just Can't Catch a Break

y2karl — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:16:39 -0800

From The Mike Douglas Show circa 1967: Moby Grape - Omaha & 8:05
From somewhere else circa whatever: Moby Grape - Hey Grandma & Sitting By A Window
And, you can hear, albeit with registration, three free songs at Wolfgang's Vault: Moby Grape Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco, CA 02/26/1967 See also Skip Spence and the Sad Saga of Moby Grape See also Wow: The Moby Grape Story See also Wilson and Alroy's Moby Grape Page See also George Starpstin's Moby Grape Page See also Chrome Oxide - Music Collectors pages - Moby Grape See also Moby Grape Just Can't Catch a Break

Honky Tonkin' on Flickr

KevinSkomsvold — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:38:46 -0800

A fantastic photoset capturing the life and times of country western artists Carl Butler and Pearl. There are a few people you may recognize as well.

Corporate Magazines Still Suck

psmealey — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:51:04 -0800

Happy 40th Birthday Rolling Stone. On this day in 1967, the first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine was published, and it came with a roach clip. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J. Gleason It embraced and reported on the hippy counterculture during the late 1960s and 1970s, and its rise to fame was synchronous with such bands and artists as the Grateful Dead, Beatles, Doors, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. It is the magazine that trashed Eric Clapton, broke up Cream and ripped every album Led Zeppelin ever made!"

Swingin' Singapore, back in the day.

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:20:22 -0800

Okay, first, take a look at this collection of 60's and 70's Asian Pop Record Covers. Cause they're just a helluvalotta of fun to look at. Now, if you find your musical appetite whetted, the same fellow who brought you those wonderful jackets has a Singapore and Asian 60's Pop Music MySpace page, where you can listen to his fabulous audio playlist, see video clips and more record jackets, and get more info on this very fertile period in Asian pop music history. Just about everything on the MySpace page playlist is well worth listening to, but a good starting point might be some of the mind-blowing cover versions of tunes you're probably already familiar with. Some of them sung (very enthusiastically) in the original English, and others redone in the local lingo: Outcast: Long Tall Sally, Sakura: Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, Melodians: These Boots Are Made For Walking, The Rangers: Mrs. Robinson, Van Dogs: I'm A Believer, Nancy Sit: Love Potion #9. Also, please check these previous related MeFi posts: beat it and Asian progressive music from the 60s and 70s.

Rock out with your Kraut out

cloeburner — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:39:46 -0800

Krautrock: From the hypnotic rhythms and melodies of Can, to the revolutionary electronics of Kraftwerk. Krautrock was a genre that spawned many genius acts. The communal bands like Amon Duul II and Siloah that were soon to be emulated by cult-like restaurant owners, Ya Ho Wha . There were the obscure acts like Zweistein whose sound evokes thoughts of current bands like Animal Collective and Wooden Wand. And there were albums the ground-breaking albums like Tangerine Dream's dark, ambient, Phaedra and the Manuel Gottsching record E2-E4 which is considered to be the first techno album ever produced. Needless to say, Krautrock's influence has been lasting and monumental.

Some resources

kenko — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 07:00:07 -0800

Canadian 60s Garage Bands - Alex's Picks of the Week - Acid Archives of Underground Sounds 1965 - 1982 - South African Rock Files - The Magic Land - Track Lists - Garage Compilation DB - Psychedelic Album Reviews - Christian Psych - Swedish Label Catalog - Swedish Progressive Artist Catalogue - German Rock Discography - Underground Sounds - Greatest Rock Album Covers - 760 Rare Psych Album Photos - Jazz Label Discographies - Psych from the 60s - Hispanic Progressive Rock - Heavy Rock Database - More Discographies (By Label) - Argentinian Rock - Borderline Books - Julian Cope's Head Heritage - The History of Boston Rock - Psychedelicatessen - Collectable Records album covers - Links page with more 60s resources - Italian Prog - The Crack in the Cosmic Egg - Spanish Prog - Psychedelic & Acid Folk - Encyclopedia of Electronic Music - Nurse with Wound "Influences" list - Beyond the Beat Generation - Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Prog - Canterbury - The Technicolor Web of Sound (links compiled by Cesar Montesano of the avant-progressive mailing list.)

Let's Give It To 'Em Right Now

jonmc — Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:44:35 -0800

Plenty of pop music explosions have been international in scope-metal, punk, hip-hop. But none as much as the initial blast garage rock and roll that erupted after the Beatles and Stones broke big. Cutie Morning Moon does an astounding job of documenting the far flung outposts of garageland like Chile, Hong Kong, Sweden, Holland Japan Uruguay, Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe. It also includes the story of Japanese Brazillian expatriates Os Incriveis , plenty of wild photos, movie footage of swede legends the Tages and an article on the secret history of Joan Jett's #1 hit " I Love Rock And Roll". This site is seemingly bottomless, but if that ain't enough there's great links too. If the whole world gan get together and dig three chord boogie, I say there's still hope. *some pages are translated from Japanese. The prose can be awkward. But the feelings there.

y2karl — Sun, 24 Mar 2002 23:28:17 -0800

Mel Lyman 1938-1978. Mel Lyman was controversial. He was the brilliant folk musician who soothed the Dylan-ruffled crowd at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, the Fort Hill guru whose prose in the undergound newspaper Avatar shocked conservative Bostonians of the late 60s... Many years of collecting, and help from numerous people has resulted in the large collection of articles reproduced here. Some say Lyman was God... others that he was a devil... but most of these articles show him as a charismatic individual somewhere between those two extremes. An exhaustively authoritative page about a very interesting harmonica player who became God. And, man, does this bring back the 60s...(Details within)