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Max Roach and Anthony Braxton

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He stopped by my place a number of times. He was like a child, with the shrewdness of a child. He possessed a tremendous enthusiasm. He’d come in and exclaim, ‘take me in as you would a baby and teach me music. I only write one voice. I want to have structure. I want to write orchestral scores.’

Edgard Varèse on Charlie Parker

Unfortunately, while the two musicians met informally several times, Varese left for Paris to compose Deserts shortly after they met, and when he returned in the Spring of 1955, Parker was two months dead from a heroin overdose.

(via elizacrossingtheice)

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No Babies at The Victoria in Dalston.

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Greg Sage of The Wipers

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Been meaning to listen to this. Seems like Matana Roberts finally has a real contemporary/fellow visionary. 

Looking forward to this release from Kamasi Washington. He was all over You’re Dead on Saxophone… “The story begins with a man on high. He is an old man, a warrior, and the guardian to the gates of a city. Two miles below his mountainous perch, he observes a dojo, where a group of young men train night and day. Eventually, the old man expects a challenger to emerge. He hopes for the day of his destruction, for this is the cycle of life.Finally the doors fly open and three young men burst forth to challenge the old master. The first man is quick, but not strong enough. The second is quick, and strong, but not wise enough. The third stands tall, and overtakes the master. The Changing of the Guard has at long last been achieved.”

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Stan Kenton/Robert Graettinger - City of Glass A 1951 collaboration between popular bandleader Stan Kenton and a forward thinking but unknown young composer Bob Graettinger, City of Glass is a completely ahead of its time combination of big band jazz and “Modern” composition. Imagine Stravinsky or Messiaen but with the ability to swing. The album was a concept work about a single day in the busy city and the music moves at lightspeed, clashing atonally one moment, swaying harmoniously the next. The strings create tonal skyscrapers, percussion rumbling traffic, pianos as people in the street.  Bob Graettinger says in the liner notes: “The way I hear music is in a series of constantly changing tensions. What I hear isn’t individual melodies or harmonies, but something more like abstract shapes in motion - physical things passing through time.” Unfortunately Kenton’s popularity as a “swing” bandleader did not admire the album to anyone in the serious classical music community, and his usual audience certainly couldn’t dance to it, so the album was mostly ignored and lingered on the fringe. Even Kenton had his doubts in later years, saying "Well, I tell ya, it was either the greatest music the band ever presented, or the biggest pile of crap we ever played, and I still do not know which." Graettinger, a very shy and private man, secluded himself into his writing, working on further music based off complex mathematics and notation system of color charts and graphs, very ittle of which was recorded or even released. He died in 1957, at the age of 34, from lung cancer- only 10 years after first working with Kenton. 

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Pere Ubu interview from Back Door Man zine, Feb ‘77

Pere Ubu interview Back Door Man zine feb 77

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The girls won’t touch me Cos I’ve got a misdirection Living at night isn’t helping my complexion The signs all saying it’s a social infection A little bit of fun’s never been an insurrection

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industrial magazine, mid-seventies

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Chrome

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I got this big boys tattoo today! Big boys are my favorite band ever and The biggest inspiration to me I could ever ask for! Very happy to have this tattoo on me and am very excited to do a shitty job explaining it to average joes!

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Happy Birthday D.Boon

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1984 Dune Movie Coloring Book Pages

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Sheer Mag reaffirmed the joy of rock n roll & live music for me tonight. Best band in the world.

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Nun - Cronenberg - vid

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Archie Shepp and John Coltrane with producer Bob Thiele, 1964

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