I Am Not Going To Lie To You, This Is A Tough Track To Get Through .........
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By all rights 'Brilliant Corners' existed once and only once. They laid it down and walked away never thinking they could do it again. Once and done, ala hara kiri, fin-eato and yet here we are.
Your listening and I'm riffing.
The music plays.
And I'm wondering where all of the brilliance has gone.
You built an alright world, not perfect, but alright.
You don't ask for it, they just come. Sometimes by accident.
Sometimes by word of mouth.
Regardless, they settled. They called it home. They made friends.
They cried, they chuckled.
We made time and invested. We built this place.
I don't know about you but I am starting to feel like I am losing relevance.
Where are we now?
Anyway do yourself a favor and check out this video with Orrin Keepnews.
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Comments (19)
Genius is never too tough to appreciate...
hah..cool keepnews..the left coast's Van Gelder. Monk: always a treat.
I don't understand jazz....I just don't get it.
What part don't you get Annie?
Chris..as long as you are here, you are relevant.
boy you sure are a mind-reader brother! has the latest upload disable corrupted MOGger interst? dunno, but the postings seem at an all-time low (Cody - stats?) you're not losing relevance...you just have to follow its lead, though I could not guess where we're headed.
I gots lots of music to post, but the urge is stagnant a bit. Johnny Thunders sang "You Can't Wrap Your Arms Around a Memory", but in some crucial ways I do believe he erred....'course he was really stoned most of the time....
Oh, yeah...loved both vids!!
Annie this is a tough compisition as is alot of Monk's output.
You know what they say, "If you have to ask ....."
Relevance is subjective I guess. There is way more auto generated posts than original Mogger posts.
For me the music and the words go together. Sure I can toss a video in there but it seems like sensory overload to read and to watch where as a track and words are like PB&J. It works in my mind.
I'll stick around cause I don't have anywhere else to go that feels like home.
I dunno if it is anything other than summer..and people popping in, out, and away from their computrons. I do have a lot of trusteds and the posting seems off a little but not gone..
Posts by my trusteds:
Last 24:18
Last Week:126
Last Month: 614
So somewhere around 20 a day. Having to go elsewhere to upload is mightily annoying, but doable. I'm trying to hold off from doing "serious" posts until the upload is back.
Comments seem to be down, but I still think it's summer thats to blame, although more than 1 person has commented on how slow it is. I told DM I thought it was the calm before the storm.
well, I hope that's the deluge and not the drought...quick work, as ever. :)
I think Monk is one of the most acessible things to non-jazz folk. He was definitely one of my first faves. For me Jazz is all about not knowing what the next sound will be and I love Monk for that.
With other kinds of American music (rock/soul/pop), you almost always know what the next sound will be.
Renee Rosnes manages to channel The Monk pretty darn good. Years ago when I first heard Monk I was enchanted with his work; I remember playing "Straight No Chaser" over and over until the record wore out for instance. I didn't and don't often get that obsessive, but The Monk had that pleasing power over me. Thanks for the reminder.
I'd offer tmy two cents, but I got nothing to say, other than hello, I am here.
http://mog.com/Dabeef/blog/1472627
Well that's a relief Chuck.
Dabeef, your so welcome.
Scotty, that Orrin Keepnews video is golden isn't it?
Cody, Monk can be hard to digest sometimes but I will concede he can be a 'gateway' jazz star.
Well I just got a new trusted out of this post.
The system still works.
Check out Dabeef's post. Link in comments above.
http://mog.com/Dabeef/
There's the (Da)beef▲
Hi my Relevant friend, feelin a bit apprehensive? Yeah, I think this is the roughest period of transition yet, but hang on....it should get interesting.
And hey..........there's always politics
"You know, anybody can play a composition and use far-out chords and make it sound wrong. It’s making it sound right that’s not easy."
Thelonious Monk, 1961