C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Terence Blanchard
By Howie Klein Tuesday Sep 18, 2007 10:05pmThe new Terence Blanchard album, A Tale of God's Will, is a sure bet-- in case anyone is a bettor at the LNMC-- for a Grammy this year (and I was on Grammy committees for years so I know). Aside from being some of the very best orchestral jazz anywhere, the album explores the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. You want to hear intense music? Go check him out this week at the Monterey Jazz Festival. If you're like me, you'll be at Catalina's in L.A. Sept 27-30.
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Being a trumpet player myself, I hear the talent. Fabulous. But that style of jazz not so much my favorite. The connection between the sound and the images, I don't feel, but the attention on the crime we call Katrina, I love.
Howie
That is beautiful, thanks for introducing me to a band I didn't know about.
Well, that was darn mellow. Thank you.
Oh, well, I wasn't looking... just listening. So I did a do-over. I agree the sound doesn't go with the pictures... until about the four minute mark where he finally puts a little heartbreak into it. I like the piece without the pictures. If it's meant to evoke that mood, he's gotta go back to the drawing board.
Howie,
Yes I suppose I am like you in some ways. But the fact remains I can not get off to be there on those two nights!
So, you be me for those two gigs, and uh, never mind . . . . . .
Is there a video of the music and just the scenes shown in the background?
Blanchard and band played live on WNYC's show Soundcheck last week. I was there; it was really great. Audio is posted here.
It has a Sketches for Spain feel to it.
I like how it starts out minor and then has an uplifting shift to the relative major, but then after the, what seems like a year of silence, it goes back into the minor and kind of hangs in the modal minor area. Also I love how Terence has the chops to be Mainards lead trumpet player but only hints at that technique to drive home some incredibly well articulated phrases!
Here's some Katrina commentary by the mighty Mos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2FlcRVTuCA
It's about time. Music is great. Where have you been?
It is about to slip from collective memory. That is fuking music!
Haunting. In the best possible way.
Check this out. I don't think you have to even know the story line to 'get it.' On Studio 60, Basically, all the working musicians in LA 'called in sick' to make way for their NOLA brethens to get work, and this is the music they played:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dI2LdpW7g5U
so beautiful...thank you..
Thing Fish @ 6:
Personally, I'd watch Spike Lee's "When the Levees Break" and play the music in the background. Or nix the music in the background. Heartbreaking.
Vince Guaraldi
Rain, Rain Go Away
You're A Big Band, Charlie Brown
Where is the hip hop segue where some chosen words by the chosen few
get sown together into some votes as in voting as in registration as in voting.
Where is it?
Pharoah Sanders
Village of the Pharoahs, Pt.1
dance like an Egyptian
OSI
Standby (looks like rain)
come inside, it's comin' down
realnoid @ 15:
It is scumbags like you that make me resent my involvement with humanity.
What the F*** man! This piece by Terence is absolutely masterful.
You really are a disgrace pal. You fail completely!
Its the amount of time that its taking to express outrage that's killing me.
Our society has been dumbed down, it takes years for people to react to real threats to their freedom and a government thats manipulating the populous to its advantage.I hope we open our eyes and see that getting sports out of our education system and religion out of our government is our only way to save this country.
Brad @ 19:
Hey want to meet up for coffee?
Holy shit you are this first person I have met who actually believes the current way we treat sports and education is harmful to our society!
I am serious. Who are you?
Zoom in, cut out, add sound
make it feel so trippy
Hung up, let down to ground
Forget the kill, it's far too sticky
Love, love, love...I'm the trigger hippie...
Morcheeba - Trigger Hippie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng3UDVZ52Js
Feist - Sea Lion Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooQ2rVCsecA
Feist - 1 2 3 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Z-DIAthbM
Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mZzzZLG2pY
The Cribs - Men's Needs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCNTYi9fHuo&mode=user&search=
Requiem for a dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Ma4BvMUwU
Soul-wrenching. I am always humbled by the artist who transforms great pain into great beauty.
Howie,
Thanks. I am a huge Terence Blanchard fan. Glad to see him doing something re: the genocide known as the US response to Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans.
anybody going to the Monterey Jazz Fest?
Oh man.
I saw Terence Blanchard do a concert of music he wrote for the Spike Lee films.
Spike introduced him at the beginning, and during the concert a big screen was behind Blanchard and his band, showing scenes from the movies.
Excellent show.
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