Could someone tell me a little about Ramp? I know it's a Roy Ayers project,
but I know little else about it. I was surprised, however, when Jan Jelinek
cited it as an example of the kind of minimalist soul that's influenced him.
Is this still available on repress? I saw it in my neighborhood store in
SF, but slept on it, and now it's gone.
-----Original Message-----
From: Beau Young [mailto:bjy07@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:55 PM
To: stevencatanzaro@sprintmail.com
Cc: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: Keeping It Cool
I'm playing Thrust a lot too since I just got a copy last week. I'll never
get tired of this one. Lots of samples I've heard in all kinds of songs.
And everytime I go into a used record shop lately the first artist I look
for is Airto. One of the best drummers/percussionists ever. I'm about to
drop most of the new stuff in a minute and head straight for the old!
P.S. Here are a few old tings I'm feeling ... I'm after so much more.
Ramp - Come Into the Knowledge..... "I wanna see daylight, daylight..."
Lonnie Liston & the Cosmic Echos - Expansions
Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping ... damn! this is sweet
Kool & the Gang - Light of Worlds
Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse
>From: "Steve Catanzaro"
>To: "acid jazz"
>Subject: Keeping It Cool
>Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:54:55 -0700
>
>Calling in from AZ where the 100 degree plus temperatures are right around
the corner.... as in Friday...
>
>
>Here's the sounds currently keeping me cool as I wannabe
>
>Miles Davis. Panthalassa (reconstruction by Bill Laswell); I've had it for
well over 2 years, and I'm just now starting to plumb the depths. How can
you write music that sounds hot and new 25 - 30 years into the future? Just
be Miles Davis, that's all. These are badass originals, reloved nicely.
>
>Track 1 is the mellow, deep, awesome In A Silent Way highlights reel.
>
>Track 2, Black Satin, the nastiness from On The Corner, rugged and raw.
>
>Track 3. Rated X rawness, all the funk you love, the psycho-sound collage
textures you need. Morphs into sweetdrippingwithfunk at Billy Preston, about
(6:10 minutes in). Begging for still more MORE remixes, here....
>
>Track 4. He Loved Him Madly... Miles' Duke Ellington tribute, this is the
downtempo flute psychobizness here.
>
>Buy it, get it, study it, live it, love it, be it.... (cf. the article
about the making of Bitches' Brew in this month's Jazz Times magazine.)
>
>What else we've got in the cooker...
>
>Rae & Christian. Northern Sulpheric Soul, Sleepwalking.
>Airto. The Best Of, The Other Side Of This.
>Herbie Hancock. Thrust (can't / won't stop playing this one)
>
>Stuff that didn't grab me too much...
>
>Hefner, Residue (UK version), smooth downtempo shuffly biz..
>MJ Cole, Sincere (UK version), hey, I like the DJ's ting, too.!
>Soullive. Doin' Somethin. Funky organ trio, (hot left hand, no doubt) with
Fred Wesley cropping up here and there... "Shack-Man" is a bit
naughtier/funkier, ihmo.
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