RE: Keeping It Cool

From: Suzu Takeda (tokyo_rhodes1@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 04:15:54 CEST

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    I found the re-issue of this album by Ramp (original
    was released in 1977 from Blue Thumb/ABC, right?)
    available for $ 8.99 at: http://www.dustygroove.com/

    Just got one myself, after looking for this album in
    eastbay, southbay, sf, Tokyo and never had a luck
    with.
    Speaking of re-issues, I'm very happy with the
    re-issued CD of James Mason (got it in HMV, Shibuya,
    Tokyo).

    --- Philip Sherburne <philip@askjeeves.com> wrote:
    > 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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