EXQUISITE

adnilsahrun: “The moment you doubt whether you can fly,...

Mon, 27 May 2013 22:26:00 -0400

adnilsahrun:

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” — J.M. Barrie

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Thu, 23 May 2013 23:34:26 -0400

tobias268: Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting....

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:20:30 -0400

tobias268:

Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting.

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:53:00 -0400

focuschild: S U N R A

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:46:31 -0400

focuschild:

S U N R A

puddingandporn: Planet trip.

Sat, 11 May 2013 02:23:18 -0400

puddingandporn:

Planet trip.

nebulastuff: The Rose The spinning vortex of Saturn’s north...

Sat, 11 May 2013 02:15:41 -0400

nebulastuff:

The Rose

The spinning vortex of Saturn’s north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Measurements have sized the eye at a staggering 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across with cloud speeds as fast as 330 miles per hour (150 meters per second).

cartermagazine: Today In History ‘Ella Fitzgerald, famed jazz...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:33:45 -0400

cartermagazine:

Today In History

‘Ella Fitzgerald, famed jazz singer known for her “skat” style of singing, was born in Newport News, VA, on this date April 25, 1918.’

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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:01:36 -0400

thedeadhand: “By Starlight” - Smashing Pumpkins By starlight...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:28:00 -0400

thedeadhand:

“By Starlight” - Smashing Pumpkins

By starlight I’ll kiss you

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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:16:00 -0400

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Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:50:00 -0400

the sound of the waves collide

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:48:00 -0400

the sound of the waves collide

poboh: Lower Fifth Avenue at Night, Guy Wiggins. American...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:46:42 -0400

poboh:

Lower Fifth Avenue at Night, Guy Wiggins. American Impressionist Painter (1883 - 1962)

v0tum: “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:27:00 -0400

v0tum:

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” ~ Jack Kerouac, On The Road

An African-American man gives a piano lesson to a young...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:14:38 -0400

An African-American man gives a piano lesson to a young Caucasian woman, in 1899 or 1900, in Georgia, USA. Photograph from a collection of W. E. B. Du Bois.

chromeus: swim good

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:18:17 -0400

chromeus:

swim good

mosaicrecords: Elvin Jones By Bobby Jaspar The Jazz Review,...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:57:00 -0400

mosaicrecords:

Elvin Jones

By Bobby Jaspar The Jazz Review, Vol. 2, No. 2 (February 1959) (posted by http://jazzstudiesonline.org/ )

Years ago, I wrote an enthusiastic letter to a friend about a drummer, John Ward, an emulator of Kenny Clarke and Max Roach, who particularly impressed me then. After trying to describe his playing unsuccessfully I resorted to a little drawing. The drawing showed a little car moving straight along at a constant speed, symbolizing the constant tempo, and mounted on top of this car, a smaller car that rolled back and forth. The movements of the second car represent a secondary rhythm superimposed on the basic beat represented by the motion of the first car.

Elvin Jones uses triplets freely, but he seldom uses the high-hat to mark a regular or symmetrical beat. The accent on the weak beat often disappears entirely, to be replaced by complicated cross-rhythms on the ride cymbal reinforced by the familiar snare drum accents of modern drumming.

I must especially emphasize the absence of the afterbeat accent on the high-hat. When one is not used to its absence, one feels a sensation of freedom, as though floating in a void with no point of reference. Actually this kind of freedom is a trademark of the greatest jazzmen. Charlie Parker carried this kind of floating on top of the time the farthest, I think”; and the great soloists at their best moments seem completely free of the alternation of “strong-weak, strong-weak” that some people mistakenly call swing.

The idea of tempo should be a more general one, an idea that each player should have firmly once and for all at the beginning of a performance. The rhythm will have changed often and in many ways. Elvin will deliberately put himself into the most dangerous situation for a soloist—where he must find a way out by increasingly risky and always spontaneous improvising. Apparently, to do that, one needs perfect time, a sort of internal metronome in the “hypothalmus”. American musicians have an expression for this; they say “He always knows where the one is.”

jowcol: while my lady sleeps // john coltrane // coltrane

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:29:28 -0400

jowcol:

while my lady sleeps // john coltrane // coltrane

ausetkmt: As-Sau-Taw-Ka (White Horse), Pawnee

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:27:00 -0400

ausetkmt:

As-Sau-Taw-Ka (White Horse), Pawnee