Friday, January 6, 2012

That's What I'm Talking About


I'm hardly what you'd call a jazz traditionalist. The forthcoming release by Robert Glasper will probably be my favorite album of 2012. Even so, I find this 82-year-old recording by Kansas City's Bennie Moten no less invigorating than anything being created today. The raucous "That's What I'm Talking About" is impossibly strange.
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5 comments:

  1. PeterJanuary 6, 2012 at 1:28 PM

    Yes! Thanks for posting this! This made my day.

    The clarinet solo in the middle is wild! That sounds like it could be John Zorn or something!

    Thanks!

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  2. FredJanuary 6, 2012 at 7:55 PM

    That solo in the middle, such a different sound!

    My guess, it's muted trumpet
    by 'Hot Lips' Paige, played using half-valve fingerings.

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  3. kcmeeshaJanuary 8, 2012 at 1:49 PM

    I can listen to this all day long. Maybe because that's the sound I heard in the old movies when I was growing up.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E9n1NcRamk

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO0k14L8I_k

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  4. Happy In BagJanuary 8, 2012 at 2:00 PM

    That "solo in the middle" is so wild that we're not even sure what it is!

    Are you kidding, Meesha? That first link comes as a huge shock. I had no idea...

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  5. kcmeeshaJanuary 8, 2012 at 2:56 PM

    few jazz bands managed to sneak past the censorship. there was even a popular movie about the struggling jazz band in the 20's finally getting the deserved popularity many years later.

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