Sunday, January 13, 2008
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
The music of the Beatles has been covered ad nauseam but the version of “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” played here by guitarist Marc Ribot is really worth a listen. Ribot somehow makes the listener forget that he or she is hearing a Beatles classic because of all the harmonic rivulets he discovers inside each phrase of the original.
Also, try to catch the new Albert Ayler film if you can. If the goal of being a musician is originality, Ayler did that better than most. Ayler’s music is symphonic noise and an acquired taste, sure. But you’ll never hear anything else like it.
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Larry, what Ayler recordings do you like? I have "Spiritual Unity," and it is amazing, unbelievably good. Ayler's gift for melody is asthonishing, and when I listen to this record in my car, Sonny Murray's drums, especially cymbals, are palpable, kind of like Rashied Ali on "Interstellar Space." What else by Ayler is worth a listen?
In Greenwich Village is the best, I think but Vibrations works, too.
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