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Post by jazzhead on Mar 27, 2020 9:32:38 GMT
This track is a trip through time. You could (and some of us have) spend a lifetime listening to the musicians mentioned or referenced in this track. Yes, it's about the JFK assassination, but that's not all. I'd type them all out but I don't want to spoil it for anyone!
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Post by Doom Girl on Mar 27, 2020 18:04:51 GMT
Thank you for posting this JH. Dylan's first new release in years, just when it's needed.
Dylan writes "Greetings to my fans and followers with gratitude for all your support and loyalty across the years. This is an unreleased song we recorded a while back that you might find interesting. Stay safe, stay observant and may God be with you."
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Post by jazzhead on Mar 27, 2020 20:58:12 GMT
Thank you for posting this JH. Dylan's first new release in years, just when it's needed. Dylan writes "Greetings to my fans and followers with gratitude for all your support and loyalty across the years. This is an unreleased song we recorded a while back that you might find interesting. Stay safe, stay observant and may God be with you." It's something else. Impossible to get everything he's on about in several listens. It's like a cultural panoramic snapshot. It is epic. There's a line around 2:12 and I think I have this right, could be wrong though, but he says 'Hush little children You'll understand The Beatles are coming Their gonna Hold Your Hand' He's referencing the murder of John Lennon there isn't he? "You'll understand", meaning, I think, Kennedy was to his generation what Lennon was to "children"/Beatles fans.
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Post by Doom Girl on Mar 28, 2020 0:28:49 GMT
Yes, I think you might be right. The full lyrics are now available on several sites. There's sure a lot to absorb here.
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Post by alunsevern on Apr 4, 2020 10:19:24 GMT
I haven't listened to Dylan is several decades but followed this up because of all the online fuss. I was astonished to find it a genuine late flowering of genius, a masterpiece of the kind we perhaps no longer expected from Dylan. Jazzhead said it's a cultural panoramic snapshot -- spot on. The old Dylan magic is there in the multi-layered lyrics and the multiple meanings and interpretations.
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Post by jazzhead on Apr 17, 2020 12:59:46 GMT
He's only gone and released another new track!
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Post by jazzhead on May 29, 2020 17:20:36 GMT
Never knew about Bob's love of jazz. I wish the interviewer had gone into this a little deeper: "Jazz musicians have always played standards, no matter what else they were up to. “Why Was I Born” and “My One and Only Love” were recorded by John Coltrane. Coltrane was playing in the Village at the same time you were. Did your paths ever cross? I saw him at The Village Gate on Bleecker Street a couple of times with Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner. A few years ago I went to one of your concerts and found myself sitting next to Ornette Coleman. After the show I went backstage and there were some very famous rock musicians and actors waiting around, but the only person you invited into your dressing room was Ornette. Do you feel a connection with those jazz guys? Yeah, I always have. I knew Ornette a little bit and we did have a few things in common. He faced a lot of adversity, the critics were against him, other jazz players that were jealous. He was doing something so new, so groundbreaking, they didn’t understand it. It wasn’t unlike the abuse that was thrown at me for doing some of the same kind of things, although with different forms of music." www.bobdylan.com/news/qa-with-bill-flanagan/
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Post by Doom Girl on May 29, 2020 17:43:55 GMT
"......Dylan remembers his early days in New York. “I’d listen to a lot of jazz and bebop records,” and to the arrangements of Gil Evans. “There were a lot of similarities between some kinds of jazz and folk music.” Dylan then lists several Ellington compositions, including “Tattoo Bride” and “Tourist Point of View” and concludes that, to him, “They sounded like sophisticated folk music.” It is also in this section where Dylan talks of the influence of jazz records by Roland Kirk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Christian’s sides with Benny Goodman. Living and working in an early1960s New York City, Dylan attended various jazz clubs, being taken with the music of Thelonious Monk and speaking briefly with him. When Dylan introduced himself as a folk music performer, Monk would tell the young man from the Midwest, “We all play folk music.” (from Jazz Times, Tom Wilmeth, 5/24/11, with quotes from Dylan's Chronicles.)
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Post by jazzhead on May 30, 2020 12:34:26 GMT
"......Dylan remembers his early days in New York. “I’d listen to a lot of jazz and bebop records,” and to the arrangements of Gil Evans. “There were a lot of similarities between some kinds of jazz and folk music.” Dylan then lists several Ellington compositions, including “Tattoo Bride” and “Tourist Point of View” and concludes that, to him, “They sounded like sophisticated folk music.” It is also in this section where Dylan talks of the influence of jazz records by Roland Kirk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Christian’s sides with Benny Goodman. Living and working in an early1960s New York City, Dylan attended various jazz clubs, being taken with the music of Thelonious Monk and speaking briefly with him. When Dylan introduced himself as a folk music performer, Monk would tell the young man from the Midwest, “We all play folk music.” (from Jazz Times, Tom Wilmeth, 5/24/11, with quotes from Dylan's Chronicles.) Thanks for that. Just read the article: jazztimes.com/features/columns/jazz-in-the-key-of-bob-jazz-bob-dylan/I've not read Chronicles Volume One, yet.
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Post by bassman on May 30, 2020 18:28:43 GMT
I'm not very much into vocal music, though given my age, quite a few voices have made it into my record collection. For some reason, Dylan never appealed to me.
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Post by jazzhead on Jun 12, 2020 14:34:13 GMT
Just read this from Dylan's recent interview up now on the NYT: "You also refer to Art Pepper, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson and Stan Getz in “Murder Most Foul.” How has jazz inspired you as a songwriter and poet over your long career? Are there jazz artists you’ve been listening to lately? Maybe Miles’s early stuff on Capitol Records. But what’s jazz? Dixieland, bebop, high-speed fusion? What do you call jazz? Is it Sonny Rollins? I like Sonny’s calypso stuff but is that jazz? Jo Stafford, Joni James, Kay Starr — I think they were all jazz singers. King Pleasure, that’s my idea of a jazz singer. I don’t know, you can put anything into that category. Jazz goes back to the Roaring Twenties. Paul Whiteman was called the king of jazz. I’m sure if you asked Lester Young he wouldn’t know what you’re talking about. Has any of it ever inspired me? Well yeah. Probably a lot. Ella Fitzgerald as a singer inspires me. Oscar Peterson as a piano player, absolutely. Has any of it inspired me as a songwriter? Yeah, “Ruby, My Dear” by Monk. That song set me off in some direction to do something along those lines. I remember listening to that over and over." www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/arts/music/bob-dylan-rough-and-rowdy-ways.html
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Post by jazzhead on Jul 2, 2020 9:52:47 GMT
From Bob Dylan Chronicles Volume One:
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Post by jazzhead on Jul 2, 2020 9:59:36 GMT
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Post by jazzhead on Jul 2, 2020 10:01:13 GMT
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Post by jazzhead on Jul 2, 2020 10:03:51 GMT
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