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many thanks to SuperKate for supporting me for years

James Brown – the ‘Illogic’ of Innovation

fonte http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/newformations/archive/newf66%20scannell.pdf

While James Brown’s pioneering music continues to attract great critical acclaim, it is not widely acknowledged that his own musicians were less than effusive about his famed compositions. Brown’s musically ‘educated’ band members have often expressed the view that his prototype funk compositions were simplistic and unsophisticated and therefore not to be taken very seriously. This view is strikingly borne out in Fred Wesley’s recent book, Hit Me Fred: Confessions of a Sideman (2003), in which Brown’s former bandleader provides the most comprehensive insight to date into the trials and tribulations of working with the ‘Godfather of Soul’. Wesley was among the core of abundantly talented former jazz players – Alfred ‘Pee Wee’ Ellis, Maceo Parker, Waymond Reed were others – of Brown’s premiere late 1960s -early 1970s troupes. Prior to their recruitment into Brown’s band, these musicians were aspirant be-boppers. As ex-James Brown bandleader, ‘Pee Wee’ Ellis would later say, ‘he was some other stuff for me; I’d been studying Sonny Rollins’.

This ‘other stuff’ to which Ellis refers was ‘funk’, but it might also be a euphemism for Brown’s notoriously ‘idiosyncratic’ approach to composition in general – one that Wesley would subsequently lament:

Mr Brown would sometimes come to the gig early and have what we call a jam’, where we would have to join in with his fooling around on the organ. This was painful for anyone who had ever thought of playing jazz. James Brown’s organ playing was just good enough to fool the untrained ear, and so bad that it made real musicians sick on the stomach.

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Venerdì 17 settembre
*Burning Decks*
*DJ Tayone* _ Turntable Wizard

CSA nEXt Emerson _  via di Bellagio 15. Firenze

Tayone  official website — http://www.francescocurci.com/tayone/

Tayone

Antipop Consortium live in Roma (tonight):

http://www.myspace.com/antipopny

Kurtis Blow live in Pescara (tomorrow):

http://www.myspace.com/kurtisblow3

ultima serata del Festival Au Desert all’anfiteatro del parco delle Cascine a Firenze

SABATO 10 LUGLIOore 18:00
Tindé, voci dalla musica tradizionale Tuareg – Toufenette Walet Boubacar (Mali)

ore 19:00
Si eseguono riparazioni dell’anima, musica di tradizione siciliana – Matilde Politi, Gabriele Politi e
Lajos Zsivkov (Italia)

ore 20.00
Tiebou Yapp, performance – Marina Arienzale (Italia)

ore 21:30
VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ (Mali) – Vieux Farka Touré, Timothy Keiper, Aly Magassa, Mamadou Sidibe
GRUPPO DJELI-KAN (Italia, Burkina Faso) – Founé Dembélé, Yacouba Dembélé, Souleymane Dembélé, Kalifa Diarra, Sekou Dembélé, special guests: Mino Cavallo, Arlo Bigazzi
e la partecipazione straordinaria di Harouna Dembélé

ore 22:30 – in concert
CHEICK TIDIANE SECK (Mali)
GRUPPO AMANAR (Mali)
JEAN-PHILIPPE RYKIEL (Francia)
BADARA SECK (Senegal)
GABIN DABIRÉ (Burkina Faso)
RASHMI BHATT (India)

ingresso 15 €

Info
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Cell. 380 3867404
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« We speak of love and happiness: for me, happiness is Fred Wesley playing his horn… »   
James Brown

Domenica 25 Luglio 2010

(ore 20)
– Memphis Soul Night Revue with The Memphis All Star Rhythm & Blues Band (feat. Chick Rodgers, Thelma Jones, Green Brothers, Clay Hammond, Lavelle White, McKinley Moore, Bruce James)
– Fred Wesley and The New JB’s

link

http://www.funkyfredwesley.com/ 

VIDEOMIND

 

Per la prima volta a Firenze potremo assistere al progetto Videomind, nato dalle menti di Paura, Clementino e Tayone.

opening: Dj Craim (pluripremiato campione italiano ITF); Nanne (Tullo Soldja); Ninja (La
Primiera); Dj Shinjin; Mirko Miro

Ingresso:€ 8

apertura ore 22.00

http://www.myspace.com/videomind

Stasera 12 marzo 2010 presso l’Auditorium F.L.O.G. a Firenze in via Michele Mercati, sulla collina del Poggetto, si terrà il concerto di Eek-A-Mouse

« Io sono il topo, capite? E un topo può cambiare stile in qualsiasi momento. » Eek-A-Mouse

Eek-A-Mouse

info: http://www.eeksperience.com/