BREATHING WHILE SAXOPHONE PLAYING SHOULD BE AN OLYMPIC SPORT

[Keith Davis]

Lots of cool stuff on the list recently...impossible to keep up! My Summer
session Intro to Jazz class at Furman flipped out when I played them a
video of Rahsaan. He was a great musician, with or without the theatrics,
but it was all part of the package.

A few years ago, I was playing at a Jazz Festival in Atlanta, and my friend
introduced me to the drummer Jimmy Hopps, who used to play with Rahsaan.
Jimmy was (is?) a beautiful guy. He had dark skin, long braids, an all
white African style outfit, and a huge smile. He lived on some kind of
commune in Georgia at the time. The first thing he said to me was, "You and
I are the same". Cool guy.

My friend told me that Hopps liked to always play free, and Rahsaan was one
of the pioneers of that. Sometimes Hopps would get excited and start taking
it out, and Rahsaan would turn around and holler, "Not yet, Hopps! I ain't
ready yet!".

On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 11:07 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kirk and Sun Ra!
>
> And Ian Anderson.
>
>
> http://jazztimes.com/articles/17992-rahsaan-roland-kirk-the-cult-of-kirk
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> And because the day is blue...with so much corruption scandel, inflation,
> recession, unemployment, violence, boys with guns on the corner, waving
> them in our faces like we owe them something....bright moments baby...yeah!
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nzztZ94DbU
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/breathing-while-saxophone-playing-should-be-an-olympic-sport
>>
>> McClintic Sphere
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClintic_Sphere
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>> http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=McClintic_Sphere
>>
>> Does McClintic Sphere in V. stand for Thelonious Monk?
>>
>>
>> http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Does_McClintic_Sphere_in_V._stand_for_Thelonious_Monk%3F
>>
>> The Thomas Pynchon Connection
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>> http://www.wildmusic-jazz.com/oc_pynchon.htm
>>
>> Race in Early Pynchon: Rewriting Sphere in V.
>>
>> Luc Herman
>> John M. Krafft
>>
>> Critique Studies in Contemporary Fiction 01/2011; 52(1):17-29.
>>
>>
>> http://www.researchgate.net/publication/233061665_Race_in_Early_Pynchon_Rewriting_Sphere_in_V
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>>
>> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00111611003631660?journalCode=vcrt20#.VemwZ7RH09c
>>
>> "Hip vs. Cool: Delineating Two Key Concepts in Popular Culture"
>> Is It 'Cause It's Cool?: Affective Encounters with American Culture
>>
>> https://books.google.com/books?id=2-KkAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA25
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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>


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