“It’s hard when I’ve been up all night long, that’s when I want you most of all.”

Some mean looking people playing some mean sounding music. 

Needed a bird on it.

Miles Davis: Water Babies (1967)

“This is one of the strangest Davis covers I’ve seen. This cartoon illustration leans perilously close to the late 19th and 20th century sheet music covers in the minstrel tradition featuring comically offensive “negro” stereotypes. Although the reference must be a knowing one, it is nonetheless an unappealing image. Incidentally, the type was designed by Seymour Chwast, then of Push Pin Studios, and has become an emblem of the late Sixites.”

Steven Heller, quoted in Stop Smiling No. 34

Clear Tigers - Brutal

As an In expression, “wrapped tight” can have a lot of meanings, all of them superlative. A girl abundantly endowed with Nature’s most attractive gifts is said to be “wrapped tight.” A jaguar swinging down the highway with Count Basie at the wheel is, in a special sense, wrapped is wrapped tight. And among musicians, because of his ability, imagination and universally recognized authority, Coleman Hawkins is assuredly wrapped tight.

Bill O’Connell - Rhapsody in Blue

J. Giles Band’s The Morning After was “the greatest work of art that is possible in the whole cosmos.” 

 -Karlheinz Stockenhausen

Steve Reich, “WTC 9/11” [via] - is no longer a minimalist! He’s carrying some other card.  

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“A musician who spends his life playing Schubert is just not going to be able to play my music. Brahms is a great composer – his invertible counterpoint at the 12th is, like, really fantastic – but I don’t want to hear a note of it, not now, not later, not ever. Same thing for Mahler, Wagner, Sibelius. If it all disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn’t even know.”

-Steve Reich

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9/11 was “the greatest work of art that is possible in the whole cosmos.” 

 -Karlheinz Stockenhausen

(via fakethugnolove)

Steely Dan

(Source: aquariumdrunkard)