robin pinning wrote:
Does anyone else have any books they could recommend?
ok i found Kodwo Eshun: More Brilliant than the Sun to be pretty good. tho
i didn't know all the music discussed which was a disadvantage. also stuff
in there about alice coltrane which is interesting given carl craig's
direction i guess. the style isn't for everyone but once you get into it
it's inspiring in a funny kind of way. a cd with all the tunes discussed on
there would have been a killer addition.
i sort of had the same feeling when i read it 2 or 3 years ago, actually it
pointed me towards records that are now some of my favorites. it's great as
a reference-book, when out shopping.
i've read it again a year and a half ago, and that was a pleasant surprise,
as it read a LOT easier. [took me about 2 months to finish the first time,
and less then a week on the beach the second time].
and i've been thinking about compiling a cd, to accompany the book, sort of
chronologically, so you can actually hear what he's talking about. and add a
booklet with pictures of the sleeves he mentiones would have been a nice
addition aswell. [are you writing all this down mister publisher sir?]
i myself have started on 'Before Motown, jazz in detroit 1920-1960' after it
got mentioned on this list a couple of months ago [then found out that i had
allready saved an earlier post about the book 2 years prior august 6, 2001]
and 'A Love Supreme/the creation of John Coltrane's classic album' by Ashley
Kahn. i enjoy reading 'A Love Supreme' more, but that's probably because
'Before Motown' is written really fact upon fact, sort of like a history
book [probably because it is] but both are very interesting, and highly
recommended. especially because both writers have had the fortune to
interview many people from that era, so the insight comes straight from the
source. every book about these same subjects, will probably have to really
in large part on what's written in these books.
and i saw another book mentioned by someone on the deephousepage
messageboard:
'Black Machine Music & Galactic Soul, From Disco, House to Detroit Techno'
by Tsutomu Noda, anyone know this and care to enlighten all us
ultra-313-techno-geeks if it's worth buying for the content, or if it's just
something you gotta have because it says '...Detroit Techno' in the title?
jurren
_________________________________________________________________
Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*.
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail
