source file: mills3.txt Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 00:22:56 +0200 Subject: Re: Info sought on recordings From: "Jonathan M. Szanto" About JC's request on the Microtonal Blues Band, here's info I posted once before. There were two LP's (both still sitting in my closet) that are long out of print, and doubt have been transferred to CD (though 8-tracks may still be around): - "Journey To Bliss - Emil Richards and the Microtonal Blues Band" (Impulse Stereo A-9166) - "Spirit of 1976 - Emil Richards and the Microtonal Blues Band / Live at Donte's" (Impulse Stereo A-9182) To be upfront about it, these are not excursions into microtonal composition per se; Emil and company used microtonal instruments, virtually all of these percussion (and mostly made by Emil, I think) to add colors to the music. They had been influenced by Hari Har Rao, who had recently begun teaching Indian music in the LA area at the time. Most of the expansion of the jazz idiom came in the form of odd meters. They were also being influenced by the Maharishi himself (with LP #1 having a particularly striking oil painting of him on the back), and more than a certainty being influenced by burning vegetation of an illegal nature (except for medicinal purposes, of course). It's up to the individual whether to check them out as microtonal resources, but if you want a retro insight into the late 60's (when I believe these were recorded) they can't be beat. Side Two of LP #1 is entitled "Journey To Bliss: A Meditation Suite in Six Movements". Priceless stuff, I assure you. Emil was turned on (hmmm...) to the Indian thing by Don Ellis, and for a while they had a group called the Hindustani Jazz Sextet. About that group, I know nothing. Oh, hell, about a lot of things I know nothing. >I imagine others on this list would like the information as well. Well, John, we'll 'just' see about that! Cheers all, Jon *------------------------------------------------------------------* Jonathan M. Szanto | Nearly one year old, Partch's place online Corporeal Meadows | is really showing signs of urbane sprawl... jszanto@adnc.com | http://www.adnc.com/web/jszanto/welcome.html *------------------------------------------------------------------* SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: rapoport@mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA Subject: quartertones PostedDate: 17-08-97 03:20:12 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 17-08-97 03:20:17-17-08-97 03:20:18,17-08-97 03:18:24-17-08-97 03:18:24 DeliveredDate: 17-08-97 03:18:24 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) with SMTP id C12564F6.00075663; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 03:20:08 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA32228; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 03:20:12 +0200 Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 03:20:12 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA32213 Received: (qmail 14332 invoked from network); 17 Aug 1997 01:20:09 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Aug 1997 01:20:09 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu