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Maria Luiza Jobim é a convidada do episódio desta semana do Posto Emissor, tendo editado em junho o seu terceiro álbum de estúdio, “Rosa No Céu”. Ao podcast da BLITZ, a cantora e compositora brasileira abordou este seu novo trabalho, tendo também discorrido sobre as memórias que tem do seu pai, Antonio Carlos Jobim, um dos criadores da bossa nova. O novo álbum dos Rolling Stones e o Rock In Rio-Lisboa não foram esquecidos neste episódio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Er hat den Jazz mehrmals neu erfunden im Laufe seines Lebens: Der Trompeter und Bandleader kam vom Bebop zum Hardbop, erfand den Cool Jazz mit, fusionierte den Jazz mit anderen Musikrichtungen wie Rock und Pop. Er würde Musik atmen, hat er mal gesagt. Doch Miles Davis wirkte nicht nur über seine Musik, sondern auch über seinen Look, sein Auftreten, wie er sich auf der Bühne und in den Medien inszenierte. Gleichzeitig konnte er auch gnadenlos und brutal sein, andere demütigen. Er hat sich geprügelt, auch seine Frauen und daraus kein Geheimnis gemacht. Wie also umgehen mit Miles Davis und seinem Erbe? Welche wichtigen Akzente hat er hinterlassen in der Musikgeschichte und wie wirken sie bis heute? Eva Röder diskutiert mit Lukas Akintaya – Schlagzeuger, Komponist, Producer; Stefan Hentz – Journalist und Autor; Julia Neupert – SWR-Jazzredaktion
大家都知道，听爵士乐和研究爵士乐是我的一大爱好之一。在有了女儿之后，琢磨女儿的教育问题也成了我的另一大爱好。而如今，我将两个爱好结合在一起，借助AI（ChatGPT 和 Gemini），发展出了一套爵士乐育儿指南。这是据我所知，全国，乃至全世界，第一份爵士乐育儿指南，敬请收听。节目最后 Tutti 跟女儿一起跳舞的视频可在小红书搜索 Tutti 并关注。今年十一假期，Why for Jazz 联合 SEAIC 法国中欧艺术创新中心发起了一个针对巴黎和波尔多的法国旅行团。我将与建筑艺术学者，我的太太 Tutti 联合带队，深入法国，开启一趟沉浸式的以爵士乐，建筑，红酒和文化学习交流为主线的全景之旅。旅行团即可开始报名，计划招募15位同行者。有兴趣的朋友可以点击上面链接，或直接添加下面二维码进行咨询。期待十一相见。扫码开启法国之旅Playlist of the Show:[23:09] What'd I Say - Ray Charles[26:30] Early Summer - Ryo Fukui[28:52] Hymn to Freedom - Oscar PetersonAI建议的爵士乐育儿歌单（20月龄-36月龄）20个月：高保真钢琴触键（物理建模期） ● 曲目： Midnight Sugar (山本刚), C-Jam Blues (Red Garland), Linus and Lucy (Vince Guaraldi), Bag's Groove (MJQ) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： 20个月的孩子，内耳耳蜗的**音调映射（Tonotopic map）**正在进行最后的物理微调。山本刚这类钢琴录音拥有极高的“瞬态响应（Transients）”，每一个音符的起始极其清晰。这种“干净”的声音信号能最大程度减少听觉系统解码的噪音，帮助大脑建立“钢琴”这种复杂音色的高质量统计模型。 ○ 发展心理学： 此时孩子处于感知运动阶段的尾声，通过“敲击”产生的声音最能吸引其注意力。钢琴的打击乐属性最能引起这种因果关系的共鸣。21个月：行走贝斯与前庭系统平衡 ● 曲目： 1. Work Song (Nat Adderley) 2. Killer Joe (Benny Golson) 3. Blues in the Closet (Bud Powell) 4. Strollin' (Horace Silver) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： 这一组曲目强调 Walking Bass（行走贝斯）。稳定的、如同心跳般的低音提琴拨奏（Quarter-note pulse）能直接激活基底神经节，这是人类处理节奏与运动控制的核心。 ○ 发育心理学： 21个月的孩子正处于走路重心从摇晃趋向平稳的阶段。这种稳定的低频驱动能与她的身体运动产生神经夹带（Entrainment），通过前庭系统感知重力与节奏的重合，建立起最早的“摇摆感（Swing Feeling）”。22个月：硬波普（Hard Bop）与社交对话逻辑 ● 曲目： 1. Moanin' (Art Blakey) 2. Song for My Father (Horace Silver) 3. The Sidewinder (Lee Morgan) 4. Watermelon Man (Herbie Hancock) 5. What'd I Say (Ray Charles) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： 此时孩子正经历语言词汇量的激增，**布罗卡区（Broca's area）**极度活跃。这些曲目中经典的 Call & Response（呼唤与回应） 结构，完美契合了大脑对社交性沟通的生理渴望。 ○ 发育心理学： 此时孩子开始理解“轮流”的概念。通过这种音乐结构，她在无意识中练习了沟通的节奏感，激活了镜像神经元系统，这不仅是音乐启蒙，更是共情能力的早期培养。23个月：Jazz Hip Hop 与持续注意力的构建 ● 曲目： 1. Aruarian Dance (Nujabes) 2. Luv(sic) Part 3 (Nujabes) 3. Waltz for Life Will Born (Uyama Hiroto) 4. Feather (Nujabes) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： 稳定的 Loop（循环）能给大脑提供极强的“神经安全性”。当背景节奏是高度可预测的，而上层的钢琴即兴是流动的，这能训练**前额叶皮层（Prefrontal Cortex）**在稳定的背景中提取细微的变化信号。 ○ 发育心理学： 这个阶段孩子开始能进行较长时间的专注游戏。高质量的循环乐句能降低皮质醇水平，延长其**深度探索（Deep Play）**的时间窗口。24个月：奇数拍与认知弹性（两岁里程碑） ● 曲目： 1. Take Five (Dave Brubeck) 2. Unsquare Dance (Dave Brubeck) 3. Blue Rondo à la Turk (Dave Brubeck) 4. Eleven Four (Paul Desmond) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： 两岁是突触剪枝（Synaptic Pruning）剧烈发生的节点。如果此时只听 4/4 拍，大脑会认定 5/4 或 9/8 为“不可理解信号”。输入奇数拍是为了保持神经系统的认知弹性（Cognitive Flexibility），训练大脑在不对称中寻找更高阶的数学规律。 ○ 发育心理学： 此阶段孩子自我意识觉醒（Terrible Twos），非对称的节奏正好契合了这种不安分的探索精神，帮助她建立对“不平衡”的心理包容力。第二阶段：和声色彩与审美拓宽（25m - 30m）核心目标： 引入复杂和弦（9, 11, 13音），在听觉皮层建立高维度的“美学坐标系”。25个月：三拍子的流体感知（空间感知进阶） ● 曲目： 1. Waltz for Debby (Bill Evans) 2. Bluesette (Toots Thielemans) 3. Alice in Wonderland (Bill Evans) 4. Up with the Lark (Bill Evans) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： 三拍子会强烈刺激小脑的前庭系统。Bill Evans 的“无根音和弦（Rootless Voicings）”让声音听起来是“悬浮”的。根据 Robert Zatorre 的研究，这种高级和声能精细化音调映射（Tonotopic map），训练大脑不依赖低音根音去寻找调性中心。 ○ 发育心理学： 3/4 拍的圆舞曲感能带给孩子优雅、流动的感官体验，有助于精细动作的优雅化发育。26个月：Bossa Nova 与多线信号处理 ● 曲目： 1. The Girl from Ipanema (Stan Getz) 2. Wave (Antônio Carlos Jobim) 3. Desafinado (Stan Getz) 4. Corcovado (Cannonball Adderley) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： Bossa Nova 的底层节奏是平直的八分音符，而上层爵士和弦极其复杂。这种矛盾感要求大脑进行听觉场景解构（Auditory Scene Analysis）。 ○ 发育心理学： 这种轻松的氛围是训练情绪调节（Emotional Regulation）的绝佳工具。在神经科学上，它能激活边缘系统中的愉悦中枢而不产生过度亢奋。27个月：调式爵士（Modal Jazz）与深度观察 ● 曲目： 1. So What (Miles Davis) 2. Maiden Voyage (Herbie Hancock) 3. Little Sunflower (Freddie Hubbard) 4. Flamenco Sketches (Miles Davis) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： 调式爵士和弦变化极慢。根据 Bregman 的理论，这种“低变化率”会迫使大脑将注意力转向**音色（Timbre）**的微观纹理。 ○ 发育心理学： 培养“静谧感”。这种音乐能训练孩子在无外部剧烈刺激的环境中进行内在的深度观察，是建立长时注意力的基石。28个月：冷爵士（Cool Jazz）与边缘系统开发 ● 曲目： 1. My Funny Valentine (Chet Baker) 2. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (Art Pepper) 3. Autumn Leaves (Cannonball) 4. Django (MJQ) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： 略带忧郁、克制的音色能激活**边缘系统（Limbic system）**中的杏仁核与海马体连接。研究表明，幼儿能感知到音乐中的哀伤情绪，这能丰富其大脑的情感皮层。 ○ 发育心理学： 28个月的孩子开始萌发初级共情。通过理解音乐中的“忧郁”，她在学习处理复杂的人类情感。29个月：Bebop 与神经放电频率挑战 ● 曲目： 1. Scrapple from the Apple (Charlie Parker) 2. A Night in Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie) 3. Donna Lee (Charlie Parker) 4. Salt Peanuts (Dizzy Gillespie) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： 极速音阶挑战了听觉神经元的放电频率（Firing Rate）。这是一种神经层面的“高强度间歇训练（HIIT）”，旨在提高大脑对高密度信息的即时处理带宽。 ○ 发育心理学： Bebop 的多变与灵动契合了孩子此时精力旺盛、喜欢探索事物边界的行为逻辑。30个月：日本爵士 - 叙事建模（情感深度期） ● 曲目： 1. Early Summer (Ryo Fukui) 2. Scenery (Ryo Fukui) 3. Blow Up (Isao Suzuki) 4. Girl Talk (Tsuyoshi Yamamoto) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： J-Jazz 具有独特的旋律线条。30个月的孩子正致力于将碎片化的信息拼凑成故事，此时大脑的**默认模式网络（DMN）**开始在音乐欣赏中起作用。 ○ 发育心理学： 建立文化认同感。通过这些具有东方美学色彩的爵士乐，她在潜意识中完成了一种审美的文化建构。第三阶段：结构解构与即兴逻辑（31m - 36m）核心目标： 识别主题与变奏的边界，培养长时记忆与宏观思维构架。31个月：人声爵士与语言-音乐桥梁 ● 曲目： 1. L-O-V-E (Nat King Cole) 2. Cheek to Cheek (Fitzgerald & Armstrong) 3. Fly Me to the Moon (Sinatra) 4. How High the Moon (Ella Fitzgerald) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： SSIR 假说（Shared Syntactic Integration Resource）指出，语言与音乐共享神经资源。此时利用人声爵士独特的韵律感（Prosody），可以极大地加速她对词汇节拍的内化。 ○ 发育心理学： 模仿是此阶段的核心。Scat（拟声唱法）能锻炼她口腔肌肉的精细化控制，对发音清晰度有显著提升作用。32个月：工作记忆与“主题追踪” ● 曲目： 1. St. Thomas (Sonny Rollins) 2. Moritat (Sonny Rollins) 3. Cantaloop (Us3) 4. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Cannonball) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： 训练工作记忆（Working Memory）。大脑需要记住开头的“主题（Hook）”，并在复杂的即兴独奏中，保持对这个逻辑原点的潜意识追踪。 ○ 发育心理学： 训练解决问题的策略——在复杂变幻的环境中寻找“恒定点”。33个月：拉丁爵士（Latin Jazz）与听觉分流 ● 曲目： 1. Mambo Inn (George Shearing) 2. Manteca (Dizzy Gillespie) 3. Afro Blue (Mongo Santamaría) 4. Tequila (Wes Montgomery) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： 拉丁爵士包含大量的多声部打击乐。根据 Bregman 的理论，这要求大脑完成最高难度的流提取（Stream Segregation）。 ○ 发育心理学： 狂欢节般的节奏能释放孩子的压力，增强其在运动中的爆发力与协调性。34个月：现代融合（Fusion）与认知弹性 ● 曲目： 1. Spain (Chick Corea) 2. Birdland (Weather Report) 3. Chameleon (Herbie Hancock) 4. 500 Miles High (Chick Corea) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： 引入非自然音色（合成器）。大脑需要重新识别这些信号，刺激腹侧注意网络（Ventral Attention Network）。 ○ 发育心理学： 培养对新奇事物的包容度，不让其听觉审美固化在单一的木质乐器上。35个月：极限和声（Coltrane Changes）算法建模 ● 曲目： 1. Giant Steps (John Coltrane) 2. Naima (John Coltrane) 3. Speak No Evil (Wayne Shorter) 4. Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： Coltrane Changes 是爵士乐中最复杂的数学矩阵。此时输入这种极限逻辑，就像是在给计算机预装最强的算法底座，挑战其处理信息的深度。 ○ 发育心理学： 训练对“高张力”的承受力。在极度复杂的声音中寻找内在平衡，是培养未来演奏家“大将之风”的必经之路。36个月：自由即兴与全球脑连接（启蒙圆满） ● 曲目： 1. Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin) 2. Hymn to Freedom (Oscar Peterson) 3. The Köln Concert (Keith Jarrett) 4. My Favorite Things (Coltrane 1961) ● 深度分析： ○ 脑神经科学： 激活默认模式网络（DMN）。这种长篇幅、大跨度的自由即兴曲目，能让大脑在不同脑区间建立长程连接，实现想象力与自我意识的统一。 ○ 发育心理学： 此时她已经拥有了一套完整的“爵士底层操作系统”。无论以后学不学琴，这套系统都将成为她认知世界、理解“自由”的底色。
Slow Pete gestalten mit ihrem nonkonformen Zugang zur Musik die Teenage Dance Party; genreoffen, weltoffen und mit einer Hand immer in der Plattenkiste. ## Raritäten, Banalitäten, Obscuritäten 1. Mr. Güder – Diggin Dirt 2. The Specials – Guns Of Navarone 3. Booker T and the MG's – Soul Limbo 4. Super Wolf – Anybody Can Do It 5. David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World 6. Tocotronic – Crash 7. Thurston Moore – Sans Limites 8. Hans Hass – Welche Farbe Hat Der Wind 9. Neue Generation – Heiß, Heiß 10. Apotheke – Hi Baby Out 11. Baken Beans – The Edge Of The World 12. No Use For A Name – No It All 13. Technotronic – Rocking over the beat (Manchester rmx) 14. Glenn Miller – Cowboy Serenade 15. San Ul Lim – It was probably late summer 16. Die Zimmermänner – Keiner ruft Cornelia an 17. Telly Savalas – You've lost that lovin feeling 18. Gerhard Heinz – Disco Bar 19. Dimitris Papadimitrou – Rock Star Fantesy II 20. Run DMC – Sucker MCs 21. Rock Steady Crew – Hey You 22. Sugar Hill Gang – Apache 23. Fantones – Simla Beat Theme # Teenage Dance Party Musikalisch geht es bei "Teenage Dance Party" um vieles, wobei die Sendung nur in seltenen Fällen von einem Genre dominiert wird. Avantgarde Pop trifft Roots Reggae, Ambient Klänge kontrastieren mit Golden Age Hiphop, Drum n' Bass vs. Cool Jazz, Glitch & Percussions, Punk und Ska. DJ Zoom, Ed LSN & Slow Pete präsentieren je nach Gusto neue Tracks und alten Scheiß, erzählen was es damit auf sich hat und schaffen es sicherlich den ein oder anderen Zuhörer zu überraschen. Ab und zu gesellen sich Gäste zu den dreien und bereichern die Show mit Musik und Anekdoten. * http://www.thetarecords.de/
This week on Jazz After Dinner, Joe features Saxophonist Gerry Mulligan from his 1992 GRP Records recording, titled “Re-Birth of the Cool.
Slow Pete gestalten mit ihrem nonkonformen Zugang zur Musik die Teenage Dance Party; genreoffen, weltoffen und mit einer Hand immer in der Plattenkiste. This content is protected against AI scraping. 1. Jazz Sabbath - Changes 2. Brown Sabbath - Electric Funeral 3. Khaled Al Reigh - Zannik Otis Gayle - I'Il be around Augustus Pablo - Pablo Satta 4. Augustus Pablo - Rockers Rock 5. Jaubi - Lahore State Of Mind (Al Dobson Jr Remix) 6. Dexter - Homer Flip 7. The Velvet Shadows - Happy 8. Ebony Steel Band - Tour De France 9. Julie Discoll - Season Of The Witch 10. Boogaloo Joe Jones - I Feel The Earth Move 11. Eric Burdon - Painted Black Medley 12. Al Jerrean - Your Song 13. Rio Reiser - Halt Dich An Deiner Liebe Fest (Piano Live Version) 14. The Byrds - Is All Over Now Baby Blue 15. Easy Star All Stars - Brain Damage # Teenage Dance Party Musikalisch geht es bei "Teenage Dance Party" um vieles, wobei die Sendung nur in seltenen Fällen von einem Genre dominiert wird. Avantgarde Pop trifft Roots Reggae, Ambient Klänge kontrastieren mit Golden Age Hiphop, Drum n' Bass vs. Cool Jazz, Glitch & Percussions, Punk und Ska. DJ Zoom, Ed LSN & Slow Pete präsentieren je nach Gusto neue Tracks und alten Scheiß, erzählen was es damit auf sich hat und schaffen es sicherlich den ein oder anderen Zuhörer zu überraschen. Ab und zu gesellen sich Gäste zu den dreien und bereichern die Show mit Musik und Anekdoten. * http://www.thetarecords.de/
Slow Pete gestalten mit ihrem nonkonformen Zugang zur Musik die Teenage Dance Party; genreoffen, weltoffen und mit einer Hand immer in der Plattenkiste. 1. Joker – Germany 2. Ambros Seelos – Freezing 3. Siffleur – Enzo 4. Tonino Balsamo – Sta Guagliona Mo Dda 5. Stella – Pourquoi 6. Mariko Katsuragi – Seaside Highway 7. Onra – Let Me Fantasize 8. Däm-Funk – Nyghtryder 9. The Egyptian Lover – Electrohiphopfunkoldschoolpartyjam 10. Mike Oldfield – The Rio Grand 11. Walls – Austerits Wide Open 12. Boards Of Canada – Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam Remix) 13. Markus Guentner – Damit Du Endlich Weisst, … 14. Sigur Ros – Valtari 15. Carlos Nino & Friends – Rosarito Creative Cries 16. Jonsi & Alex – # Teenage Dance Party Musikalisch geht es bei "Teenage Dance Party" um vieles, wobei die Sendung nur in seltenen Fällen von einem Genre dominiert wird. Avantgarde Pop trifft Roots Reggae, Ambient Klänge kontrastieren mit Golden Age Hiphop, Drum n' Bass vs. Cool Jazz, Glitch & Percussions, Punk und Ska. DJ Zoom, Ed LSN & Slow Pete präsentieren je nach Gusto neue Tracks und alten Scheiß, erzählen was es damit auf sich hat und schaffen es sicherlich den ein oder anderen Zuhörer zu überraschen. Ab und zu gesellen sich Gäste zu den dreien und bereichern die Show mit Musik und Anekdoten. * http://www.thetarecords.de/
True stories told live by the people who lived them. Hosted by Jodi Eichelberger "Cool Jazz" with Alex Sjobeck & Ben Britton Featuring these cool humans: Paul Primus Sarah Inama Dakotah Brown Sponsored by Keenly and Boise Group Real Estate
Slow Pete gestalten mit ihrem nonkonformen Zugang zur Musik die Teenage Dance Party; genreoffen, weltoffen und mit einer Hand immer in der Plattenkiste. ## Teenage Dance Party #140 – Guilty Pleasures 1. Sugertunes – Mrs. Long 2. Patrick Hernandez – Born To Be Alive 3. Run DMC vs Jason Nevins – It's Like That (Drop The Break) 4. Gabi Annicette – Hau Schon Ab 5. Zaza – Zauberstab 6. Britney Spears – Toxic (Dub Version) 7. Frank Zander – Bleib Bei Mir (Der Mann Ist ein Fehltritt) 8. Eddy Grant – Electric Avenue 9. Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch – Good Vibrations 10. Rozalla – Everyvody's Free (To Feel Good) 11. Your Planet Next – Rhythm Is A Dancer 12. Mo Horizons – Rhythm Is A Dancer 13. Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass – Lonely Bull 14. The Torero Band – With A Little Help From My Friends 15. Le Hammond Inferno – Margret Evening Fashion 16. Yello – Oh Yeah 17. Heidelinde Weis – Hans Emmerich 18. Whitney Houston – My Love Is Your Love 19. Mother Fix – Big City Life 20. Falco – Der Kommissar # Teenage Dance Party Musikalisch geht es bei "Teenage Dance Party" um vieles, wobei die Sendung nur in seltenen Fällen von einem Genre dominiert wird. Avantgarde Pop trifft Roots Reggae, Ambient Klänge kontrastieren mit Golden Age Hiphop, Drum n' Bass vs. Cool Jazz, Glitch & Percussions, Punk und Ska. DJ Zoom, Ed LSN & Slow Pete präsentieren je nach Gusto neue Tracks und alten Scheiß, erzählen was es damit auf sich hat und schaffen es sicherlich den ein oder anderen Zuhörer zu überraschen. Ab und zu gesellen sich Gäste zu den dreien und bereichern die Show mit Musik und Anekdoten. * http://www.thetarecords.de/
Radio Clásica presenta su más amplia de Jazz, piezas inéditas, grabaciones íntimas de Europa.
Mit ihm fand der Jazz neue Zeitmaße. Dave Brubecks größter Hit steht im 5/4-Takt: "Take Five". Der Pianist, der zu einem der Stars des Cool Jazz wurde, wäre am 6. Dezember 105 Jahre alt geworden.
Slow Pete gestalten mit ihrem nonkonformen Zugang zur Musik die Teenage Dance Party; genreoffen, weltoffen und mit einer Hand immer in der Plattenkiste. 1. Quinteto Armorial – Reisado 2. Cobicada – O Cirandeira 3. Quinteto Armorial – Ponteado 4. Orquestra Afro-Brasileira – Saudacao Aos Orixas 5. Tribo Masssahi – Fareua 6. Vinicius De Moraes – Catende 7. Baden Powell – Sentimentos – Se Voce Pergunta, Nunca Vai Saber 8. Azymuth – Avenida Das Mangueiras 9. Robson Jorge & Lincoln Olivetti – No Bom Sentido 10. Maximilian Hecker – My Friends 11. Fuckbuttons – Bright Tomorrow 12. Pilot Kingfood – Mahanama 13. Blue Daisy & Anneka – Raindrops 14. Club Roots – Remember Me 15. Mum – The Ballad Of The Broken Birdie Records 16. Panta du Prince – Start A New Life 17. Robag Wruhme – Ende # Teenage Dance Party Musikalisch geht es bei "Teenage Dance Party" um vieles, wobei die Sendung nur in seltenen Fällen von einem Genre dominiert wird. Avantgarde Pop trifft Roots Reggae, Ambient Klänge kontrastieren mit Golden Age Hiphop, Drum n' Bass vs. Cool Jazz, Glitch & Percussions, Punk und Ska. DJ Zoom, Ed LSN & Slow Pete präsentieren je nach Gusto neue Tracks und alten Scheiß, erzählen was es damit auf sich hat und schaffen es sicherlich den ein oder anderen Zuhörer zu überraschen. Ab und zu gesellen sich Gäste zu den dreien und bereichern die Show mit Musik und Anekdoten. * http://www.thetarecords.de/
Position | Artist | Album Title | Label10 | Darren Rahn | Light Of The World | Side 2 Music9 | JD Allen | Love Letters (The Ballad Section) | Savant8 | Gerald Albright | G-Stream 3 - Full Throttle | Bright Music7 | George Coleman | George Coleman With Strings | HighNote6 | 3rd Force | Lifeforce | Baja/TSR5 | Jimmy Greene | As We Are Now | Green Music Works 4 | Brian Culbertson | Day Trip | BCM 3 | Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring | Split Decision | Smoke Sessions2 | Kirk Whalum | Epic Cool | Mack Avenue1 | Christian McBride Big Band | Without Further Ado, Vol. 1 | Mack AvenueLike, subscribe, comment, tell a friend! Stay connected with us: @cooljazzcountdown on Instagram and Facebook!
Slow Pete gestalten mit ihrem nonkonformen Zugang zur Musik die Teenage Dance Party; genreoffen, weltoffen und mit einer Hand immer in der Plattenkiste. 1. Kitty Daisy & Lewis - Tomorrow 2. The Police - Man in a Suitcase 3. Naughty By Nature - Wickedest Man Alive 4. Funkdoobieest - Bow Wow Wow 5. Cypress Hill - Throw Your Set In The Air 6. Ugly Duckling - Friday Night 7. Cookin On Three Burners - Black Stick 8. The Fearless Flyers - Ace Of Aces 9. Cosmic Giants - North Star 10. Meat Puppets - Out In The Gardener 11. WIZO - Das Goldene Stück 12. Beastie Boys - So Watcha Want 13. Beastie Boys - The Move 14. Too Strong - Elektrische Erinnerung 15. A Tribe Called Quest - Oh My God 16. The Uniques - Ungreateful Lover 17. The Techniques - I'll Be Right Back 18. The Paragons - I Want To Go Back 19. Attica Blues - Now You Know 20. Anti-Pop Consortium - Ping Pong 21. Doppelkopf - Die Fabelhaften Vier 22. Onilu - Same Shame 23. Atari Teenage Riot - Deutschland Has Gotta Die # Teenage Dance Party Musikalisch geht es bei "Teenage Dance Party" um vieles, wobei die Sendung nur in seltenen Fällen von einem Genre dominiert wird. Avantgarde Pop trifft Roots Reggae, Ambient Klänge kontrastieren mit Golden Age Hiphop, Drum n' Bass vs. Cool Jazz, Glitch & Percussions, Punk und Ska. DJ Zoom, Ed LSN & Slow Pete präsentieren je nach Gusto neue Tracks und alten Scheiß, erzählen was es damit auf sich hat und schaffen es sicherlich den ein oder anderen Zuhörer zu überraschen. Ab und zu gesellen sich Gäste zu den dreien und bereichern die Show mit Musik und Anekdoten. * http://www.thetarecords.de/
Position | Artist | Album Title | Label10 | Walter Beasley | Lazy Afternoon | Affable9 | Etienne Charles | Gullah Roots | Culture Shock8 | Brian Culbertson | Day Trip | BCM7 | Joe Farnsworth | The Big Room | Smoke Sessions6 | James ‘PJ' Spraggins | High Five | James Elbert Spraggins II 5 | Brian Simpson | Midnight Groove | Shanachie4 | Tyreek McDole | Open Up Your Senses | Artwork3 | Jimmy Greene | As We Are Now | Green Music Works2 | Gerald Albright | G Stream 3 - Full Throttle | Bright Music1 | Christian McBride Big Band | Without Further Ado, Vol. 1 | Mack AvenueLike, subscribe, comment, tell a friend! Stay connected with us: @cooljazzcountdown on Instagram and Facebook!
Position | Artist | Album Title | Label10 | Dave Koz & Friends Summer Horns | Vehicle | Just Koz Entertainment9 | Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell | We Insist 2025! | Candid8 | Gerald Albright | G-Stream 3 - Full Throttle | Bright Music7 | Etienne Charles | Gullah Roots | Culture Shock6 | 3rd Force | Life Force | Show Me The Way | Baja/TSR5 | Kim Scott | Livin It Up | Alma de Lisbon | Innervision4 | Christian McBride Big Band | Without Further Ado, Vol. 1 | Mack Avenue3 | Tyreek McDole | Open Up Your Senses | Artwork2 | Brian Simpson | Midnight Groove | Shanachie1 | Joe Farnsworth | The Big Room | Smoke SessionsLike, subscribe, comment, tell a friend! Stay connected with us: @cooljazzcountdown on Instagram and Facebook!
Position | Artist | Album Title | Label10 | Brian Simpson | Midnight Groove | Shanachie9 | Noah Haidu | Standards III | Infinite Distances8 | Gerald Albright | G-Stream 3 - Full Throttle | Bright Music7 | Etienne Charles | Gullah Roots | Culture Shock6 | 3rd Force | Life Force | Baja/TSR5 | James ‘PJ' Spraggins | High Five | James Elbert Spraggins II4 | Alan Broadbent | Threads Of Time | Savant3 | Joe Farnsworth | The Big Room | Smoke Sessions2 | Eric Darius | Too Good 2 Let Go | SagiDarius Music1 | Tyreek McDole | Open Up Your Senses | ArtworkLike, subscribe, comment, tell a friend! Stay connected with us: @cooljazzcountdown on Instagram and Facebook!
Position | Artist | Album Title | Label10 | Brian Simpson | Midnight Groove | Shanachie9 | Alan Broadbent | Threads Of Time | Savant8 | Gerald Albright | G-Stream 3 - Full Throttle | Bright Music7 | Noah Haidu | Standards III | Infinite Distances6 | James ‘PJ' Spraggins | High Five | James Elbert Spraggins II5 | Eric Darius | Too Good 2 Let Go | SagiDarius Music4 | Etienne Charles | Gullah Roots | Culture Shock3 | Joe Farnsworth | The Big Room | Smoke Sessions2 | Norman Brown | It Hits Different | Shanachie1 | Tyreek McDole | Open Up Your Senses | ArtworkLike, subscribe, comment, tell a friend! Stay connected with us: @cooljazzcountdown on Instagram and Facebook!
Check out a New Music Feature from Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, "We Insist 2025!" [Candid Records], and our top 10 of the week!Position | Artist | Album Title | Label10 | Noah Haidu | Standards III | Infinite Distances9 | Ryan La Valette | Fresh | Trippin-N-Rhythm 8 | Kim Waters | The Pacemaker | Shanachie7 | Cyrus Chestnut | Rhythm, Melody and Harmony | HighNote6 | Brian Simpson | Midnight Groove | Shanachie5 | Eric Scott Reed | Out Late | Smoke Sessions 4 | Eric Darius | Too Good 2 Let Go | SagiDarius Music3 | Greg Murphy | Snap Happy | Whaling City Sound2 | Nicholas Cole | Blue Magic | Trippin-N-Rhythm1 | Tyreek McDole | Open Up Your Sense | ArtworkLike, subscribe, comment, tell a friend! Stay connected with us: @cooljazzcountdown on Instagram and Facebook!
Position | Artist | Album Title | Label10 | Noah Haidu | Standards III | Infinite Distances9 | Brian Simpson | Midnight Groove | Shanachie8 | Eric Scott Reed | Out Late | Smoke Sessions 7 | Richard Elliot | Straight Up Down | Shanachie6 | Pieces of a Dream | We Got This | Shanachie5 | Tyreek McDole | Open Up Your Sense | Artwork4 | Nicholas Cole | Blue Magic | Trippin-N-Rhythm3 | Cyrus Chestnut | Rhythm, Melody and Harmony | HighNote2 | Ryan La Valette | Fresh | Trippin-N-Rhythm1 | Greg Murphy | Snap Happy | Whaling City SoundLike, subscribe, comment, tell a friend! Stay connected with us: @cooljazzcountdown on Instagram and Facebook!
Position | Artist | Album Title | Label10 | Danny Grissett | Travelogue | Savant9 | Nicholas Cole | Blue Magic | Trippin-N-Rhythm8 | Diego Rivera | West Circle | Positone7 | Kim Waters | Time 2 Groove | Shanachie6 | Brian Simpson | Midnight Groove | Shanachie5 | Greg Murphy | Snap Happy | Whaling City Sound4 | Richard Elliot | Straight Up Down | Shanachie3 | Eric Scott Reed | Out Late | Smoke Sessions 2 | Ryan La Valette | Fresh | Trippin-N-Rhythm1 | Cyrus Chestnut | Rhythm, Melody and Harmony | HighNoteLike, subscribe, comment, tell a friend! Stay connected with us: @cooljazzcountdown on Instagram and Facebook!
Position | Artist | Album Title | Label10 | Chicago Jazz Orchestra feat. Bobby Broom | More Amor: A Tribute To Wes Montgomery | CJO Music9 | Mindi Abair | Based On A True Story | Pretty Good For A Girl Records8 | Dave Bass | Trio Nuevo Vol. 2 | Dave Bass Music7 | Saxl Rose | Sunset f/ Kayla Waters | Next Paradigm6 | Michael Mani | Triangles | Baja/TSR5 | Greg Murphy | Snap Happy | Whaling City Sound4 | Richard Elliot | Straight Up Down | Shanachie3 | Eric Scott Reed | Out Late | Smoke Sessions 2 | Ryan La Valette | Fresh | Trippin-N-Rhythm1 | Cyrus Chestnut | Rhythm, Melody and Harmony | HighNoteLike, subscribe, comment, tell a friend! Stay connected with us: @cooljazzcountdown on Instagram and Facebook!
Check out a New Music Feature this week from vocalist Kandace Springs, "Lady In Satin" [SRP Records] and our top 10 of the week!Position | Artist | Album Title | Label10 | Chicago Jazz Orchestra feat. Bobby Broom | More Amor: A Tribute To Wes Montgomery | CJO Music9 | Vincent Ingala | Escape With Me | Shanachie 8 | Greg Murphy | Snap Happy | Whaling City Sound7 | Ryan La Valette | Fresh | Trippin-N-Rhythm6 | Mindi Abair | Based On A True Story | Pretty Good For A Girl Records5 | Diego Rivera | West Circle | Positone 4 | Michael Mani | Triangles | Baja/TSR3 | Eric Scott Reed | Out Late | Smoke Sessions 2 | Richard Elliot | Straight Up Down | Shanachie1 | Cyrus Chestnut | Rhythm, Melody and Harmony | HighNoteLike, subscribe, comment, tell a friend! Stay connected with us: @cooljazzcountdown on Instagram and Facebook!
Position | Artist | Album Title | Label5 | The Reid Hoyson Project | In Your Dreams| Reid Hoyson Productions4 | Adam Hawley | Unstoppable | MBF Entertainment3 | Eric Scott Reed | Out Late | Smoke Sessions 2| Michael Mani | Triangles | Baja/TSR1 | Cyrus Chestnut | Rhythm, Melody and Harmony | HighNoteLike, subscribe, comment, tell a friend! Stay connected with us: @cooljazzcountdown on Instagram and Facebook!
Position | Artist | Album Title | Label10 | Chicago Jazz Orchestra feat. Bobby Broom | More Amor: A Tribute To Wes Montgomery | CJO Music9 | Vincent Ingala | Escape With Me | Shanachie 8 | Diego Rivera | West Circle | Positone7 | Lin Rountree | The Chill | Trippin ‘N' Rhythm6 | Richard Elliot | Straight Up Down | ShanachieLike, subscribe, comment, tell a friend! Stay connected with us: @cooljazzcountdown on Instagram and Facebook!
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10- Chicago Jazz Orchestra feat. Bobby BroomMore Amor: A Tribute To Wes MontgomeryMore, More, AmorCJO Music9- Richard ElliotStraight Up DownHigh TideShanachie8- Diego RiveraWest CircleThe MazePositone7-Vincent IngalaEscape With MeFantasy or RealityShanachie6-Lin RountreeThe ChillThink Of MeTrippin ‘N' Rhythm
5-Eric Scott ReedOut LateOut LateSmoke Sessions4-Adam HawleyUnstoppableSanctifyMBF Entertainment3-The Reid Hoyson ProjectIn Your DreamsThe WatchmanReid Hoyson Productions2-Michael ManiTrianglesTrianglesBaja/TSR1-Cyrus ChestnutRhythm, Melody and HarmonyBig FootHighNote
Slow Pete gestalten mit ihrem nonkonformen Zugang zur Musik die Teenage Dance Party; genreoffen, weltoffen und mit einer Hand immer in der Plattenkiste. Special Issue on Folk Funk - feat. Phat Fred 1. Sunforest - Magician In The Mountain [1970, Deram] 2. Nick Drake - Pink Moon [1972, Island] 3. J.B.´s - Hot Pants Road [1972, People] 4. Grand Union - Jane Jane [2006, People Tree] 5. Captn K - Lightning [2009, Picnic] 6. Tony Joe White - Stud Spider [1970, Monument] 7. Mai Yamanaka - Stayin Alive [2024, Victor] 8. Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle (Mr Dan's Magic Wand Mix) [2005, Record Makers] 9. This Is The Kit - Moonshine Freeze [2017, Rough Trade] 10. Linda Perhacs - Paper Mountain Man [1970, Kapp] 11. Faith - Psalm 117 [1980, Vista] 12. David Chalmers - Hotel Room [1976, The Same Old Label (River Records)] 13. Luiz Gonzaga Jr. - Galope [1974, Odeon] 14. Antonio Carlos & Jocafi - Kabaluere [1971, RCA] 15. Starless & Bible Black - b.b. [2006, Locust] 16. Yves Simon - Ragonte-Toi [1975, Leng] 17. B.J. Smith - Umi says [2013, NuNorthernSoul] 18. Terry Callier - You Goin Miss Your Candyman [1972, Cadet] 19. Barbara & Ernie - Play With Fire [1971, Cotillon] 20. Paul Parrish - English Sparrows [1968, Music Factory] # Teenage Dance Party Musikalisch geht es bei "Teenage Dance Party" um vieles, wobei die Sendung nur in seltenen Fällen von einem Genre dominiert wird. Avantgarde Pop trifft Roots Reggae, Ambient Klänge kontrastieren mit Golden Age Hiphop, Drum n' Bass vs. Cool Jazz, Glitch & Percussions, Punk und Ska. DJ Zoom, Ed LSN & Slow Pete präsentieren je nach Gusto neue Tracks und alten Scheiß, erzählen was es damit auf sich hat und schaffen es sicherlich den ein oder anderen Zuhörer zu überraschen. Ab und zu gesellen sich Gäste zu den dreien und bereichern die Show mit Musik und Anekdoten. * http://www.thetarecords.de/
It's time for another history series, listener! Patrick leads you through the development and history of bebop, the style that marked the beginning of modern jazz. In the final installment, Patrick discusses three important jazz movements that arose from bebop: Cool Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz and Hard Bop. Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart,Djinn RecordsStitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com. Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends. Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com Email Jim & Patrick at rock@suburbspod.com Follow us on the Threads, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984. Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, next covered by Frank Muffin and now re-done in a high-voltage version by Quartjar again! Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com.
Music includes: Scrapple From the Apple by Charlie Parker, Lover by Stan Kenton, Easy Living by Billie Holiday, Shake That Thing by Turk Murphy, I Want To Be Loved by Benny Goodman and Boogie Woogie Stomp by Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson.
Tonight's Jazz Feature is an atypical recording by multi-instrumentalist/composer Jimmy Giuffre. He had been mostly associated with "West Coast Jazz" or "Cool Jazz", a style prominent in the 1950's that combined tight arrangements with Jazz solos. Giuffre in 1958 had gigged with his "folk Jazz" trio in New York and while there he was impressed with the harder, more emotionally outgoing Jazz of Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and returned to L.A. where he was based a bit of a changed man as he wanted to be more outgoing and emotional in his playing. He had great technique on his horns, clarinet and tenor saxophone and changed his approach. Hence tonight's recording which is a quartet date with minimal arrangements and featuring Giuffre on his two horns backed by a solid rhythm section with the great Jimmy Rowles on piano, Red Mitchell on bass and Lawrence aka Larence Marable on drums. The album is a mix of standards and original simple compositions by Giuffre. It all adds up to a fine date representing a different approach to the music by a very talented man who left an amazing legacy of music of many styles. The Jimmy Giuffre Four: "Ad Lib" should be a treat for your ears.
This is an excerpt from a patrons-only episode. To hear the full thing, and much much more, visit Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod to sign up from just £3 a month. In this patrons episode we thought we'd begin to explore the academic discipline of Cultural Studies. Tim and Jeremy (both Cultural Studies professors themselves remember) explain the ways in which academic study of popular cultural was developing in the mid-70s, including the political motivations informing academics developing the discipline, in the wake of sociology and social anthropology. They talk about analysis of subculture, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Mods, Rockers, nostalgia, Cool Jazz, with a healthy dash of DH Lawrence thrown in for good measure. In our next episode we'll discuss in detail the seminal book Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain. Books: William Foote White - Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian SlumC. Wright Mills - The Power ElitesRaymond Williams - Culture and SocietyRichard Hoggart - The Uses of Literacy DH Lawrence - Lady's Chatterly's LoverStan Cohen - Folk Devils and Moral Panics Paul Willis - Profane Culture Tracklist:Lennie Tristano - CrosscurrentsEwan McColl & Peggy Seeger - The Black Velvet BandThe Who - The Kids are AlrightBuddy Holly - Not Fade Away
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Zu Beginn der 50-er Jahre hat der Trompeter Chet Baker in Kalifornien den Cool Jazz vorangetrieben, eine Spielweise, die Techniken der klassischen Musik nutzt. Trotz schwerer Karriereeinbrüche - Baker war heroinabhängig - blieb er stets der Kunst der Ballade und den leisen Tönen treu. Autor: Markus Mayer.
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Today we welcome Colonel Scott DeJesse, who is rebuilding the US Army Civil Affairs monuments program. Dejesse is an Army Reservist who works at the Department of State in cultural diplomacy. For the monuments program, Dejesse is partnering with the Smithsonian Institute, The Met in New York, academic institutions and others to revitalize and develop CA teams who can work in crisis and conflict to protect a nation's cultural heritage. We brought Scott in today to talk about the monuments program, its tie to the Civil Affairs 38 G program, and cultural diplomacy's impact on national security, so please welcome him to the show Special thanks to LC38 for celebrating our People's Choice Awards nomination by offering listeners 10 percent off anything at the site. Check them out at https://lc38brand.com/ 10% promo code: oneca10 One Podcast aims to inspire people interested in working on-ground to forward U.S. foreign policy. We bring in people who are current or former military, diplomats, development officers, and field agents to discuss their experiences and recommendations for working the "last three feet" of foreign relations. Have a story to tell? Email us to either speak or guest-host at: capodcasting@gmail.com One CA Podcast is a product of the Civil Affairs Association: https://www.civilaffairsassoc.org/ Music: Special thanks to Fasol Productions for NEO SOUL Instrumental Music. The song is called "Cool Jazz." It's a terrific album, so check them out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VNm3rGXPXs&t=3s
Alexa is joined by Michele Weir, a renowned figure in vocal jazz education and arranging. Michele is the founder of the online school Music Habit and the creator of the app ScatAbility. Additionally, she has written several books on jazz, so who better to talk you through the topic of how to sing and teach this genre? KEY TAKEAWAYS Jazz is a diverse genre with various styles and sub-genres. New Orleans jazz originated in the early 20th century and features collective improvisation. Bebop, which emerged in the 1940s, is known for its complex harmonies, fast tempos and intricate improvisations. Cool Jazz developed in the late 1940s and 1950s, and has a more relaxed and laid-back style, emphasising controlled emotions and intricate arrangements. Contemporary jazz, a diverse category that encompasses various modern jazz styles and fusions with other genres, represents the evolving nature of jazz music. In identifying jazz music, several key elements stand out. The rhythmic style, particularly the swing feel, is a defining characteristic. Singers need to develop their rhythmic sense and feel the groove to deliver jazz convincingly. Additionally, jazz singers must master the art of putting lyrics in rhythm to sound conversational, especially in swing. Another indication of jazz interpretation is when the performer adds improvisation to the melody, showcasing their creativity and spontaneity. In jazz, singers alter notes and melodies to match the lyrics' subtext, using vocal phrasing and melodic variations to convey storytelling and emotions. This improvisational approach allows for unique expressions and deeper connections with the song's meaning. In jazz, ghost notes and articulation add depth and complexity to the music. Ghost notes are subtle, muted tones that enhance the groove, while articulation techniques bring out emotion, expressiveness and individuality in performances. Learning jazz piano benefits jazz singers by deepening their musicianship, improving improvisation, and enhancing timing and phrasing. This knowledge enables more expressive performances and better collaboration with accompanists. Overall, it makes jazz singers more versatile and engaging performers. Scatting is a more organic vocal improvisation technique using nonsensical syllables. A teacher helps by introducing scat patterns, practising rhythm and pitch and helping the singer make up their own rhythms. BEST MOMENTS ‘No two jazz singers are alike' ‘Jazz comes in different packages, it's not always about a well trained voice' ‘Phrasing is a bigger deal in jazz than it is in other styles' ‘I want to be leader of the band so I need to talk to them in the musical language they understand' EPISODE RESOURCES Website: Michele Weir: https://www.micheleweir.com Music Habit: https://www.musichabit.com Relevant Links & Mentions: Artists mentioned: Joni Mitchell; Louis Armstrong; Benny Goodman; Count Basie; Charlie Parker; Dizzy Gillespie; Miles Davis; Ella Fitzgerald; Nat King Cole; Sarah Vaughan; Carmen McRae; Nancy Wilson; Mel Tormé; Gretchen Parlato; Bob Dylan ScatAbility App: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/scatability/id966549564 The work of Judy Niemack: http://www.judyniemack.com/ The work of Bob Stoloff: https://www.bobstoloffmusic.com/ Darmon Meader: https://darmonmeader.com/ New York Voices: https://newyorkvoices.com/ Jazz Voice: https://www.jazzvoice.com/ ABOUT THE GUEST Michele Weir is widely distinguished for her work in vocal jazz education and arranging. She served as vocal producer and contributing arranger for the Manhattan Transfer album, Chick Corea Songbook, and her vocal arrangements are performed by notable groups, including Swingle Singers and New York Voices, with instrumental works played by the Boston Pops, among others. Michele has delivered teaching and lecture presentations all over the world, and pioneered an educational path for vocal improvisers through the creation of her iOS app, ScatAbility. She is the author of several educational books in jazz. Her online school, MusicHabit, is a popular resource for jazz singers, pianists and educators. Michele's past performance ranges from headliner concerts at numerous educational festivals to touring internationally as pianist and vocalist with singer Bobby Vinton. Michele was a member of the Grammy-Nominated vocal group PM Singers and served as dubbing supervisor for the DreamWorks film Prince of Egypt in Mexico, Greece, Denmark, Portugal, Thailand and Japan. ABOUT THE PODCAST BAST Training is here to help singers gain the knowledge, skills and understanding required to be a great singing teacher. We can help you whether you are getting started or just have some knowledge gaps to fill through our courses and educational events. Website: basttraining.com Get updates to your inbox: Click here for updates from BAST Training Link to presenter's bios: basttraining.com/singing-teachers-talk-podcast-biosThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media
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What can you learn about performance in about 10 minutes from the best in sport, entertainment, business and politics?Performance Hacks gives you two great performance tips you can apply to everyday life from each of our Performance People podcast guests.In this episode, mountaineer Kenton Cool focuses on a clear vision of daily progress and performance coach, Jazz Cool explains why striving for perfection can get in the way of growth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Trent and Aaron break out the guitars this time and discuss their musical influences, or in other words, the guitar players they stole all their riffs from. While their tastes are far-ranging, the music of their teens played a huge role in shaping their style on the instrument. And as usual for a couple 80's kids, grunge is at the heart of it all. Melody, tone, interesting chords, dissonance... grunge had a lot of things going for it musically, even if the lyrics and content were often depressing. Get in touch with the hosts! Trent Jones Email: trent@marmaladecream.com IG: @marmalade_cream Web: https://www.marmaladecream.com Aaron LaBoon IG: @aarondlaboon
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Episode one hundred and forty-eight of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Light My Fire" by the Doors, the history of cool jazz, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "My Friend Jack" by the Smoke. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources As usual, I've put together a Mixcloud mix containing all the music excerpted in this episode and the shorter spoken-word tracks. Information on Dick Bock, World Pacific, and Ravi Shankar came from Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar by Oliver Craske. Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, and Robby Krieger have all released autobiographies. Densmore's is out of print, but I referred to Manzarek's and Krieger's here. Of the two Krieger's is vastly more reliable. I also used Mick Wall's book on the Doors and Stephen Davis' biography of Jim Morrison. Information about Elektra Records came from Follow the Music by Jac Holzman and Gavan Daws, which is available as a free PDF download on Elektra's website. Biographical information on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi comes from this book, written by one of his followers. The Doors' complete studio albums can be bought as MP3s for £14. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript There are two big problems that arise for anyone trying to get an accurate picture of history, and which have certainly arisen for me during the course of this podcast -- things which make sources unreliable enough that you feel you have to caveat everything you say on a subject. One of those is hagiography, and the converse desire to tear heroes down. No matter what one wants to say on, say, the subjects of Jesus or Mohammed or Joseph Smith, the only sources we have for their lives are written either by people who want to present them as unblemished paragons of virtue, or by people who want to destroy that portrayal -- we know that any source is written by someone with a bias, and it might be a bias we agree with, but it's still a bias. The other, related, problem, is deliberate disinformation. This comes up especially for people dealing with military history -- during conflicts, governments obviously don't want their opponents to know when their attacks have caused damage, or to know what their own plans are, and after a war has concluded the belligerent parties want to cover up their own mistakes and war crimes. We're sadly seeing that at the moment in the situation in Ukraine -- depending on one's media diet, one could get radically different ideas of what is actually going on in that terrible conflict. But it happens all the time, in all wars, and on all sides. Take the Vietnam War. While the US was involved on the side of the South Vietnamese government from the start of that conflict, it was in a very minor way, mostly just providing supplies and training. Most historians look at the real start of US involvement in that war as having been in August 1964. President Johnson had been wanting, since assuming the Presidency in November 1963 after the death of John F Kennedy, to get further into the war, but had needed an excuse to do so. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident provided him with that excuse. On August the second, a fleet of US warships entered into what the North Vietnamese considered their territorial waters -- they used a different distance from shore to mark their territorial waters than most other countries used, and one which wasn't generally accepted, but which they considered important. Because of this, some North Vietnamese ships started following the American ones. The American ships, who thought they weren't doing anything wrong, set off what they considered to be warning shots, and the North Vietnamese ships fired back, which to the American ships was considered them attacking. Some fire was exchanged, but not much happened. Two days later, the American ships believed they were getting attacked again, and spent several hours firing at what they believed were North Vietnamese submarines. It was later revealed that this was just the American sonar systems playing up, and that they were almost certainly firing at nothing at all, and some even suspected that at the time -- President Johnson apparently told other people in confidence that in his opinion they'd been firing at stray dolphins. But that second "attack", however flimsy the evidence, was enough that Johnson could tell Congress and the nation that an American fleet had been attacked by the North Vietnamese, and use that as justification to get Congress to authorise him sending huge numbers of troops to Vietnam, and getting America thoroughly embroiled in a war that would cost innumerable lives and billions of dollars for what turned out to be no benefit at all to anyone. The commander of the US fleet involved in the Gulf of Tonkin operation was then-Captain, later Rear Admiral, Steve Morrison: [Excerpt: The Doors, "The End"] We've talked a bit in this podcast previously about the development of jazz in the forties, fifties, and early sixties -- there was a lot of back and forth influence in those days between jazz, blues, R&B, country, and rock and roll, far more than one might imagine looking at the popular histories of these genres, and so we've looked at swing, bebop, and modal jazz before now. But one style of music we haven't touched on is the type that was arguably the most popular and influential style of jazz in the fifties, even though we've mentioned several of the people involved in it. We've never yet had a proper look at Cool Jazz. Cool Jazz, as its name suggests, is a style of music that was more laid back than the more frenetic bebop or hard-edged modal jazz. It was a style that sounded sophisticated, that sounded relaxed, that prized melody and melodic invention over super-fast technical wizardry, and that produced much of what we now think of when we think of "jazz" as a popular style of music. The records of Dave Brubeck, for example, arguably the most popular fifties jazz musician, are very much in the "cool jazz" mode: [Excerpt: The Dave Brubeck Quartet, "Take Five"] And we have mentioned on several occasions the Modern Jazz Quartet, who were cited as influences by everyone from Ray Charles to the Kinks to the Modern Folk Quartet: [Excerpt: The Modern Jazz Quartet, "Regret?"] We have also occasionally mentioned people like Mose Allison, who occasionally worked in the Cool Jazz mode. But we've never really looked at it as a unified thing. Cool Jazz, like several of the other developments in jazz we've looked at, owes its existence to the work of the trumpeter Miles Davis, who was one of the early greats of bop and who later pioneered modal jazz. In 1948, in between his bop and modal periods, Davis put together a short-lived nine-piece group, the Miles Davis Nonette, who performed together for a couple of weeks in late 1948, and who recorded three sessions in 1949 and 1950, but who otherwise didn't perform much. Each of those sessions had a slightly different lineup, but key people involved in the recordings were Davis himself, arranger Gil Evans, piano player John Lewis, who would later go on to become the leader of the Modern Jazz Quartet, and baritone sax player Gerry Mulligan. Mulligan and Evans, and the group's alto player Lee Konitz, had all been working for the big band Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra, a band which along with the conventional swing instruments also had a French horn player and a tuba player, and which had recorded soft, mellow, relaxing music: [Excerpt: Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra, "To Each His Own"] The Davis Nonette also included French horn and tuba, and was explicitly modelled on Thornhill's style, but in a stripped-down version. They used the style of playing that Thornhill preferred, with no vibrato, and with his emphasis on unison playing, with different instruments doubling each other playing the melody, rather than call-and response riffing: [Excerpt: The Miles Davis Nonette, "Venus De Milo"] Those recordings were released as singles in 1949 and 1950, and were later reissued in 1957 as an album titled "Birth of the Cool", by which point Cool Jazz had become an established style, though Davis himself had long since moved on in other musical directions. After the Birth of the Cool sessions, Gerry Mulligan had recorded an album as a bandleader himself, and then had moved to the West Coast, where he'd started writing arrangements for Stan Kenton, one of the more progressive big band leaders of the period: [Excerpt: Stan Kenton, "Young Blood"] While working for Kenton, Mulligan had started playing dates at a club called the Haig, where the headliner was the vibraphone player Red Norvo. While Norvo had started out as a big-band musician, playing with people like Benny Goodman, he had recently started working in a trio, with just a guitarist, initially Tal Farlowe, and bass player, initially Charles Mingus: [Excerpt: Red Norvo, "This Can't Be Love"] By 1952 Mingus had left Norvo's group, but they were still using the trio format, and that meant there was no piano at the venue, which meant that Mulligan had to form a band that didn't rely on the chordal structures that a piano would provide -- the idea of a group with a rhythm section that *didn't* have a piano was quite an innovation in jazz at this time, and freeing themselves from that standard instrument ended up opening up extra possibilities. His group consisted of himself on saxophone, Chet Baker on trumpet, Bob Whitlock on bass and Chico Hamilton on drums. They made music in much the same loose, casual, style as the recordings Mulligan had made with Davis, but in a much smaller group with the emphasis being on the interplay between Mulligan and Baker. And this group were the first group to record on a new label, Pacific Jazz, founded by Dick Bock. Bock had served in the Navy during World War II, and had come back from the South Pacific with two tastes -- a taste for hashish, and for music that was outside the conventional American pop mould. Bock *loved* the Mulligan Quartet, and in partnership with his friend Roy Harte, a notable jazz drummer, he raised three hundred and fifty dollars to record the first album by Mulligan's new group: [Excerpt: Gerry Mulligan Quartet, "Aren't You Glad You're You?"] Pacific Jazz, the label Bock and Harte founded, soon became *the* dominant label for Cool Jazz, which also became known as the West Coast Sound. The early releases on the label were almost entirely by the Mulligan Quartet, released either under Mulligan's name, as by Chet Baker, or as "Lee Konitz and the Gerry Mulligan Quartet" when Mulligan's old bandmate Konitz joined them. These records became big hits, at least in the world of jazz. But both Mulligan and Baker were heroin addicts, and in 1953 Mulligan got arrested and spent six months in prison. And while he was there, Chet Baker made some recordings in his own right and became a bona fide star. Not only was Baker a great jazz trumpet player, he was also very good looking, and it turned out he could sing too. The Mulligan group had made the song "My Funny Valentine" one of the highlights of its live shows, with Baker taking a trumpet solo: [Excerpt: Gerry Mulligan Quartet, "My Funny Valentine"] But when Baker recorded a vocal version, for his album Chet Baker Sings, it made Baker famous: [Excerpt: Chet Baker, "My Funny Valentine"] When Mulligan got out of prison, he wanted to rehire Baker, but Baker was now topping the popularity polls in all the jazz magazines, and was the biggest breakout jazz star of the early fifties. But Mulligan formed a new group, and this just meant that Pacific Jazz had *two* of the biggest acts in jazz on its books now, rather than just one. But while Bock loved jazz, he was also fascinated by other kinds of music, and while he was in New York at the beginning of 1956 he was invited by his friend George Avakian, a producer who had worked with Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, and others, to come and see a performance by an Indian musician he was working with. Avakian was just about to produce Ravi Shankar's first American album, The Sounds of India, for Columbia Records. But Columbia didn't think that there was much of a market for Shankar's music -- they were putting it out as a speciality release rather than something that would appeal to the general public -- and so they were happy for Bock to sign Shankar to his own label. Bock renamed the company World Pacific, to signify that it was now going to be putting out music from all over the world, not just jazz, though he kept the Pacific Jazz label for its jazz releases, and he produced Shankar's next album, India's Master Musician: [Excerpt: Ravi Shankar, "Raga Charu Keshi"] Most of Shankar's recordings for the next decade would be produced by Bock, and Bock would also try to find ways to combine Shankar's music with jazz, though Shankar tried to keep a distinction between the two. But for example on Shankar's next album for World Pacific, Improvisations and Theme from Pather Panchali, he was joined by a group of West Coast jazz musicians including Bud Shank (who we'll hear about again in a future episode) on flute: [Excerpt: Ravi Shankar, "Improvisation on the Theme From Pather Panchali"] But World Pacific weren't just putting out music. They also put out spoken-word records. Some of those were things that would appeal to their jazz audience, like the comedy of Lord Buckley: [Excerpt: Lord Buckley, "Willy the Shake"] But they also put out spoken-word albums that appealed to Bock's interest in spirituality and philosophy, like an album by Gerald Heard. Heard had previously written the liner notes for Chet Baker Sings!, but as well as being a jazz fan Heard was very connected in the world of the arts -- he was a very close friend with Aldous Huxley -- and was also interested in various forms of non-Western spirituality. He practiced yoga, and was also fascinated by Buddhism, Vedanta, and Taoism: [Excerpt: Gerald Heard, "Paraphrased from the Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu"] We've come across Heard before, in passing, in the episode on "Tomorrow Never Knows", when Ralph Mentzner said of his experiments with Timothy Leary and Ram Dass "At the suggestion of Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard we began using the Bardo Thödol ( Tibetan Book of the Dead) as a guide to psychedelic sessions" -- Heard was friends with both Huxley and Humphrey Osmond, and in fact had been invited by them to take part in the mescaline trip that Huxley wrote about in his book The Doors of Perception, the book that popularised psychedelic drug use, though Heard was unable to attend at that time. Heard was a huge influence on the early psychedelic movement -- though he always advised Leary and his associates not to be so public with their advocacy, and just to keep it to a small enlightened circle rather than risk the wrath of the establishment -- and he's cited by almost everyone in Leary's circle as having been the person who, more than anything else, inspired them to investigate both psychedelic drugs and mysticism. He's the person who connected Bill W. of Alcoholics Anonymous with Osmond and got him advocating LSD use. It was Heard's books that made Huston Smith, the great scholar of comparative religions and associate of Leary, interested in mysticism and religions outside his own Christianity, and Heard was one of the people who gave Leary advice during his early experiments. So it's not surprising that Bock also became interested in Leary's ideas before they became mainstream. Indeed, in 1964 he got Shankar to do the music for a short film based on The Psychedelic Experience, which Shankar did as a favour for his friend even though Shankar didn't approve of drug use. The film won an award in 1965, but quickly disappeared from circulation as its ideas were too controversial: [Excerpt: The Psychedelic Experience (film)] And Heard introduced Bock to other ideas around philosophy and non-Western religions. In particular, Bock became an advocate for a little-known Hindu mystic who had visited the US in 1959 teaching a new style of meditation which he called Transcendental Meditation. A lot is unclear about the early life of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, even his birth name -- both "Maharishi" and "Yogi" are honorifics rather than names as such, though he later took on both as part of his official name, and in this and future episodes I'll refer to him as "the Maharishi". What we do know is that he was born in India, and had attained a degree in physics before going off to study with Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, a teacher of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hinduism. Now, I am not a Hindu, and only have a passing knowledge of Hindu theology and traditions, and from what I can gather getting a proper understanding requires a level of cultural understanding I don't have, and in particular a knowledge of the Sanskrit language, so my deepest apologies for any mangling I do of these beliefs in trying to talk about them as they pertain to mid-sixties psychedelic rock. I hope my ignorance is forgivable, and seen as what it is rather than malice. But the teachings of this school as I understand them seem to centre around an idea of non-separation -- that God is in all things, and is all things, and that there is no separation between different things, and that you merely have to gain a deep realisation of this. The Maharishi later encapsulated this in the phrase "I am that, thou art that, all this is that", which much later the Beach Boys, several of whom were followers of the Maharishi, would turn into a song: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "All This is That"] The other phrase they're singing there, "Jai Guru Dev" is also a phrase from the Maharishi, and refers to his teacher Brahmananda Saraswati -- it means "all hail the divine teacher" or "glory to the heavenly one", and "guru dev" or "guru deva" was the name the Maharishi would use for Saraswati after his death, as the Maharishi believed that Saraswati was an actual incarnation of God. It's that phrase that John Lennon is singing in "Across the Universe" as well, another song later inspired by the Maharishi's teachings: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Across the Universe"] The Maharishi became, by his own account, Saraswati's closest disciple, advisor, and right-hand man, and was privy to his innermost thoughts. However, on Saraswati's death the leadership of the monastery he led became deeply contested, with two different rivals to the position, and the Maharishi was neither -- the rules of the monastery said that only people born into the Brahmin caste could reach the highest positions in the monastery's structure, and the Maharishi was not a Brahmin. So instead of remaining in the monastery, the Maharishi went out into the world to teach a new form of meditation which he claimed he had learned from Guru Dev, a technique which became known as transcendental meditation. The Maharishi would, for the rest of his life, always claim that the system he taught was Guru Dev's teaching for the world, not his own, though the other people who had been at the monastery with him said different things about what Saraswati had taught -- but of course it's perfectly possible for a spiritual leader to have had multiple ideas and given different people different tasks. The crucial thing about the Maharishi's teaching, the way it differed from everything else in the history of Hindu monasticism (as best I understand this) is that all previous teachers of meditation had taught that to get the benefit of the techniques one had to be a renunciate -- you should go off and become a monk and give up all worldly pleasures and devote your life to prayer and meditation. Traditionally, Hinduism has taught that there are four stages of life -- the student, the householder or married person with a family, the retired person, and the Sanyasi, or renunciate, but that you could skip straight from being a student to being a Sanyasi and spend your life as a monk. The Maharishi, though, said: "Obviously enough there are two ways of life: the way of the Sanyasi and the way of life of a householder. One is quite opposed to the other. A Sanyasi renounces everything of the world, whereas a householder needs and accumulates everything. The one realises, through renunciation and detachment, while the other goes through all attachments and accumulation of all that is needed for physical life." What the Maharishi taught was that there are some people who achieve the greatest state of happiness by giving up all the pleasures of the senses, eating the plainest possible food, having no sexual, familial, or romantic connections with anyone else, and having no possessions, while there are other people who achieve the greatest state of happiness by being really rich and having a lot of nice stuff and loads of friends and generally enjoying the pleasures of the flesh -- and that just as there are types of meditation that can help the first group reach enlightenment, there are also types of meditation that will fit into the latter kind of lifestyle, and will help those people reach oneness with God but without having to give up their cars and houses and money. And indeed, he taught that by following his teachings you could get *more* of those worldly pleasures. All you had to do, according to his teaching, was to sit still for fifteen to twenty minutes, twice a day, and concentrate on a single Sanskrit word or phrase, a mantra, which you would be given after going through a short course of teaching. There was nothing else to it, and you would eventually reach the same levels of enlightenment as the ascetics who spent seventy years living in a cave and eating only rice -- and you'd end up richer, too. The appeal of this particular school is, of course, immediately apparent, and Bock became a big advocate of the Maharishi, and put out three albums of his lectures: [Excerpt: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, "Deep Meditation"] Bock even met his second wife at one of the Maharishi's lectures, in 1961. In the early sixties, World Pacific got bought up by Liberty Records, the label for which Jan and Dean and others recorded, but Bock remained in charge of the label, and expanded it, adding another subsidiary, Aura Records, to put out rock and roll singles. Aura was much less successful than the other World Pacific labels. The first record the label put out was a girl-group record, "Shooby Dooby", by the Lewis Sisters, two jazz-singing white schoolteachers from Michigan who would later go on to have a brief career at Motown: [Excerpt: The Lewis Sisters, "Shooby Dooby"] The most successful act that Aura ever had was Sonny Knight, an R&B singer who had had a top twenty hit in 1956 with "Confidential", a song he'd recorded on Specialty Records with Bumps Blackwell, and which had been written by Dorinda Morgan: [Excerpt: Sonny Knight, "Confidential"] But Knight's biggest hit on Aura, "If You Want This Love", only made number seventy-one on the pop charts: [Excerpt: Sonny Knight, "If You Want This Love"] Knight would later go on to write a novel, The Day the Music Died, which Greil Marcus described as "the bitterest book ever written about how rock'n'roll came to be and what it turned into". Marcus said it was about "how a rich version of American black culture is transformed into a horrible, enormously profitable white parody of itself: as white labels sign black artists only to ensure their oblivion and keep those blacks they can't control penned up in the ghetto of the black charts; as white America, faced with something good, responds with a poison that will ultimately ruin even honest men". Given that Knight was the artist who did the *best* out of Aura Records, that says a great deal about the label. But one of the bands that Aura signed, who did absolutely nothing on the charts, was a group called Rick and the Ravens, led by a singer called Screamin' Ray Daniels. They were an LA club band who played a mixture of the surf music which the audiences wanted and covers of blues songs which Daniels preferred to sing. They put out two singles on Aura, "Henrietta": [Excerpt: Rick and the Ravens, "Henrietta"] and "Soul Train": [Excerpt: Rick and the Ravens, "Soul Train"] Ray Daniels was a stage name -- his birth name was Ray Manzarek, and he would later return to that name -- and the core of the band was Ray on vocals and his brothers Rick on guitar and Jim on harmonica. Manzarek thought of himself as a pretty decent singer, but they were just a bar band, and music wasn't really his ideal career. Manzarek had been sent to college by his solidly lower-middle-class Chicago family in the hope that he would become a lawyer, but after getting a degree in economics and a brief stint in the army, which he'd signed up for to avoid getting drafted in the same way people like Dean Torrence did, he'd gone off to UCLA to study film, with the intention of becoming a filmmaker. His family had followed him to California, and he'd joined his brothers' band as a way of making a little extra money on the side, rather than as a way to become a serious musician. Manzarek liked the blues songs they performed, and wasn't particularly keen on the surf music, but thought it was OK. What he really liked, though, was jazz -- he was a particular fan of McCoy Tyner, the pianist on all the great John Coltrane records: [Excerpt: John Coltrane, "My Favorite Things"] Manzarek was a piano player himself, though he didn't play much with the Ravens, and he wanted more than anything to be able to play like Tyner, and so when Rick and the Ravens got signed to Aura Records, he of course became friendly with Dick Bock, who had produced so many great jazz records and worked with so many of the greats of the genre. But Manzarek was also having some problems in his life. He'd started taking LSD, which was still legal, and been fascinated by its effects, but worried that he couldn't control them -- he couldn't tell whether he was going to have a good trip or a bad one. He was wondering if there was a way he could have the same kind of revelatory mystical experience but in a more controlled manner. When he mentioned this to Bock, Bock told him that the best method he knew for doing that was transcendental meditation. Bock gave him a copy of one of the Maharishi's albums, and told him to go to a lecture on transcendental meditation, run by the head of the Maharishi's west-coast organisation, as by this point the Maharishi's organisation, known as Spiritual Regeneration, had an international infrastructure, though it was still nowhere near as big as it would soon become. At the lecture, Manzarek got talking to one of the other audience members, a younger man named John Densmore. Densmore had come to the lecture with his friend Robby Krieger, and both had come for the same reason that Manzarek had -- they'd been having bad trips and so had become a little disillusioned with acid. Krieger had been the one who'd heard about transcendental meditation, while he was studying the sitar and sarod at UCLA -- though Krieger would later always say that his real major had been in "not joining the Army". UCLA had one of the few courses in Indian music available in the US at the time, as thanks in part to Bock California had become the centre of American interest in music from India -- so much so that in 1967 Ravi Shankar would open up a branch of his own Kinnara Music School there. (And you can get an idea of how difficult it is to separate fact from fiction when researching this episode that one of the biographies I've used for the Doors says that Krieger heard about the Maharishi while studying at the Kinnara school. As the only branch of the Kinnara school that was open at this point was in Mumbai, it's safe to say that unless Krieger had a *really* long commute he wasn't studying there at this point.) Densmore and Manzarek got talking, and they found that they shared a lot of the same tastes in jazz -- just as Manzarek was a fan of McCoy Tyner, so Densmore was a fan of Elvin Jones, the drummer on those Coltrane records, and they both loved the interplay of the two musicians: [Excerpt: John Coltrane, "My Favorite Things"] Manzarek was starting to play a bit more keyboards with the Ravens, and he was also getting annoyed with the Ravens' drummer, who had started missing rehearsals -- he'd turn up only for the shows themselves. He thought it might be an idea to get Densmore to join the group, and Densmore agreed to come along for a rehearsal. That initial rehearsal Densmore attended had Manzarek and his brothers, and may have had a bass player named Patricia Hansen, who was playing with the group from time to time around this point, though she was mostly playing with a different bar band, Patty and the Esquires. But as well as the normal group members, there was someone else there, a friend of Manzarek's from film school named Jim Morrison. Morrison was someone who, by Manzarek's later accounts, had been very close to Manzarek at university, and who Manzarek had regarded as a genius, with a vast knowledge of beat poetry and European art film, but who had been regarded by most of the other students and the lecturers as being a disruptive influence. Morrison had been a fat, asthmatic, introverted kid -- he'd had health problems as a child, including a bout of rheumatic fever which might have weakened his heart, and he'd also been prone to playing the kind of "practical jokes" which can often be a cover for deeper problems. For example, as a child he was apparently fond of playing dead -- lying in the corridors at school and being completely unresponsive for long periods no matter what anyone did to move him, then suddenly getting up and laughing at anyone who had been concerned and telling them it was a joke. Given how frequently Morrison would actually pass out in later life, often after having taken some substance or other, at least one biographer has suggested that he might have had undiagnosed epilepsy (or epilepsy that was diagnosed but which he chose to keep a secret) and have been having absence seizures and covering for them with the jokes. Robby Krieger also says in his own autobiography that he used to have the same doctor as Morrison, and the doctor once made an offhand comment about Morrison having severe health problems, "as if it was common knowledge". His health difficulties, his weight, his introversion, and the experience of moving home constantly as a kid because of his father's career in the Navy, had combined to give him a different attitude to most of his fellow students, and in particular a feeling of rootlessness -- he never owned or even rented his own home in later years, just moving in with friends or girlfriends -- and a lack of sense of his own identity, which would often lead to him making up lies about his life and acting as if he believed them. In particular, he would usually claim to friends that his parents were dead, or that he had no contact with them, even though his family have always said he was in at least semi-regular contact. At university, Morrison had been a big fan of Rick and the Ravens, and had gone to see them perform regularly, but would always disrupt the shows -- he was, by all accounts, a lovely person when sober but an aggressive boor when drunk -- by shouting out for them to play "Louie Louie", a song they didn't include in their sets. Eventually one of Ray's brothers had called his bluff and said they'd play the song, but only if Morrison got up on stage and sang it. He had -- the first time he'd ever performed live -- and had surprised everyone by being quite a good singer. After graduation, Morrison and Manzarek had gone their separate ways, with Morrison saying he was moving to New York. But a few weeks later they'd encountered each other on the beach -- Morrison had decided to stay in LA, and had been staying with a friend, mostly sleeping on the friend's rooftop. He'd been taking so much LSD he'd forgotten to eat for weeks at a time, and had lost a great deal of weight, and Manzarek properly realised for the first time that his friend was actually good-looking. Morrison also told Manzarek that he'd been writing songs -- this was summer 1965, and the Byrds' version of "Mr. Tambourine Man", Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone", and the Stones' "Satisfaction" had all shown him that there was potential for pop songs to have more interesting lyrical content than "Louie Louie". Manzarek asked him to sing some of the songs he'd been writing, and as Manzarek later put it "he began to sing, not in the booze voice he used at the Turkey Joint, but in a Chet Baker voice". The first song Morrison sang for Ray Manzarek was one of the songs that Rick and the Ravens would rehearse that first time with John Densmore, "Moonlight Drive": [Excerpt: Rick and the Ravens, "Moonlight Drive"] Manzarek invited Morrison to move in with him and his girlfriend. Manzarek seems to have thought of himself as a mentor, a father figure, for Morrison, though whether that's how Morrison thought of him is impossible to say. Manzarek, who had a habit of choosing the myth over the truth, would later claim that he had immediately decided that he and Morrison were going to be a duo and find a whole new set of musicians, but all the evidence points to him just inviting Morrison to join the Ravens as the singer Certainly the first recordings this group made, a series of demos, were under Rick and the Ravens' name, and paid for by Aura Records. They're all of songs written by Morrison, and seem to be sung by Morrison and Manzarek in close harmony throughout. But the demos did not impress the head of Liberty Records, which now owned Aura, and who saw no commercial potential in them, even in one that later became a number one hit when rerecorded a couple of years later: [Excerpt: Rick and the Ravens, "Hello I Love You"] Although to be fair, that song is clearly the work of a beginning songwriter, as Morrison has just taken the riff to "All Day and All of the Night" by the Kinks, and stuck new words to it: [Excerpt: The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night"] But it seems to have been the lack of success of these demos that convinced Manzarek's brothers and Patricia Hansen to quit the band. According to Manzarek, his brothers were not interested in what they saw as Morrison's pretensions towards poetry, and didn't think this person who seemed shy and introverted in rehearsals but who they otherwise knew as a loud annoying drunk in the audience would make a good frontman. So Rick and the Ravens were down to just Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, and John Densmore, but they continued shopping their demos around, and after being turned down by almost everyone they were signed by Columbia Records, specifically by Billy James, who they liked because he'd written the liner notes to a Byrds album, comparing them to Coltrane, and Manzarek liked the idea of working with an A&R man who knew Coltrane's work, though he wasn't impressed by the Byrds themselves, later writing "The Byrds were country, they didn't have any black in them at all. They couldn't play jazz. Hell, they probably didn't even know anything about jazz. They were folk-rock, for cri-sake. Country music. For whites only." (Ray Manzarek was white). They didn't get an advance from Columbia, but they did get free equipment -- Columbia had just bought Vox, who made amplifiers and musical instruments, and Manzarek in particular was very pleased to have a Vox organ, the same kind that the Animals and the Dave Clark Five used. But they needed a guitarist and a bass player. Manzarek claimed in his autobiography that he was thinking along the lines of a four-piece group even before he met Densmore, and that his thoughts had been "Someone has to be Thumper and someone has to be Les Paul/Chuck Berry by way of Charlie Christian. The guitar player will be a rocker who knows jazz. And the drummer will be a jazzer who can rock. These were my prerequisites. This is what I had to have to make the music I heard in my head." But whatever Manzarek was thinking, there were only two people who auditioned for the role of the guitar player in this new version of the band, both of them friends of Densmore, and in fact two people who had been best friends since high school -- Bill Wolff and Robby Krieger. Wolff and Krieger had both gone to private boarding school -- they had both originally gone to normal state schools, but their parents had independently decided they were bad influences on each other and sent them away to boarding school to get away from each other, but accidentally sent them to the same school -- and had also learned guitar together. They had both loved a record of flamenco guitar called Dos Flamencos by Jaime Grifo and Nino Marvino: [Excerpt: Jaime Grifo and Nino Marvino, "Caracolés"] And they'd decided they were going to become the new Dos Flamencos. They'd also regularly sneaked out of school to go and see a jug band called Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, a band which featured Bob Weir, who was also at their school, along with Jerry Garcia and Pigpen McKernan. Krieger was also a big fan of folk and blues music, especially bluesy folk-revivalists like Spider John Koerner, and was a massive fan of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Krieger and Densmore had known each other before Krieger had been transferred to boarding school, and had met back up at university, where they would hang out together and go to see Charles Mingus, Wes Montgomery, and other jazz musicians. At this time Krieger had still been a folk and blues purist, but then he went to see Chuck Berry live, mostly because Skip James and Big Mama Thornton were also on the bill, and he had a Damascene conversion -- the next day he went to a music shop and traded in his acoustic for a red Gibson, as close to the one Chuck Berry played as he could find. Wolff, Densmore, Krieger, and piano player Grant Johnson had formed a band called the Psychedelic Rangers, and when the Ravens were looking for a new guitarist, it was natural that they tried the two guitarists from Densmore's other band. Krieger had the advantage over Wolff for two reasons -- one of which was actually partly Wolff's doing. To quote Krieger's autobiography: "A critic once said I had 'the worst hair in rock 'n' roll'. It stung pretty bad, but I can't say they were wrong. I always battled with my naturally frizzy, kinky, Jewfro, so one day my friend Bill Wolff and I experimented with Ultra Sheen, a hair relaxer marketed mainly to Black consumers. The results were remarkable. Wolff, as we all called him, said 'You're starting to look like that jerk Bryan MacLean'". According to Krieger, his new hairdo made him better looking than Wolff, at least until the straightener wore off, and this was one of the two things that made the group choose him over Wolff, who was a better technical player. The other was that Krieger played with a bottleneck, which astonished the other members. If you're unfamiliar with bottleneck playing, it's a common technique in the blues. You tune your guitar to an open chord, and then use a resonant tube -- these days usually a specially-made metal slide that goes on your finger, but for older blues musicians often an actual neck of a bottle, broken off and filed down -- to slide across the strings. Slide guitar is one of the most important styles in blues, especially electric blues, and you can hear it in the playing of greats like Elmore James: [Excerpt: Elmore James, "Dust My Broom"] But while the members of the group all claimed to be blues fans -- Manzarek talks in his autobiography about going to see Muddy Waters in a club in the South Side of Chicago where he and his friends were the only white faces in the audience -- none of them had any idea what bottleneck playing was, and Manzarek was worried when Krieger pulled it out that he was going to use it as a weapon, that being the only association he had with bottle necks. But once Krieger played with it, they were all convinced he had to be their guitarist, and Morrison said he wanted that sound on everything. Krieger joining seems to have changed the dynamic of the band enormously. Both Morrison and Densmore would independently refer to Krieger as their best friend in the band -- Manzarek said that having a best friend was a childish idea and he didn't have one. But where before this had been Manzarek's band with Morrison as the singer, it quickly became a band centred around the creative collaboration between Krieger and Morrison. Krieger seems to have been too likeable for Manzarek to dislike him, and indeed seems to have been the peacemaker in the band on many occasions, but Manzarek soon grew to resent Densmore, seemingly as the closeness he had felt to Morrison started to diminish, especially after Morrison moved out of Manzarek's house, apparently because Manzarek was starting to remind him of his father. The group soon changed their name from the Ravens to one inspired by Morrison's reading. Aldous Huxley's book on psychedelic drugs had been titled The Doors of Perception, and that title had in turn come from a quote from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by the great mystic poet and artist William Blake, who had written "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern" (Incidentally, in one of those weird coincidences that I like to note when they come up, Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell had also inspired the book The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis, about the divorce of heaven and hell, and both Lewis and Huxley died on the same date, the twenty-second of November 1963, the same day John F. Kennedy died). Morrison decided that he wanted to rename the group The Doors, although none of the other group members were particularly keen on the idea -- Krieger said that he thought they should name the group Perception instead. Initially the group rehearsed only songs written by Morrison, along with a few cover versions. They worked up a version of Willie Dixon's "Back Door Man", originally recorded by Howlin' Wolf: [Excerpt: Howlin' Wolf, "Back Door Man"] And a version of "Alabama Song", a song written by Bertholt Brecht and Kurt Weill, from the opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, with English language lyrics by Elisabeth Hauptmann. That song had originally been recorded by Lotte Lenya, and it was her version that the group based their version on, at the suggestion of Manzarek's girlfriend: [Excerpt: Lotte Lenya, "Alabama Song"] Though it's likely given their tastes in jazz that they were also aware of a recent recording of the song by Eric Dolphy and John Lewis: [Excerpt: Eric Dolphy and John Lewis, "Alabama Song"] But Morrison started to get a little dissatisfied with the fact that he was writing all the group's original material at this point, and he started to put pressure on the others to bring in songs. One of the first things they had agreed was that all band members would get equal credit and shares of the songwriting, so that nobody would have an incentive to push their own mediocre song at the expense of someone else's great one, but Morrison did want the others to start pulling their weight. As it would turn out, for the most part Manzarek and Densmore wouldn't bring in many song ideas, but Krieger would, and the first one he brought in would be the song that would make them into stars. The song Krieger brought in was one he called "Light My Fire", and at this point it only had one verse and a chorus. According to Manzarek, Densmore made fun of the song when it was initially brought in, saying "we're not a folk-rock band" and suggesting that Krieger might try selling it to the Mamas and the Papas, but the other band members liked it -- but it's important to remember here that Manzarek and Densmore had huge grudges against each other for most of their lives, and that Manzarek is not generally known as an entirely reliable narrator. Now, I'm going to talk a lot about the influences that have been acknowledged for this song, but before I do there's one that I haven't seen mentioned much but which seems to me to be very likely to have at least been a subconscious influence -- "She's Not There" by the Zombies: [Excerpt: The Zombies, "She's Not There"] Now, there are several similarities to note about the Zombies record. First, like the Doors, the Zombies were a keyboard-driven band. Second, there's the dynamics of the songs -- both have soft, slightly jazzy verses and then a more straight-ahead rock chorus. And finally there's the verse chord sequence. The verse for "She's Not There" goes from Am to D repeatedly: [demonstrates] While the verse for "Light My Fire" goes from Am to F sharp minor -- and for those who don't know, the notes in a D chord are D, F sharp, and A, while the notes in an F sharp minor chord are F sharp, A, and C sharp -- they're very similar chords. So "She's Not There" is: [demonstrates] While "Light My Fire" is: [demonstrates] At least, that's what Manzarek plays. According to Krieger, he played an Asus2 chord rather than an A minor chord, but Manzarek heard it as an A minor and played that instead. Now again, I've not seen anyone acknowledge "She's Not There" as an influence, but given the other influences that they do acknowledge, and the music that was generally in the air at the time, it would not surprise me even the smallest amount if it was. But either way, what Krieger brought in was a simple verse and chorus: [Excerpt: The Doors, "Light My Fire"] Incidentally, I've been talking about the song as having A minor chords, but you'll actually hear the song in two different keys during this episode, even though it's the same performance throughout, and sometimes it might not sound right to people familiar with a particular version of the record. The band played the song with the verse starting with A minor, and that's how the mono single mix was released, and I'll be using excerpts of that in general. But when the stereo version of the album was released, which had a longer instrumental break, the track was mastered about a semitone too slow, and that's what I'll be excerpting when talking about the solos -- and apparently that speed discrepancy has been fixed in more recent remasterings of the album than the one I'm using. So if you know the song and bits of what I play sound odd to you, that's why. Krieger didn't have a second verse, and so writing the second verse's lyrics was the next challenge. There was apparently some disagreement within the band about the lyrics that Morrison came up with, with their references to funeral pyres, but Morrison won the day, insisting that the song needed some darkness to go with the light of the first verse. Both verses would get repeated at the end of the song, in reverse order, rather than anyone writing a third or fourth verse. Morrison also changed the last line of the chorus -- in Krieger's original version, he'd sung "Come on baby, light my fire" three times, but Morrison changed the last line to "try to set the night on fire", which Krieger thought was a definite improvement. They then came up with an extended instrumental section for the band members to solo in. This was inspired by John Coltrane, though I have seen different people make different claims as to which particular Coltrane record it was inspired by. Many sources, including Krieger, say it was based on Coltrane's famous version of "My Favorite Things": [Excerpt: John Coltrane, "My Favorite Things"] But Manzarek in his autobiography says it was inspired by Ole, the track that Coltrane recorded with Eric Dolphy: [Excerpt: John Coltrane, "Ole"] Both are of course similar musical ideas, and either could have inspired the “Light My Fire” instrumental section, though none of the Doors are anything like as good or inventive on their instruments as Coltrane's group (and of course "Light My Fire" is in four-four rather than three-four): [Excerpt: The Doors, "Light My Fire"] So they had a basic verse-chorus song with a long instrumental jam session in the middle. Now comes the bit that there's some dispute over. Both Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger agree that Manzarek came up with the melody used in the intro, but differ wildly over who came up with the chord sequence for it and when, and how it was put into the song. According to Manzarek, he came up with the whole thing as an intro for the song at that first rehearsal of it, and instructed the other band members what to do. According to Krieger, though, the story is rather different, and the evidence seems to be weighted in Krieger's favour. In early live performances of the song, they started the song with the Am-F sharp minor shifts that were used in the verse itself, and continued doing this even after the song was recorded: [Excerpt: The Doors, "Light My Fire (live at the Matrix)"] But they needed a way to get back out of the solo section and into the third verse. To do this, Krieger came up with a sequence that starts with a change from G to D, then from D to F, before going into a circle of fifths -- not the ascending circle of fifths in songs like "Hey Joe", but a descending one, the same sequence as in "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" or "I Will Survive", ending on an A flat: [demonstrates] To get from the A flat to the A minor or Asus2 chord on which the verse starts, he simply then shifted up a semitone from A flat to A major for two bars: [demonstrates] Over the top of that chord sequence that Krieger had come up with, Manzarek put a melody line which was inspired by one of Bach's two-part inventions. The one that's commonly cited is Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779: [Excerpt: Glenn Gould, "Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779"] Though I don't believe Manzarek has ever stated directly which piece he was inspired by other than that it was one of the two-part inventions, and to be honest none of them sound very much like what he plays to my ears, and I think more than anything he was just going for a generalised baroque style rather than anything more specific. And there are certainly stylistic things in there that are suggestive of the baroque -- the stepwise movement, the sort of skipping triplets, and so on: [Excerpt: The Doors, "Light My Fire"] But that was just to get out of the solo section and back into the verses. It was only when they finally took the song into the studio that Paul Rothchild, the producer who we will talk about more later, came up with the idea of giving the song more structure by both starting and ending with that sequence, and formalised it so that rather than just general noodling it was an integral part of the song. They now had at least one song that they thought had the potential to be a big hit. The problem was that they had not as yet played any gigs, and nor did they have a record deal, or a bass player. The lack of a record deal may sound surprising, but they were dropped by Columbia before ever recording for them. There are several different stories as to why. One biography I've read says that after they were signed, none of the label's staff producers wanted to work with them and so they were dropped -- though that goes against some of the other things I've read, which say that Terry Melcher was interested in producing them. Other sources say that Morrison went in for a meeting with some of the company executives while on acid, came out very pleased with himself at how well he'd talked to them because he'd been able to control their minds with his telepathic powers, and they were dropped shortly afterwards. And others say that they were dropped as part of a larger set of cutbacks the company was making, and that while Billy James fought to keep them at Columbia, he lost the fight. Either way, they were stuck without a deal, and without any proper gigs, though they started picking up the odd private party here and there -- Krieger's father was a wealthy aerospace engineer who did some work for Howard Hughes among others, and he got his son's group booked to play a set of jazz standards at a corporate event for Hughes, and they got a few more gigs of that nature, though the Hughes gig didn't exactly go well -- Manzarek was on acid, Krieger and Morrison were on speed, and the bass player they brought in for the gig managed to break two strings, something that would require an almost superhuman effort. That bass player didn't last long, and nor did the next -- they tried several, but found that the addition of a bass player made them sound less interesting, more like the Animals or the Rolling Stones than a group with their own character. But they needed something to hold down the low part, and it couldn't be Manzarek on the organ, as the Vox organ had a muddy sound when he tried to play too many notes at once. But that problem solved itself when they played one of their earliest gigs. There, Manzarek found that another band, who were regulars at the club, had left their Fender keyboard bass there, clipped to the top of the piano. Manzarek tried playing that, and found he could play basslines on that with his left hand and the main parts with his right hand. Krieger got his father to buy one for the group -- though Manzarek was upset that they bought the wrong colour -- and they were now able to perform without a bass player. Not only that, but it gave the group a distinctive sound quite unlike all the other bands. Manzarek couldn't play busy bass lines while also playing lead lines with his right hand, and so he ended up going for simple lines without a great deal of movement, which added to the hypnotic feel of the group's music – though on records they would often be supplemented by a session bass player to give them a fuller sound. While the group were still trying to get a record deal, they were also looking for regular gigs, and eventually they found one. The Sunset Strip was *the* place to be, and they wanted desperately to play one of the popular venues there like the Whisky A-Go-Go, but those venues only employed bands who already had record deals. They did, though, manage to get a residency at a tiny, unpopular, club on the strip called The London Fog, and they played there, often to only a handful of people, while slowly building in confidence as performers. At first, Morrison was so shy that Manzarek had to sing harmony with him throughout the sets, acting as joint frontman. Krieger later said "It's rarely talked about, but Ray was a natural born showman, and his knack for stirring drama would serve the Doors' legacy well in later years" But Morrison soon gained enough confidence to sing by himself. But they weren't bringing in any customers, and the London Fog told them that they were soon going to be dropped -- and the club itself shut not long after. But luckily for the group, just before the end of their booking, the booker for the Whisky A-Go-Go, Ronnie Haran walked in with a genuine pop star, Peter Asher, who as half of Peter & Gordon had had a hit with "A World Without Love", written by his sister's boyfriend, Paul McCartney: [Excerpt: Peter and Gordon, "A World Without Love"] Haran was impressed with the group, and they were impressed that she had brought in a real celebrity. She offered them a residency at the club, not as the headlining act -- that would always be a group that had records out -- but as the consistent support act for whichever big act they had booked. The group agreed -- after Morrison first tried to play it cool and told Haran they would have to consider it, to the consternation of his bandmates. They were thrilled, though, to discover that one of the first acts they supported at the Whisky would be Them, Van Morrison's group -- one of the cover versions they had been playing had been Them's "Gloria": [Excerpt: Them, "Gloria"] They supported Them for two weeks at the Whisky, and Jim Morrison watched Van Morrison intently. The two men had very similar personalities according to the other members of the Doors, and Morrison picked up a lot of his performing style from watching Van on stage every night. The last night Them played the venue, Morrison joined them on stage for an extended version of “Gloria” which everyone involved remembered as the highlight of their time there. Every major band on the LA scene played residencies at the Whisky, and over the summer of 1966 the Doors were the support act for the Mothers of Invention, the Byrds, the Turtles, the Buffalo Springfield, and Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. This was a time when the Sunset Strip was the centre of Californian musical life, before that centre moved to San Francisco, and the Doors were right at the heart of it. Though it wasn't all great -- this was also the period when there were a series of riots around Sunset Strip, as immortalised in the American International Pictures film Riot on Sunset Strip, and its theme song, by the Standells: [Excerpt: The Standells, "Riot on Sunset Strip"] We'll look at those riots in more detail in a future episode, so I'll leave discussing them for now, but I just wanted to make sure they got mentioned. That Standells song, incidentally, was co-written by John Fleck, who under his old name of John Fleckenstein we saw last episode as the original bass player for Love. And it was Love who ensured that the Doors finally got the record deal they needed. The deal came at a perfect time for the Doors -- just like when they'd been picked up by the Whisky A Go-Go just as they were about to lose their job at the London Fog, so they got signed to a record deal just as they were about to lose their job at the Whisky. They lost that job because of a new song that Krieger and Morrison had written. "The End" had started out as Krieger's attempt at writing a raga in the style of Ravi Shankar, and he had brought it in to one of his increasingly frequent writing sessions with Morrison, where the two of them would work out songs without the rest of the band, and Morrison had added lyrics to it. Lyrics that were partly inspired by his own fraught relationship with his parents, and partly by Oedipus Rex: [Excerpt: The Doors, "The End"] And in the live performance, Morrison had finished that phrase with the appropriate four-letter Oedipal payoff, much to the dismay of the owners of the Whisky A Go Go, who had told the group they would no longer be performing there. But three days before that, the group had signed a deal with Elektra Records. Elektra had for a long time been a folk specialist label, but they had recently branched out into other music, first with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, a favourite of Robby Krieger's, and then with their first real rock signing, Love. And Love were playing a residency at the Whisky A Go Go, and Arthur Lee had encouraged Jac Holzman, the label's owner, to come and check out their support band, who he thought were definitely worth signing. The first time Holzman saw them he was unimpressed -- they sounded to him just like a bunch of other white blues bands -- but he trusted Arthur Lee's judgement and came back a couple more times. The third time, they performed their version of "Alabama Song", and everything clicked into place for Holzman. He immediately signed the group to a three-album deal with an option to extend it to seven. The group were thrilled -- Elektra wasn't a major label like Columbia, but they were a label that nurtured artists and wouldn't just toss them aside. They were even happier when soon after they signed to Elektra, the label signed up a new head of West Coast A&R -- Billy James, the man who had signed them to Columbia, and who they knew would be in their corner. Jac Holzman also had the perfect producer for the group, though he needed a little persuading. Paul Rothchild had made his name as the producer for the first couple of albums by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band: [Excerpt: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, "Mary Mary"] They were Robby Krieger's favourite group, so it made sense to have Rothchild on that level. And while Rothchild had mostly worked in New York, he was in LA that summer, working on the debut album by another Elektra signing, Tim Buckley. The musicians on Buckley's album were almost all part of the same LA scene that the Doors were part of -- other than Buckley's normal guitarist Lee Underwood there was keyboard player Van Dyke Parks, bass player Jim Fielder, who had had a brief stint in the Mothers of Invention and was about to join Buffalo Springfield, and drummer Billy Mundi, who was about to join the Mothers of Invention. And Buckley himself sang in a crooning voice extremely similar to that of Morrison, though Buckley had a much larger range: [Excerpt: Tim Buckley, "Aren't You the Girl?"] There was one problem, though -- Rothchild didn't want to do it. He wasn't at all impressed with the band at first, and he wanted to sign a different band, managed by Albert Grossman, instead. But Holzman persuaded him because Rothchild owed him a favour -- Rothchild had just spent several months in prison after a drug bust, and while he was inside Holzman had given his wife a job so she would have an income, and Holzman also did all the paperwork with Rothchild's parole officer to allow him to leave the state. So with great reluctance Rothchild took the job, though he soon came to appreciate the group's music. He didn't appreciate their second session though. The first day, they'd tried recording a version of "The End", but it hadn't worked, so on the second night they tried recording it again, but this time Morrison was on acid and behaving rather oddly. The final version of "The End" had to be cut together from two takes, and the reason is that at the point we heard earlier: [Excerpt: The Doors, "The End"] Morrison was whirling around, thrashing about, and knocked over a TV that the engineer, Bruce Botnick, had brought into the studio so he could watch the baseball game -- which Manzarek later exaggerated to Morrison throwing the TV through the plate glass window between the studio and the control room. According to everyone else, Morrison just knocked it over and they picked it up after the take finished and it still worked fine. But Morrison had taken a *lot* of acid, and on the way home after the session he became convinced that he had a psychic knowledge that the studio was on fire. He got his girlfriend to turn the car back around, drove back to the studio, climbed over the fence, saw the glowing red lightbulbs in the studio, became convinced that they were fires, and sprayed the entire place with the fire extinguisher, before leaving convinced he had saved the band's equipment -- and leaving telltale evidence as his boot got stuck in the fence on the way out and he just left it there. But despite that little hiccup, the sessions generally went well, and the group and label were pleased with the results. The first single released from the album, "Break on Through", didn't make the Hot One Hundred: [Excerpt: The Doors, "Break on Through"] But when the album came out in January 1967, Elektra put all its resources behind the album, and it started to get a bit of airplay as a result. In particular, one DJ on the new FM radio started playing "Light My Fire" -- at this time, FM had only just started, and while AM radio stuck to three-minute singles for the most part, FM stations would play a wider variety of music. Some of the AM DJs started telling Elektra that they would play the record, too, if it was the length of a normal single, and so Rothchild and Botnick went into the studio and edited the track down to half its previous seven-and-a-half-minute length. When the group were called in to hear the edit, they were initially quite excited to hear what kind of clever editing microsurgery had been done to bring the song down to the required length, but they were horrified when Rothchild actually played it for them. As far as the group were concerned, the heart of the song was the extended instrumental improvisation that took up the middle section: [Excerpt: The Doors, "Light My Fire"] On the album version, that lasted over three minutes. Rothchild and Botnick cut that section down to just this: [Excerpt: The Doors, "Light My Fire (single edit)"] The group were mortified -- what had been done to their song? That wasn't the sound of people trying to be McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones, it was just... a pop song. Rothchild explained that that was the point -- to get the song played on AM radio and get the group a hit. He pointed out how the Beatles records never had an instrumental section that lasted more than eight bars, and the group eventually talked them
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