Music is the Best: 2023 03 27

2023 03 27

Podcast of the 5th episode of Unidentified States
audition on the air at UWM FM - March 27, 2023

Playlist:

1. Blood Sweat and Tears - Spinning Wheel - from 1968 Blood Sweat and Tears LP

2. Frank Zappa - Zomby Woof - from 1973 Over-nite Sensation LP

3. Sam Rivers - Revival - from 1982 Colours LP

4. Chico Freeman - Destiny's Dance - from 1982 Destiny's Dance LP

5. Snarky Puppy - Chonks - from 2019 Immigrance CD

6. Dwight Trible - Papa Lean Griot - from 2001 Horace CD

7. Terrace Martin - Griots of the Crenshaw District - from 2021 Drones CD

8. Kamasi Washington - Change of the Guard - from 2015 The Epic 3LP album

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Still to come

Camille Saint-Saëns - Piano concerto no. 4
Deodato - Whirlwinds
John McLaughlin - Shakti - Natural Elements
Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja vu
Frank Zappa - Roxy and Elsewhere
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Randy Newman - Live
Ry Cooder - Bop Till You Drop
Egberto Gismonti - Coraçoes Futuristas
Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream for Crow
Krzysztof Penderecki - Te Deum, Lacrimosa
Bernstein - Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5
Barbieri Gato - In Search of the Mystery
American Folk Blues Festival '82
Coltrane John - A Love Supreme
Peter Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto
Coleman Ornette - Free Jazz
Dylan Bob - At Budokan
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Works Volume 2
Erroll Garner
Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
Hancock Herbie - Mr. Hands
Lester Young's Mean To Me
Tom Waits - Swardfishtrombones
Frank Zappa - Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar
Michal Urbaniak - Urban Express
Powell Bud - The Genius of Bud Powell
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garrage Act 1.
Weather Report - Domino Theory
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
The Fred Wesley Quartet - To Someone
Tom Waits - Alice
Yes - The Yes Album
Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti

Words of Wisdom:

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best…

– Frank Zappa

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

– Ludwig van Beethoven

A mind is like a parachute - it doesn't work unless it's open.

– Frank Zappa

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety

– Felix Mendelssohn

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid

– Frank Zappa

You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere

– John Coltrane

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God

– C. Von Dohnányi

Security and beauty are not compatible, at all. When you seek beauty, you have to go to the rim of catastrophe

– N. Harnoncourt

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation

– Billie Holiday

There is one god - Bach - and Mendelssohn is his prophet

– Hector Berlioz

Man, all music is folk music. You ain’t never heard no horse sing a song, have you?

– Louis Armstrong

We give a great concert... and George Szell gets a great review

– C. Von Dohnányi

Don’t play the saxophone. Let it play you.

– Charlie Parker

Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.

– Albert Schweitzer

In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.

– Gustav Mahler

Music must be given to those who love it. I want to give free concerts; that's the answer.

– Svyatoslav Richter

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

– Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

– Robert Fripp

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

– Albert Schweitzer

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

– Jimi Hendrix

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

– Miles Davis

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it.

– Aaron Copland

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

– Leonard Bernstein

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

– Richard Wagner

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

– Gustav Mahler

There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. They are taste, courage, individuality and irrever-ance. Those are the qualities I want to retain in my music.

– Stan Getz

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

– Chick Corea

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes.

– Aaron Copland

Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

– Pierre Boulez

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

– Maurice Ravel

Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.

– Branford Marsalis

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

– Kamasi Washington

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

– Nikola Tesla

Music represents life. A particular piece of music may describe a real, fictional or abstract scene from almost any area of human experience or imagination. It is the musician’s job to paint a picture which communicates to the audience the scene the composer is trying to describe.

– Evelyn Glennie