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"Later, the Malian band Amadou et Mariam tore into a modal African rocker that would have been equally at home as a Celtic Appalachian fiddle tune." (Jon Pareles New York Times)
Elvis Costello to play at LA and SF Amoebas. (Chal Pivik la.metblogs)
Summer Breeze by Seals & Crofts includes a toy piano part. Just noticed this. (Wikipedia lala)
Some guy asks why he hates jazz after 1940. Yikes. I happen to love modal playing as well as "melodic lines that are sporadic and broken by abnormally large tonal gaps, which I think some people really struggle to find any sort of beauty in." Answer turned out to be chordal extensions and parallel movement. (AskMetaFilter)
Tone Dialing by Ornette Coleman. Not recommended for certain AskMetaFilter people. (no lala track available, unfortunately ,but found it on GrooveShark)
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