tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46545930134168211762024-03-13T11:33:41.555-07:00THE REAL FOLK BLUESMusic, movies and other things deserving of more attention than they get.Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.comBlogger314125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-87691682465009317292017-03-05T08:24:00.000-08:002017-03-05T08:24:34.224-08:00Headin' 'em up and movin' 'em out, or Rip Van Winkle wakes up
Laura Devon and Dino
(It's much a surprise to me to be doing this again as it is to anybody else but I saw something on TV yesterday that I couldn't get out of my head until I wrote about it, hence the following.)
In the rush to anoint whatever bright, shiny new television series comes along as "The Best Thing Ever" one loses sight of the fact that somewhere, somehow high quality television Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-83315027422686582772016-05-26T06:15:00.002-07:002016-05-26T06:15:26.489-07:00"Tea break over, lads. Back on your heads."
At least I've got a good reason for being gone this time.
About a month after I last wrote something here, I met my soulmate and I've been spending a lot of time with her ever since. That's consumed all my attention and I haven't been getting out to see any shows or watch many movies, though I have been doing my radio show every week. In March I moved in with my girlfriend and that Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-66362105545387985562015-09-04T14:32:00.000-07:002015-09-04T14:42:59.322-07:00"Aqua Teen Gonna Live Forever!"
Hey, weren't you guys supposed to be leaving?
A funny thing happened last Sunday night at 12:00 midnight. Adult Swim's own website said that it would be following the previous week's finale of Aqua Teen Hunger Force with a repeat of the series' premiere episode, "Raboot". Instead they showed Master Shake and Meatwad watching last week's episode leading into...a new episode!?
Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-44224015106292472332015-08-24T07:47:00.000-07:002015-08-24T08:19:04.810-07:00A Milkshake, a Meatball and a Box of Fries walk into a room...
2001 - 2015
The end.
We bid you goodnight.
Finito.
After 15 years and 138 episodes Aqua Teen Hunger Force has rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisibule. The final double-sized episode premiered Sunday night and the show went off as true to itself as Breaking Bad. Frylock died when the jewel on his back burned out, Master Shake was devoured by hostile Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-45166196719948481852015-06-12T12:15:00.000-07:002015-06-12T12:15:38.058-07:00Dracula, The Dream and the Skies Of AmericaThe past 48 hours have been one of those periods where you're afraid to open your computer or watch any kind of news anywhere. First it was the news that the great actor, Christopher Lee, had died. Then last night I saw that pro wrestling legend Dusty Rhodes had died also. Then this morning came word of Ornette Coleman's passing. I don't know quite what to say. Lee and Coleman Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-13996219188575679122015-05-29T06:49:00.001-07:002015-05-29T06:49:54.469-07:00Coming June 9th: "The Outer View"It's now official. I'll be doing a weekly radio show on Radio Fairfax starting June 9th. It'll be called "The Outer View" and it will be on from 2 to 3 PM. I'll be concentrating on various styles and groupings within modern jazz, starting on the first program with large ensembles.
The show is available on cable TV in the Northern Virginia area but also online at www.fcac.org and on Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-43841980805002389772015-05-17T08:36:00.003-07:002015-05-17T08:36:55.250-07:00No, I ain't dead yet.
I don't even want to think how long it's been since I wrote something here. Obviously this retirement stuff sapped most of the forward motion and organization out of me to the point where I cannot get my brain organized enough to even write anymore.
Hopefully though I will be doing something soon that might put some structure back into my life. I'm at the verge of finally getting myJerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-4624432677070531682015-01-08T14:28:00.000-08:002015-01-08T14:28:39.416-08:00Rigmor Gustafsson - "Calling You"I said I was no longer going to post video or audio clips without any sort of context but now I need to make an exception because I know almost nothing about this artist. I was just looking up things on YouTube when I ran across a Swedish jazz singer named Rigmor Gustafsson who seems to be very acclaimed in her home country. I watched clips of her performing "The Girl From Ipanema" and "TheJerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-58992360875240283912015-01-03T08:26:00.000-08:002015-01-03T08:26:03.568-08:00My Top Films of 2014So here it is 2015 and I'm finally getting around to posting a "Best Of" list for 2014. I'm not doing one for CDs because I don't feel like I heard enough new music in the past year to do a list in that field, even though I did an all-jazz one for Cadence. (Jason Roebke's Red/High/Center was my Number One.) Since I was watching my funds due to retiring, I didn't buy asJerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-90366738918796891882014-11-15T10:43:00.001-08:002014-11-15T10:43:26.835-08:00Pentangle
Left to Right: Jansch, Thompson, McShee, Cox, Renbourn
In the late 1960s' there were a number of British folk musicians with wandering ears who began to incorporate other musical styles into their versions of traditional tunes. Most, like the people who came to make up the bands Fairport Convention and Steeleeye Span, brought in the electric thump of rock and Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-90041905534075882442014-11-03T13:34:00.000-08:002014-11-03T13:38:38.493-08:00Return To Saturn
Mr. Ra
In the realm of jazz, there has never been anyone else quite like Sun Ra. He was born Herman Blount in 1917 and his first substantial musical gig was working as an arranger and pianist for the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in the late 40s. Somewhere in his early life Blount began to draw ideas together from science fiction, history, archeology, philosophyJerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-44805690073285830492014-10-25T12:04:00.003-07:002014-10-25T12:04:23.138-07:00Jack Bruce (1943 - 2014)
When I woke up this morning, I never dreamed I'd be writing the above words today. I just heard that Jack Bruce, one of my favorite musicians, has passed away. I discovered him through the band Cream in 1970, about the time I really discovered rock music in general. I loved his playing and singing on all the Cream albums but then I bought his first Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-74915730264238569782014-10-21T06:27:00.000-07:002014-10-21T06:28:50.887-07:00Ran Blake
It's probably safe to say that there is no other pianist in the jazz world who sounds quite like Ran Blake. His music is all about atmosphere, a combination of melancholy, uncertainty and shadows that bears only passing resemblance to conventional jazz piano.
Blake was born in Springfield, MA in 1935 and began his musical career in the late 1950's in New York City. In 1959 he met Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-12591048515891952192014-10-11T07:59:00.000-07:002014-10-11T08:09:17.490-07:00Julie (Driscoll) Tippetts
Julie Tippetts, jazz vocalist
A lot of musicians shift their approaches over their careers but Julie Tippetts changed her music far more than most. In the 60's she was one of Britain's leading pop singers. In the decades since she's been one of the pillars of the British avant-jazz community.
Julie Driscoll, pop singer
Tippetts, one of my all-time favorite Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-25657378568498817072014-10-04T10:14:00.000-07:002014-10-04T10:15:42.104-07:00Time Enough At LastI've been keeping this blog going since 2007 and frankly, I've done a pretty half-hearted job of it to this point. My major problem has been that my job sucked up the majority of my energy and time to the point where I was only sporadically focused enough to write anything of substance here. The few times I was ambitious enough to try a series of posts I could never get it together toJerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-4056045143933285622014-09-15T08:32:00.000-07:002014-09-15T08:34:02.734-07:00Youn Sun NahI still haven't officially restarted this blog yet, but like last weekend I just saw a show that I have to write about:
Youn Sun Nah in action
So there I was Saturday night going through the Fall Arts Preview Section of the Washington City Paper not thinking I'd see much of interest coming over the next few months that I didn't already know about. Then I turned to an ad for the Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-4523539862848647602014-09-08T13:12:00.000-07:002014-09-08T13:12:17.051-07:00My All Jazz WeekendI'm still in the process of figuring exactly how I want to revamp this blog but in the meantime I wanted to get down my impressions of all the music I saw this weekend:
I retired from my job on August 29 and although I didn't plan it that way I ended up celebrating after a fashion by seeing live music all this weekend, something I wouldn't have dared done while I was working.
Friday Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-63575533629146969972014-08-11T17:14:00.000-07:002014-08-11T17:14:36.509-07:00Public NoticeCLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS.
WILL REOPEN IN SEPTEMBER.Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-24409416128174529182014-04-08T17:31:00.001-07:002014-04-08T17:42:45.517-07:00"Look On My Works, Ye Mighty..."I haven't written about Breaking Bad in a while but I started watching the final episodes when they came to Netflix. I've just watched the third to last show, "Ozymandias"...
I know that "binge watching" where you devour a entire season worth's of TV episodes in a day or two is the thing these days, but if anyone could watch that program and merrily race ahead to the last two episodesJerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-78252589509862915362014-04-05T18:29:00.002-07:002014-04-05T18:29:32.077-07:00The Story Of ()
Let's get one thing straight. Director Lars Von Trier is completely barking mad but in a good sort of way. You have to be out there to conceive of a three-hour version of the Brecht-Weill song "Pirate Jenny" filmed on a bare stage like his Dogville or present the end of the world as positively as he did in Melancholia. I've just seen the first half of his latest opus, Nymph()Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-20168504335005160062014-03-26T16:57:00.000-07:002014-03-26T16:57:01.017-07:00Stalker (1979)(I've been doing a lot of recalibrating in my life the past couple of weeks but I'm now back to blogging for a while...I hope.)
There was something of a kerfuffle in the movie critic world in 2011 when Dan Kois, a writer for the New York Times, did a piece about on how some films are "cultural vegetables", meaning people watch them because the critical establishment tells them they are Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-70205186733736619582014-02-17T10:33:00.003-08:002014-02-17T10:33:41.170-08:00Stephan Crump's Rosetta Trio
It's always fun to go to a concert not knowing quite what to expect and being pleasantly surprised about what you hear. That was my response to seeing Stephan Crump's Rosetta Trio at Bohemian Caverns last night.
The trio consists of Crump on bass, Liberty Ellman on acoustic guitar and Jamie Fox on electric guitar. Before last night I knew Crump from Vijay Iyer's trioJerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-70124252843582931982014-02-11T16:17:00.001-08:002014-02-11T16:17:10.951-08:00The Jazz World: The CoolThe Birth Of The Cool
In the 1950's there was continued investigation into the idea of exploring advanced harmonies and textures in jazz music. The most significant attempt at this came from a group of young musicians who met together repeatedly at the New York apartment of arranger and composer Gil Evans in the late 1940's. These men, who included Miles Davis, John Lewis, Lee Konitz, Max Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-55030174535768306542014-01-26T10:30:00.001-08:002014-01-26T10:30:04.687-08:00The Jazz World: Composers and TheoristsMoving on to a few more of the music's great post-war composers, the first stop has to be my single favorite jazz musician...
Charles Mingus
Mingus was a singular figure in an universe full of them, a man who wrote music with both classical ambitions and gutbucket passions, who could turn the blues into all manner of soaring, aching shapes. Much of his work reflected his environment, Jerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654593013416821176.post-22652959791115505182014-01-19T10:02:00.003-08:002014-01-19T10:03:33.474-08:00Inside on the Outside
Out in the cold again.
I have some brief thoughts on the Oscars. The main talk about the nominations right now seems to be that while the vast majority of a large group of excellent films got some love, a few didn't, like The Butler, Fruitvale Station, and Inside Llewyn Davis. The last named was my favorite movie of the past year and I thought it would get a lot of nominations, in part becauseJerome Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525477197462586035noreply@blogger.com0