#scott thiele

[facesofcinema]

Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021)

#2020s #actor james swanton #dir jacob gentry #dp scott thiele #cat crime #cat horror #cat mystery #cat neo noir #cat thriller #american #cyan #lipstick #mask #screen #robot #wig #special effects #reflection #no pupils #broadcast signal intrusion #broadcast signal intrusion 2021

[msclaritea]

ABC On The Brink: How Post-Roe America Has Left Pregnant Women In Fear

Other than the tackiness of putting Diane Sawyer as the host, this is a must watch and I will be blunt in telling people, again, that this is not just about mere control or Eugenics. This is not just men who want to control women. THIS assault on Women, their rights, their autonomy, their very Personhood and place in society IS UNDER ASSAULT BY MEN WHO HATE WOMEN. An entire whole half of the population and coincidentally, the biggest driving force for Good in a society. It's not men. It never was. Not if so many of them can carry on lying to our faces that this is about Christianity.

Business leaders, actors, politicians, PRESIDENTS have secretly kept up Pagan worship and every filthy thing that entails. That is what went on at Bohemian Grove, what goes on at the World Economic Forum and what IS going on at certain Freemason lodges. They've deliberately kept up an immoral form of bonding that ensures they can carry out acts of evil. Believe it. I have read direct accounts at some of the activities of Freemasons. It will turn your stomach.

#ABC ON THE BRINK #USING DIANE SAWYER WAS BEYOND INSULTING #GAY FREEMASONS HAVE DONE THIS #MEN WHO HATE NAY DESPISE WOMEN HAVE DONE THIS #Texas #Florida Ron DeSantis #Paxton #Tim Scott #Perer Thiel #Opus Dei #Gay Fascist Catholic Church Sect #DC #Abortion Rights ARE Healthcare #Youtube

[theambitiouswoman]

Book Recommendations 📚📒

Business and Leadership:

"Good to Great" by Jim Collins

"The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries

"Zero to One" by Peter Thiel

"Leaders Eat Last" by Simon Sinek

"Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell

Success and Personal Development:

"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey

"Mindset: The New Psychology of Success" by Carol S. Dweck

"Atomic Habits" by James Clear

"Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance" by Angela Duckworth

"The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg

Mental Health and Well-being:

"The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle

"Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" by David D. Burns

"The Gifts of Imperfection" by Brené Brown

"The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook" by Edmund J. Bourne

"The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook" by Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, and Jeffrey Brantley

Goal Setting and Achievement:

"Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want—Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible" by Brian Tracy

"The 12 Week Year" by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington

"Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" by Daniel H. Pink

"The One Thing" by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan

"Smarter Faster Better" by Charles Duhigg

Relationships and Communication:

"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

"The 5 Love Languages" by Gary Chapman

"Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High" by Al Switzler, Joseph Grenny, and Ron McMillan

"Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life" by Marshall B. Rosenberg

"Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" by John Gray

Self-Help and Personal Growth:

"The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" by Mark Manson

"Daring Greatly" by Brené Brown

"Awaken the Giant Within" by Tony Robbins

"The Miracle Morning" by Hal Elrod

"You Are a Badass" by Jen Sincero

Science and Popular Science:

"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

"Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

"A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

"The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins

Health and Nutrition:

"The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II

"In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan

"Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker

"Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall

"The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

Fiction and Literature:

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

"1984" by George Orwell

"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

#books #books and reading #reading #goodreads #bookshelf #bookish #readersofinstagram #reading list #personal improvement #personal development #life advice #advice

[disneytva]

"Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja" Creators Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas Set To Executive Produce "The Wizards Of Waverly Place" Sequel Series For Disney Channel.

One of Disney’s signature comedies, Wizards of Waverly Place, is getting a sequel. Disney Branded Television has ordered a pilot for the follow-up, which is executive produced by original stars Selena Gomez and her small screen sibling David Henrie.

Gomez will guest star in the pilot for Disney Channel as the character that helped launch her career, Alex Russo, with David Henrie reprising the role of Justin Russo as a series regular. He is joined by new cast members Janice LeAnn Brown (Disney’s Just Roll with It), Alkaio Thiele (Call Me Kat) and Mimi Gianopulos (American Princess). It picks up after a mysterious incident at WizTech, where an adult Justin Russo has left his wizard powers behind, opting for a normal, human life with his wife and two sons. But he gets a surprise when a powerful young wizard in need of training shows up at his door… and Justin must embrace his past to ensure the future of the Wizard World.

The revival comes from writers and executive producers Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas who are behind another Disney Channel comedy spinoff, Raven’s Home and created the Disney XD animated series Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja.

#Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja #Randy Cunningham #RC9GN #The Wizards Of Waverly Place #Wizards of Waverly Place #Disney XD #Disney Channel #It's A Laugh Productions

[lickmystamp]

US postage stamp, 1990 "Christmas Tree" Scott #2515

Issued: October 18, 1990 - Evergreen, CO Quantity: 599,400,000 Designer: Libby Thiel Printed By: American Bank Note Company (Lithographed and engraved)

Artist Libby Thiel created the design for this issue with a pair of scissors and white and colored paper.

#postage #usps #stamp collection #postage stamps #philately #philatelic #stamp collecting #stamp #mail #stamps #postage stamp #xmas #christmas #christmas tree #holidays #greetings

[easthigh]

Selena Gomez & David Henrie Reunite For ‘Wizards Of Waverly Place’ Sequel Pilot For Disney Channel; Cast Set

"One of Disney’s signature comedies, Wizards of Waverly Place, is getting a sequel. Disney Branded Television has ordered a pilot for the follow-up, which is executive produced by original stars Selena Gomez and her small screen sibling David Henrie. Gomez will guest star in the pilot for Disney Channel as the character that helped launch her career, Alex Russo, with David Henrie reprising the role of Justin Russo as a series regular. He is joined by new cast members Janice LeAnn Brown (Disney’s Just Roll with It), Alkaio Thiele (Call Me Kat) and Mimi Gianopulos (American Princess).

The revival pilot comes from writers and executive producers Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas who are behind another Disney Channel comedy spinoff, Raven’s Home. It picks up after a mysterious incident at WizTech, where an adult Justin Russo has left his wizard powers behind, opting for a normal, human life with his wife and two sons. But he gets a surprise when a powerful young wizard in need of training shows up at his door… and Justin must embrace his past to ensure the future of the Wizard World." (via deadline.com)

(image via @disneychannel on Instagram)

#wizards of waverly place #wizards franchise #news #disney channel

[titleknown]

So, you know all those bad laws I tell y'all to call your senators to kill? Well here's a good one for you to promote!

Basically, you know how payment processors freak the fuck out if even the slightest whiff of adult content shows up on a website, which has lead to the widespread sanitization of the internet?

Well, this bill, S.293; aims to prevent that crap!

And, it's currently in the Committee of Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, so if your Senator is one of the following, call them and tell them to vote yes on it:

Sherrod Brown, Ohio, Chairman

Jack Reed, Rhode Island

Bob Menendez, New Jersey

Jon Tester, Montana

Mark Warner, Virginia

Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts (Tell her it would be a start on apologizing for voting yes on FOSTA/SESTA)

Chris Van Hollen, Maryland

Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada

Tina Smith, Minnesota

Kyrsten Sinema, Arizona (ugh)

Raphael Warnock, Georgia

John Fetterman, Pennsylvania

Tim Scott, South Carolina, Ranking Member

Mike Crapo, Idaho

Mike Rounds, South Dakota

Thom Tillis, North Carolina (Probably not reaching this asshole)

John Kennedy, Louisiana

Bill Hagerty, Tennessee

Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming

J.D. Vance, Ohio (Ugh)

Katie Britt, Alabama

Kevin Cramer, North Dakota

Steve Daines, Montana

If they're one of those right-wing dipshits, tell them it would help them prevent "cancel culture" via socially-conscious payment processors. Because subterfugue towards conservatives is always cool and good! Always!

Also mention that, in a happy irony, this would actually make kids safer by allowing platforms to acknowlege that, yes, people make a living selling well-endowed monoecious horsegirl drawings on their platform, and actually put properly finetuned safeguards in place.

As opposed to now, where they have to dance around it and put it in a grey-area hell so that Peter "Dracula" Thiel doesn't get his seastead in a shoal and ban them, which nobody likes!

So, call 'em if you can, boost even if you can't!

#law #laws #legislation #censorship #anti-censorship #payment processors #politics #american politics

[trivalentlinks]

so i've seen multiple people discussing (or asking neil gaiman) about a jewish reading/retelling of good omens etc, and i saw neil answer that it would be really difficult and you'd have to change the story pretty much completely

and i just want to say: please, please check out the (complete, free) web novel Unsong, by Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex / astralcodexten / @slatestarscratchpad and @aaronsmithtumbler on tumblr (the latter is an RP blog for an Unsong character))

(There is a (complete, free) audiobook version here.)

it's a jewish-punk story that is, well, not like good omens (because nothing is really like good omens, and nothing is really like unsong), but it's a jewish-punk apocalypse story in the same way good omens is a christian-punk apocalypse story

(i've heard it more specifically called 'kabbalah-punk'; it's set in a universe where the torah and the talmud and the spirit of the kabbalah are all literally true)

but also it's so good. it's written by a jewish psychiatrist and therapist with an amazing way with words; he's an atheist jew (i think?) but the book is full of a lot of love for jewish culture

Some features:

-- a lot of neurodiversity, very kindly written (the author is a psychiatrist whom i initially followed largely because of how empathetic his writing is; this is definitely a doctor who listens to his patients)

-- i am neurotypical and not jewish, but most followers of the slatestarcodex blog (and many of my irl friends) were neurodivergent and jewish, and everyone loved this book (also, i have always low-key wished i were jewish, and this book certainly contributed to that)

-- some damn good humour. the jokes range from silly puns that make you groan but eventually admire the sheer sincerity of it, to fish-out-of-water antics (lots of fish out-of-water during the apocalypse) that are laugh-out-loud funny, to some incredibly clever and insightful moments; it's delightful

-- there's a huge cast with many, many different viewpoints on everything, whose stories are brilliantly, intricately interwoven

-- beautiful philosophy about stories, the purpose of stories, who tells them, etc

minor spoilers below cut (don't read beyond here if i've already convinced you to read the book, possibly read this if you're on the fence):

-- at a pivotal moment, the world is saved by a very autistic angel, in a way that was related to his autism (but NOT in the savant syndrome sense). it is incredibly badass

-- has the most satisfying answer to the theodicy question (why is there so much suffering if G-d is omnipotent and good) that i've ever seen

-- some of the characters have views that seem abhorrent. one of them is clearly a peter thiel stand-in who's trying to invent a way for the ultra-wealthy to buy their way into heaven during the apocalypse (in the same way real-life peter thiel is trying to invent ways for the ultra-wealthy to live forever) and yet, and yet, by the end of it, i was empathizing with every single one of their viewpoints, even fictionalized peter thiel

(and not because of some tragic backstory/events! this is a story that has you empathizing with villains, not by tugging at the heartstrings with overwrought angst, but by letting you actually understand them)

(also if the characters feel a little hard-to-like at first, please stick it out for a few chapters, i promise they get more loveable; for me this is part of the appeal--initially being like 'wow, i hate this character' and then eventually liking them, not because they've changed, but because you've gotten to know them)

-- also, for those who are into polyamory: basically all the main characters end up in a polycule and literally save the world with the power of polyamory, so there is that

#unsong #slatestarcodex #astralcodexten

[reddragdiva]

when i talk about the LessWrong rationalists, Effective Altruists etc as disaster chucklefucks, i don't enough bring up that race-IQ science is endemic as a belief inside the subculture, and that is 100% sufficient reason to start off from a position of assuming bad faith in them

i did a whole podcast on this with I Don't Speak German - me and Elizabeth Sandifer, author of Neoreaction a Basilisk, talking to our estimable hosts Jack Graham and Daniel Harper

https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/82-scott-alexander-slate-star-codex-with-david-gerard-and-elizabeth-sandifer

the specific impetus was Scott Siskind/Alexander of Slate Star Codex's 2014 email leak revealing he explicitly started SSC to further race science and reactionary ideas, after years of pretending he hadn't:

https://www.tumblr.com/reddragdiva/643400252772302848/topher-brennan-ive-decided-to-say-screw-it

the subculture was outraged at this as a breach of privacy, not as a lie. so it seems to be real. bup-pow.

here's el sandifer's essay that does a deep dive analysis of why Scott Siskind is a fucking awful human being behind a polite civilised veneer. https://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-beigeness-or-how-to-kill-people-with-bad-writing-the-scott-alexander-method

the starting pistol in the LessWrong subculture was these two pieces:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/faHbrHuPziFH7Ef7p/why-are-individual-iq-differences-ok https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BahoNzY2pzSeM2Dtk/beware-of-stephen-j-gould

the second is interesting. actual biologists answer in the comments that Yudkowsky is talking nonsense, though you'll have to expand the comments to read them because the fans dutifully downvoted them. we go through the post in question in the podcast.

the gould piece reads like someone assembled a list of talking points for yud and he just ran with it.

this was around the time that thiel started funding lesswrong too.

lesswrong is also where the neoreactionaries got their start. it's important in understanding the flow of ideas that this isn't just an online subculture - it's a real-life in-person bay area subculture too.

most people don't get their political opinions from reasoned philosophical discourse. they pick them up from their friends. the rationalists and neoreactionaries are friends. the rationalists adopted the neoreactionaries' race science wholeheartedly.

Caroline Ellison from FTX-Alameda (tumblr now deleted) is a good example of an Effective Altruist who is also a massive fucking race scientist, and literally cares more about wild fish suffering or possible electron suffering than the real suffering caused to existing humans by racism. and she is absolutely a normative example of these people.

so if you find lesswrong or ssc ideas interesting, i suggest you may want to reconsider trying so hard to strain kernels of corn out of sewage flows.

and just to make your life worse, here's the aella thread for your entertainment. CW: aella. https://twitter.com/davidgerard/status/1556391089124286467

#the red face manifesto #neoreaction a basilisk #the crackpot offer indeed

[worldofwardcraft]

Worst SCOTUS decision ever.

February 15, 2024

Over the years our Supreme Court has delivered up many an egregiously poor decision — from Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) to Bush v. Gore (2000) to the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling two years ago. And these are only a sampling. But the one SCOTUS decision that has arguably had the most ruinous effect on our nation was in the 2010 case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.

Without delving into the facts of the case, it involved the ability of wealthy donors, corporations and special interest groups (in this instance a conservative nonprofit called Citizens United) to spend money in elections. Reversing more than a century of campaign finance restrictions, a 5-4 majority ruled that such groups could legally shell out as much as they want.

In the Court’s opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that limiting “independent political spending” from corporations and other groups violates their First Amendment right to free speech (since corporations are supposedly people). He also naively added that "independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption."

Not only did that turn out to be emphatically wrong, but so also was the assumption that such unlimited campaign spending would be conducted independently. Almost immediately following the decision, super PACs sprang up to facilitate the funneling of dark money through shadowy nonprofits that don’t disclose their donors. And while it's illegal for these committees to coordinate election spending with candidates or political parties, many routinely do so because a toothless FEC can't stop them.

Unsurprisingly, we've seen record-breaking amounts of expenditure every election cycle. As the Campaign Legal Center reports:

Campaign spending by corporations and other outside groups increased by nearly 900% between 2008 and 2016. In 2020, total election spending was $14.4 billion, up from $5.7 billion in 2018, and more than $1 billion in dark money was spent.

To take just one example, in the election cycle following the Citizens United decision, ultra-rich real estate developer Harlan Crow's political contributions went from a little over $500,000 to nearly $4.5 million! Americans for Tax Fairness found that a small group of 465 (mostly right-wing) billionaires had pumped an eye-popping $881 million into the 2022 midterm elections by October. And by the time the cycle was over, it was around a billion dollars.

Nowadays, oligarchs like the Soroses, Kochs, Uihleins, Griffins and Thiels are able to manipulate elections, Congress, state governments, the courts, indeed, our entire political system. All because of one terrible, no good, very bad Supreme Court verdict.

#citizens united #supreme court #campaign finance #oligarchy

[projazznet]

Coleman Hawkins / Lester Young – Classic Tenors

“Although this LP is long out of print, its brilliant contents have since been reissued by Bob Thiele on a couple of his labels. Hawkins is featured on eight of the 12 selections. Half come from a fine session with trumpeter Bill Coleman, but the other four are of greatest interest, for they find the tenor saxophonist in a quartet with pianist Eddie Heywood, bassist Oscar Pettiford, and drummer Shelly Manne. Their rendition of “The Man I Love” has what is arguably Heywood’s finest solo, preceding a lengthy roaring statement by Hawkins. The other tracks (“Sweet Lorraine,” “Get Happy,” and “Crazy Rhythm”) are almost as special. In addition, this LP finishes off with an excellent session from tenor saxophonist Lester Young, trombonist Dickie Wells, and trumpeter Bill Coleman. Wells’ high-note trombone solo on “I’m Fer It Too” is a crackup.” – Scott Yanow/AllMusic.

#colemanhawkins #lesteryoung #tenorsaxophone #jazz #projazznet

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Naomi Fry has this. What can we say about Succession? This is the portrait of a family in a position of immense power, whose members have varying levels of talent, but who live and work under a cloud of darkness, each suffering from moral degeneracy at a different level, and all collectively showing the ability of wealth and power to morally corrupt those who have it. Certainly the family of Rupert Murdoch provided the core inspiration for this series, but then Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and other titans of the modern commercial era provided equally powerful models that figure in the study. The work demonstrates the essential validity and timelessness of the Shakespearean approach to historical drama, and indeed, who could doubt that Shakespeare, alive today, would be presenting us with something much like this. In the end, this is a modern tour de force for serialized cinema, showing that this medium is capable of timeless art.

[Robert Scott Horton]

#Television #series #Succession #Jesse Armstrong #Naomi Fry #The New Yorker #historical drama

[gacmediadaily]

Candace Cameron Bure has nothing but pride for her Full House roots!

On Friday, the 47-year-old actress shared a throwback picture of her wearing a wedding dress, which she later wore on the beloved sitcom's sequel series, Fuller House. In the post, Bure celebrated 36 years since taking on the iconic role of D.J. Tanner.

"That Friday feeling 🙌🏼— flashback to finding the DJ wedding dress ✨," she captioned the Instagram pic, which showcased her throwing her arms up in delight and smiling. "Today also marks 36 years since becoming DJ Tanner."

"What a ride," she added. "So blessed!"

As fans may recall, D.J. married her high school sweetheart Steve Hale (portrayed by Scott Weinger) during a memorable triple wedding in the Fuller House series finale.

Prior to Steve, D.J. was married to firefighter Tommy Fuller Sr. (Dan Thiel), who later died on duty. They shared three sons: Jackson (Michael Campion), Max (Elias Harger) and Tommy Jr. (played by twins Dashiell and Fox Messitt).

Full House ran on ABC from Sept. 1987 to May 1995, spanning for a total of eight seasons. Aside from Bure and Weinger, it also starred John Stamos, Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, Jodie Sweetin, Mary-Kate��and Ashley Olsen, Lori Loughlin and Andrea Barber.

Fuller House, a sequel following an adult D.J. as a widowed mother, premiered on Netflix in February 2016. The series ran for five seasons, concluding in June 2020. Numerous original cast members reprised their roles, and new actors also came in to play the roles of D.J. and Kimmy (Barber)'s kids as well as D.J., Stephanie (Sweetin) and Kimmy's love interests.

At '90s Con in Tampa last weekend, Bure reunited with her Full House costars Barber, Coulier and Sweetin, as well as series creator Jeff Franklin. Ahead of the event, she shared several sweet throwback photos of her and Weinger, 47, on Instagram.

“90s Con tickets are almost sold out!!...” the actress wrote in the Instagram caption. “But if you grab a ticket, you’ll be sending these two there #90scon #djandsteveforever @thats4ent.”

#candace cameron bure #fuller house #full house

[burlveneer-music]

Horace Tapscott Quintet - The Quintet - previously unreleased recordings, out today from Mr Bongo

This previously unreleased album by the Horace Tapscott Quintet was unearthed from master tapes in the Flying Dutchman archives. Recorded in 1969 and was intended to be a follow-up album to the classic 'The Giant Is Awakened' which was released that year. The iconic pianist and composer Horace Tapscott was one of the most unique and important figures in LA’s jazz world. This lost recording was produced by one of the pivotal figures in jazz, Bob Thiele, a leading behind-the-scenes star who worked with many of the greats in jazz, such as Quincy Jones, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Della Reese, Shirley Scott, Gil Scott-Heron, the list goes on. His name can be seen gracing, arguably the best, Impulse! releases and those released on his own Flying Dutchman imprint set up in 1969. Joining Horace for this three-track, deep, heavy, avant-garde session are the same stellar cast featured on 'The Giant Is Awakened'; Arthur Blythe on Alto Sax, Everett Brown Jr on Drums, with David Bryant and Walter Savage Jr. on Bass. Kicking things off we have 'World Peace’, which starts with an almost baroque-esque melody, leading to an eruption in sound, it then ends in the same manner it began. The beautiful 'Your Child' is the jewel in the crown, skirting modal, deep jazz and introducing elements of free jazz. 'For Fats' with its bow bass and piano intro takes you on a journey, dropping into, at times dark, stormy melodies and developing a driving energy as the composition progresses. After recording this album, Horace was said to be wary of the music industry, so he retreated and distanced himself from this world, recording only for the independent labels UGMAA, Interplay Records, and Nimbus West Records. He set up The Pan-Afrikan People’s Arkestra and reintroduced the pan-African-roots sound back into the heart of jazz. He also developed and promoted the art form through performances and recordings. Thankfully, this session from these wonderful musical pioneers was preserved and finally has its time to shine. Featuring brand-new artwork by the illustrious artist/designer/musician Raimund Wong (Total Refreshment / Floating World Pictures). 

#Horace Tapscott #jazz #mr bongo #1969 #archival #2022 #arthur blythe

[onetwofeb]

This previously unreleased album by the Horace Tapscott Quintet was unearthed from master tapes in the Flying Dutchman archives. Recorded in 1969 and was intended to be a follow-up album to the classic 'The Giant Is Awakened' which was released that year. The iconic pianist and composer Horace Tapscott was one of the most unique and important figures in LA’s jazz world. This lost recording was produced by one of the pivotal figures in jazz, Bob Thiele, a leading behind-the-scenes star who worked with many of the greats in jazz, such as Quincy Jones, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Della Reese, Shirley Scott, Gil Scott-Heron, the list goes on. His name can be seen gracing, arguably the best, Impulse! releases and those released on his own Flying Dutchman imprint set up in 1969. Joining Horace for this three-track, deep, heavy, avant-garde session are the same stellar cast featured on 'The Giant Is Awakened'; Arthur Blythe on Alto Sax, Everett Brown Jr on Drums, with David Bryant and Walter Savage Jr. on Bass. Kicking things off we have 'World Peace’, which starts with an almost baroque-esque melody, leading to an eruption in sound, it then ends in the same manner it began. The beautiful 'Your Child' is the jewel in the crown, skirting modal, deep jazz and introducing elements of free jazz. 'For Fats' with its bow bass and piano intro takes you on a journey, dropping into, at times dark, stormy melodies and developing a driving energy as the composition progresses. After recording this album, Horace was said to be wary of the music industry, so he retreated and distanced himself from this world, recording only for the independent labels UGMAA, Interplay Records, and Nimbus West Records. He set up The Pan-Afrikan People’s Arkestra and reintroduced the pan-African-roots sound back into the heart of jazz. He also developed and promoted the art form through performances and recordings. Thankfully, this session from these wonderful musical pioneers was preserved and finally has its time to shine.

#bandcamp

[slackville-records]

Remembering Gil Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011)

Throughout the 1970s and early 80s, Scott-Heron used his songs to rail against the Vietnam war, the perils of alcohol and narcotics, the Watergate scandal and racial injustice, although these pieces – created with principal collaborator Brian Jackson – were generally harmonious fusions of soul, jazz, blues and funk, rather than diatribes. Pieces of a Man (1971) and Winter in America (1974) are regarded as the forerunners of both conscious soul and conscious rap.

Pieces of a Man was released in 1971, after a push from producer Bob Thiele to evolve Scott-Heron’s spoken-word efforts into more of a jazz and blues blend with the musician’s friend, pianist Brian Jackson, as his right-hand man.

“We both understood there were enough songs about partying and getting down,” Jackson said. “We just felt that if we could actually write any type of music that we felt was needed, we felt that consciousness-raising, and adopting the tradition of the West African griot, was where we wanted to go.”

Scott-Heron along with The Last Poets are often credited with being the first rappers for their spoken-word songs. Scott-Heron, though, bristled at the notion.

“He never set out to start a new genre,” his daughter Gia said. “We came from the oral tradition and folks rapping. He’d say, ‘How am I being credited as the inventor of something that has been in existence for over a millennia?’ ”

- The Guardian / Andscape

Photo: Gilles Petard/Redferns