[linux-audio-user] recommended music

[luis jure]

el Tue, 11 Jan 2005 07:45:36 -0500
Dave Phillips <dlphilp at bright.net> escribió:

 
>   I'm not much into pop stuff anymore, so my recommendations are a bit 
> different:

as i half expected, dave's recommendations superpose in about 85% with
mine...


>     just about anything by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Jelly Roll 
> Morton, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, Charlie Parker...

ditto. and i would add at least lester young, coleman hawkins, count basie
and eric dolphy.


>     Pony Blues, Down The Dirt Road, and High Water Everywhere, by 
> Charlie Patton
>        (real blues)

ditto. and may i also suggest son house? imo the greatest, his dead letter
blues is impressive. 

 
>     anything by Howlin' Wolf, Skip James, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, 
> JB Lenoir, Magic Sam...
>        (more real blues)

ditto, but i'd like to add two of my favourites: lightnin' hopkins and
elmore james. hopkins is a bit uneven, but when he comes to real folk blues,
he definitely was one of the greatest exponents of texas blues. his
Smithsonian/Folkways record is a classic. and elmore james is, of course,
the slide guitar master, listen to his blues before sunrise, and you'll feel
sorry if you ever listen to the cover by eric clapton...

but since this is the lau mailing list after all, what about computer music?
a few of my recommendations:

iannis xenakis: la legende d'eer (btw, just about anything by xenakis,
instrumental or electronic)
charles dodge: any resemblance is purely coincidental
paul lansky: six fantasies on a poem by thomas campion
john chowning: stria and phoné
barry truax: arras

that's the music that made me mess with computers (and with linux) in the
first place...

best,

lj





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