I cant find that book on amazon. . . any more info about it? It sounds pretty interesting. ask the guy on the msgboard about the publisher maybe.
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, jurren baars wrote: > robin pinning wrote: > > >>Does anyone else have any books they could recommend? > > > >ok i found Kodwo Eshun: More Brilliant than the Sun to be pretty good. tho > >i didn't know all the music discussed which was a disadvantage. also stuff > >in there about alice coltrane which is interesting given carl craig's > >direction i guess. the style isn't for everyone but once you get into it > >it's inspiring in a funny kind of way. a cd with all the tunes discussed on > >there would have been a killer addition. > > i sort of had the same feeling when i read it 2 or 3 years ago, actually it > pointed me towards records that are now some of my favorites. it's great as > a reference-book, when out shopping. > i've read it again a year and a half ago, and that was a pleasant surprise, > as it read a LOT easier. [took me about 2 months to finish the first time, > and less then a week on the beach the second time]. > and i've been thinking about compiling a cd, to accompany the book, sort of > chronologically, so you can actually hear what he's talking about. and add a > booklet with pictures of the sleeves he mentiones would have been a nice > addition aswell. [are you writing all this down mister publisher sir?] > > i myself have started on 'Before Motown, jazz in detroit 1920-1960' after it > got mentioned on this list a couple of months ago [then found out that i had > allready saved an earlier post about the book 2 years prior august 6, 2001] > and 'A Love Supreme/the creation of John Coltrane's classic album' by Ashley > Kahn. i enjoy reading 'A Love Supreme' more, but that's probably because > 'Before Motown' is written really fact upon fact, sort of like a history > book [probably because it is] but both are very interesting, and highly > recommended. especially because both writers have had the fortune to > interview many people from that era, so the insight comes straight from the > source. every book about these same subjects, will probably have to really > in large part on what's written in these books. > > and i saw another book mentioned by someone on the deephousepage > messageboard: > 'Black Machine Music & Galactic Soul, From Disco, House to Detroit Techno' > by Tsutomu Noda, anyone know this and care to enlighten all us > ultra-313-techno-geeks if it's worth buying for the content, or if it's just > something you gotta have because it says '...Detroit Techno' in the title? > > jurren > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > >
