Epater les Blogueurs

Pre-Sparks weirdness. Made, amazingly, in 1968.

for dishpantheism--

The album that got me into the "glitch" stuff that mooxy was talking about on his blog. Still one of my favorites, and a lot less spartan than much of what followed.

The last giant of bebop (and beyond) passes away? Aside from partly inventing modern jazz drumming, playing on a couple dozen legendary bebop records, and being early and loud on civil rights, Roach was amazingly adaptable and went way further than most of his contemporaries, and his duet albums with Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton are fantastic. Here's a track from the second Braxton collaboration, too long to upload to Vox:

 One in Two, Two In One

It'll be up for a week.

I'd post something from his own classics We Insist! and Percussion Bittersweet (please listen to them!), but I don't have them handy. And not forgetting the Charlie Parker sides, the Ellington/Mingus/Roach collaboration Money Jungle, Brilliant Corners, Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus, Miles' Birth of the Cool, etc etc etc etc.

Oh, and what the heck, here's something from Money Jungle:

Seminal song, not easier to cover well. The third is probably the most creative (and has Eno on it).

Books:  Show us the longest book you've ever read.  (All the way through.)

Most unlikely Bowie cover?

The track Bhikku posted is actually from one of Ulmer's weaker albums, I think, so here are a few of my favorites...