best tune for driving
Michael Kelly
Just thought I'd ask this again to see some other's
favorites.
For me, one of the best tunes for driving fast down the road
is Milestones. When Philly Joe Jones "Philly Lick" kicks in
on the drums you just have to accellerate some! :)
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
Dan B.
The whole 'J.R. Monterose' album (with Philly J.J. driving it), on Blue
Note, is excellent for cruising: no ballads, just burners, and an
upfront powerful mono mix by Rudy V.G. Too hard for me to pick just
one track off it--it's all good, fast and tight. (I hope this CD will be
rereleased by BN eventually so people that haven't heard it can get the
chance. A real smoker.)
--
"I don’t want to spend my life explaining myself. Either you get it or
you don’t." -- Frank Zappa
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Norton Shawn
Hal Vickery
no...@webtv.net wrote:
> You're Driving Me Crazy.
Being a moldy fig at heart, the tune I can't get enough of while driving is
the Benny Goodman recording of "I Would Do Anything for You" in which,
interestingly enough, Goodman quotes "You're Driving Me Crazy."
When I'm not playing that over and over again (my record so far is playing
it my entire 80-mile drive to work, divide 1:45 by 3 minutes to figure out
how many times that is) then it's "The Everywhere Calypso" by Sonny
Rollins.
I just wish I had Stompy Jones on CD. It's hard to play the LP track more
than 7-8 times with my wife around in the house.
nsmf
Bruce LeClaire
Hal Vickery wrote:
>
> When I'm not playing [Benny Goodman's recording of "I Would Do
> Anything for You"] over and over again (my record so far is playing
> it my entire 80-mile drive to work, divide 1:45 by 3 minutes to
> figure out how many times that is) [...]
Hal, does this mean you're hitting a repeat button 35 times in a row?
Now that's dedication!
--Bruce
PS- And I thought I had a long commute. Good chance to do a lot of
listening though. (Any talk radio/news in there?)
Bruce LeClaire
Before I left to work in Europe I made a 3000 mile trip from SF to
Boston across this wonderful country of mine. It was a fantastic
experience, and I recommend it to anyone, but especially Americans, to
come to appreciate just how grand the US is. [I took US 40 (route 66)
most of the way, although I hope to do a more northern route sometime in
the future].
I drove a car that didn't even have a radio, but I took along a little
portable cassette player for tunes (thanks Debbie). I will forever
associate the following two albums with traveling:
Lee Morgan "Search for the New Land" 1964
"The Gigolo" 1965
I must have listened to them each dozens of times on the drive.
And while waiting for my flight to Europe in JFK I made the spiritual
journey to another life by listening to Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" on a
walkman at very loud volumes.
--Bruce ("Get your kicks, on route 66")
PS- If you do drive across the country I suggest you have at least
another driver, and alternate driving in shifts of 2 hours with a stop
and stretch between turns. And be sure to see the Grand Canyon if you
can.
micahw
Specifically the title tune. Totally burning. Freddie Hubbard,
Wayne Shorter, and Blakey just kick ass on that tune.
I was blasting it today on the way to work.
Micah
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Hal Vickery
<bw...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Hal Vickery wrote:
> >
> > When I'm not playing [Benny Goodman's recording of "I Would Do
> > Anything for You"] over and over again (my record so far is playing
> > it my entire 80-mile drive to work, divide 1:45 by 3 minutes to
> > figure out how many times that is) [...]
>
> Hal, does this mean you're hitting a repeat button 35 times in a row?
> Now that's dedication!
Yup. That's what it means.
> PS- And I thought I had a long commute. Good chance to do a lot of
> listening though. (Any talk radio/news in there?)
I usually listen to The Score, the Chicago sportstalk station. On the way
home I've also been tuning in to ESPN-1000 when they have White Sox spring
training games. Also interspersed among that is pioneer shock jock Steve
Dahl, and music on WDCB, the FM station from College of Dupage which has
some decent jazz programming between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
nsmf
Hal Vickery
<bw...@mindspring.com> wrote:
When I was 13 my dad (with some assistance from my mom) drove us out to
visit relatives in one of the suburbs of LA. We lived about 60 miles south
of Chicago and took the real U.S. 66 most of the way. Bobby Troupe
would've been proud of us. We didn't start in Chicago, joining 66 at
Dwight, IL. We didn't stop at the Grand Canyon, though. My mother, whose
hatred of scenery and love of cheap motels is legendary, vetoed it, saying,
"Who wants to see a big hole in the ground." Of course she's the one who
asked where the petrified forest was as we looked at all the fosilized logs
lying along the landscape.
For the record, U.S. 66 roughly follows Interstate 55 in Illinois,
Interstate 44 in Missouri and Oklahoma, and Interstate 40 from Oklahoma
City (which looks mighty pretty) most of the rest of the way. I haven't
been to the other states lately, but the original routing of U.S. 66 is
pretty well marked in Illinois, at least from Chicago to Bloomington. I
had a conference in Bloomington last fall and drove home on The Mother
Road. I live about 5 miles west of the original routing of 66, and a
little over a mile from a routing that was used in the '40s. I'm a 66
fanatic, and my son has turned into one also.
nsmf
Skip Elliott Bowman
> For me, one of the best tunes for driving fast down the road
> is Milestones. When Philly Joe Jones "Philly Lick" kicks in
> on the drums you just have to accellerate some! :)
For cruising on a freeway, anything uptempo in a major key. Louis
Armstrong, Sonny Rollins, and Emily Remler. Charles Earland definitely.
Stuck in traffic, Wes Montgomery or Jim Hall. Bossas.
Commuting to the gig, the type of music I'll be playing on that gig.
Coming home, whatever is on the radio until I get my Randy Tico album
back <g>
Skip
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Ulf Åbjörnsson
Sinatra at the Sands! You can be your own FAS all throught to concert and
the drive! What a wonderful feeling to have the Basie Band backing you and
Frank! You'll reach your destination "in no time"!
Ulf in Svedala
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hvic...@svs.com (Hal Vickery) wrote:
...snip...
>
> When I was 13 my dad (with some assistance from my mom) drove us out
to
> visit relatives in one of the suburbs of LA. We lived about 60 miles
south
> of Chicago and took the real U.S. 66 most of the way. Bobby Troupe
> would've been proud of us. We didn't start in Chicago, joining 66 at
> Dwight, IL. We didn't stop at the Grand Canyon, though. My mother,
whose
> hatred of scenery and love of cheap motels is legendary, vetoed it,
saying,
> "Who wants to see a big hole in the ground." Of course she's the one
who
> asked where the petrified forest was as we looked at all the fosilized
logs
Hal, your mother and my father-in-law must have been related. In the
same time frame +/- a couple of years, the wife's family went from So.
Bend to L.A. using Route 6-6, in a Corvair. Poppa Fred refused to go 20
miles out of the way to see a "damn hole in the ground."
5 years ago, we repeated the journey, starting in Chicago, but with
various detours, including a family reunion in my idea of hell-on-earth,
Branson, MO. When we got to Santa Fe, we took a vote on whether to have
a couple extra days in Cali, or to go to the Grand Canyon. The kids &
the wife (who missed her only other chance) voted no on the Damn Hole In
The Ground!!!
For the record, we listened to a lot of David Hollands "Conference of
the Birds," Nigel Kennedy's version of "The Four Seasons," Colin
Walcott's "Grazing Dreams," a slew of mix tapes including Tex Ritter's
greatest hits and a smattering of Marty Robbins (played upon arriving in
the west Texas town of El Paso). Miles, Coltrane, Sonny, Hendrix, Patti
Smith, Giant Sand, Neil Young. Hell, I think we took about 80 cd's and
60 tapes for a three week trip.
My favorite for driving though, all time, has got to be "The Four
Seasons."
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Dan Given
always limited in the amount of tapes I had available to me. Several
years ago, the only tape I had in my car was Zorn's Spy vs. Spy. I
decided I had to stop listening to it when red lights and crosswalks
just became blurs.
About 5 years ago, I there was a 4 month where I had a 7 hour drive each
Thursday and Sunday (my wife was working on a contract job in another
city, which was more interesting than the one I lived in) and would
begin the trip in after dinner afternoon with fairly conservative jazz.
As midnight approached, Last Exit (usually Noise of Trouble) kept me
awake. The last hour of the trip, by this time usually 1 a.m., I
resorted to a Motorheard compilation a friend had made for me. These
are memories I will always have of driving.
Now, havng a CD player in the car makes life much better. I got some
strange looks yesterday from pedestrians as I sat at a stop light,
windows down, volume almost at max, listening to the new ISKRA 1903
reissue on Emanem.
Dan
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Dan
Murphy McMahon
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> "Free For All", by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.
> Specifically the title tune. Totally burning. Freddie Hubbard,
> Wayne Shorter, and Blakey just kick ass on that tune.
Wayne's solo is just too much for me to handle. I don't even think Blakey
can keep up.
--
Murph
Murphy McMahon
Allman Brothers Band: Eat A Peach
Dizzy Gillespie at Newport
Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder
James Brown: Foundations of Funk '64-'69
Art Blakey: The African Beat
Small, windy mountain or country roads-
Mingus In Wonderland
The Beatles: Revolver
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
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Murph
Michael Kelly <mkel...@NOSPAMgate.net> wrote in message
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>
> Just thought I'd ask this again to see some other's
> favorites.
>
> For me, one of the best tunes for driving fast down the road
> is Milestones. When Philly Joe Jones "Philly Lick" kicks in
> on the drums you just have to accellerate some! :)
>
>
Michael Kelly
<luvt...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>Small, windy mountain or country roads-
>Mingus In Wonderland
>The Beatles: Revolver
>Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
Ah, I didn't think about non-jazz stuff. For blasting the
volume and going crazy then these come to mind:
1. Departure=Ride My Seesaw : Moody Blues
2. Sweet Jane : Lou Reed
3. Nightbird Flying : Jimi Hendrix Cry of Love album
.. but then I was afraid all that would be off topic. :)
lk...@my-deja.com
Michael Kelly <mkel...@NOSPAMgate.net> wrote:
>
> Just thought I'd ask this again to see some other's
> favorites.
>
> For me, one of the best tunes for driving fast down the road
> is Milestones. When Philly Joe Jones "Philly Lick" kicks in
>
> Mike
>
> --
>
> "I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
> -- Groucho Marx
>
the tempo accelerates a fair bit as the intensity builds (the drummer
here, BTW, though it sounds like Elvin and was credited as his work for
some time, is actually Charlie Persip; Elvin is on miscellaneous
percussion); and Bobby Hutcherson's "Old Devil Moon" with McCoy, Herbie
Lewis and Billy Higgins from "Solo/Quartet" (Contemporary). It swings
like crazy and is in long meter, so it feels like you're covering twice
as much ground per unit of time as you really are.
Lawrence Kart