Doc Severinsen - The Court of the Crimson King
As promised, I am here again with the rejoinder to yesterday's Eno extravaganza, featuring his sometimes partner-in-crime who was born two years (minus a day) before he was.
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What is it with these Taureans? They are like bulls in the china shop of musical orthodoxy, aren't they?
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Jimi Hendrix once approached this guy, after the guy's 9th ever public performance, and told him to shake his left hand, because it was nearer to his heart.
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The people at the Hendrix table were, as the story goes, treated to loud exclamations by Jimi, that the band onstage -- which wouldn't have a record out for another six months -- was "the best band in the world".
When the record finally came out, it was hard to argue with the Hendrix assessment.
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That LP, as well as some of the ensuing ones, turned out to be some of the most influential records that will ever be waxed by anyone, ever.
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Perhaps the first rock musician to draw away from the Blues and upon the dissonant tonalities of 20th century composers like Bartok and Stravinsky, his stature over the 5+ decades since In the Court of the Crimson King debuted has only elevated.
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Composer, frighteningly skillful guitarist, theorist, teacher... he wears all the hats as soon as his cold morning shower is over, doesn't he?
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Well, since 1969 -- when King Crimson burst, fully formed and with a brand new genre of music to espouse, onto the scene -- he's been firmly in charge of some of the most challenging and revered sounds in the history of the species.
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I figured since he and Brian Eno have together produced a good portion of those sounds, let's follow one with the other on back-to-back birthdays and honor Robert Fripp's 77th trip around The Sun.
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So here's this wild and super jazzy comp I made for my phone, with a plethora of unusual interpretations of the music of King Crimson.
01 True Voices Saxophone Quartet - 21st Century Schizoid Man
02 White Knight Instrumental - Book of Saturday
03 Crimson Jazz Trio - Cat Food
04 Superdog - Indoor Games
05 Bebo Ferra, Paolino Dalla Porta & Fabrizio Sferra - I Talk to the Wind
06 Either/Orchestra - Red
07 Pierrejean Gaucher - Dinosaur
08 Stick Men + David Cross - Sartori in Tangier
09 Gwilym Simcock & Delta Saxophone Quartet - Two Hands
10 Médéric Collignon & Jus de Bocse - Intrudicsion (Indiscipline)
11 21st Century Schizoid Band - Sailor's Tale
12 Hans Annéllsson - Fracture
13 Emerson, Lake & Powell - Mars, the Bringer of War (Merday Morn's rehearsal edit)
14 Controlled Bleeding - The Talking Drum
15 Joel Baer Quartet - Matte Kudesai
16 Tuner - Industry
17 Stefano Bollani - Frame By Frame
18 Esther Flückiger & John Wolf Brennan - Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. Two
19 Maya Beiser - Epitaph
20 Doc Severinsen - The Court of the Crimson King
21 Fernando Perdomo - Prince Rupert Awakes
22 Torino Guitar Quartet - Discipline
23 Petra Haden - The Sheltering Sky
24 Kamera Quintet - Song of the Gulls
25 Psychonoesis - Starless
Total time: 2:38:32
disc break goes after Track 13
EN-assembled compilation of various odd interpretations of the music of King Crimson
966 MB FLAC/direct link
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I'm gonna take off for awhile now, because I have a big movie to make that you'll probably enjoy, but which is gonna take a lotta effort to make happen.