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"Quote"

by Mr. Fist

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Introduction 01:12
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Life's Tough 06:16
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Suicide 06:13
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Bridge 01:12
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about

It's late and you've "had a few" and so have the band. The joint is getting quiet and dry, but the night isn't over just yet. There are still a few wobbly notes and staggering rhythms left to drift across the room. So kick back and let these "cool jazz" sounds carry you off with the dying embers of the evening.

A video for "I Didn't Attend the Funeral" is now available on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH43o8nKgqg

credits

released September 15, 2009

The "Mr. Fist" Quintet presents "Dead Jazz" volume four.
"Performed" by the Mr. Fist "Clones" featuring "The Ghost".

01. “Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.”
George Bernard Shaw

02. “If I found her floating in my pool, I’d punish my dog.”
Yoko Ono

03. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

04. “I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Mark Twain

05. “Tell him I’ve been too fucking busy - or vise versa.”
Dorothy Parker

06. “A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.”
George Orwell

07. “Life’s tough. It’s tougher when you’re stupid.”
John Wayne

08. “Suicide is the most sincere form of self criticism.”
Robert Heinlein

09. “He doesn’t get ulcers, he gives them.”
Henny Youngman

10. “You’re the reason our kids are so ugly.”
Groucho Marx

Composed, performed and produced by Stephen Ugo Rosin at Blood 'n' Tongue, Vancouver, September, 2010.
Background ambience on track 10 recorded by Barry K. Mullen.
Mr. Fist photo by Babz Kalex.

A GUIDE TO BROKEN MUSIC

What is “Dead Jazz”?  The term refers to an approach to music based on improvisational performance elements framed by an atmosphere of decay, decrepitude and faux/real ineptitude.  Think of it as “music for the undead”.  The objective of each composition is to create a separation within the music by pulling apart the instrumentation like pulling apart well cooked pork.  The trick is to create this separation without completely disintegrating the composition.  The “meat”, while separated, must still retain some connection to itself and the whole of the piece.  In this regard, the term “keeping it loose” is most appropriate.

Why “Dead Jazz”?  With the widespread dissemination of digital music technology permeating all of contemporary popular music production, there has been a decided move to lock step into a “perfectionist” methodology in music making.  Mainstream and even most so-called “alternative” music has become completely conditioned to the common usage of digital tools for “perfecting” music.  Pitch correction, quantization, click tracks, sequencing and editing are the means to this end.  No performance element is immune from such tinkering.  While there was once a novelty factor within electronic music resulting from the exactitude of these tools, their use has now become so widespread as to become ubiquitous.  The end results can be heard wafting from the speakers of every music system one may encounter.  The effect is easily perceptible as a general lack of feeling and essence within popular music, more so than has ever been the case in the past, regardless of the presence or influence of exploitive, oppressive or restrictive commercial interests.  With the click of a mouse, every flaw can be seamlessly wiped away.  And with them, every bit of character as well.  But what is so wrong with character?  Why must it be scrubbed away?  Perhaps it is time for a bit of an “antidote”.  Herein lies the purpose of “Dead Jazz”.

It’s time to put the warts back on and draw some wrinkles on the face of music.  It’s time to let the skin sag and not go running to the nearest cosmetic surgeon for that “nip & tuck”.  “Ugly” may not be “beautiful”, but it can sometimes be a lot more interesting and let’s not forget that these appraisals often result from the most subjective of perspectives.  Let’s be sloppy again!  Let’s savor those “sour” notes like sucking on a lemon after a shot of Tequila!  Let’s stagger with those wobbly meters like a drunk reveling on New Year’s Eve!

Any musician of any competence and experience with improvisation knows that there is no such thing as a “mistake” in the right hands.  Like a genetic mutation resulting in a new species, these “detours” are really an opportunity to branch off into a new form which could never have been consciously conceived.  These are the “gifts of the gods” which popular culture has forsaken, tossing these pearls into the mud while the consuming “swine” obliviously continue their wallowing.

“Dead Jazz” chooses to pluck these “pearls of imperfection” from the muck, polish them off and set them in a string for those with “soul” to appreciate.  As lumpy and misshapen as they may be, they are still worthy of appreciation and offer so much more than the bland precision we’ve been tastelessly choking down of late.

In music, there are no “accidents”, only opportunities.

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