Indeed, I deliberately did not mention in that episode something that I was saving until now, because we actually heard *two* hugely influential bebop musicians in that episode, and I was leaving the other one to talk about here. We did talk about how Charlie Christian, the guitarist on that record, was one of the innovators of that style, but we didn't really go into what it was properly. Now, we talked about quite a lot of things in that episode which have played out in later episodes, but one thing we only mentioned in passing, there or later, was a style of music called bebop. For those of you who don't remember - which is fair enough, since that episode was more than three years ago - in that episode we looked at a jazz record by the Benny Goodman Sextet, which was one of the earliest popular recordings to feature electric guitar: To tell today's story, we're going to have to go right back to some things we looked at in the first episode, on "Flying Home". Also, I apologise if I mispronounce any names or words in this episode, though I've tried my best to get it right - I've been unable to find recordings of some words and names being spoken, while with others I've heard multiple versions. I am going to do my best to get all of this right, because accuracy is important, but I suspect that every single sentence in the first hour or so of this episode could be footnoted with something pointing out all the places where what I've said is only somewhat true. And conversely, if you know more about these musics than I do, please forgive any inaccuracies. I am trying to give just enough information about them to tell the story, and I would urge anyone who becomes interested in the music I talk about in the early parts of this episode to go out and find more expert sources to fill in the gap. I am going to try to get the information about these musicians right, but I want to emphasise that at times I will be straying *vastly* out of my lane, in ways that may well seem like they're minimising these musicians. It also contains a chunk of music theory, which again, I know a little about - but only really enough to know how much I don't know. This episode runs long, and covers a *lot* of musical ground, and as part of that it covers several of the most important musicians of the twentieth century - but musicians in the fields of jazz, which is a music I know something about, but am not an expert in, and Hindustani classical music, which is very much not even close to my area of expertise. We're first going to have to explain this:īefore we begin this, I just want to say something. This is going to be an absurdly long episode, because in order to get to LA in 1966 again, we're going to have to start off in the 1940s in New York, and take a brief detour to India. We're going to be spending a *lot* of time around LA and Hollywood for the next few months - seven of the next thirteen episodes are based there, and there'll be more after that.īut it's going to take a while to get there. This episode is the second part of a loose trilogy of episodes set in LA in 1966. This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. This collection has the Shankar material released in the West up to 1962.Īnd this three-CD set is a reasonable way of getting most of the Byrds’ important recordings. This dissertation looks at the influence of Slonimsky on Coltrane.Īll Coltrane's music is worth getting, but this 5-CD set containing Impressions is the most relevant cheap selection of his material for these purposes. Information on John Coltrane came from Coltrane by Ben Ratliffe, while information on Ravi Shankar came from Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar by Oliver Craske.įor information on the Byrds, I relied mostly on Timeless Flight Revisited by Johnny Rogan, with some information from Chris Hillman’s autobiography.
No Mixcloud this time, as there were multiple artists with too many songs.
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Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Episode one hundred and thirty-nine of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Eight Miles High” by the Byrds, and the influence of jazz and Indian music on psychedelic rock.
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