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1960S Jazz And History
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Introduction
In this episode of Textures / Undercurrents, Dominik presents a retrospective on 1960s jazz, contrasting the era's innovation with more recent decades. He explores the foundations of modern jazz through artists like Hank Mobley and Eric Dolphy, while linking the music to historical markers such as the 1964 agreement to build the Channel Tunnel and the 1967 heart transplant. Key moments include a discussion on the rise of jazz fusion and the career shift of George Benson.
Dominik presents a retrospective on the 1960s, contrasting the era's huge advancements in jazz with the last twenty years. He discusses the foundations of modern jazz through Hank Mobley and the landmark 1964 album 'Out to Lunch' by Eric Dolphy. The programme blends musical analysis with historical markers, such as the 1964 agreement to build the Channel Tunnel and the 1967 heart transplant and Six Day War. Dominik also touches upon the career shift of George Benson from straight-ahead jazz to pop and R&B, and notes that the show 'Textures' alternates weekly with 'Undercurrents'.
Topics
- The evolution and innovation of 1960s jazz
- 1960s Jazz history and musicians
- Global political and cultural events of the 1960s
Participants
- Dominik
Names are taken from the archive as written and may include spelling variants.
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People often say, "If you remember the 60s, you weren't there." But luckily enough, there are enough recordings for those who were chemically, whose memories are chemically impaired, or those like me who.
Three thirty plus years to get it done, but now it's done, and so we can go between the continent and this sceptered isle very easily.
And that is the end of the nineteen sixties, and just to see what all of that sort of led into and turned into, let's take a step into nineteen seventy-one, the year I was born, and.
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Why it was chosen To realize what most people think of when they think nineteen sixties and fifties and jazz
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Why it was chosen It inspired the whole decade and laid the foundations, according to some, to free jazz
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Why it was chosen To commemorate the Centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation
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Why it was chosen To give a sense of the hugely solid foundations of that Iranian musicianship on which other things can grow
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Why it was chosen An example of how the samba craze of the nineteen sixties penetrated into the popular consciousness
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Why it was chosen Because he's using overdubbing
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Why it was chosen To show that he started out as a straight-ahead jazz guitar player
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Why it was chosen To commemorate Out to Lunch, an album recorded by Eric Dolphy
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Why it was chosen An example of how the culture of rock and folk and rock and roll and popular music were fusing in many different ways
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Why it was chosen It was the only one that could fit in a show like this because all the other tracks are over ten minutes
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Why it was chosen Very appropriate to this time—the last few minutes of textures