{"id":2345,"date":"2012-12-23T12:29:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T17:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimhaku.com\/blog\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2013-05-22T00:09:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T04:09:34","slug":"va-beat-xmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimhaku.com\/blog\/va-beat-xmas\/","title":{"rendered":"V\/A | Beat Xmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net\/8019B6\/data.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lwh12woLDH1qzeyk4o1_250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like many internet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimhaku.com\/blog\/tag\/mixtape\/\">mixtapes<\/a> I review, since <a href=\"http:\/\/jimhaku.tumblr.com\/post\/14474008673\/v-a-beat-xmas\">I listened to it<\/a> the original link has gone down. But this one has been reposted to <a href=\"http:\/\/wfmuichiban.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/beat-xmas.html\">WFMU&#8217;s Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Soul Ichiban blog<\/a>. Seems I can&#8217;t be bothered to get around to things in a reasonably timely manner. It&#8217;s a personal problem I&#8217;m working on. How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s great, I mean, too bad. Sorry about that. I&#8217;m a little distracted. Look, I know this might not be a great time, but I need to talk about this thing I listened to. It&#8217;s not important. Well, it&#8217;s important to me. Alright, maybe this specific internet mixtape is not that &#8220;important&#8221; to me even&#8230;I enjoyed it. Can&#8217;t I&#8230;share my enjoyment? It&#8217;s better than posting pictures of everything I stuff in my stupid face. Oh stop. No one told you to post those pictures. They did? For real? Well, those people are no friends. Forget about them.<\/p>\n<table style=\"margin-left:1.4em;\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"215\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UV8D1RtDU6w?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>What&#8217;s Beat? Is this mix &#8220;Beat&#8221;? I think it&#8217;s &#8220;Beat&#8221;&#8230;but but not Beat. Dig? It&#8217;s a fun time, but don&#8217;t get any big ideas. There&#8217;s maybe a dozen people who were The Beats, then there&#8217;s the Jazz guys, then there&#8217;s the beatniks (the fans), then there&#8217;s not-beatniks, then there&#8217;s the not-really-having-anything-to-do-with-anything-just-happened-to-be-theres. And the in-betweeners.<\/p>\n<p>I was not there. I&#8217;m 34. But I used to really be obsessed with &#8216;The Beat Generation&#8217;. Still am somewhat, but now I think it&#8217;s a mistake to think of it like that. It&#8217;s like calling the 90s &#8216;The Grunge Generation&#8217;. It&#8217;s just not accurate. This mix is just some holiday-themed fun, but why not completely tear it apart into non-fun atoms? Because there&#8217;s better stuff to do, relax. I&#8217;m not going that far with it. But we can separate who&#8217;s who here.<\/p>\n<ul type=circle>\n<li>Jack Kerouc &#8211; ultimate Beat, obvs.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lloyd_Glenn\">Lloyd Glenn<\/a> &#8211; legit jazz guy\n<li>Tony Rodelle Larson &#8211; Gettin&#8217; suspect. No info on this guy, seems to be a one-off novelty record, but there&#8217;s not really jokes in it. Maybe a failed attempt at a crossover career. We get both sides of his only single.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lowell_Fulson\">Lowell Fulson<\/a> &#8211; More of a Blues guy than a Jazz guy\n<li>Jim Backus &#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daws_Butler\">Daws Butler<\/a> &#8211; Mr. Magoo vs. Fake Beat, sort of. Funny, sort of.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pony_Poindexter\">Pony Poindexder<\/a> &#8211; Jazz, man. Altho, this is on the far edge of the Beat Era, well into the 60s.\n<li>Jimmy Bowman &#8211; Beat version of Night Before Christmas. Another one-off, could have been a minor jazz guy.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mello-Moods\">The Mello Moods<\/a> &#8211; Borderline. <i>The Christmas Song<\/i> is pretty square, but they do their best to jazz it up. It&#8217;s not really a Jazz group, it&#8217;s transitional into into R&#038;B\/Rock.\n<li>Miles Davis &#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Dorough\">Bob Dorough<\/a> &#8211; I imagine Miles Davis smacking the shit out of anyone calling him a beatnik. Hard to imagine him sharing breathing space with this vocalist, but it happened.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hank_Crawford\">Hank Crawford<\/a> &#8211; Jazz dude, transitioning into Soul.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockabilly.nl\/references\/messages\/oscar_mclollie.htm\">Oscar McLollie<\/a> &#8211; Pretty much early Rock with some Beat lingo.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnny_Guarnieri\">Johnny Guarnieri<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slam_Stewart\">Slam Stewart<\/a> &#8211; Real jazzbos, joke song. Fun times.\n<li>The Charlie Parker Quintet &#8211; Bird, man.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Babs_Gonzales\">Babs Gonzales<\/a> &#8211; This guy was a full-time jazz vocalist, no joke. But his style sometimes crosses into of self-parody. Easy to confuse where the line is. Also he apparently considered legit as a poet.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marlowe_Morris\">Marlowe Morris<\/a> &#8211; Jazz-soul&#8230;this has to be way into the 60s. Kerouac never heard this stuff.\n<li>Patsy Raye &#038; the Beatniks &#8211; This is one knocked out crazy chick. The musicians sound more like part of the lounge scene, a one-off group trying to cash in towards the end of the era. Kinda cool tho.\n<li>The Ronnie Kole Trio &#8211; Standard jazz group.\n<li>William S. Burroughs &#8211; Burroughs, man. Possibly at his least nihilistic.\n<li>Manfred Mann &#8211; Huh?\n<li>The Phil Moore Four &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phil_Moore_%28jazz_musician%29\">legit jazz dude<\/a>, kinda pushin&#8217; it.\n<li>Lord Buckley &#8211; legit <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lord_Buckley\">non-jazz non-beatnik<\/a>, his take on Scrooge is more enjoyable before you realize it&#8217;s straight-up minstrelsy. So hopefully you&#8217;ve listened to the whole thing before reading this. Pretty great.\n<li>Edd &#8220;Kookie&#8221; Byrnes &#8211; Man, was he beat. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edd_Byrnes\">NOPE.<\/a> It&#8217;s cool tho, man. Is it? Cool it man, it&#8217;s the past.\n<\/ul>\n<p>I went over this a few times (totally Un-Beat), like, &#8220;yeah, this guy&#8217;s a beatnik, that guy is, real beatnik here, fake beatnik there&#8221;, whatever. But NONE of these cats (can I say &#8220;cats&#8221;?) are beatninks. It&#8217;s just another word for hipster. Despite how anyone else uses those words I think there&#8217;s a clear and non-necessarily derogatory definition: it&#8217;s the type of person that lives the lifestyle of an artist without actually creating anything. Anybody that is creating art, whatever you call them&#8230;they made <i>something<\/i>. (And I don&#8217;t think fashion counts as a thing, unless you&#8217;re making the clothes from scratch.) Oh, but I&#8217;ve gone off on a thing. I&#8217;ll let you get back to whatever. Hippy Holidays and such.<\/p>\n<p>Feels good! <b>%<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many internet mixtapes I review, since I listened to it the original link has gone down. But this one has been reposted to WFMU&#8217;s Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Soul Ichiban blog. Seems I can&#8217;t be bothered to get around to things in a reasonably timely manner. It&#8217;s a personal problem I&#8217;m working on. 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