Yum, New Music...

SO i love Jazz...

jazz overnight, on 90.3 is like a meditative orgasm for me.
Thelonious Monk, Chet Baker, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, damn near anything on Blue Note Records...

Admittidly, i'm not as well versed as most on Jazz:
i had to looks up spellings for this blog, I had to check WCPN's Jazz overnight playlist for names

But that does nothing to diminsh my love of the sound. Pure. Raw.

SO i love Hip Hop...

it's true. No not rap. Rap is poison. Hip Hop is intelligent, creative, pure, raw... see a pattern? Hip Hop is a new generations Jazz. That same kid who chilled listening to Miles Davis has a grandchild chilling listening to Blackalicious.

Or Common, Talib Kweli, The Roots, Del the Funky Homosapien, Pharoh Monch, Lupe Fiasco.

The only real disparity between hip hop and jazz for me is that Hip Hop artists have a hard time seperating themselves from rap. And unfortunatly, the two genres blend too much in some instances.

BUT!
THE POINT!!

A few fantastic people have seen what i see! Jazz and Hip Hop are related; a parent and a child!

And it's high time someone learned to blend the two!

Guru, of Gangstarr, created something called Jazzmataz: a collabrative project of old generation and new generation, hip hop over horns if you will. Hip Hops great lyrical skills paired with jazz's prominent sounds.

Us 3 is another fantastic blending of sounds. They are a Blue Note Records group that has really put a lot of work into the honest blend of hip hop and jazz.


I promise you... you will not be dissappointed by this rap/jazz; hiphop/jazz; spokenword; jazz/hiphop/funk ... and then some.

Blue Note Records
Us3 ft. Shabaam Sahdeeq - Sheep (Musical Sampling)
Jazzmatazz
Us3
Guru's Jazmatazz ft. Common and Bob James - State of Clarity (Musical Sampling)
Guru's Jazzmatazz ft. Donald Byrn - Loungin (Musical Sampling)
Us3 - I Got It Goin' On (Musical Sampling)

"You can weld right?"

Dear Nick,
Yes.
From, Matt

The CMA

So on Sunday i dragged a handful of friends to the Cleveland Museum of Art to get some culture.
This is a new regularly scheduled event i think I'd like to do; go get some of that elusive culture.

So the Cleveland Museum of Art is one of the top art museums, and is my favorite based on the sole factor that it is free. It has recently been under MASSIVE renovations, and only has a portion of it's great galleries currently open (with several more scheduled to open every couple off months starting in June and leading until 2012). A nice factor is that their special exhibits (which usually have a nominal fee) have been increasingly cheaper or free during this construction phase.

So, a few things of note occurred during this trip.

(1) Nathan was quite impressed with armor being referred to as Maximilian in style based entirely on the fact that Maximilian was the ruler at the time... Thus, he opted to call everything he encountered that was created in his lifetime Finkbonian.

I assure you this did not get old. (Seriously ... this is a Finkbonian blog)

(2) I learned Jane likes modern art. Win.

(3) I also learned that Steve is an uncultured philistine. (Not Really)

(4) And lastly, Nathan, Steve, and I are apparently unable to get too much culture at any given time because the entire ride home we made multiple jackass statements, all in the RAGE-MINOTAUR voice.

But, you should all (you being Nick, and any unfortunate soul who stumbles upon this blog) go to the art museum and get your own culture.

Nick - You're a Jerk

There. Read that.

My intertubes was out for a few days - and i'm lagging behind in posts.

But for now i will go eat free food and watch the Cardinals get crushed. sad face.

More blog to come including:

*why i hate assholes who drive 60 MpH on unplowed highways.
*photos of Brett Tatar's wedding.
*a photo montage of Ryan Branch with strangers, even if you don't know him it's worth it.
*oh yes, and some pictures of my puppies.

In the mean time, i leave you with this:

http://www.stopsayingfail.com/