professor graves has been a tenured teacher at bennington for over a quarter of a century. he's recorded with albert ayler, miriam makeeba, sonny sharrock, bill dixon, sun ra, john zorn, william parker, david murray, and many others.
he is my favorite drummer.
here is an interview with him about his career as a musician, teacher, and a music therapist.
babi music is one of those recordings that is hard to explain. it is ferocious, to say the least. some people would appreciate it for it's sheer voracity, it's noise - but i like it because it transcends music; it has an overpowering sense of spirituality.
this is a hard record to find, like a lot of milford's recordings. in fact there is a two record set of duets he and don pullen recorded live at yale in 1966; they are probably two of the most sought after free jazz records ever.
get babi music here sorry there are some skips in this one.
booom, u sure are rite about intensity, milford is huge on this record. arthur doyle, who i had never heard of before this, plays like nothin i ever heard. his sound is so new to me, but so rooted and so entirely the blues. thanks a lot
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anyone have a skip-free version?
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i am working on finding a skip free version...in the meantime i just had to post what i had. this record is so amazing!
ReplyDeleteNot sure if this will still be useful but there is a flac version of Babi here: http://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/2010/12/milford-graves-babi-music-ips-004-1976.html Haven't listened to all of it yet, but it seems to be skip free as far as I can tell.
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