![]() ![]() He won't get into details other than to say that surgery to remove it was successful, though he's still healing. It's his first since COVID-19, since the death of many close friends and colleagues, since the end of his marriage and the public nightmare of a custody battle over his three kids - and the first since so much else went off the rails. ![]() Today's mid-April conversation with Revolver is his first extensive personal interview in years. I think I was doing it because when I'm in trouble, this is what I do. "I think this is the first time I didn't want to make a record, but I was dealing with a lot of stuff in my personal life," Homme adds. "When someone says it's not personal, I'm like, 'That's just the lie you tell yourself, motherfucker.' If it's not personal, don't do it." "For me, it's all personal," the singer-guitarist says with a laugh. If some of the band's earliest lyrics were notable for bizarre, surreal imagery, Homme's songwriting has grown increasingly personal and vulnerable. Song titles are often made-up words and phrases that are self-explanatory and revealing of his state of mind: "Obscenery," "Carnavoyeur," "Paper Machete," or the first single, "Emotion Sickness." The album that came out of those sessions, In Times New Roman…, is their most direct and hard-rocking in years - with a sound and feeling that Homme describes as "sonic brutality," as songs aim to make sense of this period of his life. "I felt chained to the floor for the last three years," he says, but he did ultimately begin work on new music with his band of brothers in Queens of the Stone Age. Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC.His work as a creative artist slowed to a crawl during that time, he says now. Remembering Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck (RIP) with a Very Touching Musical Moment Pakistani Musicians Play an Enchanting Version of Dave Brubeck’s Jazz Classic, “Take Five” ![]() How Dave Brubeck’s Time Out Changed Jazz Music Above, see them in one of their absolute greatest performances, a rollicking, dynamic attack in Belgium in 1964 that serves as all the argument one needs for “Take Five”’s greatness. ![]() No matter how many times you’ve heard Desmond’s Eastern-inspired melodies over Brubeck’s two-chord blues vamp and Morello’s relentless fills, you can always hear it afresh when the classic quartet plays the song live. good will, Brubeck and his bandmates also picked up the Eurasian folk music that inspired “Take Five,” with its 5/4 time (which in turn inspired the name). While traveling to ostensibly promote U.S. State Department tour of Europe and Asia. After cycling through several rhythm players throughout the early fifties, they found drummer Joe Morello in 1956, then two years later, bassist Eugene Wright, who first joined them for a U.S. Over time “Take Five” may have “lost much of its capacity to surprise,” but “it can still delight.” That is no more so the case when we hear as it was originally played by the Dave Brubeck quartet itself, formed in 1951 by Brubeck and Desmond, who first met in Northern California in 1944. Al Jarreau adapted this version for a 1977 recording on his Grammy-winning album Look to the Rainbow, which “introduced a new generation of fans to this song. In 1961, Brubeck and his wife Iola penned lyrics for a version recorded by Carmen McRae. The original tune, composed not by Brubeck but longtime saxophonist Paul Desmond, was adapted into more popular forms almost as soon as it came out. ![]()
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