We like to write about this stuff like we know what we’re talking about — the history of the artist, the process involved, the relationship between the two. Well, there are times when we don’t know what the hell is going on. We throw all of that out and go on about just how messed up something is and why we kind of dig its “messed up-edness.”
This is what we’re going to do with Mort Weiss’ “Talkin’ About It.” It’s not that we don’t know about Mort. We’ve reviewed his stuff and know who he’s played with. Heck, he even wrote for us for a while…until we caught him sniffing the mimeograph fluid and chasing the interns. Hey, we’re very open-minded but damnation, legal fees can really add up!
Right…”Talkin’ About It.” A Mort Weiss original. A Mort Weiss vocal piece: no clarinet involved. I get the feeling that he’s working his way through an improvised horn solo, but without the horn. I could be mistaken. Maybe Mort was murmuring out loud to the memory of altered state listening to Charlie Parker. Maybe this is a simulation of the slow-boiling emotion that finely-constructed works of art can produce: Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Davis Foster Wallace when he’s not off on an a 30-minute digression.
Or maybe it’s not any of this. Maybe Mort was just fucking around during the recording session and this was the result. No matter; it’s a fun (if difficult) listen. If the nearest street light wasn’t 30 minutes away, I’d drive over there and blare this baby with the windows rolled down while waiting for the green. The driver next to me would, hell..who am I kidding? The driver next to me would be looking down at his “smart” phone. Screw him.
Has anybody seen our interns?
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Mark, ya gotta play it backwards-the message is that Paul isn’t dead-that in reality -he’s a jazz critic-in other words a nonsequiter (cpellng -by Acme cpell check) Another review like this–an your o’l lady & I are through man! ( but seriously folks) thanks for the listen Mark 🙂 be well, Mort
Thanks once more Mark for taking the time to listen in depth to all of the meaningful verb-age in My work in prose e.g.. “Talkin About It”
it’s most appreciated -since in our last conversation I referred to you as a “liberal ass hole” to witch you recanted that I played pretty good for “a right wing Zealot.”
As was said in a movie along time ago -in a blinding fog at an air port some where in the middle east ( with midgets playing the part of ground crew the music swelled and the engines roared louder- the cat named Louie-said to the dude named Rick-“you know Rick this could be the start of a beautiful friend ship.” so I leave you for now my brother in bullcrap and practice my vocalesse. Mort