#fred anderson

[gracehosborn]

Happy super belated birthday to me (and hooray for hoarding gift cards)!

I’ve been wanting to read Fred Anderson’s Crucible of War for months now, so I figured now was a good time to snag a copy.

What I’m most happy about however, is now owning roughly half of The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, with buying this particular independent bookstore out of their last copies of the PAH (vols. 12-13 and 15)!! 😁

[craigfernandez]

[perpetually-anxious]

Mitch....Marnie?

[princelysome]

Do you wake up in the mornings thinking "I wish I had a better understanding of the French and Indian War"? Are you less than satisfied with your comprehension of the North American theater of the Seven Years War? Do you sometimes obsess over your lack of knowledge regarding the strategic decisions that resulted in the rise of the worldwide British Empire that arose in the mid-eighteenth century?

Well, this excellent book is the solution you've been waiting for.

[dustedmagazine]

Fred Anderson Quartet – Live at the Velvet Lounge Volume V (FPE)

Saxophonist Steve Lacy called the erstwhile establishment located at 2128 ½ South Indiana Avenue on Chicago’s near-South Side “a temple.” His assessment was shared by thousands of patrons fortunate enough to visit the place, whether just once, on occasion, or with regularity. Fellow saxophonist Fred Anderson was the proprietor and humble high priest. Live at the Velvet Lounge Volume V delivers an aural dispatch twenty-five years old that is at once indicative of and singular to the nightly goings-on that he officiated and participated in on the premises.

The Roman numeral ensconced in the album title indicates earlier entries in a series, scattered across several labels and dating from various gigs across the decades. The latest is also the oldest and reflects a time when Anderson had a relatively low profile outside of his local hero status. His partnership with bassist Tatsu Aoki was still in its nascency while his connection to Hamid Drake was basically familial, dating back to the drummer’s teens. The two players performed numerous times at the Lounge and other venues, developing organically into a de facto house rhythm section for Fred.

Drake’s connection to the musical guest on the night in question in December of 1994 was likely the impetus for the concert. He and trumpeter Toshinori Kondo were half of Peter Brötzmann’s contemporaneous Die Like a Dog Quartet, a group that took Albert Ayler as an artistic lodestone for launching into lengthy and miasmic, electronics-laced acoustic improvisation. Anderson’s serpentine, repetition-rich riffs built from the blues, folding in rhythmic, emotive urgency with melodic subtlety that could be easily be misconstrued as simplistic or circular. 

The difference in approach and collective sound is what makes the pairing of Kondo and Anderson intriguing on as non-intuitive frontline partners. As was Anderson’s customary design the set comprises three extended improvisations that form out of undulating vamps generated by Aoki and Drake. Kondo doesn’t temper his attack. Instead, he shapes broad enveloping swathes of effects-saturated brass for the leader to negotiate and navigate such that the metaphor of a clipper ship cutting through roiling, recalcitrant seas quickly becomes apt.

In common with many Anderson concert performances, the interplay has moments of ad hoc ebb and flow with a structure and narrative that relies on the absence of premeditated decision making. That degree of spontaneity and open-ended loquaciousness can sometimes feel like a license for diffusion rather than directness, discursiveness at the cost of concision. Dialing into Fred’s specific trajectory and sticking with it is the antidote to such doubt-prone thinking. Kondo’s an ideal complement in that regard since the only limits he places on his individual output are the technical specifics of his enhanced instrument and his imagination.

Derek Taylor

[ziydapufya203956-blog]

history of audiobooks : The War That Made America by Fred Anderson | History

Listen to The War That Made America new releases history of audiobooks on your iPhone, iPad, or Android. Get any BOOKAUDIO by Fred Anderson History FREE during your Free Trial

Written By: Fred Anderson Narrated By: Simon Vance Publisher: Tantor Media Date: December 2005 Duration: 7 hours 34 minutes

[librarienne]

Currently reading: The Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America (1754-1766) by Fred Anderson

[40magpies]

Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - Black Woman

(со страницы https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZMXjQMKFQc)