Line Out - Comments on Improvised Ecstasy http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy Holy shit--Paul Rucker. The multi-instrumentalist/band leader extracted a phenomenal performance from a who's who of Seattle jazz and avant luminaries on Saturday. Part of Monktail Creative Music Concern's concert series in Cal Anderson park, Rucker's ensemble was all over... Copyright 2008 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:18:55 -0800 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:11:33 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Hell Yeah Both of Paul Rucker's album's "History of an Apology" and "Oil" from a couple years ago are stellar. He was also part of the FANTASTIC New Seattle Orchestra-Mass Line shows that Aham and Evan Flory-Barnes set up at Langtson recently. Probably one of the creative music events of the year and somehow it barely got any attention.

]]> Hell Yeah http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763796 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763796 Love Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:04:17 -0800 Comment by Frank Zwickel, maybe you should write about it BEFORE it happens

]]> Frank http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763797 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763797 Love Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:10:30 -0800 Comment by Beachhead Allow me to reaffirm the above comment. Not only is Paul Rucker one of the best musicians in town, he's one of the prime movers in a new phase of jazz/art/whatever. Dude is over the chain. Also, definitely big ups for the New Seattle Orchestra their show absolutely floored me. I didn't know emceeing could mesh so well with orchestral composition. But then, I didn't know that orchestral composition could have a backbeat. Go figure. That show was unbelievable, although I didn't see much of Paul Rucker there. Perhaps he was there the other night. Anyway, there are some crazy good musicians in this town who are blowing away all comers. Paul Rucker and New Seattle Orchestra are a couple of them. They run shit. Yes.

]]> Beachhead http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763798 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763798 Love Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:13:20 -0800 Comment by Paulus Rucker's the man. He's had some great sound/art installations around town too.

]]> Paulus http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763805 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763805 Love Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:55:56 -0800 Comment by jz @2, we wrote up the event in two separate places.

here:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=262641

and here:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Suggests

both previews focused on OZ. nobody ever told me about paul rucker.

]]> jz http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763812 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763812 Love Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:02:19 -0800 Comment by jz @1, i previewed that too:

JUNE 13, 2007

NEW SEATTLE ORCHESTRA
(Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center) "There's a genuine appreciation of all the different cultures in the Seattle music community, and the level of acceptance for intertwining different genres is growing," says Ahamefule J. Oluo, local trumpet wiz and composer. Tonight's cross-genre, cross-cultural, cross-generational blowout will prove his point. Oluo's compositions, along with those of bass standout Evan Flory-Barnes, will be played by a 23-piece orchestra comprising Seattle's finest in jazz, classical, and avant-garde rock. Further spicing up the mix, local hiphop heroes Gabriel Teodros and Common Market will rock the mic to their own songs set to orchestral arrangements, with comedian Hari Kondabolu and Mass Line maestro Sabzi hosting. If it all sounds like a big deal, that's because it is. JONATHAN ZWICKEL

]]> jz http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763813 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763813 Love Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:08:01 -0800 Comment by mcmc Jonathan - The next Sounds Outside concert is AUGUST 4, not 11. http://soundsoutside.com

]]> mcmc http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763881 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763881 Love Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:27:15 -0800 Comment by John Ewing ATTENTION! The third and final installment of Sounds Outside 2007 will be held on August 4th NOT August 11th.

]]> John Ewing http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763925 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763925 Love Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:23:17 -0800 Comment by DC August 4th will be nuts. McTuff!!!
www.myspace.com/mctuffmusic

]]> DC http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763926 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763926 Love Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:27:04 -0800 Comment by lissy pie SOUNDS OUTSIDE is the best thing since sliced bread.

]]> lissy pie http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763953 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763953 Love Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:00:31 -0800 Comment by alfred Gust Burns is the King of Rock.

]]> alfred http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763956 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c763956 Love Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:05:38 -0800 Comment by CC My girlfriend and I just missed Okestar Zirkonium or whatever and then it took way too long for the next set- during which time some scruffy idiot started plinking on the piano to the amusement of only two five year old children. So we left.

]]> CC http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c764278 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c764278 Love Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:50:46 -0800 Comment by mcmc Video of Paul Rucker's performance is available at the Vroom Journal:
http://vroomjournal.com/video/SoundsOutsideII04.php

]]> mcmc http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c764279 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c764279 Love Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:52:17 -0800 Comment by Johnny stromboli Yes, well that "scruffy idiot" was Gust Burns and right after you left Modest Mouse joined him on stage and they kicked out the best jams ever in seattle. Rolling Stone magazine was there and they're doing a feature on the performance. They we calling it the best show of 2007, hands down. Too bad you left dude.

Not to worry though, in a year or two you'll be telling people that you were actually there and they you did the brown acid.

]]> Johnny stromboli http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c764292 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c764292 Love Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:46:50 -0800 Comment by oye como va Yeah, yeah, Paul Rucker's great and all, but those kids watching him? CUTEST EVER.

]]> oye como va http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c764338 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c764338 Love Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:05:18 -0800 Comment by Since I'm Here JZ, no for real, NSO deserves more of a preview than a little blurb. Go on then.

]]> Since I'm Here http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c764678 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/improvised_ecstasy#c764678 Love Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:11:33 -0800