Brandon Burke

I don't like very many ECM sessions -- or Jarrett, for that matter -- but I very much like Conception Vessel.

The jazz and reggae worlds are quite similar in that a finite amount of session men played on those classic sessions. So you get varying arrangements of the same 40-or-so players; some of which were colossal greats, others underappreciated, and still more who can surprise you at times. Also like jazz, in the early years of reggae you basically had three or four engineers running the whole show--each with their own style. (Think of comparisons between RVG and...say...Tom Dowd. Only in reggae it's the Coxsone sound versus Joe Gibbs, etc. ) Jamaican music is fascinating for so many reasons... [EDIT: I strayed from my original point...the musicians. In the jazz world you have several sets of guys who just *clicked*, regardless of whose session it was. Herbie Hancock and Anthony Williams, for example. Or Jackie McLean and Billy Higgins. I don't know..you could name a million. Reggae has its own pockets as well--Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare being the most famous example. Adding person X or person Y to the mix, however, is where things get interesting...]

Charles Tyler - Eastern Man Alone (ESP)

I just put this on.

Correct. I can't recall the name if it right now either, but I remember reading about that in the liners.

Agreed. In my opinion, best thing on television in several years. Almost transcends the medium. Be sure to countinue all the way through to the Christmans Special...!

Perfect. Thanks...!

Thanks for sending that. Intersting to read Tim's comments...

I know...I know... But ditched my copy a couple years ago. I bought it so that I could estimate the value of my collection for insurance purposes and nearly threw it out the window when it said my Destination...Out was worth 30 bucks. If I lost that thing in a fire would I be able to get another one for 30 bucks..?! Gimmie a break... anyway, good call. I guess I'll have to hunt another one down.

Hey folks, is there a (ideally web) published list of BNs that indicates the address under which they were first issued? 63rd, 61st, Lexington, etc... thanks, Brandon

Also sounds like With a Friend Like Harry, but that one's French so...

People seem to have generally slept on this one... Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head (1975) Features an amazing (and not altogether unexpected) line-up including: Brian Eno, Robert Wyatt, Charles Haywood (of This Heat), John Wetton (Crimson, etc). Eno takes vocal duties on "Big Day," a tune that would not have sounded out of place on any of his early solo records (Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain, etc). It's a really amazing tune. Similarly, Robert Wyatt sings (in Spanish) on "Frontera". It's been said that "Frontera" is basically Wyatt's own "Teen Spirit" (from Ruth is Stranger than Richard) but I don't really see it. Anyway, cool record...

Rolling Stones - Flowers (London) Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet (London, gatefold) Beatles - Revolver (1st Apple pressing)* Stanley Turrentine - Let it Go (Impulse) Africa: Drum, Chant, & Instrumental Music (Nonesuch Explorer) My first Beatles purchase in something like 15 years...

I stumbled upon this in the music library a few months ago and checked it out. Never had enough time to start it -- hey, imagine that -- and it eneded up getting recalled by a grad student. So now I'm back to square one... To the point though, I love the topic, Ives and baseball are two of my bigger passions, but isn't all of this just a simple case of Ives having incorporated the sport into a handful of his song titles? Are there really enough things to say about this to fill 216 pages? Believe me, I'd love to be wrong about this...

Okay. So that's where that stuff came from. thanks M.

You're right, of course. I was basically thinking out loud there with little regard for staying on topic. Apologies. As for the Gabriel thing, you might want to try thinking about it in terms of retail. Being someone who was already familiar with these issues at the time the RealWorld thing started is quite different than being one of the many people I saw walk into our record shop asking for world music when, nine times out of ten, they wanted something only slightly less Anglo than "Your Eyes". Either way, point taken... -- B

...and this is to say nothing for the fact that the term world music, for a while anyway, meant people "discovered" by Peter Gabriel.

Agreed. The "world music" tag has got to go. Its justfication as a marketing tool doesn't mean you have to use it. Does this mean we should also talk about 4x4s in terms of their being "trail rated"? I mean what the hell is that...? Same goes for Sprint claiming to be the only/first wireless company "built from the ground up." That doesn't even mean anything, and yet it's the anchor of their ad campaign. The whole thing makes me nauseous... "let the products sell themselves fuck advertising and commercial psychology psychological methods to sell should be destroyed" -- the Minutemen

ALS-114 - Piano Panorama, Volume 2 - Mary Lou Williams [1952] Surrey With The Fringe On Top/Pagliacci/Opus Z/From This Moment On/S'Wonderful/Mary's Waltz/You're The Cream In My Coffee Was this reissued later? Must have been...

Trust me, no one thinks your ringtone is as clever as you do. Put the stupid thing on vibrate. And while you're at it, take it off of your belt, Poindexter. [EDIT: Proverbial "you's", all.]

I would have walked out of the Coen's recent remake of The Ladykillers if I wasn't with people from work.

I saw her on the bus the other day...

I love him on those early-60's Giuffre records with Bley. Basra too...

Currently obsessing over Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Worn Copy. He (Ariel Pink) was apparently discovered by the Animal Collective guys and they issued his first two records on their Paw Tracks label. Ariel Pink basically does to 70's soft rock what Guided By Voices did to British Invasion and prog. In other words, these are all home made 4-track recordings. Strangely teetering the fence between sloppy, painfully low-fi bedroom experiment and epic, grand composition. [EDIT: In other words, it sounds like very early Ween except (1) the music isn't funny and (2) it's probably a little creepy. Good luck...]