Hoppy T. Frog

Thanks Margaret, I meant anyone from this board. I had seen that the Taylor/Oxley concert was sold out some time ago, as it should be. I live in Washington so couldn't get up to the Whitney because of work deadlines. Proud to say I took the train up about 10(?) years ago and saw nearly every set of the big band at Iridium. what a mind blowing experience, every night. Even when the third set one night made me miss the last train of the night and I basically wandered around Manhattan till 5 am.

So did anyone go to the Whitney retrospective?

I got it off discogs, took about a 8 days registered mail to get to america. Cheap shipping. Also got the Roscoe Mitchell set. Haven't listened to it yet, though.

Really? I get paralyzed by the expanse of music I want to listen to or watch on YouTube--there's so much to cram in before we die...

The first ever encounter between Anthony Braxton and Marilyn Crispell, a duet from 1977; a Don Cherry big band with his Codona mates; Lee Konitz doing Oleo; Frederick Rzewski and karl Berger duet; Baikida Carroll and Gerry Hemingway large groups; "world music" by people I am unfamiliar with (apart from Colin Walcott).

EVERYTHING ENDS NOTHING LASTS GOD IM DRUNK

he would just be following the example of Machaut...

Volume 2 has been shipped to Kickstarter backers. In the liner notes Jumma Sultan speaks of a Jimi Hendrix/ Sam Rivers collaboration in Woodstock (pre-CMS) that he has a tape of!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I feel about this like Chewy feels about lost Crown sessions!

This is the weirdest thread ever on this board.

Are you pulling our legs? Sounds like Teachout was influenced by Tommy Wiseau's "The Room" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch1ti1VMzXU

Maybe Allen could correct me, or add some context, but apart from changing music a few times (as Miles Davis allegedly said about himself), Coleman may have been one of the last living links to the American minstrel show tradition. Had anyone interviewed him extensively on his time with "Silas Green From New Orleans?".

Nothing I can add would be adequate, but "Free Jazz" was my first jazz album purchase maybe 15 years ago and it did my head in (in a good way). So glad I saw him live at Carnegie Hall with Abby Lincoln about 10 years ago. Drove up to New York from Maryland just for that.

Goodness, I didn't know we had to solve this thing!

Your comments were cryptic to say the least. Who's Dookie? Denardo? For the record, I placed an order with DMG for the CD but never got it, so I guess I'm on the moral high ground by default. Never like Antibalas anyway, thought it was borderline-minstrelsy for (mostly) honkies to play Fela-inspired Afrobeat, not matter their "right-on" politics.

It's an odd one, I don't think it captures the spirit of Parker. Speaking of contemporary Parker tributes, am I crazy, but in "Functional Arrhythmias" by Steve Coleman are those closing unison passages by Coleman and Jonathan Finlayson direct Parker quotes?

I think I took a whiz next to him at iridium about 10 years ago.

PM sent for Andrew Hill "Passing Ships" (Connoisseur)

There's a nice long article about Coleman and the new album by Harvey Mandel in the March issue of the Wire.

I want to buy a million copies of this album so it goes platinum.

I think the Piano Quintet is one that is generally considered his "masterpiece". The last movement is delightfully bleak. Other stuff by Schnittke hasn't grabbed me though.

IIRC, I think Braxton has said he prefers "Mr." I think we should call him 'Fess.

For those inclined to check this out, the whole boxset shebang is available on emusic for $5.99 (for subscribers).

Thanks! I love Monorails, so It's great to see so many bonus tracks! ***End Communication*** (beaming back to Saturn)

I see in the Itunes reissue series are the Horo records... Does anyone have a complete list? I count 32 albums just by searching "sun ra 2014".

Last night, Muhal Richard Abrams at the Kennedy Center with Jonathan Finlayson, Reggie Nicholson, Bryan Carrot, and Sam Jones(?) (misplaced my program). An hour long composed piece (title not announced) with solos for all. Just stunning, and Muhal's hands are huge! As emotionally moving and as monumental, albeit with a smaller group, as the Cecil Taylor big band several years ago at Iridium.