Hi Brad,
The Bud Powell project with Barry was very enjoyable. We spent two afternoons up at WKCR with the liner notes editor, Peter Pullman (great name!). We listened to every track (all takes) and the tape recorder recorded our conversations and observations. The funny part about it is that when I saw the transcript, there was no reference to when we said what, so by itself the commentary made no sense:
MW:"Wow, did you hear that...."
BH: "Oh shit...."
BH: "They shouldn't have released that...."
MW: "Oh man, there's that b9 on the major 7th chord...."
I went back and put time-references to the comments so people would at least have some idea of what we were talking about.
Barry and I often have musical dialogues over the phone while at our pianos in Weehawken and Brooklyn respectively. Over the years, it's become a very important musical relationship for me. Not many people have the kind of appreciation for the beauty of melody and voice leading as Barry has.
As far as Barry participating in a web forum, I think that's a long shot.
Hi David (WFIU guy),
You guys have my last CD, Soul Journey. Do you have a tape from the Roland Kirk concert? You may have answered Bright Moment's prayers.
In the late seventies, there was a small committee of a few musicians, including myself, Dave Miller, Cliff Tinder, who were lobbying the I.U. Auditorium people to bring jazz musicians other than Dave Brubeck, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Al Hirt to Bloomington (you get the picture?). We brought Dexter and then Roland Kirk. The same stuffy bureaucrat that we had to fight with to bring Rahsaan to IU was the one driving him to the airport the morning after the concert when he died in the car!
Give Joe Bourne my regards.
Come over and visit my page at that other webforum, AAJ.