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excellent date, def. overlooked as an OJC though ezz-thetically, it's cool Fantasy didn't dump it into the oft misnamed if otherwise largely excellent "Acid Jazz" series, perhaps coupled with Wiggins' other organ + deep south transplant to L.A. tenor corker--

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/pks01 all hail Hoss Allen, Freddie King, Gatemouth Brown, Pee Wee Crayton, Billy Harper

Marc Meyers early frontrunner for jazz fool of 2015 and it's hard to imagine who's dopey and careless enough to beat him. Truly, that's a pathetic piece of writing-- I won't call it "history" because it's not, it's bullshit, and I won't call it "criticism" because he's thought about, and reasoned, nothing; he's just chirping a hodgepodge of made-up and garbled inanities. Ofay Marc Meyers, define "soulless"? Funny part is a soulless hack like Meyers types that up and when he's busted on it-- as he should have been upon submitting the damn thing to any professional publication-- he gets all aggro at those who actually read him. I guess we can assume Myers has not or recalled Robert Gordon, Ted Gioia, the RJ Smith Central Ave book for starters. Nor the contemporary BLACK press (NY, Chi, L.A.) about bebop generally and Dizzy, Bird, and R&B specifically which, while rarely the most musically sophisticated journals, did do pretty well placing the music in its context within the black show biz continuum. Etc etc but I'm not getting paid to do Marc Myers job. At best, maybe he should stick to interviewing the living instead of trying to pretend understanding of the past? I'd say "nuanced" past but Myers is so far from operating on that level...

LK, moreso the 'provocative' blowhard critic/polemicist than the composer, though NOT the mighty RED Hollway's Benny Hill meets P.D.Q. Bach schtick doesn't particularly impress nor "amuse." Anyone curious for more can see the contents here-- http://www.robinholloway.info/rhessays/html/extracts.html excerpts on Die Frau, with passing mention of Delius' mindblowing Mass of Life especially atuous. http://www.robinholloway.info/rhessays/html/strauss.html hmmmm... Hofmannsthal versus Larkin, whom NOT the mighty RED Holloway has set, though not an opera? etc etc and though I refute the sanctity of DSCH-- and like some of his soundtrack and ballet work very much--- I strongly suspect there's more than musicological consideration in H's dismissal of.

Robin-- NOT the mighty RED-- Holloway is a po' faced crank & like a stereotypical tight-ass Brit (not all are so drearily restrained), sweeps away much that's most interesting about Shosty-- can we presume he's a throbbing "The Nose" fan at least? preferring Weinberg Vainberg to DSCH, Prokofiev &/or Schnittke is like, i dunno, preferring Paul Quinichette to Lester? not exactly, natch, but... i wish Moishe was better more often & if he's got his moments, so does Kabalevsky... whom I value but in his place & even truncated, someone like Erwin Schulof destroys Weinberg Vainberg in most ways that matter (except living, true.) re: Hollowway's glazed Goldberg's... Little Rootie Tootie, jazz meets Bach-- Berlioz et al-- et Beckett-- meet Berio--

excellent commentary on the Nicholas Brothers and in case there's anyone from Michigan here

i wouldn't want to be without either-- (re)watch "Zabriskie Point" for another sage use of Patti. Thanks to Pee Wee King also.

Was about to add, having listened to three hours of Clark Terry on WKCR this afternoon, CT hasn't been a 'punk' since 1940... tho' he's pretty nice here as a middle-aged duffer-- not to forget--

I actually would be curious to know what Sonny thought of this-- "J. Litweiler" opined-- http://jazztimes.com/articles/13458-freedom-suite-david-s-ware-quartet also this, which is remarkable on # of levels not least Leonard Cohen, who had to be thrilled, keeping it intensely cool-- To suggest Motian, Lovano etc exist on the same plane of achievement as Leonard Cohen-- let alone Sonny-- is sheer delusion or parochialism btw.

hank ballard told him so... but do him listen?

x1000. what on Earth, Saturn or any other celestial body do any of them have to offer Sonny Rollins except, at best, diversion? Hey, Joe Lovano, where you get them hats? Jimmy Heath a somewhat different situation and, one can argue, the very best of Frisell also tho' his, in recent decades, frequent-- and frequently banal-- worst does not make one inclined to charity. One movement of any Mahler symphony, for example >>>>>> than all those guys combined, likewise one bird song, likewise whatever ambient sounds comprise Sonny's next performance of Cage 4'33.

bruno-leonardo gelber brahms handel toscanini cond. rubbra orch. brahms handel

he ain't like no saint nick... he tried to find religion...

oh that's very (in)famous Hardbop, surprised that hadn't crossed your path earlier... i do not, btw, believe Dean &/or Jerry were 'drunk', this is something else

I'd say the string concertos are somewhat predictive but not representative of AP, who definitely evolves. The symphony is his primary meat and though his fans quibble, I'd say from Symphony 5 through 11 are 'most' representative (12 is choral symphony, see above). You can snag cheap single issues from the CPO series on Amazon btw, any/all are recommended. Christian Lindberg on BIS is great, however. This is symphony 9 cond. Alun Francis from CPO cycle (which like the BIS is mixed conductors/orchestras)--

never forget [insert Stan Freberg "Yellow Rose of Texas" with Billy May & Alvin Stoller here]

kenton to montenegro 1965-- montenegro to morricone 1968--

state street ramblers 'wild man stomp'

fletcher henderson "hotter than 'ell"

Clarke is an excellent pianist; his recording of Ronald Stevenson "Passacaglia on DSCH" esp. though the bland Marco Polo cover doesn't exactly suggest that... too bad it's not been re-issued on Naxos, likely more people would know about it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000460N

elke de meester again