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Andy Bey = great man, great artist. Being interviewed on WKCR now, amazing stories and insights into the music, fellow Newark hero Sarah V. included. Hope Andy writes or tells his autobiography eventually too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwGkDGST1IE

And not just orchestral: Martini is one of the absolutely top flight 20th c. composers, vastly underrated-- perhaps because those names peg him as neo-classial Stravinsky's kissin' cousin-- and though someone claimed otherwise, Martinu's six symphonies rank among the 20th century's very best cycles (which I count as four or more), which are... Nielsen... Sibelius... and maybe Martinu right there? then Roussel... with Bax, Vaughan Williams, Prokofiev, Wm Schuman, Pendercki, Lutoslawski, Petterson, Rautaavara, Piston, Roy Harris, Franz Schmidt, Havergal Brian, Sessions, etc following... though I'd rank none of them above Martinu... and NO I'm not forgetting Shostakovich, let's stop pretending there are more than two handfuls of great movements in the fifteen, thanks. (Phillip Glass symphonies are horrible, even the Allen Ginsberg one, nobody should pretend otherwise). I'll confess to not having lotsa of the later Henry Cowell symphonie and I'm through thinking about Milhaud and Schnittke both. Malcolm Arnold too? Except when I re-watch "Hobson's Choice" or "Bridge on the River Kwai," I'm afraid so, lad, I'm afraid so. A great great realm for further exploration btw are Martinu's stage works, both ballet and opera, wherein for quality/weirdness he ranks with Prokofiev and peak Hindemith while being generally more fun and colorful than both. The string 4-tets are very good but except for the 5th, they are more signposts of his career than major statements. more to follow

x 1000! And Chuck, I've been meaning to post this and now's the time. Three podcasts with Don Kent, you won't be disappointed; besides the great music and related historical lore, there are some excellent Chicago, JRM, Bob Koester stories too (I'd not known before Bob went to March on Washington). Also one about Big Joe Williams' dick (really) and talk of how there were plans for Little Walter ** guitar ** album before his passing (which I reckon you already knew). There's some other stuff about 1960s Chicago clubs I'm forgetting but Larry, John and yourself will know. Host is John Heneghan of East River String Band-- http://www.eastriverstringband.com/radioshow/?p=455 http://www.eastriverstringband.com/radioshow/?p=498 http://www.eastriverstringband.com/radioshow/?p=526

MG-- best/least known body of 20th c. French chamber music is that of Albert Roussel; three CD set on Brilliant (originally on Timpani, I believe?) get you nearly everything-- www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000KEHMHU/ He's not French of course but don't be afraid to check out Czech exile, Bohuslav Martinu, in whom a # of French currents run strong. String quartet cycle is a fine place to start; the oboe quartet too-- I kinda burned out on the French baroque but Blandine Rannou's Rameau concerts still ranks, as does Celine Frisch solo-- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rameau-Pieces-Clavecin-Celine-Frisch/dp/B001EVPBXU

bravo, mjzee... one thing tho' is that photo of Redd is anachronistic for the Dootone set... how about this Redd instead? also, don't forget Redd's Dootoon label mate, Scatman Crothers.

Mo' Joe!! I seem to have forgotten how to embed videos myself (really) so thanks for that. I'll spin Hampton Hawes "The Sermon" now in everyone's honor, Leon Thomas' too.

worst thing you can say about Matthew is his taste in hip-hop/electronic music producers was rather questionable. Yet he also made David S. Ware more listenable than he in fact was so... Hell, Matthew almost makes Joe Morris seem interesting, which he assuredly is not. Iverson, of course, is a witless, if not entirely useless interlocutor. And did ya'll see he admitted-- honesty points, OK-- he was unfamiliar with the great Joe Sample? are you kidding me? No wonder Iverson's music is so po' faced, corny and self-satisfied with its own banal limitations. Joe's had some lesser moments as a commercial artist but I'd take any of 'em over Jarrett's dogshit classical efforts AND every horrible (low) "standards trio" release. (Life's too short to even pretend to listen to Ethan iverson again.) DeJohnette gets a pass for reasons that should be obvious but 1) Jarrett makes generally excellent tune less interesting to the point of unlistenability and 2) Gary Peacock is just as bad-- whatever few inspired moments he had in the 1960s are long subsumed in subsequent decades of utter crap. I used to tolerate the argument that Jarrett at least subsidized x # of more interesting ECM records but since Andras Schiff is just as boring there as he nearly always was on Decca and Teldec, who can care? As for Hampton Hawes, Raise Up Off Me alone >>>>>> Jarrett's fucking career, American Quartet included. JAZZ CRUSADERS "Soul Caravan" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg3_fx-AAKo RICHARD PRYOR "Deer Hunting" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvOwF54M0Y8

yah, a terrible way to go for a great musician and someone who did so much for Savannah. Jeffcrom has been there more often than I, I'm sure but I know the area pretty well and am awed at the richness of its African-American history in particular. (Not that we can extricate that slavery, Jim Crow etc.) Anyway, though I've not seen a report that said where exactly Ben got hit, you can see roughly where he was on Hutchinson Island-- http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=hutchinson+island+golf+course&fb=1&gl=us&hq=golf+course&hnear=0x88fb9ef2202d3e69:0xd07536075b429b39,Hutchinson+Island&sa=X&ei=KX-vUZ21KPGn4APXkYH4DA&ved=0CI4BELYD There are places I go in Florida-- very small coastal towns on the Gulf-- where golf carts are transportation for people and though the streets are heavily marked to advise drivers of such, you can see how an accident could happen, likewise those developments with golf courses traversed and ringed by open roads. BEN TUCKER RIP

The Migrant Miles And Miles From Nowhere dunno why these ain't embedded! hail Fred Foster!

litte czech stop... tell 'em about the kolach, tex... terrible story however, and most likely an industrial accident gone exceptionally wrong... of course, we hear of grain explosions more often and common as they are, they seem largely overlooked outside of the communities they occur-- http://www.kansascity.com/2013/03/23/4139989/charges-considered-in-atchison.html how to prevent grain dust explosions-- http://pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-2604/ re: worker and workplace safety, what do you mean, doesn't 'the free market' regulate itself? hope West doesn't turn out as bad it seems but to answer aloc, yes, the first thing I thought of was not Waco but West itself, and say the music of Adolf Hofner (though he was from San Antonio).

needmore has harmed many a man thank the hell out of ya'

if you wanna see what the great Joe Baiza, whom Nels mentions there and reveres, does with his Jazzmaster-- get 'past' the song if necessary; note the key Django influence too, among others.

sorry to report that Melvin Rhyne is on the way out-- imminently and eternally, alas-- according to Killer Ray Appleton, who's live on the WKCR Musician Show tonight. Hopefully someone is recording this so Ghost of Miles can pick up rare Indiana lore... Mel Rhyne will be missed!

the correct answer is NEITHER: you can't play in a week but you should not retire. What you need to do is to get serious about developing your core strength (back, abs, hips, ass) in general AND your hamstrings in particular. In the short term, if you can afford it (should be v. reasonable even out of pocket in Fla), go find a sports chiropactor who utilizes ART and Graston Technique; you may-- or may not-- be surprised how many major league players regularly get chiropractic and/or acupuncture treatment. If you have good health insurance, go to an orthopedist or decent GP and get a prescription for physical therapy. Except for the financial burden, you should NOT hesitate to find a good PT. If money is an issue, there are numerous things you can do on your own (you'll CONTINUE to do these things after chiro & PT btw); these will mostly involve exercise balls and latex bands in varying degrees of elasticity; light ankle weights-- for specific hamstring exercises, not for walking around-- will also be useful. TEST your hammy effed-up-ness like this: lay on your stomach with your bad leg bent at knee at an 90 or so angle. Have your partner put their hand on your achilles/ankle. Now try to bring your foot closer to your 'tuchis' and when you SCREAM in surprising pain... you know you have a problem. Also on the road to self-recovery you need to learn about 'trigger points' and-- in addition to bodywork with a chiro/PT-- how to self-massage them. Believe it or not, a LACROSSE BALL is great for this tho' beginners might start with a tennis ball instead. Oh, you also need to buy a foam roller NOW. I don't watch baseball but if you follow soccer at all (for example), you'll see extremely fit dudes using these all the time and you should too. http://www.amazon.co...E/dp/B003X4BMFW http://www.amazon.co.../dp/B003TKMSSK/ get started on this stuff ASAP and you'll not only fix the bum leg but likely greatly increase the likelihood of sparing yourself other muscle & tendon issues. (this isn't guaranteed but it's way way better than taking your chances with mere cardio exercise, which is GREAT but your heart is only one muscle of many.)

Ah, but I do love it in parts-- the seeming disconnects included. Just listen to Monk's aggressive fills alone on both those cuts, "Consecutive Seconds" and "Straight." If TSM didn't "need" to be there (and I get what you're saying), imagine the difference if we dropped let's say Ronnie Mathews or Barry Harris in those spots? The ersatz "Sidewinder" (bag if not the tune specifically) of "Consecutive Seconds" slays me-- and is among the FUNNIEST (and most FUN) Monk moments I can think of since at least the early '60s. Totally agree btw that Nelson is Nelson and by now sui generis, if not operating at highest level his genius was capable of. Come on Paul Secor, jump in, the water's warm. Not that either of ya'll would do such a thing but I can't believe there are those who could prefer Steve Lacy's Monk to Monk's Monk-- and I like Steve Lacy fine but come on... FUNKY MONK LIVES!

Monk/Nelson gets more of a bum rap than it deserves. If it's not all it could have been, it's still a lot of interesting things-- more interesting, for the most part, than the bulk of the not-over-inspired Monk 4-tet recordings-- studio and live-- which preceded it. (Under-documented as it is, Monk kicks it up a few notches on the best Paul Jeffrey material I've heard.) Wannabe "composer" yokels like Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink et al would give up their bicycles, if not their beer, to have ever pulled these off, forget, I dunno... Frank de Vol? And I don't know but that he went to his grave feeling badly about it, knowing full and damn well that he fucked up. Or maybe not, maybe he was a total prick who didn't give a damn about music at all. Kinda doubt it, but you never know, especially with workaholics. And has the story ever been told about how the album came to be, what the actual mandate was, what the lead time was, what the budget was, what came in versus what was deemed by the producer to be practical enough to get down w/o too many takes, things like that? I don't know myself, I'm just saying that there's a lot of things that would have gone into the album, and maybe Oliver Nelson bringing in perfunctory framing charts wasn't all Oliver Nelson's doing. Or maybe it was. But after hearing about the weirdness that went into the Sinatra/Ellington project, I now kinda hesitate to assume anything about one-off projects involving logistics and "eccentrics" and business-people. The only thing I know for sure is that it was a bad idea to release the album & that I don't play it, ever, because it pisses me off so much.

in theory i'd have preferred Mosaic but since either they or most of us will be dead before they get to George Lewis again... the Upbeat label seems to have embarked on a Lewis series while some weren't lookin'-- http://www.upbeatrecordings.co.uk/product.asp?pn=2786 www.upbeatrecordings.co.uk/product.asp?pn=2866 www.upbeatrecordings.co.uk/product.asp?pn=2569 www.upbeatrecordings.co.uk/product.asp?pn=2484 TOOT TOOT!!

http://books.google.com/books?id=_7nzUPUNvg8C&lpg=PA87&dq=horace%20silver%20ida%20cox&pg=PA87#v=onepage&q=horace%20silver%20ida%20cox&f=false "The police allowed you to make one phone call only. Instead of calling my dad direct and taking a chance on not catching him at home, I called Ida Cox, who ran a boardinghouse in Philly, where I sometimes stayed when I was in town. I asked her to call my dad and tell him to come down to Philly and bail me out of jail." -- from "Let's Get To The Nitty Gritty"

"Tiger Rag," from AMCD-59 Thomas, Lewis, Robinson, Guesnon, Joseph & Frazier LLC

Ben Young hosting-- http://www.studentaf...umbia.edu/wkcr/ CORRECTION: 9 January... any mods wanna fix? gracias.

the only obit informed by knowledge of later Ray (it explains why, to the degree explanation is possible)-- http://www.dailybull...urce=rss_viewed pre-Mothers Frank & Ray goofin' as "Ned & Nelda"-- Don't forget Elliot Ingber!!

Jim, if you can afford it, ABSOLUTELY GET THAT BOX... it's ** thee ** single greatest and most staggering of all EMI budget sets; RVW was a genius (look up Nicolas Slominsky's RVW entry in Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians if you doubt this), did great work in a wide variety of forms, and you'll rarely get better than what's there (though you'll want to supplement it for favorite pieces), forget more for less. NOTE: that box gets you what's arguably (but it's a v. strong argument) of all symphony cycles, that of the late great Vernon Handley. Best book on RVW's music is still that by Michael Kennedy (look for a used copy of the second edition)-- http://www.amazon.co...s/dp/0198163304 Boult 2 (EMI) is standard/standby but Boult I (Decca) is kinda dull and certainly not interesting enough to make up for the less than great sonics. You know who's a suprisingly excellent conductor of RVW? Andre Previn, no shit. He's recorded 5 twice, I believe, once as part of cycle on RCA, later with Teldec. Leonard Slatkin also did an admirable, largely overlooked RVA cycle for RCA, as did Bernard Haitink for EMI; the last a bit of a ringer because Haitink was such continental Europe standby, it added patina of legitimacy to RVA for those who questions-- sometimes correctly-- Limey provincialism. Symphony 8 (conducted by the brilliant Charles Munch) Riders To The Sea (opera)