Peter Friedman

Lalo - Symphony in G Minor, Rhapsodie, Overture "Le Roi d'Ys"

Disc 1

Still more sad news. Both Stanley Cowell and now Jeff Clayton are gone from cancer. Saw Jeff many times at the Vail Jazz Party in Colorado.. He was a member of the house band there along with John Clayton, Terell Stafford, Wycliffe Gordon, Bill Cunliffe, and Lewis Nash.

What it ultimately comes down to is a matter of personal taste. I have listened to most of the Joe Henderson recordings on Milestone, and even liked a few for a short while. The same thing is true for much of the so-called avante garde music recordings that followed the early things by Ornette. But after dipping my toe or even entire foot in those waters, I recognized that what I found musically satisfying was the Joe Henderson as both leader and sideman on Blue Note, and the styles of jazz that might be thought of as pre-avante-garde. This may be largely related to the years when I first became a jazz listener. The music of the 50's was filled with new recordings coming out regularly on labels like Blue Note and Prestige. It was all both new and exciting to hear the "latest" from the jazz world. I bonded with early Miles, Rollins, Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Jackie Mclean, Stan Getz and many others. This continued into the 60's. There then became a time thatI felt I had a "duty" to pay some attention to some of the new directions in jazz, and even invested my hard earned money in buying quite a few recordings of what was considered new.This continued for me into the 70's. However, after a bit of time I recognized that when I played many of these "new" recordings", it seemed like an obligation I had to meet, rather than actually getting meaningful pleasure from that music. In retrospect what I find interesting was while I initially found much of the pre-bop jazz to be old fashioned and uninteresting, I gradually changed my mind. So over time began to develop a significant amount of interest in the Swing era musicians and many of the "Traditional" period . So my personal taste did become modified. But not by going forward to what were the newest jazz styles, but by broadening my interest to include the styles of jazz that predated my initial interest in Bop, Hard Bop and West Coast Jazz.

Just received my paperback copy from Amazon. Will begin reading it once I finish a couple of other books I am currently reading.

Guarneri Trio Prague - Beethoven - Piano Trio Op.97 "Archduke"

Schubert - Symphony No.4, D.417 "Tragic" and Dvorak - Piano Quartet No.2, Op.87

Very sorry to hear this sad news. By coincidence just played his solo at Maybeck CD yesterday.

Bud Shank Sextet - On The Trail

Dorati - Symphonies Nos. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21