Rooster_Ties

Better, and less cynical than I was expecting. Thanks!

How sad that the guy who scored "The Saint" and "Danger Man" had to end up collaborating with the likes of Pete Townshend. Have you listened to any of the results?

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There's also Elvis Costello's collaboration with the Brodsky (string) Quartet -- "The Juliet Letters". Here's a couple samples (two songs in the same clip)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOCnLUMH5kc

And here's the last two... All six tunes come to about 30 minutes total. Two more, and you would have had one hell of an interesting album.

Here's the (complete?) list of Townshend/Ted Astley colaborations. Street In The City (Rough Mix) Football Fugue (Another Scoop) Brooklyn Kids (Another Scoop) Praying The Game (Another Scoop) The Ferryman (Another Scoop) I Like It The Way It Is (Scoop 3) In addition to the above two (two posts above this one), here are the others - or at least what I can find... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgCXuFBNuYY

There are about 5 or 6 tracks in all (maybe close to 30-35 minutes of music total) that Pete Townshend wrote in the late 70's with his (then) father-in-law, British composer Edwin Astley (aka Ted Astley) -- most of which I think are nothing short of spectacular. IIRC, most have come out on the first second two volumes of the three Townshend demo collections ("Scoop", "Another Scoop", and "Scoop 3"), but one track is found on the "Rough Mix" album proper. Maybe "wrote with" isn't completely accurate, as I think Pete wrote the songs and Astley composed some fairly elaborate arrangements around them - but in any case, I'm sure it was collaborative at least to some extent. Here's two I could find quickly off the top of my head (on Youtube)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ftRRGbrYcc If there's interest, I can probably dig up the titles of the other tracks, and maybe even some more Youtube links.

Also curious. I heard Napoleon Murphy Brock a few years ago in KC with the Zappa tribute band "Project Object" (they also had Ike Willis on the date) -- both sounded great!! Random thought on Don Preston - he has a really fantistic piano trio album from 2001, called "Transformation", with a couple great Carla Bley tunes, and a really cool version of Zappa's "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque". Curious, and tempted.

How different is the mix of "Early Minor"?? - from the version on the IASW box.

Shame on you, for hot-linking and not uploading.

Wow, that's great to actually see such good footage of Page! - and so clearly see his "thumb-picking" style. Kind of an obscure player, and almost impossible to believe that there would be any classic-era footage of him.

Copland's early work was pretty modern, and at least 'fairly' thorny (imho) -- and (gasp!) he even dabbled in serialism in the 50's (seriously!). Seems like I remember his tone-rows were only 11 notes long, which I always took as a sly way of saying he wasn't totally on board, even if he did want to - well - dabble! Heck, now that the Google has reminded me, Copland even thought himself to have dabbled in a sort of serialism back in the 30's... Serialism in the Early Music of Aaron Copland

I'd be very curious to hear if it turned out to be Page - who spelled his name "Nathen", though there are just as many (if not even more!) on-line references under "Nathan" with an 'a' (so you gotta always search on both). And, FWI, I'm looking at my copy of "PAGE-ing NATHEN" at this very moment, to be sure how it's spelled. Everything I've ever seen seems to indicate Page only played with Smith from about 1965-70 (or late 60's, if those years are too precise). Page is a real favorite of mine (I have most of his sideman dates, plus three or four of his leader-dates), and if he did play with Jimmy in the 80's - I'd love to hear if anything they did managed to get recorded. Do many/any 80's Jimmy Smith dates circulate?? And for those who haven't ever heard him, here's Nathen playing Footprints. What I like best about his playing is his really 'tart' tone -- a fair bit like Jimmy Ponder on the earlier "Grass Roots" session by Andrew Hill (the one that only ever came out on CD), and also Ponder's playing on that one Big John Patton BN date I can't remember the name of at the moment. (Those are the two best comparisons I can think of right off.) Page played in some kind of unique way, something about a finger-pick on his thumb? (or maybe was it a thumb-pick on his finger?) - something like that. In any case, he had a real 'homemade' playing style that was kinda quirky, and maybe even a bit awkward-sounding at times -- but I just love it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EgOQo8clOw

Interview with Clark starts at 3:25.

Sounds like a song title to me... "Rats on Cocaine dig Miles"

Coachella 2013 just announced...

What a sight to have seen this morning! Had no idea they were going to do four separate fly-overs. I was down on the mall, about half-a-block east of the Washington Monument. Got a few pictures, none of which were particularly great -- but it was incredible to see for myself, with my own eyes.

I'm planning to be down on the Mall, or more probably on the Memorial Bridge or the backside of the Lincoln Memorial. Should be exciting!

Played "Speak Like a Child" late last night, and found it every bit as amazing as ever. And upon taking it off the shelf, I remembered that when I saw Herbie the first time, I had him sign my copies of 1) Speak Like a Child, and 2) The Plugged Nickel. And it was only the second time I saw Herbie (a good 8 years later), that I had him sign my copies of 3) The Prisoner, and maybe something else (but I can't find anything else, so maybe not). In any case, "Speak Like a Child" is da bomb, and ever will be - in my book. BTW, Herbie's playing on "The Trainwreck" is outrageously interesting - recorded in August '68 (about half-way between Speak Like a Child, and The Prisoner). And when Tyrone lays out, it's a frickin' "free"-ish piano-trio date!! - and FWIW, Herbie's playing mirrors his contributions to "All Seeing Eye" and "Contours" (only even a touch more free).

Amazing that it took until '74 to catch anything of him, footage-wise, in concert or in a club. I mean, if Bernstein and the like were checking him out in was it '59 and '60, and the stir he caused -- you'd think somebody would have had the sense to try and capture some of that.

Normally I'm all about energy and pace (fast!) in the jazz I like best. But for many years I used to cite "Speak Like a Child" as my favorite Herbie leader-date (though I've changed that to "The Prisoner" in the last 5 or 6 years). In any case, "Speak Like a Child" is such a damn beautiful date -- and those of you who know my tastes, "beauty" is rarely the quality I'm most drawn to in music. Gonna put it on tonight in a bit. Especially love the horn-less solo-piano version (alternate) of one of the tunes, which may have first surfaced on the domestic RVG (or perhaps the complete Herbie BN box) - in any case, I've always pined for more of Herbie's "Gil Evans"-esque type material.

What of Herbie's "Gil Evans" period? Practically all of "Speak Like a Child", most (maybe even all?) of "The Prisoner", plus a handful of tracks from "Fat Albert Rotunda" (at the very least "Tell Me a Bedtime Story"), and maybe "Joanna's Theme" from the "Death Wish" soundtrack. Any crime in that?

My lord -- Billy Harper blowing on "Free For All"?? Hot damn!!!

Jason Moran.

And tracklisting? Can't wait!!