Alexander Hawkins

Which is of course in G... If C major is correct, perhaps the last movement of the 5th symphony?

It's very familiar...without records/CDs where I am, can't be sure...something's telling me maybe something from 4th piano concerto?

What a rubbish start...can't remember the story now...just that it was funny... I'd say don't give up the day job, but I'd probably earn close to the same living as a raconteur as a musician, and check out this post...

Can't remember who...someone was telling me some good stories about the Riley/Byard tour...

Went to the Stockhausen day - wrote some thoughts here - I'm certainly planning to listen again - a very interesting programme of music (even if I can't claim to have 'enjoyed' it all!)

Fascinating - thank you! Have just been watching Vijay on a wonderful DVD of Wadada Leo Smith's 'Golden Quartet' with John Lindberg and Ronald Shannon Jackson. He's great in this context, and Jackson is simply magnificent.

Now that is fighting talk

Count me in as a fan - the late Ellington set is nothing short of genius!

BTW - here's a link to listen again to yesterday's Stockhausen I mentioned!

p.s. I gather it's going to be Andy Cleyndert on bass for 13/8/8!

Thanks Niko! Yes, this is the first time I've played in a small group with Ray, so I'm really looking forward to it. Such a beautiful tone!

Another couple of things! This Thursday - Evan Parker Trio: EP, tenor and soprano saxophones; yours truly at the piano; the wonderful Tony Marsh on drums - Vortex Jazz Club, London. And Wednesday August 13 - Ray Warleigh Quartet at the 606 in London. Tony Marsh again on drums, and I'm not too sure who's on bass yet. If you're around - come down to hear one of the most beautiful alto tones going!

Last night - went to the Proms' Stockhausen evening... Early evening - Gruppen (twice), Kontakte, and two pieces from Klang (the 5th and 13th hours)... Late night - Stimmung, done by the Theatre of Voices, who have just recorded it as well. A fascinating night's music...a lot of which I didn't enjoy, a lot more of which I did...but it did make me think! Wrote some more extended thoughts here, fwiw.

I LOVE that Ellington set - especially the Mary Poppins and Afro Bossa albums.

Haven't heard it - but as you say, want to based on the personnel!

p.s. Larry - yes!!! That's precisely the passage I was talking about earlier. And I think Lewis could well just be having a joke here!

Strikes me we're all reading off very nearly the same hymn sheet... BTW - to change tack - the photos are really fantastic!

Yes...I think I agree to a large extent...obviously depending on what we mean by 'the quality of the language', but yes..!

wow - very cool!

Allen - [p.s. not getting mad here ] - I agree there is the occasional rather dense sentence - although I think Lewis' sense of humour comes into play here too: the densest sentence I read in the whole book, I think, was probably exactly the one (first chapter or so) in which he was acknowledging critiques of his work as dense. However, my sense was that the book was extremely readable, and very jargon-free by the standards of academic monographs (especially in the social sciences) - [i say this as someone who has taught law social sciences at University level for a couple of years a few years back, and has a burning hatred of that over-dense, jargon-filled, basically-inscrutable nonsense!] Of course, he does use 'technical terms' etc., but I think his defence of this in the opening stages is a good one: that certain terms serve to cue certain understandings in a readership, and not to use these terms would result in a lot more wordiness. Plus, not to use the terms of the discourse would risk locating the book outside that discourse, and that's a risk, especially when one of the functions of the book is to bring greater understanding/study of the AACM!

This is the chap for whom Ravel wrote the concerto, I believe. [There were various other relatively well-known commissions for Wittgenstein as well!]

Oooh, I wanna hear that. Yeah - it really hit me square between the eyes...beautiful playing (of course!) from the band, wonderful arrangement, and the way she rephrases the melody is really special!

'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes' - Sarah Vaughan, from 'No Count Sarah'.

Wonderful! Ever record any? What sort of details are we talking about? Lacy's playing on these tunes absolutely fascinates me.

Andorra is not a full member of the European Union, but has a special relationship with it. Ah - OK. Never quite been sure. A special relationship such that regulations concerning copyright have 'Direct Effect'?