Larry Kart

It's Angelica Sanchez. Oops. You're right. Heard her on a Chad Taylor trio record back in 2009 and was impressed. http://www.482music.com/albums/482-1065.html

Only heard him as a sideman on disc and once in person, but I wasn't impressed. Bleak, mooing and/or vacuum cleaner tone and that tendency, once so common among second-, third- or fourth-generation Trane-influenced players to get "ecstatic" too abruptly to be believable, at least by me. Much prefer the music of his pianist ex-wife, Angela Gonzalez.

Also, FWIW, Shoemaker's '“Old” (performed by the quartet of the saxophonist, trumpeter Lester Bowie, bassist Malachi Favors and drummer Philip Wilson) ... inspired Chicago critic Larry Kart’s image of Mitchell picking the lock to a museum and “jitterbugging with the artifacts" is not quite what I said. First, I was referring to all the music made to that point by the AEC and pre-AEC versions of the group, not just to "Old." Second, what I said was: "The function of irony in music can be difficult to describe [and then I quoted a longish passage from Pierre Boulez about Stravinsky's use of irony, which he sad led Stravinsky "to use parody openly ... to introduce 'found objects' into a stylistic complex where they function by distortion' etc.]" And then I said: "To put it another way, Mitchell has picked the lock of the imaginary museum and begun jitterbugging with the artifacts." Maybe I'm being too picky, so to speak, about "a museum" versus "the imaginary museum," but the latter phrase (not coined by me, though I'm not sure who came up with it) refers to the non-existent museum in which all the cultural artifacts of humankind can be found. P.S. I see now that "The Imaginary Museum" was a phrase and a concept conjured up by Andre Malraux: http://neatlyart.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/andre-malraux-chez-lui-maurice-jarnoux-over-the-last/ Those darn frogs and their "cultural workers"!

To hell with jazz criticism; I want to be one of those "cultural workers." Viz: "...the embrace of the AEC as trickster revolutionaries by French critics, intellectuals and cultural workers..." Looks like you got a broken culture there, lady. Come back tomorrow and I'll try to fix it.

What's so "sad" about Stitt's Ellington set? I agree it's not among his best, but it's much more than competent and quite enjoyable to my ears. Recorded for Verve in 1960, it features a great rhythm section (the bass player you forgot is none other than Paul Chambers), and you certainly can't fault the quality of the material. Sure, it wasn't released until 1973 under the title Previously Unreleased Recordings (see below), but I think that had more to do with the sheer volume of his recording output at the time rather than the quality of the music. Btw, you had it backwards, Sonny plays tenor on three tracks, alto on the remaining five. Finally, I think you'll find that few, if any, members of this board consider Sonny to be nothing more than a "Bird imitator". That's the kind of ignorant or ill-informed opinion that you may find elsewhere, but not here. Some worthwhile discussion of Sonny Stitt here: and here: You'll find a range of opinions. Just for fun, compare what Moms said on the second thread above -- " All Stitt is very good Stitt and more than enough is much better than that. Just cuz certain yokels-- not thinking of anyone in particular, rather the general condescension towards Stitt-- couldn't keep up, that shouldn't be our problem, nor should we accept less esp. when there aren't any better ideas attached to the erstwhile 'alternatives'" -- to what he said at length about Stitt on the first one.

He got locked in a bitter custody battle with an ex-wife and was unable to keep custody of his son if he left the state he was living in (Colorado) for more than 50 days/year. Thus, few gigs, TV appearances.

Me, too. There was something boyish about him.

Mark Sheldon reports on Facebook that Med Flory has died. Quite a guy. Here's a brief thread about one aspect of Med: Also, Marc Meyers did a nice interview with him: http://www.jazzwax.com/2009/07/interview-med-flory-part-1.html

BTW, transferring "Taxi War Dance" from my ITunes library to my IPhone turned out to be a counter-intutive process of many steps that almost defeated me and my quite familiar with IPhones and similar devices, virtually unfazeable13-year-old stepdaughter -- this hassle unlike virtually everything else I've done on Mac-based devices. I mentioned this later on to my very computer-savvy 38-year-old son, who said that Apple configured the process that way because they, and everyone else in the field, want people to pay for their ringtones.

Imposing (in several senses) Bulgarian pianist with a great Bulgarian name (makes me think of SCTV's Perini Sclerosa): Perini:

Re: Jim Sangrey's post about Moody with Dizzy's big band, the best Moody with Diz I know is here: http://www.amazon.com/Dizzy-Gillespie-And-Band-Live/dp/B000001OTH Don't recall right now which track it is, but there's one Moody solo here that I'd swear Ornette went to school on. It's a kind of a "phrase shift" thing, where an inspired and/or footloose Moody lets a slab of changes and accents slide a fair bit to one side of where they normally belong and, at once trying to stitch things together on the run and feeding on the outre relationships that crop up, make it all work like crazy. It's akin to something that Bird could have come up with, but he would have been utterly in control of it all, while Moody is close to driving off a cliff. And again, I'll bet that at some point the young Ornette was listening.

I'm a civet, thanks to my "distinctive musky scent."

My son tells me that in his crowd almost no one uses ringtones anymore; they're considered intrusive. Instead, they go with "vibrate." I went with "Taxi War Dance," transferred from my ITunes library to my IPhone.

That's not necessarily true. Larry, would you be willing to share the link to the site you found? We can check it out and give you more specific feedback, as well as offer some suggestions on where you can find what you're looking for. This is the site: http://audiko.net/ I'll probably go the ITunes route.

Albert Ayler would be good, too.

Just got an IPhone 4 and would like to add some jazz ringtones. Went to a so-called "free jazz ringtones" site, found some appealing ones, started the "send to your phone" process and when I clicked on "terms" noticed that fees were involved (about $15 per six months for three downloads). Am I missing something here, or is there in fact a way to get decent jazz ring tones either for free or at a more nominal cost? I'm not trying to be a freeloader here, so to speak -- just want to know what the lay of the land is, trying to be safe, want to have, say, Mobley's "Smokin'" as my ringtone, etc.

I mean, it's like "Dodge Ram -- America's 3rd best-selling pickup truck." If you're 3rd best, why not keep it under your hat?

on the local sports radio station WSCR that touts "UV -- America's 3rd best selling flavored vodka." Does anyone else find this strange?

One of my favorite composers.

That's some tough drumming.

Check will be in the mail.

Did I mention The Dulouz Legend? In any case, it's commonly regarded as semi-autobiographical. No, it was me who mentioned it, but I think this is important as Kerouac himself perceived his works as all comprising one mythic autobiography. Jazz is of course essential throughout, but as the quintessential beat-jazz-poet, even though he was the grandaddy of them all, I am always left with the thought of what could have been if Kerouac had stayed sober. I think Kerouac tells us more about the literature of alcoholism, repressed sexuality and a chronic and sad (rapid) descent from genius to mediocrity than it does about jazz poetics. I have mixed feelings about Kerouac's poetry and some of the extra tracks on the Rhino box-set of his poetry, reveal his goofy drunkeness in full flow, sad and pitiful. Thanks to AllenLowe for the correction in spelling..... Emphasis on the "mythic." Don't think you can take any Kerouac text as being that much closer to the autobiographical truth than any other. Can't imagine what a Kerouac who stayed sober might have been like or even that that would have been possible. Of all the people who need to be taken all of a piece, he would seem to be it.

He also was the host in the 1950s of an iconic Chicago jazz radio show. His intro, while IIRC Sinatra's version of "At Long Last Love" played in the background, was: "Hey, hey, old bean and you too baby, it's the Real McCoy." A friend once said that Sid sounded like he had a bedroom in his throat.

We established that; I goofed.

Did I mention The Dulouz Legend? In any case, it's commonly regarded as semi-autobiographical.