Nate Dorward

Ah yes--typed in a hurry. Just fixed a few other typos too.

Is that the set excerpted on the Vision fest CD/DVD compilation that appeared a little while back (with a book in addition)? The compilation was extremely shoddy but that Anderson/Bankhead duo shone like a lighthouse among the rest. Likely to be a terrific CD.

Oh, I'd forgotten about the Amazon piece. I'd originally written the disc up for Coda but the piece was a little wishy-washy, so I took a 2nd crack at it with the Amazon scribble. -- There are people I know who really like the album but, frankly, it bored me to tears. On the other hand Hamid was absolutely amazing last year in a trio with Paul Plimley & Tommy Babin at Guelph, & I'm pretty sure it was recorded.... I'm really hoping that emerges at some point.

Thought people might find this worthwhile: http://youtube.com/watch?v=m8PIuKXCz88 The opening voice is Pauline Oliveros; background music by Jim McAuley; after that sequence there's an unedited solo bass performance by Okkyung Lee, who's a pretty fine exponent of the scorched-earth school of bass improv. This is material from a forthcoming documentary on free improvisation by Steve Elkins.

Glad to hear this one's worthwhile, though their previous duo album on Thrill Jockey was so disappointing that I'm a little leery of this one......

You & the Night & the Music with Kikuchi accompanying Helen Merrill is wonderful (& a little weird, what with all the plus-Jarrett-que-Jarrett moaning & groaning). & I have a couple Tethered Moon discs, which are quite good, esp the Kurt Weill one.

The Toronto gig is June 1st at the St Lawrence Centre for the Arts. Details here: http://www.stlc.com/

I note that Taylor's doing a solo gig in Toronto at the start of June (his first TO appearance in.......... how many years??? I think maybe since his Top o' the Senator gig a few decades back?).... Steep ticket price though ($55) for a solo gig.

Very sad, if not unexpected, news. But it's at least good to know that such a very non-mainstream, uncompromising musician finally got his due in his last years.

The repackaging on the Ayler twofer only has the one track & IIRC a note that that was all that survives.

Cat n Mouse is terrific. Class Trip is fine but not as interesting. Haven't heard the new one.

From WWUH Jazz Pronunciation Guide: Ayler, Albert eye-ler From New England Jazz Radio Cooperative Pronunciation Guide: Ayler, Albert eye-ler Of course, they could have it wrong. Stuart Broomer (who met the brothers) told me they each had a different preference for the pronunciation of his name. Now, I don't remember which one preferred which......

Just a note to say that the MTKJ's Day of the Race (no "s" I think?) is a really first-rate freebop session. Kris Tiner kills on that one in particular.

Well, Leo is a law unto itself....... (see Dan Warburton's editorial a few years back about their handling of Return of the New Thing). -- & those sets are only 4 discs apiece rather than 10!

Hard to imagine it'll go out of print too quickly--it's pricy & large, so it's not like it'll be flying off the shelves. I have a review copy & judging from the first two CDs (all I've listened to so far) it's well worth your time if you're a Braxtonophile.

Sad news. Hadn't followed his later work--though I hope someday to hear his multialbum dissertation on "Lush Life"--but have enjoyed what of his earlier work I've heard. (Anyone else heard the rough but interesting recordings with Bills Evans, Jimmy Garrison & Pete LaRoca?)

Glad you like it. It's a disc I never tire of. -- I'm glad to know it's still in print! It was in that Verve/Gitanes series whose CDs tended to have short lifespans before they were deleted.......

And she was Wittgenstein's favourite actress!

Is the new Oxley the same sessions as vol 1 of Soho Suites? I take it from roughly that timeframe/musical orientation.

Ouch.....!

Jazz in the Space Age is my favourite of the bunch, but basically you can't go wrong with Russell's earlier work. Great music. Most of the later stuff is disappointing, though (& tends to get hung up on endless reworkings of the same three or four compositions).

It deserves the rosette even just for Clifford Jordan's feature at the end. The rest is nice, but that's really nice. Though I do seem to recall there's an ugly edit on the first or second track..... a minor quibble.

Yeah, I think Peacock is completely uninterested in fire music nowadays. A pity (ditto Dave Holland's mainstreaming).

Haven't got this one in the "official" version--what I have is a CDR sampler of it that Luke sent while he was still in the early stages of working with the tapes. From what I recall (can't check right now as I'm at work) it's well up to the calibre of the other two trio sessions he's released.

Wow, that's great to hear. This was one of the great bands. Any word on recording quality? I guess it doesn't matter, but it'd be doubly nice if it were well-recorded.... I take it the "error" is in the instrumentation listing.