Nate Dorward

Sad to see this. Time to pull out a few Ligeti CDs....

Larry--yeah just faulty memory on my part!

I'm a bit confused now--my copy of Consequence has "Don't Blame Me"; Action has "My Old Flame". No extra tracks on either CD (the most recent reissues).

The Chabon is excellent, ditto Wonder Boys. On the other hand, I found Foer's Everything Is Illuminated sufficiently nauseating I couldn't get past the first thirty pages. Current reading: a stack of Colette novels/novellas; the 1957-1958 volume of the Complete Peanuts; Lem's Solaris; Jim Harrison's Sundog.

Title-track of Bluesnik has one of McLean's best solos bar none. The rest of the album's fine, though not on that level, & anything with Doug Watkins + Pete LaRoca has a lot going for it. PS as I think I mentioned elsewhere, Hubbard quotes from a Blues and the Abstract Truth tune at one point ("Cascades"). The album was recorded before BATAT, though.

Great album! Yes, get it: this one plus Action are my faves of the recent McLean RVGs/Connoisseur reissues. If you want McLean + Morgan you should get Jacknife too, with Morgan and Tolliver both on board (only one track together, though).

Whatever could track 9 be?

Dan Warburton suggests "Exquisitely Crafted Monotony"....

Yeah I love it when negative criticism is quoted in blurbs! Once I saw an ad for a poetry magazine that quoted my review of a previous issue for a blurb: Allen--I think a little commentary on the tracks is always nice to read.

Yeah Daisy seems to me to be getting better--didn't like his work on Airports for Light much (esp. the "jazz" drumming), but subsequent releases & a couple of live concerts have convinced me he's doing interesting things. Though I still find his straight jazz drumming a little mechanical & antsy. The duo with Rempis is quite good, if not earthshattering. The Evan Parker/Joe McPhee disc is great stuff. Never heard the trio with Daunik Lazro--how's it compare? Anyone?

It's kosher--Merriam-Webster's 2nd definition is the one: "2 : published after the death of the author".

Hm, and how does Tutu fit into this picture? My impression was it was somehow related...

Will Gaines is still around, too.

Ah yes, In a Lonely Place. Great film. Re: Bunn's influence, perhaps surprisingly, one guitarist who often cited him as a major influence was Derek Bailey. There's an homage to Bunn on Drop Me Off at 96th, "Bunn Fight".

Yeah, but I don't know if there's such a thing as a typical Ra session! -- Yes, this is a great album. Any thoughts on vols 2 & (more recently) 3? I only have the 1st.

The passage I have in mind is at 1:15 on "The Third World"--the "smearing" effect is more noticeable on some stereos than others.

There is one horrible problem on the Blue Note box: the master take of "The Third World" has a bit where the channels get weirdly out of sync for a few bars.

Just looked it up. Koenig's sleeve notes say that he wanted "to experiment with more interesting, alive and natural sounds", so the job was done in the gymnasium-auditorium of the Los Angeles Police Academy. I must say, the sound of the album has never made any specfic impression on me. The Hawes album I DO think has a funny sound is "High in the sky", which has a cover photo of the trio playing in some lounge overlooking an airport, but was recorded in the Vault studios. You couldn't be thinking of this, could you? MG I'm probably just misremembering something from Ted Gioia's book West Coast Jazz--anyone have a copy handy? I remember it had a few comments on the circumstances of recording.

Ernst Reijseger is the name that springs to mind -- especially the albums with the Clusone 3.

Hey, at last! Glad it was worth the wait/frustration, anyway. Yes it's beautifully recorded--I have it on LP & it sounds marvellous. I think the only Contemporary disc I've heard that didn't sound so hot (in terms of the recording) was the first Hampton Hawes trio disc--wasn't that recorded in an airplane hangar? (Seriously.)

I'm not the one to ask! Never cared much about the game, though may get into it more now that the 8-yr-old is curious about it (she's a demon skater).

Hey thanks for the pointer--some good-sounding things there: never seen Eddie Henderson for instance, & it's been ages since I've seen Sonny Fortune. I take it this is the replacement for the defunct Distillery Jazz fest. Incidentally the Toronto Downtown Jazz festival this year looks a little more inspiring than in previous years--I loko forward to the Joost Buis gig for instance. (Speaking of which, Robert: you planning to go see Ab Baar's Kinda Dukish tomorrow night? I think I'll be there.)

I'll dig it up--it was in the March issue I think. Something to the effect that Marsalis was one of the greatest musicians in jazz today. It was a statement that just stood out for me given that Yanow rarely makes such blunt or sweeping claims.

Yeah, well, have you seen Yanow's review of Marsalis's new disc in Cadence?

Hey Allen, could you say a little more about the session with Sandke? Yeah, he's a really fine player, & a sweet guy--had a talk with him on his last Toronto visit, a duo with Dick Hyman, & he was very patient with all my questions about his harmonic system & so forth....