Nate Dorward

I must confess I've mostly stiopped doing these puzzles after moving on to the more challenging variant known (in English) as Killer Sudoku (no starting numbers given, just the sums of certain groups of numbers) but if you're looking for solving techniques there are many good spots on the web: this is the one I favour: http://www.simes.clara.co.uk/programs/sudokutechniques.htm

Only discs I've heard are the one with Thornton, & a really fascinating set of Futurist poetry settings called Arc Voltaic. Keep meaning to check him out more, though I'm not sure how one gets hold of In Situ discs in Canada.... (don't think Verge carries them?)

Liner notes to Big Band/Quartet if memory serves actually says "Oska T" was Monk's son's distortion of "Ask for tea" but I think maybe your explanation makes more sense? & of course there's "An Oscar for Treadwell".... No idea about the piece of music you have in mind though.

Saw him about 3-4 years ago in Halifax--pretty good concert, with a pianist I liked named Noreen Gray (if memory serves) whom I'm not heard of anywhere else.

Yeah, Open House/Plain Talk is great stuff, both the blues jams & the ballads. Ah, those were the days, when they would actually double up LPs onto a single CD...

Because of their reputations I purchased "Dharma Days". Sorry. Hey Chuck--yeah, that's a completely tedious, airless album, but don't give up on Turner -- I liked the first (self-titled) Warner disc, & told the Criss Crosses are excellent (Yam Yam in particular). I haven't heard anything of his recently that I liked at all though I don't know the Fly disc on Savoy. There's also a rather weird encounter with Konitz on Chesky which is worth a listen, though I like the half of the album that Turner sits out much better.

Hm, I continue to be amazed: we have 2005, a year which was rich in excellent new releases, in reissues, & in several momentous archival finds. You'd think jazz fans would be happy. & yet, start a thread on this & the usual complaints about belatedness, audience indifference, &c surface yet again.

Even cooler: on the Leo Coventry set, Braxton sings Marsh's solo on "The Song Is You".

Another bump to this thread because my Xmas packet from Cadence just arrived -- I ordered a pile of Zinnias--Mosca's Trickle, Live in Valhalla, Halperin/Mosca's Psalm--& also Billy Lester's quartet disc on Coppens, Four on Four. Haven't listened to Trickle yet, but the other three... man, those are good discs. I'm quite impressed by Mosca's variety from album to album (in part, I suppose, an artifact of great differences in recording-quality, occasion, & in the case of Thing-Ah-Majig health). The rhapsodic, romantic quality of the Valhalla set for instance took me by surprise. & Mosca has his own (very capacious) bag, not just literal Tristanoisms. The Lester's a lot of fun--anyone heard that?

I can't access AMG from here (work computer) but my recollection is that the longhaired guy only turns up on the bio page; the main page for Clay has the right image. Speedy error-correction? AMG? You must be kidding.

Yeah, Anne's really into Fred & Ginger--we have a video of Top Hat which she plays a lot (she can sing "Cheek to Cheek" from heart). She's also a big fan of Silk Stockings, which is a wonderful, too-little celebrated film. Actually I think it may be Astaire's best film. -- Anne's well versed in a lot of old films, since I tend to get them for all-the-family viewing. In fact she's been rifling through my Xmas present, the Kino set of Buster Keaton's films, in the past week. We're also lucky that Toronto's art film cinema, the Cinematheque Ontario, has matinee showings of stuff likely to appeal to kids--she's seen The General, Safety Last & The Freshman there with live piano accompaniment.

I'd go for the Bailey. The Ray Charles is the one with Tina Brooks, no?

AMG ratings are one cut above monkeys on typewriters. My 2 cents. Clay was a wonderful player to judge by the only two appearances I've heard (albums with Don Cherry & Wes Montgomery).

Yes, though not too many--I'm currently trying assiduously to deal with the 2005 backlog! There were a hell of a lot of really good discs that were released last year, not even counting the noised-about ones.

medjuck--yes, the Don Palmer piece was mine. It's now available online here-- http://www.ndorward.com/music/palmer.htm Don's a really fine musician, & I wish his recorded legacy were larger & more representative. He did say he was planning to release some tapes done by the CBC which are in his possession--I hope that comes to fruition. Meanwhile, if you're in Toronto, he does gig around town.

Thanks for the b'day wishes folks. Actually, hadn't got anything special planned--in part because the evening isn't free (Jane's got a choir practice so she'll be out most of the evening). Probably will postphone any celebrations till tomorrow. This evening I'll be home with the 8-yr-old, probably watching Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth in You Were Never Lovelier, which I just rented ("Dearly Beloved," "I'm Old Fashioned"--a great score). Anne's worked her way through all the Astaire/Rogers films already so I thought I'd try her out on some of the later films...

I have it on the Inner City album. Lousy sound on it--I wonder if the CD release is any better...

Kevin O'Neil is indeed excellent but I couldn't stand that Braxton project--I have the 2nd vol of it & some it is just painful to listen to (the mangling of "Waltz for Debby" for instance). While I'm being a party pooper maybe I'll add that another artist I discovered this year was Robert Glasper. Hated Canvas & it's already gone.

I discovered Tord Gustavsen this year--I just didn't like him very much! Randy Sandke, the Respect Sextet, Sal Mosca, David Borgo, Joey Sellers, Jim McAuley spring to mind. Some of whom I'd heard before but only got a proper perspective on this year.

Time flies! I forget exactly when, I just remembered it was pretty recent.

Elvin Jones.

are a) very interesting b) saddled with horrible self-penned liner notes c) sadly out of print

Hm....doesn't this poll mostly just show which labels have deep enough pockets to send out a pile of review copies? Not that they aren't all excellent discs (well, of the ones I've heard, I'd take exception to the inclusion of the Gustavsen--if you want an ECM piano trio disc the choice pick this year is Bobo Stenson) but it does seem to me the decks are stacked...

Good luck! If you have no success (they are much sought-after) then I can provide a CDR burn of all but Aida (I have the latter but only on LP & no setup for LP-to-CD transfer).

Best writeup yet, by Steve Smith-- http://nightafternight.blogs.com/night_aft..._bailey_19.html