JSngry

Ornette Gardenshire

http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlib...drith_Hobie.stm

Spun it last night myself. Fun stuff, "classic King R&B" in style, and towards the end of it, you can hear James really start to get his confidence bumped up a notch or three.

Alan Douglas was certainly no stranger to jazz: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...6on20r5ac48i~T4 I'd have liked to have heard more Gilmore.

Zawinul studied w/Barry Harris to get his bebop playing together. Once he did that (as much as he could/wanted to), he went his own way. I don't think he means any disrespect for Harris, (in fact, I'm nearly 100% certain that he doesn't), just that Harris' way was not going to be his way, and that the sooner he got on with doing his thing, the less time he'd be wasting. Zawinul's never been particularly "diplomatic", but those who know him say that his heart is as big as his ego. Imo, he guy's a giant (albeit an erratic one, but that's the price you gotta pay sometimes), one of the most original voices of the last quarter of the 20th century. Like him or not, he's created a sound world that's uniquely and identifiably his and nobody else's, and he's done it with compositions that are challenging for player & listener alike, and with playing that avoids "easiness" at damn near every turn. They guy's a bad mutherfukker in my book, and to even think that he should appear "humble" towards Lincoln Center Inc. is akin to thinking that the wind should be humble towards the windshield.

Don't hate me because I'm old.

Having seen Woody Shaw live on several occasions, when I hear his playing I think of the tai-chi exercises he would do on stage during other people's solos (if that's what those movements were). Is that a good thing or a bad thing? How to judge? Depends on whether or not you've also seen Pee Wee Russell's feet...

Thanks guys! So, I take it that this material has not yet been released on CD?

Duke mentions that Anatomy Of A Murder "opens next week". The whole thing is splendidly recorded. Any info on performance date, label background, CD issue, etc. would be welcome. As always, thanks in advance!

James K. Polk Poke Salad Annie Brook Benton

Of course not. But do you ever think of sad feet when you hear Pee Wee Russell play? And if so, is that a good thing?

From my experience (which is in no way definitive...), the "v" as hard "b" thing is a mostly Cuban thing. Cuban Spanish is a whole 'nother thing...

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy/appreciate/respect/admire/etc. Balliet's gifts as a writer. I just get no musical insight from them. Different skills in my mind, and liking one doesn't necessarily lead to liking the other.

Yep. Nothing like that on record by either one of them. And factor in Red Garland on piano...

Y'all hearin' OTC. I'm hearin' Blood Ulmer.

Does the Gritsville Flying J carry these albums (on cassette or otherwise)? http://www.dyxploitation.nu/issue2/mom1.html

If nothing else, try Aura. It's a breed apart.

Or the thing about Pee Wee Russell's feet looking sad. I mean, I laughed out loud the first time I read that, but if I listen to Pee Wee Russell and hear the sound of a man with sad-looking feet, I'm kind of....uh...missing the point of Pee Wee Russell's playing, am I not? I would certainly hope so! This is just the tip of the iceberg of what Braxton's talking about...

The musical "insight" which come from those neat turns of phrases. Classic example - Miles being "the sound of a man walking on eggshells". Delightfully original & evocative phrase on its own terms, and I love it as such, but wtf does it have to do with Miles' music? Not a damn thing that I can hear. And so it goes...

Mae West Goldie May Knott Raymond Hunoz

Thanks, but I gotta disagree. Braxton's talking about stuff that cuts to the core of existence, and he's talking about it in such a way that necessitates looking at it "objectively". That's the point of all the jargon, I think, to remove reality/macroreality (as he sees it anyway, which is a way of seeing it that I find impossible to disagree with when all is said and done) from all the "contexts" that have been constructed to manipulate it to various benevolent/malevolent ends over centuries. In doing so, he creates his own context (and I'm sure he sees the irony, probably even the humor in that), but it's his context, and it forces you to either confront what he's dealing with free of all the presuppositions that inevitably come with traditional terminology (terminology which has sprung up around the very interpretations he's refuting), or else just dismiss it as the ramblings of a madman. In other words, it's Reality Remixed!

I dunno man, Star People, Decoy, & Aura all get it done rather nicely, I think.

I heard him in any number of local joints over the course of 20 or so years, and I tell you that he could be erratic. But often enough, one end of the erratic spectrum would be sheer brilliance. Records & New York are true as far as they go, but they don't go everywhere,,,