JSngry

Your tuituition is do.

We're never fully learnt, are we.

Haven't heard this one, but have long been curious. Kellaway's an interesting musician. One foot in "advanced straight ahead" jazz, another in 20th century classical, and another in stride (that's his original tune "Remembering You"(?) that you hear at the end of every episode of All In The Family - don't know if it's him playing though). He had a late 60s live album on Pacific Jazz called SPIRIT FEEL that covered a wide range of styles (including musique concrete, courtesy of either Paul Beaver or Bernie Krause, can't remember). I had it in high school, sold it in college, got curious and bought a copy at Dusty Groove (the BASTARDS!) a few days ago. What turned me off to it was the contributions of the then teenaged Tom Scott (playing straight ahead jazz just about like you'd expect a teenaged Tom Scott to play it...), but I remember Kellaway's playing being pretty different, not at all cliched, and not a little provocative. I'll know if that's the case or not when the sucker gets here... I got a duo set he did w/Red Mitchell on Concord that's not particularly gripping emotionally, but nevertheless still stimulates the imagination, which I think is a good way to describe how Kellaway in general hits me. Like I said - interesting. What does any of this have to do with CELLO QUARTET? Not much, I'm afraid.

Oh, Blumenthal's cool. It's just that I like for the notes for "historical" sets to have more depth and insight than he usually offers. I like how he told the VeeJay story, how they branched off into jazz, and all that. But when it comes to the sessions themselves, he doesn't add very much that's not either in the discography or is readily apparent from listening. Now, you take Cuscuna's notes to the Monk BN Mosaic, for example. THIS guy digs up all sorts of anectodes and facts (including the only rendering that I'm aware of about the life of Danny Quebec West!), and it makes for pretty interesting reading apart from the set. Blumenthals' style is basically like a radio play-by-play guy doing TV - the picture's already there, so there's really no need to tell us what we already can see (hear). But it's a perfectly valid style, and lord knows, the guy gets lots of gigs doing what he does, so hey. Difference in styles and tastes, that's all. Some guys take a liner note assignment and create a seperate work that stands on its own, whereas others go for the straight rundown, more or less, and if you're away from the music (or sometimes even if you there with it), there's really no compelling need to read it. To each their own.

Not necessarily stupid, but when offered straight-up w/o any insight, original or otherwise, incredibly boring. Not as bad as being stupid, but definitely more irritating.

I'm getting the impression that people who read the liners still didn't know it. Either that or nobody's reading them, which I can kinda understand, because Bob Blumenthal's "just the facts" style doesn't hold my interest for very long either.

Fact of life - more fouls get called when you're driving to the hoop than when you're shooting jump shots. Proceed accordingly and cut the whining. Did Michael Jordon ever whine?

Lakers complaining about officiating? Yeah, it must be a shock after all these years of Shaq'a elbow being on the "protect at all costs" list....

Michael Thompson was on ESPN radio this morning claiming that it's all a David Stern conspiracy. Really.

Oh yeah, little known fact - Tolbert buys his clothes from Mr. Haney's of Hooterville. True story.

Call me a hopeless victim of Laker's mystique, but if I'm Detroit, I make DAMN sure to win Game 5. Just because nobody's come back from a 3-1 deficit doesn't meant it can't be done, and if anybody can do it, it's the Lakers (or as my buddies and I have taken to calling them in disgust - Those FUCKING Lakers). God knows I hope it doesn't happen, but if Detroit lets up in Game 5 and gives Those FUCKING Lakers a bit of momentum going back to L.A., we could all be wondering just what the hell happened. C'mon Pistons, get it done! FINISH THEM!

Test.

What's this about Pilaf of Rain? I'm confused....

Not yet, but I'm working on it...

Kenny Davern & Roswell Rudd, but that's not really unusual.

PeeWee Russel/Red Allen with Steve Kuhn/Charlie Haden

No, that's George Wein, a titan of jazz festivals. Can't you read?

I've always found NIGHT DREAMER to be a bit "timid", as they say, but I've always chalked it up to "first-timers syndrome". I feel the same way about PAGE ONE too. But from JUJU on... Then again, I did not have the experience of hearing all this stuff unfold in "real time", and that's something that plays into different perceptions in a way that I'm just now coming to appreciate. Hell, I first heard Wayne on INDESTUCTABLE, BITCHES BREW, and the first Weather Report album, all in the space of about 3-6 months. By the time I got to live in a locale where non-cutout BN sides were easily available, I'd already heard him in too many contexts and time zones to really think about the linear evolution. It all sounded like Wayne to me, some in different "shades" than others, but all Wayne nevertheless. It's only with the passage of time, the finding of myself in a position of having heard enough stuff new and experiencing the reactions to it by a new generation (or two) that I am beginning to appreciate how something that I've always dug (or not) might strike somebody older and more experienced (or younger and less) completely different. The music stays the same, but how people hear it and feel it may not. Life, what a trip!

UH oh....

There's a Kudu side w/Joe Henderson that's pretty commercial (relatively speaking), but the grooves are true.

Well, thanks, but....

Surely I'm not the only one here who buys Mosaic sets AND reads their liner notes, am I?

No shit. Look at the caption on this picture from today's online New York Times: George Wein, above, a titan of jazz festivals Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/11/arts/music/11JAZZ.html

Ok, but please - remember to phrase your anstion in the form of a queswer.