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I purchased the recording a couple of weeks ago. I only had a chance to listen to it while driving for a day, but my initial response is very favorable.

Turner has always acknowledged that Marsh was an influence on his playing. There is actually a graduate thesis available on the internet by a California saxophonist titled "Saxophonist Mark Turner's Stylistic Assimilation of Warne Marsh and The Tristano School" that had some interesting discussion on the issue. By coincident, the final tune Turner played when I heard him last week was his composition "Lennie Groove", which I assume is dedicated to Tristano. Notwithstanding all that, to my ears Turner's playing today is not as audible revealing of the Marsh influence as it was at the time he recorded with Konitz or with the Konitz influenced alto Nat Su.

I am a fan of Moran's playing. I don't know the criteria for receipt of the award and have no opinion whether he deserves it over anyone else (although I would hate to think of it as some sort of competition). Congratulations to Mr. Moran and I hope he does something worthwhile with the award.

MacArthur Foundation Honors 23

PM sent re: Joe Morris/Nate Wooley - Tooth & Nail (Clean Feed) 7 totally great; spare copy

I heard Turner last night at Jazz Gallery in a quartet with Avishai Cohen, Joe Martin and Marcus Gilmore. At times some of the tunes felt a little long - a little editing of the solos might have helped keep the listener focused - but overall a good night of music. I also had the extra treat of meeting our own Tom Marcello in person.

Thank you for the birthday wishes. Got in a little while ago from my birthday hang at the Jazz Gallery hearing the Johnathan Blake Trio and the Mark Turner Quartet. I also had the sincere pleasure of meeting Tom Marcello in the flesh. A good day I must say.

PM sent re: 130. The Sidewinder - The Big Apples / Nicholas Payton, Vincent Herring, Mark Tuner, Xavier Davis, Carl Allen (Jp Meldoc Jazz) $8

Obviously that recording was assigned to an inappropriate reviewer. I do not get the sense that he had much of an appreciation for free jazz at the time of the review.

There is a chance I may be at that show as well.

It does not seem to be released yet.

I meant I would be interested in hearing an official recording with the quartet with Malaby, Turner and Frisell.

Although I am extremely tardy in responding to another recent BFT, I would like to participate in this one as well. Download will be fine for me.

The site-which-must-not-be-named had two or three of these shows up. I haven't listened to them yet. I listened to the first one uploaded and samples of the other two. Excellent recordings and very good music. I think Motian should try to record with this ensemble.

I do not own an mp3 player and rarely listen to mp3s. In the car - only CD (occassional cassette when I want to listen to some of the mix tapes I made years ago) Computer at work - CD and FLAC files of ROIOs..

Are you enjoying the music?

That, I do not know. Previously I ordered actual CDs from jazzos.

I see that the Boltro disc is available on demand from jazzos.com. There is also an Di Modugno Organ Trio recording with a different title, but with a track list that includes compositions by Mingus, Joe Henderson, Chick Corea, Jimi Hendrix, Blue Mitchell and Horace Silver. I have ordered from jazzos.com in the past and found them to be reliable.

I heard the group at its Jazz Standard whow. Really looking forward to hearing the recording.

All names familiar to me, but it is sort of embarrasing I did not hear Fujii. - I own that recording.

PM sent re: The Cosmosamatics (Sonny Simmons/Michael Marcus, etc) - Free Within the Law - (Not Two) 7 Steve Davis - Images - (Positone) 5 trombone-led postbop sextet Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth - Deluxe - (Clean Feed) 8 Sextet w/ Malaby, Taborn, Cleaver, etc Jim Rotondi / Joe Locke 5tet - 1000 Rainbows - (Positone) 5 tpt-vibes modern jazz Matthew Shipp - Cosmic Suite - (Not Two) 7 quartet w/ D. Carter, J. Morris, W. Dickey

Sign me up for a download.

Amusing, but apparently not true. I shared this with my boss (yes - my boss knows that occassionally instead of doing some of this critical legal work on my desk I take a moment or two to use company resources to search the internet) who informed me that the story was around years before Katrina. The only difference is the subsitution of the FHA for an unnamed bank. In any event, I thought it was clever.

I do not believe the Smalls Live label and the Smalls Records label that issued recordings by Frank Hewitt, Chris Byars, Sacha Perry, etc are affilated. Although inspired by the music from the original Smalls Jazz club, the latter label seems to be pretty much run singlehandley by Luke Kaven, who has no interest in the current club. The Smalls Live Label I am pretty sure is the baby of the club.

PM sent re: Scott Dubois Quintet (w/ David Liebman, Loren Stillman, Thomas Morgan: on Soul Note) - Monsoon $5 Duke Ellington - New Orleans Suite $3 Harris Eisenstadt (w/ Jeff Parker, Jason Adasiewicz, Jeb Bishop, and Jason Roebke) - The Soul And Gone $4 David Murray Black Saint Quartet Featuring Cassandra Wilson – Sacred Ground $2 Nicholas Payton – Into The Blue (no liner notes) $3