Joe

First read about this in CABINET magazine; good to see the story has not gone away. http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/23/

http://www.nme.com/news/kanye-west/36827

We'll try to have the BBQ ready by then...

Context

Electric Lightnin' -- Track down MOJO HAND and LIGHTNIN' AND THE BLUES Acoustic Lightnin' -- I'm partial to LIGHTNIN' IN NEW YORK / the Candid date and the sides Sony recently anthologized on HELLO CENTRAL. I wouldn;t necessarily sleep on the Prestige recordings, either. My favorite of these sessions have been compiled on DOUBLE BLUES (I think they may also be available separately as well.) "I'm Going To Build Me A Heaven Of My Own" indeed. Some of the late 60's / early 70's flirtations with the sounds of the counterculture are interesting -- like the session where Lightnin' is backed by members of The 13th Floor Elevators, FREE FORM PATTERNS, or a set of "previously unreleased" LA recordings Verve put out in the 90's (the title escapes me, sorry) -- but I would not consider them high priorities.

Have heard Ajemian in duets with Josephine Foster (Born Heller) and Matt Bauder. For those who know it, how does this release stack up / compare to the bassist's work with Bauder in particular?

Though I don't read him much (or at all) any more, WSB is, after Twain, probably the most important satirist America has ever produced. http://vispo.com/cgi-bin/wonder/cutup/cutup.cgi

Saw this while passing through a local Borders today... thought it might be of interest to the board populace at large... STOPSMILING: THE MAGAZINE FOR HIGH-MINDED LOWLIFES Issue #34: The Jazz Issue COVER STORIES ORNETTE COLEMAN + BOBBY HUTCHERSON + A TRIBUTE TO ERIC DOLPHY INTERVIEWS Ron Carter + Joe Chambers + Ira Gitler + Olu Dara + Lawrence Lucie + George Wein + Jeff Parker + Michael Cuscuna + Lorraine Gordon, owner of the Village Vanguard INTERVIEW & PHOTO ESSAY William Claxton on Jazz Life TRIBUTES Patricia Barber on NINA SIMONE + John Corbett on PETER BROTZMANN + Jim Dempsey on KEN VANDERMARK + Dick Buckley on TOMMY DORSEY EXCERPTS Ben Ratliff on JOHN COLTRANE (From Coltrane: The Story of a Sound) Arthur Taylor talks to MILES DAVIS (From Notes and Tones) Gary Giddins on THELONIOUS MONK (From Visions of Jazz) ESSAYS "Empty Forest Blues" by Phil Schaap "Letter From New Orleans: The Story of the Hot 8 Brass Band" by Richmond Eustis "Costuming the Super Anti-Hero: Sun Ra & Moondog" by Jamie Hayes "Keith Jarrett, Cross-Referencer" by Jonathan Rosenbaum VISUAL RESPONSE Art director and critic Steven Heller offers his impressions on the designs of classic jazz record sleeves FILM Seymour Cassel and Al Ruban on JOHN CASSAVETES + Edward Bland on The Cry of Jazz + Essential jazz DVDs LIMITED EDITION 7” SINGLE Two rare recordings from 1965 by German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann & MORE

More solo piano literature... Federico Mompou. Perhaps ultimately more Satie-like than Debussy-esque. Then again, you might not paint landscapes in Catalonia the way you would in a landscape in Le Havre.

Charles Tomlinson Griffes I prefer the Noel Lee recordings on Nonesuch, but I do not know how readily available they are.

Ornette and Prime Time were featured one night during the ill-fated 1980 season (I believe). I thought there was evidence of this on Youtube, but I cannot locate it at the moment. Captain Beefheart was also a musical guest in 1980, IIRC. The most memorable of these "I watched it live" performances? For me, Neil Young in 1989, doing a killer version of "No More" from FREEDOM.

Larry -- thanks for the reply. Get your slings and arrows ready... I happened to hear the Orion Quartet's recording on Wynton Marsalis' "At The Octoroon Balls" on local radio here (KCSN) yesterday. Definitely a pastiche, but a pretty enjoyable pastiche overall.

Larry -- I'd be interested to know more about your experience with the Rochberg quartets. While I like the few of his early chamber works that I've encountered ("Serenata d'estate"), I'm sitting on the fence with respect to much of his other work. Not essential, and not easy to track down, but I have a mid-50s Columbia recording that pairs Lukas Foss' String Quartet No.1 with William Bergsma's String Quartet No. 3. Both interesting examples of how American composers at mid-century were trying to work around the overwhelming influence exerted by serialism. Glorious mono to boot.

Gloria Coates http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/bio23504.htm

Wasn't the session later issued as SUNG HEROES similarly self-produced?

There's a recent-ish (well, its from 1987) Anderson solo recording available on the Mapleshade label:

So, does the (pre-Concord) Fantasy JAZZ SOUNDS OF AFRICA CD 2-fer contain all of the material from THE MUSIC OF and SOUNDS OF AFRICA? Track Listing: 1) Nights On Saturn 2) The Hustlers 3) Oud Blues 4) LA Ibkey 5) Don't Blame Me 6) Hannibal's Carnivals 7) Wakida Hena 8) African Bossa Nova 9) Nadusilima 10) Out Of Nowhere 11) Communication 12) Suffering

Does one consider Old England / Old York (what was that about a house divided against itself?) to be West of the European mainland, or East of North America? If the former, does that mean that we great TIVO-less unwashed will have to stay up until past 1 AM just to see the end of the contest? If the latter, should I get ready to endure another network-sponsored blast of East Coast Media Bias? Looks like a lose / lose proposition to me no matter which way you spin the electrons.

I'm very partial to ESKIMO, THIRD REICH 'N ROLL and THE COMMERCIAL ALBUM. Alas, I think their best work -- the double-sided single that paired their version of The Beatles' "Flying" with a brilliant, pre-digital-sampling phantasy / satire of where those Liverpudlians went after SGT. PEPPER, "Beyond The Valley Of A Day In The Life" -- is not currently available on CD. Santa Dog '07?

I can hang with most announcers, even the Waltons and Crosses (Irv AND Randy) of the world, as I can always just snap on the radio and listen to my local guys (Brad Sham, Eric Nadel, etc.) But what I cannot abide is the "guy / gal in the stands" beating administered by the likes of Ahmad Rashad, Jim Gray (human offal) and, the grandaddy of them all, from my pov, the absolutely execrable Pat O'Brien, the man who almost single-handedly ruined every NBA Finals viewing experience I had in late 80's / early 90's.

Just reported. http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark...goodbye_the.php

Thanks Larry. Fascinating to me how much effort seems to have been expended to keep this hoax going.

Clem -- I've searched the tubes for info on the Alan Watkins scenario, but I can't seem to locate anything. Would you mind giving us a quick refresher?

MP3s

Just spun MANHATTAN TUESDAY, ummm, this past Tuesday. It is indeed very strong, and quite unlike any other Jandek recording I've heard. More shading and nuance here that I had expected; strong overtones of Miles' "He Loved Him Madly" in the pairing of Loren Connors' effects-laden guitar and The Representative's Korg synths. Typically bleak lyrics, nearly nihilistic, and yet the tone in which they are delivered is often oddly... gracious. And, for North Texas residents...Jandek In Fort Worth (with Susan Alcorn, Ralph White, et al.)