Joe

Will it make everyone happier if I take full responsibility for Quotegate? My editing goof; apologies. Too true. Hemingway and Carver have also probably runied more writers than Faulkner and Woolf, just to pick too "modernists" who often get criticized for letting so many horses out of so many barns. Never thought I'd see Aidan Higgins name-checked here; for those intrigued, the invaluable Dalkey Archive Press has just reprinted LANGRISHE GO DOWN. (Said publishers also keep important works by Sarraute, Butor, McElroy, Harry Mathews, Reed, Sorrentino, Stein, Mosley, Queneau, Schmidt and others in print. Check 'em out: http://www.centerforbookculture.org/dalkey/fullcatalog.html).

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Can you tell me a little more about this? Che. Written by guitarist Derek Bailey, one of the key figures (along with John Stevens, Evan Parker, Tony Oxley and -- in retrospect, perhaps -- the AMM crew [Eddie Prevost and Keith Rowe esp.]) in the development of free or "non-idiomatic" improvised music. I believe there was also a BBC television production that accompanied the [re-]publication of this book. Amazon link Intelligently written, but by no means "dry" or "academic". Bailey offers some overview, but he also lets the practitioners -- the musicians -- talk.

There is a really interesting, as well as valuable, discussion of ICM (Indian Classical Music) in Derek Bailey's monograph IMPROVISATION: ITS NATURE AND PRACTICE IN MUSIC.

Both musical practices place a high value on the musician's ability to improvise, maybe? As a further note -- Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa are doing some really, really, really interesting and forward-looking work "fusing" Indian (specifically, Carnatic) musical forms and jazz. See: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...15493&hl=mother

http://tinyurl.com/6fbda http://tinyurl.com/45lur And, of course, the Joe Harriott - John Mayer collaborations.

IMHO, the Sinatra connection is worth pursuing. There are [at least] two albums of "Sinatra conducts..." on the market, one dedicated to Wilder compositions, the other featuring his work alongside that of "usual suspects" Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Gordon Jenkins, and Elmer Bernstein. The Wilder peices on the COLOR LP -- "Blue" and "Gray" -- are especially interesting.

I leave for Austin the next morning, but yah mo b there.

Just saw this at Alan Lankin's Jazzmatazz (http://jazzmatazz.home.att.net/upcomingcds.html): Not a project I thought I'd ever see...

<note to self: don't bother asking Jim or David for a burn of this set...> Wow, I too am really surprised to learn this sold out as fast as the live Television set Rhino put out. Especially as reviews of the set are just now starting to show up in print and online.

I am another Jefferson admirer. Believe it or not, he plays some might fine obbligatos on this recording: http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/row/000649.html http://tinyurl.com/548hl

I'm afraid I don't know, Bertrand. Come to think of it, I may have heard that information in BBC reports on the auction. But I know I heard it.

IIRC, Guernsey's (the auction house in question) has promised to make digital reproductions of all of the sheet music, manuscripts, letters, etc. available to scholars (and, one presumes, institutions) on a request basis. They did, after all, make an extensive photographic record of this collection for the purposes of posting items on Ebay and assembling their catalog (still available for purchase). I believe I heard this information in the NPR reports on this event. Promises made and promises fulfilled, of course, are very different. And a digital object is not quite the same thing as an object you can hold. But the information has been preserved. Finally, in retrospect I find this to be an embarrassing piece, but you all are, if so inlcined, welcome to peruse it for further information: http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/frontpage/000778.html

Fairly interesting stuff. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4554495

Nice to see this on CD. But I think I'll hang onto my original vinyl nonetheless. Really dig the Macero and Charles arrangments on this one. Ciao, Joe

My favorites among his output. Great trumpet work by Paul Smoker on the Soul Note date... but why never a Vol. 2? The OPPOSITE VOLTAGE date is hard to track down, but worth it -- add drummer (and occasional pianist Richard Poole) to the group; it is a trio date. I believe Cadence still carries this disc if anyone is interested. Ciao, Joe

Spoken for. Thanks, Joe

Free to the first person to PM me... Red Garland, KEYSTONES! (Xanadu) This -- OOP, I believe -- CD contains live perforamnces by the trio of Garland, Leroy Vinnegar (b) and Philly Joe Jones (d) from the Keystone Corner, May 12, 1977. Be forewarned; the recording quality is pretty rough. The release is drawn from recordings Vinnegar himself made using a "portable cassette machine" (in annotator Mark Gardner's words). But the music is very special, with considerable stretching out by all involved. The program consists of: 1) Autumn Leaves (10:13) 2) It's Impossible (6:01) 3) Daahoud / New York Theme (11:45) 4) It's All Right With Me (13:40) 5) On Green Dolphin Street (15:50) Don't thank me. Thank Don Schlitten. Ciao, Joe Milazzo

COmpletely under my radar. So, we have this release to add to the material on this one: http://www.jazzrecords.com/enja/2038.htm So, what's the story with these "Pio's tapes"?

INNERVISIONS all the way. And I say that knowing that, with that choice, I give up "Maybe Your Baby", "I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)", "Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away", "Love's In Need Of Love Today", "All Day Sucker"...

For good? As in, he never played with Mingus again? Seems to jibe with my memory of the Mingus' post-1959 bands. As, if so, Mingus firing the guy was seems in retrospect to have been a death sentence.

Could this be a reference to the old Atlantic 2-LP set PASSIONS OF A MAN? Track listing... -- Pithecanthropus erectus (10:41) -- Profile of Jackie (3:07) -- Reincarnation of a lovebird (8:31) -- Haitian fight song (11:57) -- Wednesday night prayer meeting (5:30) -- Cryin' blues (4:58) -- Devil woman (9:38) -- Wham bam thank you ma'am (4:41) -- Passions of a man (4:52) -- Tonight at noon (5:58) -- Passions of a woman loved (9:43) -- Duke Ellington's sound of love (12:04) -- Better git hit in your soul (4:35) -- Sue's changes (17:04) -- Canon (5:30) -- Free Cell Block F, 'tis Nazi U.S.A. (6:52) -- Goodbye, porkpie hat (7:00) -- Mingus on Mingus : a brief set of casual spoken reflections (3:30). I've never heard or seen said release, but it could be that the "spoken interludes" were culled from the interview (w/ Neshui Ertegun) that was appended to the big COMPLETE ATLANTIC RECORDINGS box.

Thanks so much for this info. Sounds like he has kept his dignity despite it all, which is perhaps the most important thing.

Thanks for the recs, all.