Joe

Well, there might be some good live music at the Fallout Lounge (Exposition Ave, near Fair Park) on the night of the 17th (Wednesday)...

Douglas Woolf, THE TIMING CHAIN

America: Do You Remember the Love?, B2-46755, 1986. A Bill Laswell production. Pretty good as I remember, more vocals-focused, just not as adventurous as the Columbia and AH material.

Nearly every single one of Muhal's Black Saint dates has something to recommend it, though I admit soft spots for the marvelous SIGHTSONG, 1-OQA+19 (with Braxton and Threadgill), REJOICING WITH THE LIGHT ("Blessed Be The HEavens At 12"), and the at-times odd but always compelling SONG FOR ALL. That said, I find the aforementioned YOUNG AT HEART WISE IN TIME (one long quintet track with Threadgill, Leo Smith, Lester Lashley and Thurman Barker; one long solo piano improvisation) and the much later ONE LINE TWO VIEWS (on New World) to be among his Abrams' finest achievements. The latter in particular is an unjustly overlooked recording, IMO.

Kalaparusha's lone Black Saint date, PEACE AND BLESSINGS with Longineau Parsons, is worth investigating. Parsons is a strong presence here, but rather than overwhelm the leader, he spurs him on to some really fine playing. Of his recent work, I still like the first CIMP recording, DREAM OF, the best. And then there is this collaborative venture...

Thanks for the info everyone. Great to hear that about Hot Lips Page...

Gene Ammons Hot Lips Page Shelly Manne Yusef Lateef John Carter

You cannot go wrong with a band who dedicates tunes to Marie [not Red] Callendar...

Not as bad as I feared it would be, but also not as funnny as it could have been. However, Sam Rockwell gives a thoroughly mad, almost gratuitous Method performance as Zaphod Beeblebrox, who is ostensibly an alien but is actually the only 'Merican in the entire film. Think, "what if Bill Clinton and George W. Bush shared the same body?"

More ideological posturing. I think he simply means for "world music" to be code for "what Dave Douglas and his ilk are doing". But I love it that a diss of traditional African musics is implicit in his "informed opinion". Luckily, his interviewer then throws him this bone... Yuck.

Not sure how rare, unheralded and / or valuable these are -- actually, any furher info regarding these items would be most welcome -- but I am gald to have the following books: King Joe Oliver, by Walter C. Allen and Brian A L Rust (1958; London, Sidgwick and Jackson) Hot Jazz : The Guide To Swing Music, by Hugues Panassié, Lyle Dowling, and Eleanor Dowling (1936; New York, M. Witmark & Sons) Blues: An Anthology, edited by W. C. Handy, illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias [an important Harlem renaissance figure] (1926; New York, Albert & Charles Boni) Finally, I think this volume contains some marvelous writing about the music:

I can vouch for that... Do you know Roger, Joe? Not as Jim does, but I have had at least a couple of very enlightening, as well as entertaining, conversations with the man. And I once bumped into Marchel while coming out of the [super] Kroger on Greenville and Mockingbird...

I can vouch for that...

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.