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Another important voice quieted, but not silenced. Leave us not forget his ground-breaking work with Arthur Blythe.

I can't recommend this one highly enough. Of the band recordings, I'm most fond of LIVE AT WILISAU, which adds non Broherhood of Breath-ers such as Evan Parker and Radu Malfatti to the crew.

"Nils' no-frills chills," no doubt.

Cesar Aira, THE LITERARY CONFERENCE... I believe most of Aira's novels are improvised in their own way; this one is not as sublime in its contingency as VARAMO, but still pretty darn fantastic. John McPhee, ORANGES... a treasure. Robert Fernandez, PINK REEF... the only comparison that makes even any provisional sense to me is William Blake; that is, Fernandez's very, very, very strange "lyrics" are visionary documents... I almost can't go any further without getting into semiotics, Lakoff and Johnson's METAPHORS WE LIVE BY, all things 21st Century and "neuro-"... like Blake's, Fernandez's poetry troubles.

The one degree of separation between Jam Master Jay and Tyrone Slothrop. "What has nothing to do with music. What is a unit of measure." To which I say: "Word."

It's almost as if Will Ferrell's Jacobim Mugatu stumbled into a V. C. Andrews dust jacket.

The duets with Roswell Rudd are wonderful.

Thank goodness he led a rich life and recorded often. Don't sleep on this set! http://www.camjazz.com/boxsets/giorgio-gaslini.html

Sub-McSweeney's irony (one joke stretched beyond thin), but a few good throwaway lines in there.

This one hurts. But so glad I got to see him in person in my time at CalArts. What a spirit!

I've always found "Silver's Serenade" to be among Horace's most lovely melodies. Love the complex song-form of "Ecaroh" (the trio version especially). "Pretty Eyes" from CAPE VERDEAN BLUES has a great groove that kind of sneaks up on you.

Dunno, and the intertubes are singularly unhelpful here thus far. But just searching "Squatty Roo Records" on Google did turn up this pretty cool thing... http://entertainment.ha.com/itm/music-memorabilia/memorabilia/duke-ellington-squat-squatty-roo-handwritten-score-for-the-true-jazz-fan-few-vintage-documents-would-make-a-more-spect-total-1-item-/a/648-23022.s

Fascinating guy, fascinating career. His autobiography, published in 1990, is worth dipping into... And here he is in Roger Corman's, um, "classic" A BUCKET OF BLOOD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfB6X0SHZPY From exploitation cinema to traveling the world in pursuit of the most exotic acoustical locations...

Very interesting. I see by comparison that Austbo, for one, "does" something with this piece in particular, but I find Ausbto's logic (or "logic") compelling and/or attractive, while also responding to the more or less a-rhetorical rhetorical approach of Barbier. Barbier's Satie is sprightly. His version of the first Gnossienne (also search-able out-able on YouTube) is very dance-like. My fandom is growing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8fzMBnUoZc

Somewhat controversial tempos (slow), but I am a big fan of Reinbert de Leeuw's Satie. http://www.amazon.com/Early-Piano-Works-3-Gymnopedies/dp/B0000069CS/

My favorite June performance. It helps that she's singing a melody by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Langston Hughes. Rugolo's arrangement represents no slouching either. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nz7QFBgDYg

This record never seems to get much notice. I've always thought both Tolliver and Turrentine sound great here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pgYPonXo1s

Personnel from BN discography re: a rejected Silver Tentet date, April 1963 Blue Mitchell, Kenny Dorham, Grachan Moncur III, Julius Watkins, Junior Cook, Jimmy Heath, Charles Davis (baritone), Horace, Gene Taylor, Roy Brooks. Tunes: Silver's Serenade, Sweet Sweetie Dee, Nineteen Bars, Next Time I Fall In Love, The Dragon Lady & Let's Get To The Nitty Gritty. The quintet version of Silver's Serenade was recorded a few weeks later.

Another great loss. Unearthly, irreplaceable beauty in that voice. How he slices and dices the melody of this Top 40 smoove-ness... damn... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4bMvQXiq48

Not that I am aware, but would like to be corrected if necessary. The few trio recordings scattered across her early recordings for Bethlehem are intriguing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynnb6ejdEz0

I would second Hod O'Brien. Jack Reilly. Almost the "Andrew White of piano players," in that nearly his entire discography consists of self-released / private press recordings on his Unichrom label. As his website suggests, his chief influences are Bill Evans and Dave Brubeck; fire and ice or oil and water, maybe, but he's a pianist possessed of a deep harmonic intelligence and compositional imagination. http://www.jackreillyjazz.com/

Another vote for Tim Berne. Also: Vijay Iyer, Mary Halvorson, Matt Bauder, Ellery Eskelin and Henry Threadgill.

John Mehegan. Interesting career; I was aware of his role in "Streetcar Named Desire" but not aware of the HUAC connection (further research required). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mehegan http://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/05/obituaries/john-mehegan-jazz-pianist-wrote-4-volume-textbook.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgamzc6eIrY