clifford_thornton

Tortoise is playing next Wednesday here in NY at Le Poisson Rouge. Saw them last maybe 3 years ago?

gonna get one. thanks.

WOW. Thank you!

Masayoshi Urabe "Solo" on PSF (alto saxophone)

Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say -- and I agree that Mengelberg's intentions had a dark humor and perhaps leapt into the void (to borrow from Yves Klein) -- but I've experienced beauty and a lot of joy in Misha's music, whether or not he intended it to be there!

no, but I've heard of them. Kicking myself for being too tired/busy to make Skryptor on Sunday night -- writer/drummer Hank Shteamer (STATS), guitarist Tim Garrigan (Dazzling Killmen), bassist David McClelland (Craw) -- but they presumably fit the bill, more math rock-y though. And they have a Braxton tune (Comp. 23C) in their set list. Surely there'll be more performances.

I only think of Turing Machine in the context of the post-rock band...

yeah, I still find some of them quite good as well. But I'm easy.

who'll step up to the plate? Anthony Clark? Chris Onstad?

yeah, Bill's primary media other than sound were/are pen/ink, gouache, lithography, collage and photography. (I guess I should refer to him as Dixon here but he was a friend and I called him Bill)

Actually one of Bill's works on paper (pen and gouache, I think) reprinted on the cover.

The brothers Côte are up there too, correct?

Every Man or Astroman? album cover, just take your pick.

Shellac "Terraform" (Touch & Go, 1998)

Yeah, they were uploaded following that 45-year boxed set, which has (as has been discussed elsewhere on the board) some issues with the transfers.

I don't think the two w/ Lancaster are all that great, but they're curious documents and I guess I'm glad they exist.

ep1str0phy is on point as usual. Misha's funeral will be next weekend and the ICP Orchestra will be playing a number of his compositions. Not sure if it will be publicly attended.

me too. Dolphy was a major figure in the development of modern jazz, but that doesn't mean that musician x, y or z has to like what he does. Last Date is an excellent record, yet it's also clear that Misha occupied a different zone with respect to saxophonists/reed players. As obstinate as he was, Misha seemed to prefer regular playing partners/groups and Dolphy, as structured as his improvisations and tunes were, might've seen this more as a blowing session opportunity. I got the feeling that Misha felt underestimated in this environment, so he threw a monkeywrench into the proceedings with "Hypochristmutreefuzz." I don't mind a healthy dose of absurdism/making fun/etc in my music and art so the games he played with the Dutch public (many out of the neo-Dada/Fluxus environment) -- even if some might've resulted in thumbed noses -- aren't things that I would find offensive. Mostly, it resulted in music that I find endlessly rewarding.

Bob Thompson, "The Garden of Music," 1960 Was looking for some quality Larry Rivers images but they weren't forthcoming. Anyway, Larry Rivers.

From personal experience I actually found Misha to be very kind and generous, not to mention quite funny... and his dislike of Dolphy was, I think, mostly taste-derived. He mentioned his favorite saxophonist with Monk (or MUNCH! -- as he pronounced it, like Edvard) was Lucky Thompson, if that gives you any indication of his proclivities. "Monk was the architect, but Herbie Nichols... he was the painter!"

The Captain has the most absurd cover of the three (IMO), but is also excellent.

my thoughts exactly. Interviewed him in 04 or 05 and had a great time. Subsequently hung out with him a bit when ICP came through Austin -- really wonderful person and a musical genius. It was hard to find out that he was dealing with Alzheimer's, which is a truly terrible disease (the ICP twitter shared a heartbreaking image of him in hospital about a week ago). Glad he is at peace now and his musical inventiveness will surely live on.