clifford_thornton

Yes, I have cringed more than once at Lydian rhetoric and just set it aside while the band BURNED. FWIW, the mere idea of jazz guitar vis-a-vis Wes and KB made me cringe for years until I heard Grant Green and (early) John McLaughlin. My dad was/is a jazz guitar and piano trio (how many CDs DOES Hank Jones have out, anyway?) nut, so there you go. But the five or six KB records I own haven't, for whatever reason, been sold off. Maybe it's the sidemen, dunno. But they're still here.

I'm 6'6" and he's not taller than me.

Rather fond of this'n, fwiw:

I'm just arguing apples/oranges, not > or < ,dig? But that's a dead horse here anyway, what two pages back? And at this point, to me, it's not worth getting that cup over my fourth tit to worry about KB doing what he does best (whether or not one is "feeling" that).

Are you comparing Galbraith/Russell with Burrell/Evans?!? By that logic, I'm awaiting my fourth tit any day now...

Yeah, the shit is fucked but w/o cash on hand, Gould's idea makes sense.

I think a little KB goes a long, long way, but when I hear a little bit I tend to enjoy it. Like the track that Durium posted, for example.

I did notice the dropout; in fact, it scared the crap out of me! I here ya about playing them again--sounds like a plan. Think Chuck was being facetious... wonder why they haven't fixed that dropout in all this time?

RIP and respect.

I like the idea of a Mosaic set, too. Mosaic has a funny way of presenting things that individually I would pass over, into something seemingly essential.

Thanks for the heads' up. Looks good.

Agreed. All the best to Slide, though I know not even someone of his stature can beat the inevitable.

I look forward to listening to the Pendulum samples, though I agree it might be something I could stand to have in the single-LP form. Are the additional tracks better than those issued on the Artist's House LP (which I don't own)? Somehow I'm more intrigued by the full-band live set. Lookout Farm never impressed me too much, though I can't explain why.

Jan Garbarek - Afric Pepperbird - (ECM orig)

If you mean those old 180g Impulse discs, those were pressed like crap.

I think your impression is correct. Rock has become more self-referential over the last 20 years or so. Probably the same is true of jazz over the same period. Not sure what this says about the life-cycles of musical forms, given that jazz has evolved over a much longer period than rock.Maybe things are just quickening up due to the variety of media and cultural channels now existing. Still, individuals still flourish in this framework, eg Bjork, Sigur Ros etc. Why would the form not become self-referential as its history develops?

Harry Miller - Down South - (Varajazz) His last recording, with Bennink, Charig, Wierbos and Sean Bergin.

Nice find and, if no-one else has said it, welcome to the board.

J.R. MontErose. Please, please get it right, people.

I think Sloan were great, but their current offerings (or those of the past five years) haven't really held up. Twice Removed was such an early peak.

US pressing, BGP stereo.

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum KICK ASS!!!

I like the Cecil/Maneri duo, too. Funny enough I can't seem to locate my copy of it. When I reviewed the disc for AAJ, it took approximately two days for comments to be posted about how Cecil's work wasn't "jazz" or even "music." Clearly, that line of thinking still rages on, even though it's not given much space in print these days. There are numerous repostings from the NYT here by posters other than 7/4. I believe that in this case, it was chosen to emphasize the section on Cecil, which in the article as a whole was rather small. The 'net sure does make those "fair use" argument kinda slinky, don't it?