Matthew

Thanks a 1,000,000.

Sorry, I got dazed and confused with all the recommendations flying fast and furious. Which cd is this solo off of? Thanks.

Finally! This is the week.

Then this rumor will be bad news: Braxton is supposed to be very happy with the music on the "23 Standards" set and is planning another four cd set to come out soon, the stuff that didn't make it. Don't know what label though.

As I've always said, ALL are welcome. If some of your favorites aren't contributing, it's by their own choosing. saynomore... saynomore... walkaway... walkaway... I hear you... This has to be one of my most frustrating threads ever.

While I always respect your opinions Mr. Fitzgerald, on some points I have to disagree. I thought maybe I did miss out on some great discussions so I did a search on the four names you mentioned. Parker does have a lot of post, but of the other three examples you use, there has not been one sustained, serious discussion of those artists. My second point is that all of the people who participate in the "Funny Rat" thread realize it is a small group of people that keep it going; heck, there have been times I've faded out of the thread for weeks at a time, so I wasn't just going off that experience, but off my perception of the board as a whole. I was not using "Funny Rat" as a litmus test for anything. Actually, the one thread where you can see an interest in new music is "What Are You Listening to Now.." But a lot of people do not share their impressions of the music, so what can you do? So there could be a deeper interest in this music by board member then I feel, but it's an unexpressed interest and I think the whole question of this thread is: how to make that interest more readily and easily expressed.

To my mind, the plan fact about the board is that very few people have an interest in Free/AG jazz. It's sad because their missing out on great music, but that's the way it is. To use just one example: How much does Sonny Clark's music get discussed as opposed to Cecil Taylor's? And most of the Taylor talk is about his Blue Note releases. I brought the Peter Brotzmann thread up just to see if anyone wants to talk about this great musician; we'll see during the week how it goes, but I just don't think most board members are there with his music. Does that make this board bad? NO, this is a greaat board to be a part of, and I have learned, and will continue to learn a great deal here, but it can't be everything to everyone. So, this is just a longwinded way of saying: leave things as is, but maybe I need to branch out to other forums every now and see what happens. BTW, if it's going to piss Dan off, I'm voting yes also!

Been making my way through Braxton's 23 Standards, which I'm enjoying quite a bit. O'Neil is great on this disk, and there are interesting song choices. Other two are definitely on my "to get" list. The more Braxton I buy, the more I want to get. He really is an interesting artist to follow (understatement of the year).

I've now listened to Never Too Late But Always Too Early for the third time in two days, and this cd is a stone-cold jazz classic. Playing that is on such a high level that it begs description. Just the first nineteen minutes of this cd will melt your speakers. But it's not just your typical wide open Brotzmann; there is also a quiet, relflective side to this music that makes for a great listening experience. It is a great way to enter Brotzmann's musical world.

What board is that on?

I don't think anyone on earth can keep track of all that Brotzmann's releases.

All from Candence: --- Albert Ayler: Lorrach, Paris 1966 --- Peter Brotzmann: Tales Out Of Time --- Cecil Taylor: Historic Concerts 12/15/79

It's also known as The French Fry Organ.

Have the Eskelin/Bennink one, which I really enjoy, and I'm sure a couple of others also, like Machine Gun. Just seems too busy for my taste at times, like he wants to be the center of attention. I've been looking at that Brötz/Mengelberg/Bennink cd, which I'll probably pick up by the end of the year.

I'm still trying to make up my mind about Rara Avis & An Hour With... Hard to describe but this Bennink guy gets on my nerves after a while. I'll have to listen to them again over the weekend to see if I can get into these cds mare that I did before.

Well, one of my dreams will be coming true this month -- I'm going to see Bob Dylan! After a lifetime of listening to his music, and loving every bit of it, I made the jump and going to see him at UC Irvine. Kind of scared too. You know that feeling that someone's music has meant so much to you, and you go and see him live, they're terrible, and you never look at them the same. Hope that doesn't happen here, but he's supposed to be in great form right now, so we'll see. On the jazz side, it's not even close: Cecil Taylor. I have come to have such a high regard for his music that I would love to see him live, but he never seems to make it out to SoCal. Hopefully Anthony Braxton or Peter Brotzmann will cruise by one day.

One I really enjoy that doesn't seem to get much play is Clark Terry: Serenade to a Bus Seat. How can you go wrong with a line-up like Johnny Griffin, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones? Nice, straight ahead jazz.

I'm excited about this one. I love my JATP box set -- I don't know, there's just something fun about this music. Guess I'm a sucker for these kind of things.

Things that make you go hmmmmm.....

That's good news! Maybe he'll be impressed enough to reissue Nonaah for me! Put me on that list also Chuck! Yeah, that's next. Then maybe Saga of the Outlaws.

That's good news! Maybe he'll be impressed enough to reissue Nonaah for me! Put me on that list also Chuck!

I happened to see that this is coming out in the Library of America series, and it sounds like one of the more interesting books to come out in a while. Imagine reading Animal Crackers or The Royal Family. This is from the Library of America website: Broadway Comedies Kaufman, George S. & Co. Nine classic comedies from Broadway's Golden Age If Eugene O'Neill represents the tragic mask of American drama, then George S. Kaufman can easily lay claim to its smiling counterpart. No other comic dramatist in America has enjoyed more popular success and perennial influence or been more fortunate in his choice of collaborators, who included George and Ira Gershwin, Moss Hart, Irving Berlin, and the Marx Brothers. Here, in the most comprehensive collection of his plays ever assembled, are nine classics: his uproarious "backstage" play The Royal Family (1927, written with Edna Ferber); the Marx Brothers-inspired mayhem of Animal Crackers (1928, with Morrie Ryskind), in a version discovered in Groucho Marx's papers and published here for the first time; June Moon (1929, with Ring Lardner), a hilarious look at a young composer trying to make it big on Tin Pan Alley; Once in a Lifetime (1930, with Moss Hart), one of the first and best satires of Hollywood; Pulitzer Prize-winners Of Thee I Sing (1931, with Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin) and You Can't Take It with You (1936, with Moss Hart); Dinner at Eight (1932, with Edna Ferber), a tart ensemble piece that mixes comedy and melodrama; Stage Door (1936, with Edna Ferber), his much-loved story about young actresses trying to make it big in New York City; and The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939, with Moss Hart), an unforgettable burlesque of America's cult of celebrity. Bursting with vernacular wit, farcical ingenuity, and theatrical panache, these plays have remained beloved favorites and exuberant reminders of Broadway in its glory days.

Probably one of the live recording you have. The liners say: Enregistre an public les 25, 26, et 27 join 2001 au centre culturel suisse a Paris.

Don't know if this is "Ratty" enough or not, but I'm listening to Daniel Humair: Liberte Surveillee Sketch, and it sounds very good to my ears. Marc Ducret on guitar is someone that I've never come across before who has a nice "free-jazz" sensibilty to his work. Cd also has Ellery Eskelin on tenor, who is his normal excellent self. Nice double cd set that has an inside/outside feel to it, and the only reason I picked it up was that I enjoyed the HUM 3 cd set so much. Chaney: I've yet to hear a good example of a cbe cd. I'll be interested if anyone has some good recomendations.

"You're out of your league, Donnie!"