Uncle Skid

I think I'd rather hear Celine Dion cover AC-DC than Led Zeppelin tunes done by handbell ensemble!

Set aside the newly arrived Braxton Arista for a moment, and put on the Andrew Hill Blue Note disc #6.

"If the human race survives the next millennium, Anthony Braxton would be a great choice to provide the music for the celebration." John Litweiler - The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 :)

Thank you very much for posting all of this, Jason!!! For those of us that don't have the original vinyl, this is a most welcome addition/supplement to the Mosaic booklet.

Thanks, Chuck.

Discussion of Opus 23B (New York, Fall 1974) on page 3 of the book mentions Barry Altschul twice, but discography says Jerome Cooper on drums. Discography is correct, apparently. On to more important things: this music is absolutely wonderful. I can't express how excited I am about this release. Out-friggin'-standing!

Yes! Thanks for posting, Mark. All of the photos are great, but the first one is particularly outstanding.

Just got my shipping notice. Did happen to see that Mosaic charged my credit card yesterday, so I knew it was coming soon!

That's obscene, man. How can you digest all that music? I start feeling overwhelmed around 4 or 5 albums per month.

Regarding the New World recordings: anybody curious about these can check them out pretty inexpensive via Amazon MP3 downloads: Cecil Tayor Unit - $2.97 Cecil Taylor: 3 Phasis - $4.95 Both are also available on eMusic. Any thoughts on "Dark To Themselves" (Enja)? I'm not familiar with that one, but it looks intriguing.

Quit hatin', Ag. Congrats to the band for all the airplay!

YOU TRYIN' TO BE FUNNY, AL??? I should come down to Texas to kick your ass for making fun of my favorite artist/singer. "neediest fan base": DAMN RIGHT! Just because we NEED to have her beautiful voice and profound lyrics in our life doesn't mean you can make fun of it. If you had a soul, maybe you would be able to grasp the depth of her talent. Obviously, this is not the case. "wind like the breeze that blew through my hair on a morning": yes, her music touches me like a cool morning breeze, blowing new life into my mundane existence. "your heart became black like the darkest night": talking about yourself there, pal? A world without Tori's music is very dark, of that I'm sure. "my superstar my dream my love": I once had a dream that I was a Bösendorfer piano bench, on tour with Tori. Since you are too busy living a life of mockery, you probably aren't aware of the raw love and sexual energy she bestows on it while playing. Gezhundheit yourself, motherfucker.

What FFA said! Congrats!!!

porn, junk food, and cheap beer.

No Tori Amos fans on this board, except for me! (and maybe Aggie!)

A short review here, including the entire "Shaw Nuff" track.

Thanks for posting this, ghost -- I enjoyed reading it. This will be a nice "supplement" to the published notes. At the risk of being busted by the political thread police, this passage struck me as relevant to Chuck's earlier post: I guess we better not discuss this any further outside of the "prescribed forum".

Whitehead's review is now available online. I listened to it earlier this morning, and between this thread and that review, my interest was piqued. Downloaded "Dying Will Be Easy" from EMusic, and the first spin has lived up to my expectations. From Patrick Jarenwattananon's review: "liberal mixing of musical metaphors", "exuberant and relevant improvised music"... fitting descriptions. In fact, this band reminds me a little of Reptet: "blaring horns and snare-drum rolls render the exotica of a slow Spanish march into a loud, blown-out stampede" could be just as easily be applied to "Reptet Score!" from their Chicken or Beef? record. I also hear similarities in the creative percussion and arrangements of both groups, and the soaring trumpet on "November 25th" and Reptet's "eltiT". I really like this record. Like Reptet, they don't seem to shackled with artificial notions of what is and is not "appropriate" in a "jazz" group -- I hear a lot of individual creativity, plus a certain group cohesiveness that keeps it all together without being predictable. Would love to see these guys live sometime!

It's back on eMusic again, but it's filed under "Andrew & Chico Hamilton Hill".

I'd be interested in knowing if Wynton has read your liner notes to "New Tango '92" and "Mental Strain at Dawn", and if so, what are his thoughts on topics you raised. I should say at the outset that this is not meant to be confrontational at all -- I think you raised some very interesting points about owning "the tradition", and the relatively narrow definitions of what is/is not "jazz", and it's fascinating to me how this is still a contested and controversial topic to this day.

with lime!

Thanks for posting, Lazaro. And thanks VERY MUCH for the "Jazz Datebook". Just came back from TIJO at the Westside Inn -- I believe they are playing every other week through Sept/Oct.

The "free" credit report scams.

I thought that most of the material played that evening was from "Sound Grammar", so I'm also interested in finding out what other recordings were represented. As far as "typical", I'll say this: what I heard was not all that different from what I expected, and that should not be construed as a negative comment. Thanks for the Vijay links, ejp.