DrJ Posted July 8, 2003 Author Report Posted July 8, 2003 Hey Tod, all the best to you, and glad to see you checking in. Get better fast! Quote
Guest Chaney Posted July 8, 2003 Report Posted July 8, 2003 Maybe a get-well-soon fruit cake? Hope you feel better Tod! Quote
Matthew Posted July 8, 2003 Report Posted July 8, 2003 Maybe a get-well-soon fruit cake? Hope you feel better Tod! I thought Tod was the parrot guy Anyway, hope you get better! Quote
Out2Lunch Posted July 8, 2003 Report Posted July 8, 2003 Maybe a get-well-soon fruit cake? doesn't mix well with the chemo! Thanks for the good cheer if I show up here a little on the bitchy side, its not the humidity. I'll be checking in on my good days! Best to All!!! Quote
David Ayers Posted July 8, 2003 Report Posted July 8, 2003 Best wishes, Tod. Feel free to bitch away - the rest of us do! Quote
Achtung Dr. Freud Calling Posted July 8, 2003 Report Posted July 8, 2003 They get you drunk and pretty soon you're voting all kinds of crazy tickets! Come here little birdie....your friend ze Doktor has more 6.5% medicine for you! Careful, don't stumble! Quote
Out2Lunch Posted July 8, 2003 Report Posted July 8, 2003 Man, that's some boozed-up bird with a jones for expensive beer to boot! Is his tongue robins' egg blue? Quote
The Red Menace Posted July 8, 2003 Report Posted July 8, 2003 Please get better soon, Comrade Tod!!! May I suggest large doses of vodka and many listenings to this outstanding collection of music for a speedy recovery??? We look forward to your recurring posts!!! And now back to my Fox programs. Quote
alankin Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 Rumor has it that Jarman has rejoined the group and that they will tour in the future. Can anyone verify? Jarman is with them again, although I don't think they'll be playing together that frequently since they live in different areas now. The group has recently recorded two albums (with Jarman) for Pi that'll be out this year. There will also be an ECM album that was recorded a year or two ago (without Jarman) as a tribute to Lester. I believe the group will be playing at the Chicago Jazz Festival at the end of the summer. Quote
JSngry Posted July 12, 2003 Report Posted July 12, 2003 Roughly 450 left is the word from Mr. Nessa his ownself. Quote
David Williams Posted July 13, 2003 Report Posted July 13, 2003 What's the opinon on Bap-Tizum and Fanfare For The Warriors? I've seen copies of the Four Men With Beards LP reissues at reasonable prices. Quote
JSngry Posted July 13, 2003 Report Posted July 13, 2003 What's the opinon on Bap-Tizum and Fanfare For The Warriors? I've seen copies of the Four Men With Beards LP reissues at reasonable prices. Excellent. Purely excellent. Quote
DrJ Posted July 13, 2003 Author Report Posted July 13, 2003 I only have FANFARE but agree with Jim's assessment wholeheartedly on that one. Quote
JSngry Posted July 13, 2003 Report Posted July 13, 2003 BAP-TIZUM is a live set recorded (I think) at the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Fest and is crackling with vim, vigor , and vitality. Anybody who digs the AEC should have this one, at least in my opinion. Quote
David Williams Posted July 13, 2003 Report Posted July 13, 2003 Ah, thanks - from both me and Dusty Groove. The trouble with new discoveries is it's hard to resist the urge to buy everything at once. Quote
Guest Chaney Posted July 13, 2003 Report Posted July 13, 2003 I only have FANFARE but agree with Jim's assessment wholeheartedly on that one. Same here. I've taken the liberty of typing out two paragraphs from the Steve Smith penned liner notes as I feel that they give an unusually accurate description of what you'll hear if you GET THIS SET NOW! For Fanfare for the Warriors the Art Ensemble chose to include a non-member on record for the first time: Muhal Richard Abrams, their peer and mentor from the Experimental Band. Abrams had played with the band before, most notable at the 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival. (A recording was issued in 1978 as Kabalaba on the band’s own AECO label.) His piano string plucking joins the percussive mélange in “Illistrum”, a Favors setting of a mythological poem recited by Jarman. (Who could ever have imagined that this recording would inspire a Santa Cruz, CA-based bottler of fresh fruit juices to name their company after one of the poem’s characters, Odwalla? The poem and the company’s story appears on its delightful website at www.odwallazone.com) Bowie’s “Barnyard Scuffel Shuffel” passes through a freeform intro into a headlong freebop dash before settling into a rollicking blues shuffle that both acknowledges the tradition and gives it a raspberry. Mitchell’s bracing “Nonaah”, a tangle of staccato lines heard first in opposition, then unison, is a piece that the composer would continue to reexamine in his own subsequent recordings and performances, setting it for solo saxophone, saxophone quartet, string quartet and orchestra. Jarman’s epic title piece “Fanfare for the Warriors” begins with a beguiling melody that quickly reaches fever pitch, leading to a furious Jarman solo animated by a violence that could easily go toe to toe with such free improv juggernauts as Pharoah Sanders and Peter Brotzmann. After a stabbing Bowie solo and the return of the theme, Abrams ends the piece alone, a brief solo crashing into a long, dramatic fade. Jarman’s “What’s To Say” has a quirky Caribbean lilt, while its contrasting tranquil ending surely echoes the rarefied air of late-period Coltrane. Mitchell’s ghostly “Tnoona”, a study in long, breathy tones and pedal point featuring Bowie blowing air through his horn without forming notes, reflects the composer’s interest in contemporary classical compositional devices; it, too features a closing that is very different from the rest of the piece, a declamatory angular unison line. His closer, the brief song “The Key”, demonstrates that Mitchell is not merely the band’ resident intellectual; the tune reflects a whimsical nostalgia for the kind of Lyrically swinging novelty tune later dubbed “Bug Music” by clarinetist Don Byron, though with a distinctly sardonic tone. END A really wonderful outing for this band. Quote
David Williams Posted July 13, 2003 Report Posted July 13, 2003 Thanks for taking the trouble, Chaney - beyond the call of duty. Quote
JSngry Posted July 13, 2003 Report Posted July 13, 2003 (edited) A sidenote: in the liners to "Coming Home Jamaica ", the AEC thanks the Odwalla Juice Co. for "a funding grant" and "ardent support". So, DRINK ODEALLA!!! Edited July 13, 2003 by JSngry Quote
pryan Posted July 15, 2003 Report Posted July 15, 2003 I've been away for a while (not health-related) and am just checking in here quickly. Good news re: the number of copies left, I'll have to get it soon! Get well soon, Tod. Quote
Clunky Posted July 18, 2003 Report Posted July 18, 2003 Is this a reasonable place to start with AEC. ? I only have "A Jackson in your house/ Message to our folks" which is pretty entertaining if it werent for the poor audio quality. My Charly CD sounds if its been transfered badly off and poor LP !!! I really love "Snurdy..." ( for me the reissue of the yesr so far) but I guess this set is in a rather different bag. Mighty tempted to take up Chucks suggestion and pick this up with the Stitt Mosaic. Any final opinions about either set would be welcome. Quote
king ubu Posted July 18, 2003 Report Posted July 18, 2003 Is this a reasonable place to start with AEC. ? I have nothing else by the AEC (except a late live disc from around 1990.) I'd say if you're open-eared (/-minded), and the comments made in this thread don't keep you away from it, it's a great place to start. And finally, if you got it, you can go the chronological way later on (I'm not so far yet, but that's more of a time and money related issue than a question of wanting to), and know their beginnings. ubu Quote
JSngry Posted July 18, 2003 Report Posted July 18, 2003 Clunky, it sounds like you've gotten your feet wet with the AEC & Co. (those two BYG/Actuel sides you have are "classics", as is SNURDY), so if you're digging the vibe and want more, the Box would probably give you a lot of pleasure. Quote
DrJ Posted July 24, 2003 Author Report Posted July 24, 2003 Been getting quick listens in to a piece here and there between feedings, burpings, and diaper changes (er...the new baby's, not mine!). Wonderful, just great. Worth every penny. Excellent sound, nice packaging, but the music is of course king. Fresh. Quote
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