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[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

African and/or American ..... Iverson on Tristano, drummers and white and/or black .... on the basis that the first rule of jazz is rhythmic excitement then the universal second rule must apply, break the first rule, else jazz would lose its anarchic soul ...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

go here!

[Serial_Apologist]

African and/or American ..... Iverson on Tristano, drummers and white and/or black .... on the basis that the first rule of jazz is rhythmic excitement then the universal second rule must apply, break the first rule, else jazz would lose its anarchic soul ...

That's the best Iverson article I've yet read. Brilliant. But only because nearly all the tracks I have are referred to. We were lucky in the 60s that a lot of wise and perspicacious discernment was around and exercised regarding what the most important tracks existed for broadcasting from the history. The first track of Prez I heard, for example, being the famous "Lady be Good" whose Leser Y solo Parker practised at double tempo in his room endlessly. And only because one waits for years to have ones own slowly formulating views seconded by someone who obviously knows more what they're talking about.

So thanks very much indeed for finding and posting this, Calum: it's got me back on track after arguing with cavatina (and myself) about critics needing to know the score before publicly pronouncing on classical concerts, reminding me that jazz criticism - which I came to from writing on classical music - is in a different area altogether.

S-A

[charles t]

'Chances Are' that I am the single bored-ee who was lucky enough - indeed - (excuse: Briticism) to have heard Tristano, live.

An unforgettable concert at Orchestra Hall in Chicago...

Tristano - A Whiter Shade of Pale that ever existed...sunless.

But that initial shock, - re: appearances - quickly dissipated as Lenny, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh began their respective excursions / weaving of lines / into:

Yesterdays.

[ Aside: Does this flashback predicate the notion, that: 'The past is where it's at'? ]

Indeed...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

........indeed chas and greetings..... Tristano must have been most striking, judging by the videos of him he could have been a Bond villain ...

[handsomefortune]

or a friend of vincent price.

(i read half of the iverson on tristano, 'drummers and white and/or black' article. maybe other half later. ).

[Serial_Apologist]

or a friend of vincent price

Lennie's priceless...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

we are all broke or going to be so here is the future ....

jazz in a room performed from compulsive love, no ££££££££££ in this eh?

see also

Peter Marsh was the host on the old MB at £3 ....

[Serial_Apologist]

"Ah, so there is an audience. Perhaps it's a free show. Or perhaps it's a compulsory show. You take your seat, not knowing, and you wait for the compulsory show to begin. It takes time".

From Samuel Beckett's "The Unnameable" as far as I remember the words as taken from Berio's Sinfonia.

[charles t]

Which led me to this video that Peter had watched - a one-hour tape loop by William Basinski accompanying video shot from Brooklyn rooftop towards World Trade Center during last hour of sunlight on 9/11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYOr8TlnqsY&feature=related

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

these clips look like they were ahem , unofficial ... sound it too but look who is playing!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

bugger banjos and accordions! i like the zither ...

see you at the Cafe Mozart

pat m eat yer heart ...

and ecm

yardbird!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

... just discovered John Stetch

..... will be trying his Exponentially monk from emusic shortly ....

[Serial_Apologist]

... just discovered John Stetch

A latter day Martial Solal, methinks...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

and here is a big sample [just over an hour of music] of the new official bootleg of the Miles Davis 5 live in Europe in '67


more get it while it's there ... sets from the Monterey jazz festival on npr