SCOTT LaFARO - R3 Bassment library...

[Ian Thumwood]

Some sleep inducing Paul Motian for duck-loving beboppers playing a famous Thelonious Monk dirge:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaY1GVeHqKw

One of the seminal jazz groups of the last thirty years. (If you can be bothered to listen.)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Chuck: What do you think of the trend toward de-evolution in jazz in the past 15 years: younger musicians going back to standards and playing and dressing as musicians did in the '40s, '50s and '60s?
Paul: Maybe that's what has to happen before it picks up again and starts going in the right direction, you know? Because, I mean, Coleman Hawkins ain't around, you know, to name one (laughs), Art Blakey's not around, Miles Davis ain't even here anymore (laughs). I mean, first of all, think about all the great players that happened to be around at the same time. I mean, just take a year, like 1950. You got Louie Armstrong. You got Duke Ellington. You got Miles. You got Sonny Rollins. You got Coleman Hawkins. I mean, you got Jack Teagarden! And it's all sort of within this one bubble, all of these great people, all at the same fuckin' time, man! Is there going to be any time in the future when that's going to be happening again? I don't think so, man. So maybe it has to go back to square one and start all over (laughs). Who knows? I don't know.

an interview with Paul Motian in 1996 parts 1 & 2

http://www.chuckbraman.com/Writing/WritingFilesDrumming/Motian1.html

http://www.chuckbraman.com/Writing/WritingFilesDrumming/Motian2.html

another interview on npr:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5256495

with an account of meeting and playing with Bill Evans and Scott La Faro; an account of Evans's personal decline after La Faro's death ... heroin and grief in a self doubting introvert ... the music got slower and quieter ..... and Motian quit mid tour ... [and he prefers the studio recordings of the classic trio ... me too listen to the version of Witchcraftall three on song and together ... recorded as a two week club engagement finished La Faro is awesome]

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Chuck Israels, in the role he will always be remembered, as bassist of the Bill Evans trio, has just given an interview to the Bellingham Herald on the occasion of retiring from his teaching post.

Plenty of other jazz musicians who teach will, inevitably, one day face this moment. Chuck Israels expresses his acute frustration at not being able to bridge the generational gap with his students. He's had... "24 years of being an alien...!!!"

AMEN
BN.

[Tenor Freak]

What an excellent prog. Many thanks for this.

I'm listening now, last chance before the Ethel Waters programme takes its place.