Things can only get (butter) better...…

[Serial_Apologist]

BD got there first...

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Ian – As an open-minded experiment I played Paul Motian’s "The Room Above Her" (ECM) to my Jazz Ducks last night…

Three of them immediately tried to commit suicide (duckicide) by loudly banging their beaks against the river bank, making a sound not unlike Steve Gadd’s horrible snare drum sound…

One of them (Dexter) speed-dialled the RSPB and reported Motian as a “Mallard Murderering MF!”…”Muzak for making fecking duvets"…”Swan Torture!”

I only calmed them down by playing Sleepy John Estes wonderful “Diving Duck Blues” and promising EXTRA soft white bread rolls in the morning.

If YOU care about our highly sensitive ducks and their mental health, do NOT buy this posturing MUZAK.

Even the pond life revolt.

BN.

[charles t]

Petition: Rename this anachronistic forum

The Slim Gaillard Tootie Frutie Memorial Society

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tn7lOvXSHI

[Ian Thumwood]

Bluesnik

I don't have the ECM material but can only assume that the record you have sufferes from the deadening hand of Manfred Eicher. The JMT recordings by Paul Motian's trio (sometimes augmented) are essential listening although the albums of Monk and Bill Evans material are exceptionally fine. The recording of standards with Lee Kontiz guesting is also extremely impressive but the live Village Vanguard set I have (I believe they have made atleast 2 VV recordings) largely consists of Motian originals which, whilst not only demonstrating the drummer's compositional skills, features some of the most uninhibited soloing from Joe Lovano and Bill Frisell. The claypso like jolity of "Circle Dance" could have come from the the pen of someone like Sonny Rollins whereas scratchy themes like "The Owl of Cranston" offer a spring-board for "outside" improvisation which is certainly no sleep-inducing. In it's way, Paul Motian's trio with Frisell and Lovano covers such a wide range of bases and dynamics that would deservce a whole "Jazz Library" of their own. Although I am not a fan of Bill Evans, I recognise the importance and quantum leap made by the trio with Scot LaFaro in the late fifties. I would suggest that a wider exploration of the music of this trio would demonstrate that Motian's trio is clearly of no lesser merit and, in a life-span that has now almost lasted 30 years, has probably laid down a recorded legacy itself that rivals Evans'. Don't dismiss this band on the basis of one recording.

[Alyn_Shipton]

Lovano will be on JL in early April. We're recording live at the Sage, Gateshead on 26 March, so do come along if you're in the NE. But I think Joe has ideas of playing one or two of his other discs as well as that particular trio...

[Tenor Freak]

Y'know, after hearing that Scott LaFaro JL yesterday, I'm now interested in hearing the Bill Evans 3 recordings...starting with the VV sessions...for years I knew they existed, obviously, but I never got around to hearing them. Great stuff, even if there's no tenor sax in there.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Ian - as a peace gesture (WHATTTT THE F!!!!) I will admit to owning a tape of Joe Lovano, Duane Frizzled, and Paul "Duck Killer" Motian live at the Barbican back in the day which is very good.

Your Mr Frizz is in Jim Hall mode and when the band introduce themselves, he says, "Hi, and I'm Barney Kessel" which raised a smile in Duckland.

BN.

BUT...Samantha "Don't mention Tricky!" Cameron writes ~ "There is no way that Ianesco Thumbtree will be part of my hubby Dave's BIG SOCIETY! He's an anti social muzaka with building site concrete in his ears. No wonder the proles of Egypt are rioting when they see Mr Thumbs fecking awful record collection."

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Bruce ... the trio recordings were exceeding important at the time, for the free interplay of the three musicians .... it was as startling as the Ornette early recordings, Monk apart, even Bud Powell could sound like a lounge format, and the influence of the Nat Cole jazz legacy was everywhere ... when these recordings emerged it was a new freedom ... and the studio sessions are as vital as the VV live sets .... the studio sets according to Motian were recorded straight after a two week club residency ..... everything those three recorded is essential ....