>CARL WILSON The Globe and Mail Saturday, August 21, 1999, makes reference t=
o
>"Waits's 1987 stage musical Frank's Wild Years." Was this really a
>stageplay, >or is he just referring to the concert documented in Big TIme?
Indeed it was composed for a stage play. I recall there being some info
about the premiere (in Chicago?) in the liner notes, but I don=B4t have the
album handy right now. Stephen
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:54:41 EDT
From: Nvinokur@aol.com
Subject: Patricia Barber
I just picked up an album by Patricia Barber called modern cool. Dave Douglas on trumpet. Quite a bit of diversity on this record. the guitar player, John McLean is very interesting. The music ranges from Annetta Peacock to pop to modern jazz. She plays the piano and sings. Does anyone know about her other work?
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 21:34:13 -0400
From: Steve Smith <ssmith36@sprynet.com>
Subject: Re: Patricia Barber
Nvinokur@aol.com wrote:
> I just picked up an album by Patricia Barber called modern cool. Dave Douglas on trumpet. Quite a bit of diversity on this record. the guitar player, John McLean is very interesting. The music ranges from Annetta Peacock to pop to modern jazz. She plays the piano and sings. Does anyone know about her other work?
Not really. But I thought I'd mention that Patricia's new album, "Cafe Blue," was issued by Blue Note last week, as was a new major label version of "Modern Cool" (previously on an indie label - Premonition, it was called, perhaps?).
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
(watchin' the Yankees against the TX Rangers, and still unable to play the damn King Crimson download...)
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:40:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Theodorus@webtv.net (Theodorus Klaase)
Subject: Frisell
I'm in need of a Bill Frisell boot-leg C
concert video of any kind...Please reply privately, thanks....
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"without music, life would be an error..."
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:43:33 +0800
From: numbats@iinet.net.au
Subject: LP auctions - closing soon
My 2 current auctions - Blue Note Special (List 10) and Modern/Avant
Garde/Free Jazz (List 11) - close soon, on 1 and 8 September respectively.
i must admit not knowing anything either but i've got a catalogue from a
store in sydney (birdland) which gives me the impression that both "modern
cool" and "cafe blue" are reissues( remastered or something). it also says
that a new cd is due later this year.
regards,
aaron
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Steve Smith wrote:
>
> Not really. But I thought I'd mention that Patricia's new album, "Cafe Blue," was issued by Blue Note last week, as was a new major label version of "Modern Cool" (previously on an indie label - Premonition, it was called, perhaps?).
>
> Steve Smith
> ssmith36@sprynet.com
> (watchin' the Yankees against the TX Rangers, and still unable to play the damn King Crimson download...)
>
>
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 06:28:22 -0400
From: "David J. Keffer" <keffer@planetc.com>
Subject: abracadabra (was Zorn T-shirt)
>From: Corey Marc Fogel <mecorey@imap3.asu.edu>
>
>On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Yves Dewulf wrote:
>
>> Also, Does anybody know the meaning of the hebrew text on the
>> T-shirt of Zorn (see for instance the photos of the Jazziz-article.)
>
>abra cadabra
Well, I am not a Hebrew scholar by any means but I do know the
etymology of the word, abracadabra.
Abracadabra originally was a magical formula (both spoken and=20
written), derived from the Hebrew phrase abreq ad h=E2bra,
which has the same consonance and assonance of abracadabra.
The literal meaning of abreq ad h=E2bra is "Hurl your lightning
bolt, even unto death".
summarized from: Cirlot, J.E., "The Dictionary of Symbols", B&N Books,
New York, 1971, translated from the Spanish.
Most English dictionaries provide a different etymology for=20
abracadabra, based on a relation to an alternate name of=20
the sun-god Mithras, Abracax, of the Gnostics. But this seems
a much less convincing etymology than the one given above=20
and not nearly as neat as "Hurl your lightning bolt, even unto death".
David K.
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:12:41 -0500
From: Joseph Zitt <jzitt@metatronpress.com>
Subject: Re: abracadabra (was Zorn T-shirt)
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 06:28:22AM -0400, David J. Keffer wrote:
> Abracadabra originally was a magical formula (both spoken and=20
> written), derived from the Hebrew phrase abreq ad h=E2bra,
> which has the same consonance and assonance of abracadabra.
> The literal meaning of abreq ad h=E2bra is "Hurl your lightning
> bolt, even unto death".
>=20
> summarized from: Cirlot, J.E., "The Dictionary of Symbols", B&N Books,
> New York, 1971, translated from the Spanish.
Hmm... .maybe Aramaic or something, but I question the supposed
Hebrew derivation. "abreq" *might* mean "I will thunder", as related
to "baraq". I don't recognize "habra" as meaning "death".
Anyone got a better handle on the words? My Hebrew is admittedly rusty.
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