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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:21:14 -0500
From: <ssmith36@sprynet.com>
Subject: Re: Re: black compositions
Buncha thoughts on this current thread:
1. The earliest version of Human Feel did have a bass player, John Silverman, but later versions did not.
2. Black wrote tunes on all Human Feel discs except for the third, 'Welcome to Malpesta.'
3. I thought Black's writing for the first alasnoaxis disc showed huge promise, and will only continue to improve as he realizes that he doesn't have to completely fill every minute with new ideas and events. But he's really into density - to wit, he has a real passion for Lutoslawski.
4. Sorry to say I have no insight as to when Black's new W&W disc will be out. But I do know that he had a new, laptop-based project at Tonic last Friday. The same night, he and Skuli appeared on David Letterman, backing Laurie Anderson - don't know if this was new (as in, taped that afternoon) or a rerun.
5. Personally I think Chris Speed's writing has improved on each subsequent yeah, no release. Wasn't the drummer on 'Iffy' actually Ben Perowsky? (I don't have it handy here at the office.) Cuong Vu's writing is more of a mystery - his first disc was full of sharp tunes, but I don't really think of the pieces on his second and third discs (with Stomu and Hollenbeck) as being "written" in quite the same way - feels more like collective improv on a germinal idea.
6. Anyone hear any of Tim Berne's sets last week at the Knit? I missed every damn one of them. He played for four nights - early set was Big Satan plus Taborn, late set that quartet plus Herb Robertson and Scott Colley. First new ensemble music in a while, and I go and miss it.
7. I noticed a few minutes ago on the Screwgun website that the long awaited 2CD Berne big band set, 'Open Coma,' is now available: http://www.screwgunrecords.com/coma.htm
8. Almost entirely unrelated (except in that it's another drummer who most certainly CAN write), Bobby Previte's got a new jazz-oriented release coming in January on the Palmetto label, with Marty Ehrlich, Ray Anderson, Wayne Horvitz, Steve Swallow and guest Joe Bowie. Very fine pieces, and the kind of wonderful blowing we've come to expect from these guys.
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:44:24 +0100
From: "Remco Takken" <r.takken@planet.nl>
Subject: Joey Baron, Was: Re: black compositions
SSmith wrote:
>>Almost entirely unrelated (except in that it's another drummer who most
>>certainly CAN write), Bobby Previte's got a new jazz-oriented release -
CAN write, Maybe as opposed to Joey Baron ;-)
Has anybody else heard of the unlikely coupling of Jasper van 't Hof (Church
organ) and Joey. I just bought it this afternoon, and it has some magic
moments, between ugly 'jazz go the classics' fragments. The first 'song' on
the record is a 'Baron'-composition (drum solo).
That one Baron composition feels strange, when one reads in the liner notes,
that Van 't Hof recorded his parts in Italy, 1998, where Baron only added
overdubs, in a Dutch studio in 2000.
np: nothing
just played: Jasper van 't Hof & Joey Baron: their new release on Challenge
Records
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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:51:18 -0800
From: Skip Heller <velaires@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Joey Baron, Was: Re: black compositions
Before dismissing Baron as a composer, I would listen again. Granted, he's
not Wayne Shorter, but he's written some things I like very very much.
skip heller
http://www.skipheller.com
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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:01:36 -0800 (PST)
From: rizzi@browbeat.com (m. rizzi)
Subject: NYC Shows?
I'm leaving for NYC in the morning, are
there any must see shows happening between
now and Dec. 20th?
thanks,
mike rizzi
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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:30:26 EST
From: Samerivertwice@aol.com
Subject: NYC shows (Knitting shows anyway)
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