Monday, August 31, 2009

To be listened to, Fall 2009

Melody
Ornette
Getz
Miles

Structure
Booker Little
Bartok
Prokofiev

Harmony
Jim Hall
Ed Bickert

Swing
Ray Brown
Basie
Bobby Broom
Miles
Monk
Steve Khan - "Suitcase" w/ Anthony Jackson and Dennis Chambers
Sinatra, Billie

Texture
Boulez/Nono/Stockhausen
Miles

Oomph
Rush, Yes
Coltrane
Fusion, old and new - Colosseum II, RTF, Five Peace Band, Metheny/Burton, Weather Report

Direction
Adam/Kurt/Turner/Potter/Gordon
Wynton Marsalis - first 3 or 4 records

Of course, Gene

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

The value of impermanence

and the improvisers art. Good topic. For when I need something to write about.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Goodbye, Les.

94 years young. Lester William Polfus, better known as Les Paul.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/arts/music/14paul.html?_r=1&hp

*sigh*