I do hope you play a track from the Victo show a few years ago. He had trouble at the border into Canada, so John Oswald and Paul Plimley, on a moment's notice, opened the show in lieu of Marilyn Crispell, who was set to close it. But Taylor showed up and did a full set. What a night.
Speaking of R.I.P., my wife lost her mom this past Saturday night. Natural causes, as they say, at 97. She was a pretty damn good mother-in-law. The only one who laughed unreservedly at all my jokes. The world is now and forever a much tougher room.
Thanks, mates. No surprises on this end. The boulder was rolling apace down the mountain and there was no Sisyphus in sight. OK that was weird. Please tell me my dearest didn't just see me refer to her mother as a boulder.
Please.
12:25pm
Dean:
Doug - Condolences to you and your wife, and bravo to a woman who hiked the trail beyond 95 years! Remarkable, but sad.
Jeff J - Yes, it's on the Victo label, three disks: http://jazztimes.com/articles/12910-complicite-paul-plimley-john-oswald-marilyn-crispell-cecil-taylor
12:31pm
Dean:
And, lord, that was way back in 2000, not just "a few years ago"! I would stay in Victo at the B&B (just a house, really, with an extra bedroom) of a retired nurse who spoke zero English. My buddies and I bought her a ticket to the Taylor show. She knew Victo's festival through the newspaper accounts, but had never been to a show. She genuinely enjoyed the entire long show.
Dean - I hear you how time flies! I've taken my dad to several Cecil shows - his idea of jazz is McCoy Tyner - and he loved them. Bowled over the energy and mastery that's unmistakble in a live context.
Re: that Cecil Taylor/Gigi Grice record, I recently stumbled across a sampler of piano music on a label, Private Music, featuring solo performances by Eddie Jobson, Joachim Kuhn, etc. It looked/smelled distinctively New Age-y, so I didn't buy it. But Buell Neidlilnger produced at least one of the tracks.
1:20pm
Dean:
Yow. No idea J-J A had passed on! What a joy it was watching him perform.
Just back to the computer and terribly saddened to learn of your loss, Doug. Good to hear you and the family were able to see her so often. As expected as it may have been, you and Jessie have my sympathies. And I wish I'd had my grandparents until they were 97 as Lincoln did with her!! What a window into another world she must have been for her. Good thoughts to all of her family in the days ahead.
Kenny Wheeler and his wife are both ailing and in need of support. See link in the playlist for a post re a recent benefit held recently in their honor, in London. To contribute to the cause via PayPal, the email address is: friendsofkennywheeler@gmail.com
ahhh, I still have the vinyl (and the box set version) of Four Violins.
2:07pm
John in England:
Just when I thought nothing in the Kenny Wheeler discography could surprise me, I came across him playing with Joe Harriott in 1969 (part of a compilation CD called Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers and Free Fusioneers -- details on the forcedexposure website).
John: that's the soundtrack to the book of the same name, yah? I recall Doug playing something from that a while back.
2:14pm
John in England:
Loosely linked to the book, but independently produced and distributed. Looking it up before commenting, I discovered that Reel Recordings might have bitten the dust, which is a great shame.
Re. J-J Avenel, there is is a Steve Lacy DVD (Lift The Bandstand) where you can see him playing the bass at a really strange angle, which must explain why he could be a very 'clicky' player. Mal Waldron's last recording (I think) was a trio with Steve Lacy and J-J Avenel -- One More Time.
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