Music in Your Mouth
Last night, after finishing Christmas cards, I spent some time on the big blue couch browsing through the Cadence Music Sale catalog in the center of the current issue of Cadence Magazine. Having just received a shipment of discs from them including Mat Maneri, Ken Vandermark, the Either/Orchestra, David S. Ware, and Jeb Bishop, I'm going to hold off on placing another order for awhile. But as I was going through the small-print catalog, I caught myself speaking out loud in bewilderment, exclamation, and question. I never talk to myself! So I captured some of my ephemeral exhalations just for kicks. Here's what I said out loud while flipping through the Cadence Music Sale. If anything, perhaps it'll give you some ideas of what to get me for Christmas.

"That's really weird!" (on the fact that a jazz band called Beeblebrox involved no recognizable names)

"How expensive is Y?" (on the price of a Han Bennink 1973 recording)

"Steve Beresford? Why does he play with such shit people?" (on, well)

"Huh!" (on Jeb Bishop's "Chicago Defenders" recording, which I just received)

"Hmm..." (on Hamiet Bluiett's project with Fred Hopkins)

"Please!" (on ensembles named after the city of Boston that don't involve notable area free jazz players)

"Huh!" (on a Boxhead Ensemble recording not involving Ken Vandermark)

"Wow!" (on the Peter Brotzmann recordings with Joe McPhee, Mats Gustafsson, and Ken Vandermark)

"That's seasonal!" (on the Dave Brubeck "Christmas" recording)

"Who are they?" (On B. Shops for the Poor's No Wave recordings)

"OK, John Butcher's not shit." (on Steve Beresford's appearance on "All Angels Concert")

"U is $11?" (on a cheap John Cage find)

"Oh, that's a comp!" (on a Knitting Factory Works record featuring Uri Caine, David Ware, and the Residents)

"Feh!" (on Tom Chapin's recordings)

"3W!" (on the price of the four-CD Nat King Cole "MacGregor's '41-'45" project, which features Anita O'Day)

"What is this?" (on the Company 91 recordings)

"No one should call their bands contemporary. Contemporary means shit!" (on, well)

"Schmoheme." (on a Boheme recording of jazz accordionist Vlad Danilin)

"Oh, that's a comp!" (on a Knitting Factory Works record featuring Defunkt, Eugene Chadbourne, and Arto Lindsay)

"That's cool!" (on the Mark Dresser soundtrack for "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" with Dave Douglas)

"That's shit!" (on a band called Dr. Pop and the Noise)

"That's good!" (on an Ellery Eskelin recording with Mat Maneri, Erik Friedlander, and Mark Dresser)

"Wow!" (on the Exzoskeleton Quartet record with Weasel Walter and Shrapnel)

"I saw him on the T yesterday!" (on a Ken Field recording)

"That's rare?" (on an asterisked Michael Formanek solo bass record)

"Harry the hipster?" (on a self-titled Gibson record on Delmark)

"Yeah!" (on Mats Gustafsson records with Ken Vandermark and Kurt Newman)

"Hey! That's near my birthday!" (on Abdullah Ibrahim's "Ancient Africa" recording)