Friday, December 13, 2002

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)
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