tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post5735578009438603077..comments2024-03-03T13:59:25.573-08:00Comments on If You Know What I'm Saying: the experts (1) - thb sextet 2010Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-64791670596698037922011-10-15T14:33:15.613-07:002011-10-15T14:33:15.613-07:00glad to hear it (the music in general) was enjoyed...glad to hear it (the music in general) was enjoyed! thb deserves wider recognition as a leader imo - but then we are (alas) talking about a scene in which NO-one has much in the way of recognition... i still regularly encounter people who claim to have wide and varied music taste, but who have never heard of b... even leaving aside the fact that in my experience most people have far narrower music taste than they think they have, this reflects a pretty sad state of affairs :(centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-20199001288408011172011-10-13T21:27:48.896-07:002011-10-13T21:27:48.896-07:00Thanks for the recommendation and for the tip on t...Thanks for the recommendation and for the tip on the earlier performance. I just took them in chronological order, both are marvelous. First I was particularly "hit" by the drummer on the Vision 2008 concert ; funny melody around 32mn, intense groove at 37ish (I took this "ish" suffix from reading you, I like it ; not certain whether I use it properly here, though) ; and a superb guitar conclusion. <br />Saalfelden 2010 is excellent again, around 25mn in Apparent Distance, a melody takes place, hispanic to my ears, or is it eastern european ? Fantastic, moving, and these intriguin sonorities ! A great piece with contrasted parts. <br />On Bowie I enjoyed the guitar and trumpet en particulier. <br />Beautiful palette of sounds. <br />Merci Cent'Nuage fiché qui rêvehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01379323343291456318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-14972515780937684182011-10-08T02:12:27.818-07:002011-10-08T02:12:27.818-07:00enjoy! incidentally, the earlier sextet performanc...enjoy! incidentally, the earlier sextet performance is in my collection because i recorded it from bbc radio, but it is <a href="http://taylorhobynum.com/livearchive/live-at-the-vision-festival" rel="nofollow">available</a> for free download from thb's website.centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-49327129608843004382011-10-07T07:04:25.782-07:002011-10-07T07:04:25.782-07:00Two rainforests that are now on my listening list,...Two rainforests that are now on my listening list, looking forward to enter... <br />Thank you Cent' !Nuage fiché qui rêvehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01379323343291456318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-68453917933377148762011-09-20T01:04:48.624-07:002011-09-20T01:04:48.624-07:002. there are plenty of (highly) experimental small...2. there are plenty of (highly) experimental small-brass players out there, of course. i could easily cite peter evans, greg kelley, nate wooley et al - but then these are thb's contemporaries, and all of them have drunk deeply at the same source(s). <br /><br />we could mention older players such as lester bowie or kondo toshinori... but at that point i start to run out of comparisons, this hardly being my specialist subject...<br /><br />3. it took ages actually, but i eventually found myself hearing a lonely funeral drum in (the canonical) comp. 23a - the last cut on *new york fall '74*. it was there all along of course :)centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-45132140309718659262011-09-20T00:57:30.607-07:002011-09-20T00:57:30.607-07:00i apologise if parts of this are unreadable, i rea...i apologise if parts of this are unreadable, i really wanted to get it up but didn't have much inspiration when it came to the writing for some reason. i know from experience that some things i write at those times can leaving even *me* perplexed later on... "what the hell was i trying to say?!"<br /><br />footnotes:<br /><br />1. the reason this simultaneous-attack stuff now immediately reminds me of braxton is 'cos i've heard a lot of solo performances from, say, the last 15 yrs or so - during which time our man has mastered precisely this effect, that of both playing a horn and sub-diverting the forced breath through it at once; there are now several pieces among the (voluminous) solo books which are based around this complex principle. <br /><br />the reason i thought of bill dixon about half a second later is because i only saw mr dixon once, and he was doing something vaguely similar, i.e. making much use of breath through the horn into a close mic (with and without effects). [this was THAT concert at the (old) royal festival hall; braxton and his students had (arguably) blown c.t. out of the hall and right into the filthy old thames - mr taylor was said later to have been most disgruntled and people did raise eyebrows at the way the bill had been put together, and although from my pov at the time it was like a dream come true - both acts for one concert ticket - i can see how it was all a bit thoughtless. (y'know... for a change.) mr taylor kept everyone waiting for a long time, and sent first oxley then dixon onstage ahead of him, before keeping us waiting some more..!] after the performance, bynum dedicates the music to mr dixon, in fact, cited as a big inspiration for all the players; the connection had long since occurred to me before i got this far, if only for the dubious reasons outlined above :)centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.com