Slate
presents its year-end roundtable on the Year in Pop, featuring an email
chain between four dangerous minds: Jody Rosen, Ann Powers, Jonah Weiner and
Carl Wilson. Yes.
Ben Ratliff reviews Konitz/Haden/Motian/Mehldau at Birdland. I heard the late set last night, and it was a stunner. “Solar,” y’all.
Destination:Out
revisits Chappaqua Suite, a would-be
film score by Ornette Coleman, issued on Columbia in 1966. Given the
popularity of his near-contemporaneous Stockholm recordings, the flat-out unavailability
of this album is a head-scratcher. (Hello, Sony Legacy!)
NPR hosts archival audio of the Dave Douglas Quintet at the Village Vanguard. Also, check the link to a Douglas interview with Josh Jackson of WBGO (who doubles as emcee).
Chappaqua Suite is extraordinary. I really don't understand how ANYONE is sitting on unreleased or out-of-print Ornette. You hear me, Impulse?
Posted by: Michael J. West | 12/10/2009 at 03:39 PM