some things

I'm out of the country until February, so until then someone else will be spinning tunes for the hour. For the 24th and 31st of December, Sudeep will be doing that. Thank you, Sudeep.

Here are some interesting things I found today:
- This document shows how Raymond Carver's story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" was edited by his editor Gordon Lish. His editing feels like filleting with a sashimi knife: very "in" and very tight. It makes the story feel more like a play than a narrative. Towards the end, he's cutting out pages and pages, and though I'm sorry to lose the lovely ending where Nick's staring out the window at the fields, I think it feels right to end where it does now. Plus, the back story about the Gates was way senti.

- Destination-out has a selection of "this year"'s "bests". Here you can even download a Bill Dixon tune called "Solo" from the same album (Considerations...) I played last week. Plus they included My Bloody Valentine's "You Made Me Realise," a song from which has one of my favorite lines: "You give me flowers when it's thorns I give to you."

See you February 4th.

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Bill Dixon, Untitled IV & V, 1994


Max Roach & Anthony Braxton/ Birth/ Birth And Rebirth
Anthony Braxton & Richard Teitelbaum/ Behemoth Dreams/ Silence & Time Zones
Bill Dixon/ Places And Things/ Considerations 1972-1976
Alice Coltrane/ Mantra/ Ptah, the El Daoud
Vijay Iyer Quartet/ That Much Music/ Blood Sutra

Click here to listen to the archived show (link will be up until Dec. 31st)

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Mother nature seems to love us all;
When she smiles there is a subtle glow,
And with tears of joy, the happiness flows.

Art Ensemble Of Chicago/ Theme de Yoyo/ Les Stances A Sophie
Pharoah Sanders/ Colors/ Karma
John Tchicai & Cadentia Nova Danica/ Lakshmi/ Afrodisiaca
Ric Colbeck Quartet/ Aphrodite/ The Sun is Coming Up
Andrew Hill/ Compulsion/ Compulsion
Marion Brown/ Dance No. 1/ In Sommerhausen

Click here to listen to the archived show (link will be up for two weeks)

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October 5th, 2007, Building 6

Lennie Tristano Sextet/ Intuition & Digression/ Crosscurrents
Don Cherry/ Free Improvisation: Music Now/ Live at Cafe Monmartre 1966
Dayna Stephens feat. John Scofield/ Beginning of an Endless Happy Monday/ The Timeless Now
Anat Ford/ Not The Perfect Storm/ A Long Story
Marty Ehlrich & Myra Melford/ Hymn/ Spark!
Free Range Rat/ Non-Believer (Suite)/ Nut Club
Reid Anderson/ Reclusive/ Vastness of Space
Henry Threadgill's Zooid/ Calm Down/ Up Popped the Two Lips


(Bed music is italicized)