brandx@ihu1m.UUCP (Howard D. Weisberg) (01/25/85)
Colin Walcott's unfortunate accident is a tragedy, not only for his friends and family, but for those who knew his music. Along with the other members of Oregon, he created one of the most unique and tasteful fusions of different styles of music (Eastern, Classical, Jazz, Third World). For those who didn't know his music, his main instruments were tabla and sitar (I believe he studied tabla with Alla Rakha). He made no bad music (remember, there is only good and bad music). Anyone interested in the afforementioned types of music would do themselves a favor by picking up any Oregon album or any Codona album (w/COlin, DOn Cherry, and NAna Vasconcelos). I was recently at Turtle Records in Atlanta, and saw a whole slew of records on OAO/Celluloid Records (I believe that's Bill Laswell's label). There is an (essentially) all drum album by Ronald Shannon Jackson, a rerelease of John McLaughlin's Devotion album, and all other kinds of stuff. Does anyone know of any Material album coming out in the future? Michael Beinhorn left Material; who does that leave in it? (besides Laswell).