smithson@calma.uucp (Brian Smithson) (09/04/85)
[eat some of this...] The net is a lot quieter now with Doug gone. I'm thinking of other people whose stuff I would rather not have to rummage through in order to get to more interesting, varied postings. After the holiday weekend, I saw a bunch of articles which seemed to refer to things Doug must have posted -- but nothing from Doug himself! An associate of mine from our San Diego offices mentioned that for those people using "rn", the following command placed in either the global or local "kill" files will do the same trick: /From: nessus/h:j I also received mail from a person who mentioned that there is at least one other "nessus" on the net, and so in all fairness, both my previously posted script and the rn command above should be changed from "nessus" to "nessus@mit-eddie". Oops -- this is net.music, eh? For those who were not fortunate enough to be in Berkeley on Labor Day weekend, you missed a spectacular Berkeley Jazz Festival. Line-ups, in order of appearance, were as follows: Sunday: David Benoit McCoy Tyner trio Abdullah Ibrahim (sp?), aka Dollar Brand Jeff Lorber group George Howard Miles Davis Monday: Dave Valentin Jack DeJohnette and Special Edition Stanley Jordan Pieces of a Dream Herbie Hancock quartet Descriptions of the music just wouldn't do it justice. Everyone was terrific. Highlights, however: Dollar Brand was excellent, of course, and particularly appropriate given the Southern Africa crisis. Miles -- what can you say? I hadn't heard any Jack DeJohnette groups in a while (years, actually). That is going to change... Howard Johnson was simply stunning on F tuba. They did an arrangement (Johnson arranged) of Monk's Mood which is still running through my head. Two bass clarinets, baritone sax, and DeJohnette doing horn-lines on a synthesizer -- I've never heard quite that sound before. Stanley Jordan thrilled the audience, especially those who had not seen him perform (if you haven't, please do -- you can't believe that one person makes all that music on one six-string guitar unless you watch him do it). Pieces of a Dream blended their popular songs with some "traditional" numbers, including a rendition of Night Train (right off of mid-60's Oscar Peterson, including a Ray Brown-like bass solo). Very creditable job, and a lot of fun as well. Herbie Hancock had Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams. Need I say more? Strictly straight ahead (mainstream? whatever it's called now). The weather was great (no heat stroke this year). The crowd was happy (full theatre, but not overbooked!). The only annoyances were an unbilled appearance of the Freedom Song Network singing "songs of struggle", and long stage setup times, the combination of which pushed the Sunday show into the very late evening. A lot of people had left by the time Miles appeared. The setup times were reduced on Monday, and the Freedom Song Network did their struggling between acts while the stage was being set for the next group, instead of being set up as an act themselves. I could have done without the Freedom folks altogether, but "when in Berkeley" I guess... Overall, I'd say it was the best BJF in three or four years. Wish y'all were there! -- -Brian Smithson Calma Company ucbvax!calma!smithson calma!smithson@ucbvax.ARPA
nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) (09/04/85)
Hey, now that Brian Smithson continues to advertise gleefully that he has all messages from me automatically removed from his .newsrc file, I'll bet I can tell you all about the really gross and sick things he does with cats and iguanas and cucumbers and K-Y Jelly, and he'd never even realize it..... Well maybe tomorrow.... After I post a review of Birsongs of The Mesozoic's concert at The Church in Gloucester last Saturday.... -Doug
kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker) (09/05/85)
second all of this, but unmentioned was George Howard...really impressive
stuff! Until Miles got his band moving, I thought he was going to be the
highest light of Sunday (and he may still have been!) As they say, if
you get the chance...
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...and I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody outside of a small circle
of friends...
Ken Shoemaker, Microprocessor Design for a large, Silicon Valley firm
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