Re: sort of an unexpected sighting

["Paul" <pauljohnson@mountsett.freeserve.co.uk>]

hi

as i read your email i was just listening to kenny wheeler's new album "
along time ago" (ecm 1691) which is music for trumpet, piano, guitar & brass
ensemble. it is a very melancholy album but beautiful in a sublime sort of
way. i am a recent convert to wheeler but have heard him play on other ecm
albums. i think that this recording is a good example of the cross-over
between jazz and classical ensemble writing... definately worth a listen.
not sure if it is available in the US yet but it can be oredered from munich
directly at www.ecmrecords.com.

was at a folk festival in brampton, cumbria (uk) at the weekend and the
canadian repressentatives were a group called The Mad Puddings (!!). they
were very good - has anyone heard of them?

best wishes,
paul johnson
-----Original Message-----
From: Marcos Maffei <mmaffei@uol.com.br>
To: f_minor@email.rutgers.edu <f_minor@email.rutgers.edu>
Date: 19 July 1999 05:25
Subject: GG: sort of an unexpected sighting


>Hi, f-minors
>
>For a possible series of totally unexpected sightings of GG
>(or, after all, not so...)
>
>I've just bought a jazz recording, of the trumpetist and composer Kenny
>Wheeler
>(All the More, Soul Note 121236) and look what I've found in the liner
>notes
>(by the very interesting British saxophonist Evan Parker):
>
>"Is it too neat to start locating Kenny Wheeler among a select group of
>musicians all losely of the same generation who seem to represent a
>specifically Canadian sensibility? Paul Bley, Glenn Gould, Joni
>Mitchell, Kenny Wheeler. Each of these great artists has for me an
>absolutely recognizable personal style but they also have in common an
>intensely felt, hard-won lyricism expressed through what seems like an
>entirely innate musicianship, speaking to the listener of an inner-life
>lived entirely in the realm of music. It is also immediately apparent
>though, that each has worked long and hard at the craft of their art. To
>quote Gould, actually talking of Newfoundlanders but in a way that is
>perhaps more generally aplicable and may be a key to a specifically
>Canadian sensibility, 'perhaps the fact of life aginst the elements...
>disciplines their stanzasa, gives an underpinning of reality to their
>ever ready impulse to fantasize'"
>
>I happen to be a fan of both GG and Wheeler (and for anyone interested,
>I deeply recommend the cds
>Music for Large and Small Ensembles, ECM 1415/16 843 152; or The Widow
>in the Window, ECM 1417 843 198), but I was quite surprised to see them
>associated in a specifically Canadian sensibility (Joni Mitchell I
>hardly ever heard; but Paul Bley... well, perhaps it makes some sense,
>after all); a certain bittersweet melancholy pervading their most lyric
>moments, maybe...?
>
>Or whatever; so I decided to submit this to F-minor, just to see what
>comments it may (or not at all) produce.
>
>Greetings,
>Marcos Maffei.
>
>
>
>
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