Ever since being blasted by Coltrane’s Ascension for the first time when I was a student, I’ve been a little reticent of listening to free jazz big bands.
However, my current fixation with the work of New York bass player William Parker has led me inexorably towards his Little Huey Creative Orchestra, an aggregation of around 20 of his colleagues in what seems to be a fantastic flowering of talent in his hometown currently. Must get to New York to hear this lot in the flesh.
I just bought The Mayor of Punkville on Ebay, and I’m sitting here with a silly grin on my face as I plan two Web sites. This is the sort of fun I get listening to Thelonious Monk, it really is that good.
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