Trevere

Saxophonist Pat Donaher enters the fray and says a bunch of stuff I'd planned on saying RE: Miles '71-'75 -- especially the comparison to minimalism, which is absolutely correct.

On the other hand, I hope to persuade him that he's badly underestimated TBP, but that's a discussion for another day.

[I have also added Pat to the blogroll, something I would have done some time ago except that I've only just now figured out how to link directly to those %#$!& MySpace blogs.]

Comments

[Pat]

1.

D-

Thanks for the add- I hope you can persuade me too. None of us are old enough to stay curmudgeons, if we can help it.

P

[DJA]

2.

Hey Pat,

Thanks for jumping in! Good stuff.

w/r/t/The Bad Plus, I noticed in your entry you said "both" records, which leads me to suspect that perhaps you haven't checked out their third Columbia release, Suspicious Activity? I like all of their albums, but this one is, to me, by far the most satisfying from a compositional point of view, and I'd definitely encourage you to check it out if you haven't done so already.

And, as you know, their live gigs have occasioned many a road-to-Damascus conversion.