Newbie joins the fray

[Joel Stewart]

originally posted by Larry Stein:
Saw Gateway a few years ago at Yoshi's in Oakland. Phenomenal. Love their two ECM discs, too. I saw the Abercrombie Quartet at the Palace of the Legion of Honor just a few months ago. It was quite good. Sandi and I had one issue with that show. We had just had brunch and then went to his performance (2PM matinee). Some of his music gets rather dreamy. It was really tough at times to stay awake! We noticed a couple of folks around us went into dreamland.

Good to hear that Gateway still plays from time to time...sounds like they still have the spark. Was JA playing any e.mando?

Haven't kept up with the quartet...who's in it?

Post-lunch over here and I'm on to On The Corner. Talk about dense and chewy.

 

[Larry Stein]

Don't recall who the bassist and drummer are. Violinist is Mark Feldman. Abercrombie did play mando on one tune, maybe two.

Love On The Corner. The Complete On The Corner Sessions box set is terrific.

 

[Steve Guattery]

originally posted by Larry Stein:
Violinist is Mark Feldman.

Feldman is top-notch. He's playing here in a couple of weeks with his wife, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

I thought maybe the tenth anniversary of joining was upon me, but not quite. But what a different world it was back then. The hills were alive with the sound of Joes, the Coad-dependents were mourning his furlough, and the general population included a spate of stalwarts no longer here, for one reason or, most likely, another. But I am very grateful to those who have hung on so that we can at least claim to be a shadow of our former selves.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.

[...]

And speaking of La Belle Dame, what the hell has happened to Sharon?

 

[Jeff Grossman]

not dead yet

 

[kirk wallace]

Much healthier, I am told. In fact.

 

[kirk wallace]

And thank you O, for all you do, here and in RL.

 

[robert ames]

originally posted by kirk wallace:
Much healthier, I am told. In fact.

you can hear anything. you shoulda been there.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by kirk wallace:
And thank you O, for all you do, here and in RL.

Too kind!

 

[kirk wallace]

originally posted by robert ames:

originally posted by kirk wallace:
Much healthier, I am told. In fact.

you can hear anything. you shoulda been there.

come again?

 

[robert ames]

there was a time when wine disorder was far more disorderly than it is these days.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

The sparks flew. Also the ideas.

 

[BJ]

I'm just amazed I was ever that smart at any point in my life.

Ironically, I just bought a copy of Shadows and Light...and have been deep into the fusion saga for the last decade, in part kicked off from this thread.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by BJ:
I'm just amazed I was ever that smart at any point in my life.

Ironically, I just bought a copy of Shadows and Light...and have been deep into the fusion saga for the last decade, in part kicked off from this thread.

Pat's Solo is Word.

Yes, one had to put the old grey matter to work to play in this sandbox.