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David O: then you'll want to scurry off to the Bill Frisell Song Finder at: <http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Delta/2495/bill_frz.htm> (the construction of which proves how much spare time I had last weekend). Hey, nice work David! I've got one to add, I mentioned it a while back in a discpix thread, but will give it some bandwidth again: "Just So Happens", Gary Peacock and Bill, duet. For anyone who doesn't know, Gary is a major cat in jazz world. Plays upright bass, lives in Seattle. Great player, great guy. Album was recorded February 1994, most the compositions are Gary's and Bill's collaborations. Plus a little Americana (Home on the Range 1 and 2, Red River Valley), a jazz standard or two (Good Morning Heartache, Reciprocity - which is Gary's), and another Gary tune. I really love this album, but then I've always been inspired by both Gary's and Bill's playing. The title track, "Just So Happens" is exceptionally beautiful, like when the sun comes up. ******************* For anyone interested in more about Gary, here's an anecdotal story. This was in Seattle, more years ago than I care to count. I was doing lessons with him, and that week we'd been working on jazz standards, specifically Autumn Leaves, in all keys. At the time Autumn Leaves wasn't my most favorite tune in the world, but he chose it for specific pedagogical reasons, and hey, who was I to argue? He'd play piano, call a key, and 3,4, go man. Just do it. It was pretty daunting for a kid learning to play walking lines, but Gary was unbelievably patient and encouraging. Well, I limped through that session, grasping at obvious, rudimentary harmonic and rhythmic choices, not venturing very far so as not to totally fall flat on my face, which I was doing anyway. Came out of there feeling like I'd been through a ringer. That evening I went out to a little jazz club where Gary was playing. It was early in the week, and early in the night. There were only two or three people in the club, which would later fill up. He leaned over to the other player (I can't for the life of me remember who it was, but he was gigging a lot with Art Lande at the time...) whispered something, and started into this magnificent, elongated improvisation. These guys were at 150%, absolutely playing their butts off, exploring extraordinary tangents. Just pasted me to the chair - I was absolutely captivated; it was the finest I'd ever heard him play. After how long, who knows - this little cocoon club was in a time warp - increasingly brilliant, elegant tones threaded into Gary's tapestry, one by one, ever so smoothly. It was like shimmering deep bells going off in my head. Autumn Leaves. Holy shiiii.... That remains the most profoundly moving "lesson" I've ever had. laurie >From lists@slip.net Tue Mar 10 09:30:28 1998