Contemplazione

Alright, I'll also make you take back the crap you had me shovel... come on, Pippooooooooooooooooooooooooo, I love you, you know that! But I got offended when you called me an asshole... sensitive! Sniff. After all, I think we’re very similar; it’s just that you’ve never taken me seriously and expected me to do the same with you. Pippo, know that I am serious, like you, and not some hyped-up 25-year-old pretty boy.

Well, come on, let's at least eat that little bit of fatty stuff ;) P.S.: Do you like Matthew Shipp?

These coincidences always leave you a bit dumbfounded… something similar happened to me with Max Roach. One day, out of the blue, I decide to listen again to "Drums Unlimited," and I was thinking to myself: "what a genius he WAS!" (I knew he was ill and that it wouldn’t be the same as before). Two days later, a friend of mine sends me a message: "brother, we are in mourning… yesterday Max Roach passed away!" It had quite an effect on me.

Thank you very much! No, not just jazz ;) total but selective listener. I do have periods of "obsession" where I dive headfirst into classical, hard rock, or whatever you want to call it. Bye!

Dear Odra, I just have a small problem: I have 56k! Where I live, ADSL isn't available. Anyway, I’ll try to listen to them somehow, thanks. P.S.: I'm re-listening to Talking Timbuktu after reading and commenting on your review!

It's been a couple of years since I last played this beautiful record, you've reignited my desire! An album that ideally connects, effortlessly, the Nile and the Mississippi. With excellent results. By the way, my hi-fi system thanks you for the fine grain of the recording!

I forgot Paul Bley! "Time Will Tell" from '95, featuring the great Evan Parker and Barre Phillips, a complex record that aims to create a connection with the masterpiece "Free Fall" by Jimmy Giuffre (Columbia album from '63), one of the most experimental albums in history, where Bley himself played. Well done Odra for mentioning the excellent Surman. This is anything but stale stuff.

And then... "trust me, I know what I'm talking about" isn't it a ridiculous phrase from a know-it-all trying to show off? I mean, coming from people "like me" that you despise so much?

Do you see how dogmatic you are? What you’re saying isn’t completely true; you can’t generalize like that! I am the first to prefer the ECM of the past, but not all ECM records from the last twenty years are to be thrown away! Sure, now if you randomly pick an ECM record, it’s easy that it could be chamber music by little-known Nordic musicians that lacks vitality, indeed. But here's the point: who said you have to go randomly? "Lux Aeterna" by Terje Rypdal, for example, is a beautiful album for orchestra, organ, trumpet, soprano, and electric guitar from 2000. I read an enthusiastic review of it in the Penguin guide, which piqued my interest. Then I decided to listen to it (many record stores allow this), and being of high quality and not stale at all, I bought it! "The Triangle" by Arild Andersen, 2004, great record! "Trio Beyond," a double live CD from 2006, a tribute to Tony Williams and the Lifetime by Jack DeJohnette, John Scofield, and Larry Goldings (in which you even find a cover of "If," which is also present in Unity, that you appreciate so much), beautiful! "Leosia" by Tomasz Stanko from 1997, magnificent! And so on and so forth. Then as you once said... there is also e-mule. I almost forgot "Lumi" by Edward Vesala, from '86, a kind of brilliant concert for drums.

Well, dear Fabri, I’m glad to have interacted civilly with you (also because I would have felt like a fool reading your profile later), and I fully agree with the concept you wanted to express. Once your function is over, though, COME BACK in another form! There’s plenty of choice, there are a plethora of parasitic characters in this little Italy...