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August 17, 2005
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Phil Woods: A Life In E Flat (Jazzed Media). All right, so Jazzed Media gets two picks this time around. This little independent label battling the giants—and turning out quality—deserves a boost, even the small one that Rifftides can provide. The DVD is a crafty documentary about the making of Woods’ CD This Is How I Feel About Quincy, but it’s more. It’s Woods telling about his life, his music and his beliefs. He is as good a verbal story teller as he is a musical one. Pianist Bill Charlap’s exclamation—“Phil Woods!”—at the end of a perfect alto sax solo symbolizes how his colleagues and legions of listeners feel about this remarkable man.Posted by mclennan at August 17, 2005 01:02 AM
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Thanks for reminding me about the Phil Woods DVD, and QJ CD. I've just ordered both... I noticed them first a few weeks back when I ordered the Bill Holman Live release. BTW, 'Rifftides' has become a daily reference for me. Thanks!
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Phil Woods: A Life In E Flat (Jazzed Media). All right, so Jazzed Media gets two picks this time around. This little independent label battling the giants—and turning out quality—deserves a boost, even the small one that Rifftides can provide. The DVD is a crafty documentary about the making of Woods’ CD This Is How I Feel About Quincy, but it’s more. It’s Woods telling about his life, his music and his beliefs. He is as good a verbal story teller as he is a musical one. Pianist Bill Charlap’s exclamation—“Phil Woods!”—at the end of a perfect alto sax solo symbolizes how his colleagues and legions of listeners feel about this remarkable man.
A.B. Guthrie, Jr: A Field Guide To Writing Fiction (Harper Collins). If you are a writer of fiction, or anything else, this little book will help you be a better one. If you are a consumer of fiction, it will provide standards against which you may judge the quality of what you read. The author of The Big Sky and The Way West was one of our greatest novelists. Here, he’s one of our greatest teachers. If only every writer would live by this Guthrie maxim: “The adjective is the enemy of the noun and the adverb the enemy of damn near everything else. Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language.”
"50 LPs From 35 Years": Jazz Times, September 2005. The magazine formerly known as Radio Free Jazz long ago moved out of Ira Sabin’s Washington, DC, record shop into glossy pages and the major leagues of jazz journalism. For this anniversary piece, each of fifty jazz writers (surprise; there are fifty jazz writers) reviews a favorite or overlooked long-playing record made since 1970. Some of the albums are famous, some obscure. I chose Jill McManus’s Symbols of Hopi. Sorry, no link to the article. It is not on line. Buy the magazine.
The food department hasn’t been getting much attention during two-and-a-half weeks on the road. Airport sandwiches, anyone? Airline pretzels? Almond Joys? Clif Bars? Travel tip: stuff as many Clif Bars as possible into your carry-on bag. They’re a great substitute for airline pretzels. On one leg of the trip, American Airlines gave us pretzels for lunch in first class, a reliable economic indicator of the health of the airline industry. Well, I did have magnificent crab cakes in Maryland. That’s this week’s recommendation; go to Maryland and eat crab cakes.
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