Puttin’ it in park

This blog is on pause while I travel. Back in late March.

What a terrible time to leave New York, just when Bobo Stenson, Anthony Braxton, Jenny Lewis, the Pogues, Edward Simon, Dilated Peoples and the Silver Jews are gearing up for gigs.

At least I got to hear Roy Haynes tear the roof off the Vanguard tonight (er, last night). Jazz’s reigning drum icon, Haynes did the damage with his young sidemen Marcus Strickland (tenor), Martin Bejerano (piano) and John Sullivan (bass). Then he blew out the candles on his 81st birthday cake. Quote of the night: “Is this the same Village Vanguard I used to play at back in the ’50s?”

Have a good two weeks.

On the iPod:

Agent K, Feed the Cat
Air, Premiers Symptomes
Alarm Will Sound, Acoustica
Beck, Guero
Beck, Sea Change
Bill Frisell, Further East/Further West
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan/Another Side/The Times They Are A’Changing/Blonde On Blonde
Branford Marsalis, Romare Bearden Revealed
Cassandra Wilson, Thunderbird (unreleased)
Chicago Underground Quartet (2001)
Chicago Underground Trio, Slon
Coleman Hawkins & Sonny Rollins, Sonny Meets Hawk!
Dave Douglas, Meaning and Mystery (unreleased)
David Bowie, Aladdin Sane
David Bowie, Hunky Dory
David Bowie, Station to Station
David Bowie, The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Deerhoof, The Runners Four
Dinosaur Jr., You’re Livin’ All Over Me
Dizzee Rascal, Showtime
Eric Kloss & The Rhythm Section
Gang of Four, Entertainment
Gigi Gryce & The Jazz Lab Quintet
Hank Mobley, various Blue Notes
J-88, Best Kept Secret
Jimmy Cobb’s Mob, Cobb’s Groove
Julien Lourau, Gambit
Lady Sovereign, Vertically Challenged
LCD Soundsystem, “Disco Infiltrator”
Leonard Cohen, Greatest Hits
M.I.A., Arular
Mogwai, Mr. Beast
Nels Cline, Destroy All Nels Cline
Nuspirit Helsinki
Pat Martino, East!
Pat Martino, El Hombre
Pat Martino, Live!
Pat Metheny Group, The Road Less Traveled
Pat Metheny Group, The Way Up
The Pixies, Wave of Mutilation
Rob Sonic, Telicatessen
Screaming Trees, Sweet Oblivion
Slim Thug, Already Platinum
Slum Village, Fantastic Vol. 2
Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Sonny Rollins, Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert
Stereolab, Dots & Loops
Steve Lacy, Reflections/The Soprano Sax/The Forest & the Zoo/Evidence
Steve Lacy & Joelle Leandre, One More Time
Sufjan Stevens, Michigan
Sufjan Stevens, Illinois
The White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan
Tim Berne, Empire Box Set
Tom Waits, Alice
Tom Waits, Blood Money
Tom Waits, Bone Machine
Tortoise, It’s All Around You
Townes Van Zandt, High Low and In Between/The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
Van Morrison, Astral Weeks/Tupelo Honey/Veedon Fleece
Weather Report (debut)
Wibutee, Playmachine
X, Under the Big Black Sun
Yo La Tengo, I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One