[Roamsaffots]

http://www.wattxtrawatt.com/floorplan.html

for those unfamiliar with this, the library section has a number of charts from steve swallow and carla bley. i like the humour.

[DP5Ups8o]

This is a very cool and funny site. It's cool checking out steve's tunes. They are very interesting. I found this clip on youtube of a trio feature for Jim Hall in the art farmer quartet. Check it out if you havn't already.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1Rvl8ddQhok#

[Roamsaffots]

nice! terry clarke and don thompson still play with jim hall, at least terry was a year ago when i spoke with him while he was over here doing a drum clinic at malu. apparently they did a gig with jim in toronto that phil dwyer and dave holland played on as well. terry was saying how honouredd phil was to play with jim hall.

[rNr5Di3S]

Of course I was very honoured to play with Jim, and also all the other amazing players on that gig (Don, Terry, Dave Holland, and John Handy). I guess it goes without saying that they are all giants. Mark Miller asked me what it was like to play with the group and the best answer I could come up with was that it was like waking up one day and having all your childhood dreams come true. I think the best part was just how open and generous they all are. Jim called me a couple of weeks later to talk about politics which was a thrill as well.

Back to the Swallow/Bley zone, I was looking for an obscure Carla tune and had a very amusing back-and-forth with the 'prison warden' for a while before I managed to negotiate a lead sheet from them. Very fun. It seems like a lot of Carla's tunes are only 8 or 10 bars long, but manage to pack an amazing amount of music into them. Campbell Ryga was the first one to turn me on to Carla Bley, I think I he was a fan of Steve Slagle in those days.

Phil