Questionnaire.....pt. 2

In this issue, Will Guthrie, Peter Knight and Geoff Hughes

Will Guthrie: check him out

1. Favorite/particularly interesting jazz album?

At the moment - 'Trickles' - Steve Lacy

2. Favorite/particularly interesting 'world' recording?

At the moment - 'Aquatic' - The Necks

> 3. Favorite/particularly interesting classical recording/piece?

At the moment - David Tudor - 'Music for Piano'

> 4. Name a Jazz recording you're mad about but not many other people
> would know.

Roscoe Michell - Solo Saxophone Concert

> 5. Name a (genre other than jazz or jazz) record you're mad about but
> no one would've thought you'd be into.

At the moment - Palace Brothers - 'Arise Therefore'


> 6. Give me 3 of your favorite Australian Jazz recordings.
At the moment

The Necks - Piano, Bass Drums
Mark Simmonds Freeboppers 'FIRE'
Artisans Wokshop

> 7. Most underrated Australian Jazz player?

Maybe under-documented is a better word than underated - Mark Simmonds

> 8. Most underrated non-Australian Jazz player?

Roscoe Mitchell

> 9. Name a gig (or two or three) you saw in Australia that really stays
> with you....

Ren Walter's TIP (mid 90's)
Bucketrider (mid 90's)
Jim Denley / Robbie Avenaim (late 90's I think)

> 10. Favorite book(s) on music?

At the moment - Forces in Motion: The Music and Thoughts of Anthony Braxton

Peter Knight: check him out

1. Favorite/particularly interesting jazz album?

In A Silent Way Miles Davis

2. Favorite/particularly interesting 'world' recording?

Thimar John Surman, Anouar Brahem, Dave Holland

3. Favorite/particularly interesting classical recording/piece?

Quartet for the End of Time Messiaen (Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet on a different day)

4. Name a Jazz recording you're mad about but not many other people would know.

The Codona Trilogy Collin Walcott, Don Cherry, Nana Vasconcelos

5. Name a (genre other than jazz or jazz) record you're mad about but no one would've thought you'd be into.

Last Splash The Breeders

6. Give me 3 of your favorite Australian Jazz recordings.

Other Planes Erik Griswold
Strobe Coma Virgo Phil Slater
Nine Conversations Paper Hat (Colin Hopkins, Frank Di Sario, Andrew Gander)

7. Most underrated Australian Jazz player?

Stephen Grant

8. Most underrated non-Australian Jazz player?

Kenny Wheeler

9. Name a gig (or two or three) you saw in Australia that really stays with you....

Stephen Grant's New Orleans Five at the Fountain Inn Port Melbourne (around 1991)
The Necks Wangaratta Jazz Festival 2002 (I think)
Band of Five Names Bennetts Lane 2003

10. Favorite book(s) on music?

Musicking Christopher Small
The Rest Is Noise Alex Ross
Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner (eds)

Geoff Hughes: check him out

1. Favorite/particularly interesting jazz album?

The Bridge -Sonny Rollins

2. Favorite/particularly interesting 'world' recording?

D'Gary - Music from
Madagascar - so light and awesomely heavy at the same time..

3. Favorite/particularly interesting classical recording/piece?

Turangalila
-Messaien - LA Phil on CBS

4. Name a Jazz recording you're mad about but not many other people
would know.

Bill Evans Consecration 1 - heaps of people seem to hate this
period of Bill for various reasons -I just hear a man totally possessed by music
and finding grace even when he's very sick and only months away from death.

5. Name a (genre other than jazz or jazz) record you're mad about
but no one would've thought you'd be into.

Who knows what anyone thinks -(or
cares?) Exodus -Bob Marley and the Wailers

6. Give me 3 of your favorite Australian Jazz recordings.

Too hard ::: Angels
and Rascals -Andrea Keller, You You -the Alcohotlicks, , Tinkler Live - Allan
Browne -Trios -for now anyway::: TOO HARD

7. Most underrated Australian Jazz player?

Nearly everyone

8. Most underrated non-Australian Jazz player?

Ben Monder

9. Name a gig (or two or three) you saw in Australia that really
stays with you....

Lost and Found at last years IMJF and BBC at this years
IMJF - Stephen Magnusson solo anywhere, anytime

10. Favorite book(s) on music?

Harmonic Experience WA Mathieu
Harmonic Mechanisms for guitar Vol 2 - George Van Eps
The Listening Book - WA Methieu
Listening and Voice -Don Ihde
The Maestro Myth -Norman LeBrecht
Berlioz - Memoirs
The Act Of touch -Tobias Matthay - this guy is a nutter - buts its fun if
you can get past the post Victorian vernacular and the absurd level of
detail.