Questionnaire.....pt. 8

Elliott Dalgleish:

1. Favourite/particularly interesting jazz album?

Louis Armstrong: The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

2. Favourite/particularly interesting 'world' recording?

Albert Ayler: Holy Ghost 9 CD Spirit Box Set (1962-70)

3. Favourite/particularly interesting classical recording/piece?

Elliott Carter: String Quartets No.1, 2, 3, 4 & 5

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

I don’t understand the question. I have no idea what other people know or for that matter don’t know.

However, I enjoy listening to Eric Dolphy: The Complete Prestige and Blue Note Recordings

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

I don’t understand the question. I have no idea what other people think I might or might not be into.

However, I presently enjoy listening to Colon Nancarrow: The Complete Studies for Player Piano and George Crumb’s Madrigals Book I-IV

6. Give me 3 of your favourite Australian Jazz recordings

Had a good time playing with Misha Mengelberg at Wang. 06 as a duet
Liked Gary and Allan’s interplay on 6 x 3
Enjoyed John Rodgers and Anthony Burr’s playing on the track Horseshit

7. Most underrated Australian Jazz player?

Choose one?! There are many unrecognised and unsupported players that have been side- lined over the years by the arts community. It is not for me to categorize them.

8. Most underrated non-Australian Jazz player?

Try anyone who isn’t considered consumable.

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

For me it is not a matter of seeing someone play. I rehearse and play weekly with talented players in the local Brisbane community. That inspiration is direct and ongoing in my life.

10. Favourite book(s) on music?

Here are a few of many.....

• Acquisition of Absolute Pitch: Complete Treatise in Five Volumes by Julien Falk
• Black Nationalism and the Revolution in Music by Frank Kofsky
• Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction by Ingrid Monson
• The Computer Music Tutorial by Curtis Roads
• The Bartok Companion by Malcolm Gilles
• Formalised Music by Iannis Xenakis
• The Works of John Coltrane (complete transcriptions) by Andrew White
• Genesis of Music by Harry Partch
• Brian Ferneyhough Collected Writings by J Boros & R Toop
• Silence by John Cage
• Notations by John Cage
• Elliott Carter Harmony Book by Elliott Carter, Edited by N Hopkins and J Link
• Twentieth-Century Harmony by Vincent Persichetti
• As Serious As Your Life by Valerie Wilmer

Modern classical.......

With all of these questionnaires coming in, I am re-doubling my enthusiasm for checking out new music. Needless to say, the combination of Itunes and Wikipedia makes for an ever-growing music catalogue.
In the meantime, here are some links that I am finding to be pretty amazing, for a variety of reasons.

Here's a Boulez interview, with some excellent quotes....."History is much like the guillotine. If a composer is not moving in the right direction he will be killed, metaphorically speaking."

Here's the BBC interviewing Elliott Carter

This is probably my favourite clip on youtube
This, this and this is some more great Carter

This Berio anecdote is pretty hilarious. Check out that postscript about John Cage on a gameshow at the bottom!

Here's the first in a series of radio interviews: John Cage interviewing Morton Feldman.
I haven't checked them all out yet.....

last, but certainly not least, some music that is just plain incredible

Enjoy!