Joe, I'm listening to a compilation titled Jazz and Cinema and its got Miles tracks from Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud and Art Blakey from Des Femmes Disparaissent and Mal Waldron/Dizzy from Cool World and Duke Jordan/Art Blakey from Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Coleman Hawkins and Oscar Peterson from Les Tricheur.

Want. Really really a lot.

t edit Though I'm not Joe.

Want. Really really a lot.

Gee, if only I could burn it...

adds Teppy to the list of promised mixes and burns, which will be receiving some attention now that the ding dang book is done.

No big.

Still not Joe.

Still not Joe.

You can be Joe. From your part of Ohio it's almost required, Teppy Jo.

the Geraldine Fibbers mined the same territory as Wilco.

I don't know about this. The Fibbers were deconstructing country from an indie-rock perspective (and covering both Can & George Jones and stunts like that), but I think Wilco's take on American music is less intellectual & more emotional in its origin. God knows I love the Fibbers desperately (as well as Watt's Engine Room rock opera and Nels's own skronk-jazz), but I think Jeff Tweedy is the embodiment of indie zeitgeist, the Songwriter of My Generation, the guy with the ambition & talent to bring crazily divergent genres together seamlessly. Having Nels on his team may be the most exciting rock news I've heard in a while.

Feel free to burn a second copy if you get around to it, David. I can send you the Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud soundtrack, Steph. Does the comp have any John Lewis/MJQ? He did a lot of soundtrack work, most notably Odds Against Tomorrow. I really dig "The Golden Striker" too, written for No Sun in Venice. Anything from Martial Solal? Do you have his "Breathless" soundtrack? I don't, and don't really remember the score, but I have a couple of his CDs that are pretty great.

Another question, does anyone happen to know what song was played at the beginning and end of last night’s episode of the Sopranos?

I'm pretty sure it was vintage Emmylou Harris (I think it's on one of her Profile best-ofs), but damned if I remember the name. I'll ask PF's resident Sopranos geek.

Also, another free-jazz/punk-rock synchronicity: Charlie Haden sat in with the Minutemen on at least one occasion, whereas I first heard of Nels Cline through his playing on Mike Watt's solo albums.

Does the comp have any John Lewis/MJQ? He did a lot of soundtrack work, most notably Odds Against Tomorrow.

Nope, but I'm thinking of getting the Odds sdtrk anyway.

I really dig "The Golden Striker" too, written for No Sun in Venice. Anything from Martial Solal? Do you have his "Breathless" soundtrack?

Nay. I should look around.

but I think Jeff Tweedy is the embodiment of indie zeitgeist, the Songwriter of My Generation

t about to go, once again, over well covered territory alert

It will never cease to amaze me that this is the case - I agree with you and am not arguing the point - but if you'd a told me that when Uncle Tupelo broke up and AM and Trace came out (the first Wilco album and Son Volt album respectively) I would have thought you were on the very very crazy-inducing drugs.

signed,
Still Stunned that Jay Farrar took the big swandive into mediocre-ville and still hoping he finds his way back

I first heard of Nels Cline through his playing on Mike Watt's solo albums.

Same here! But I didn't know any details until about 20 min. ago when I looked him up on AMG.

eta: I have been posting so infrequently lately that I forgot my quick edit formatting! Shame on me.

I can send you the Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud soundtrack, Steph.

Oooh, I would love that -- thanks!