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flat5: very interesting, and a great experience for you. i have been listening quite alot to the albert ayler comp "holy ghost" and really like henry's playing from that period (64-66).
aberkok: i did a gig on friday night with jack wright--the piano i was playing had a curious soundboard such that everything i dragged acrss the strings would produce showers of harmonics (a glass vase, a length of pipe, some piece of metal, mallets, including soft ones), so i spent alot of the show inside the piano (metaphorically)--in conversations afterward, denman mulroney came up a few times as someone who does cool things on the soundboard--so your posts makes the second time in 3 days i have heard about him---suggestions as to recordings/good places to start checking out his work?
on bassists: i dont understand the category of "best bassist" simply because there are so many players out there,so may of whom are very very good indeed, many of whom folk like us who rely primarily on recordings to access music do not know about.
mark dresser is an excellent bassist--braxton's ensembles typically are full of great players.
the lists above, once they turned to jazz, include many of the players that i probably would have listed--blanton, mingus, la faro (a monster....)...haden (sound and sensibility more than technique, but no matter---listen to any or ornette's first 3 albums, then check out "the alchemy of scott la faro" on ornette's "art of the improvisors" and you'll see what i mean---on the other hand, there is haden playing with old and new dreams, especially on "playing" which i really like..so who knows?)
henry grimes...
i'd add fred hopkins (air, henry threadgill's subsequent projects. john carter octet), malachi favors mogustut (art ensemble of chicago), ronnie boykins (with sun ra), sirone, alan silva (both with cecil taylor in particular)...
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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