The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor

Author:Rafi Zabor [Zabor, Rafi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bears, Jazz musicians, Saxophonists, Musical fiction
Publisher: New York : Norton
Published: 1997-08-14T22:00:00+00:00

The Bear Comes Home 245

Jones noticed a trim black negative-ionizer ticking discreedy away on die left-hand extremity of the desk. Lots of neat things. A Testostarossa caged up next to the S Mercedes back in Sneden's Landing or wherever?

"Well," said Badiyi, and in order to fill his indicated slot Jones began to speak. This speech, which he was certainly making too soon although it was easy and fluent on his tongue, came increasingly to sound like some kind of incantation, or perhaps he was trying to weave a spell. He began by confessing that he had a couple of good ideas, for example Abdullah Ibrahim, Dollar Brand as was, hadn't put out a record in about six years, wasn't signed with anyone just then and they should get him into the studio with a large ensemble if they could afford it and a small group, anything from four to seven pieces, including Carlos Ward, if they could not. And how about a Carlos V\^ard record with Geri Allen, Charlie Haden and Elvin Jones? A ballad album by Archie Shepp, if possible with Haden and cameos by Lester Bowie and Tony Bennett. Jackie McLean didn't have a long-term contract with anyone at present, so why not reunite him with Jack Dejohnette and some young fast company? Also, he would personally undertake to talk turkey with Ornette Coleman and try to urge him into the studio with an acoustic group. And oh yeah, did I mention Steve Kuhn has gotten stuck making gorgeous records for minor labels no one hears? Let's call him in from the cold. And there are a lot of younger kids in the post-Marsalis mold that the other majors hadn't picked up on yet, and Jones was out there on the scene spotting them early, and here Jones started to make up names: Ivan Taylor, Anthony Tierney, Jackie Heywood, Wahid McDee, Royal Wheeler, Aaron Chisholme—

"Young musicians are sexier than established ones," Badiyi pronounced, exhaling smoke. "I'm speaking of marketability of course."

Well, sure. By the way, had Badiyi ever heard Florent Schmitt's string quartet, a major twentieth-century composition and still unrecorded, except once uncommercially on a ten-inch disc by the Florent Schmitt Society—^you have a classical division, right? and there's also Thomas DeHartmann's classical oeuvj'e —you know, the guy who worked with Gurdjieff?—likewise unrecorded and quite substantial I assure you. But to revert to jazz.

"Please."

Well, there's no end to what's going on, is there? I mean, it ain't like going out in the old days and wondering should I go hear Ornette or Mingus or Sonny or Trane but there are certainly a lot of people around who can play, and it's not all just a holding pattern, keeping the standards up until another genius comes on the line. For example this Hatwell kid, did you hear him on the Bear's record?

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