I'm with you here, Dan, 100%.
>
>2 Regina Carter: the queen is a monster. Check her out
>on the String Trio of New York's Octagon and tell me you
>know a stronger player. She also plays in Quartett Indigo
>was featured on a Mark dresser Cd and has done
>some smooth jazz records, but is happily
>dumping that last habit of late.
>
I saw Regina play a Cassandra Wilson concert (my honey was playing, or I
wouldn't have been there) and every time she soloed I just kept saying,
"Damn, she's good!" and I kept getting happier and happier. She's that
higher level of player. Delightful.
And LeRoy Jenkins & Billy Bang: more great bearers of the AACM flame. That
organization has fostered some of the most original and iconoclastic
players I've heard. (It's also fostered some really self-indulgent ninnies,
musically speaking, but no need to dwell on that here.)
Kelly
