Tuesday 25 May 2010

Last-minute preparations of various kinds are underway here while the sun shines outside. 

Just a week after hearing it on Irene Trudel's show on WFMU, this long-deleted LP arrived in the mail today.  I'd assumed that William Bolcom's beautiful rag Graceful Ghost dated from the 30s, but it was written in 1970 - proof that you don't have to be at the cutting-edge of music if you're honest about what you like. Still, it was from the days when 32 minutes of music counted as a full-length album. Now it's 62. They don't make album covers like this anymore either.

A new source of trombone-related musical insight: Catherine Motuz has resumed blogging.