Paul Read News

Have just been listening to two classic recordings. Thad Jones/Mel Lewis playing Kids are Pretty People (1969) on Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard and also Miles Davis’ group of the decades, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams playing All Blues on You Tube. There is much music that can be said to have reached this level, but no one has surpassed this music in any genre and at any point in history. How’s that for going out on a limb? But seriously check it out. Maybe this is only in the mind of someone who grew up with this music and placed high on a pedestal. But I love this music…

Next Monday, January 11:

PRO (The Paul Read Orchestra)
The Rex
194 Queen St. W
9:30 p.m.

LEADER/COMPOSER/ARRANGER: Paul Read
TRUMPETS: Jason Logue, Chase Sanborn, Lina Allemano, Jim Lewis
TROMBONES: Terry Promane, William Carn, Andrew Jones, Larry Shields
REEDS: Andy Ballantyne, Tara Davidson, Alex Dean, Trent Reschny, Dave Neill
GUITAR: David Occhipinti
PIANO: David Braid
BASS: Dan Fortin
DRUMS: Kevin Dempsey

NPR is a staple of our travels when we are in the US. My wife and I automatically scan the low end of the dial on the car radio to find the closest station and find it the most intelligent, informative and entertaining of all other available content. Now NPR provides many other options to those of us who listen and enjoy. There is an iPhone app that allows you to get the latest news and hear specific program, and also – the point of this entry – A Blog Supreme. Check out the description:

“So for NPR’s A Blog Supreme, we asked seven young jazz fans — none older than 24 — to write their introductions to modern jazz. Considered together, they run five promising jazz Web sites: Search and Restore, a live jazz information hub for New York City; Nextbop, a site with music and profiles of exciting new artists; RVAJazz, which tracks the burgeoning creative music scene in Richmond, Va.; Lubricity, a jazz blog penned by a historian in training; and AccuJazz, “the future of jazz radio.” These folks represent the jazz audience of the future — so who better to tell us about Jazz Now?”

Really worth checking out.
P

The PAUL READ Trio
with bassist KIERAN OVERS and drummer ETHAN ARDELLI
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3 – 7:30 p.m.

THE HOME SMITH BAR at THE OLD MILL INN
21 Old Mill Road, Toronto ON M8X 1G5
phone 416-236-2641 * www.oldmilltoronto.com
NO COVER CHARGE
($20 per person minimum food & beverage requirement)
Full Menu Available * Free Parking * Steps to the Old Mill Subway Station

Caveat Emptor. Today I purchased Snow Leopard, the latest operating system for Mac and so far it has been hideously buggy. I know there is a natural wait time for all applications to catch up, but even Apple’s Safari is operating with tremendously frustrating required reloads. Over and over again. I don’t know why I do this… buy the latest operating system instead of waiting until the bugs have been exterminated.

Live and…hopefully….learn

P