Further conversations with Buell Neidlinger | part 2

Krystall Klear & The Buells @ Carmelo’s in the Valley, Los Angeles — March 25, 1981 — Peter Erskine, drums; Buell Neidlinger, bass; Marty Krystall, tenor saxophone, Jerry Peters, piano — photos by Mark Weber

ALBUQUERQUE YACHT CLUB

September 6, 2o12 – Jazz @ Noon every Thursday (starts at 12:07 after the satellite news) Host MARK WEBER – KUNM Albuquerque, USA – 89.9 FM (Mountain Standard Time) also streaming on the web > KUNM.org – Current time zone offset: UTC*/GMT -6 hours (*Coordinated Universal Time)/Greenwich Mean Time)

FURTHER CONVERSATIONS WITH BUELL NEIDLINGER — PART 2

–A horse scampers off on the suburban track, and
along the tilled fields and woodlands, pervaded by
the carbonic plague. A miserable woman of drama,
somewhere in the world, sighs for improbable de-
sertions. Desperados pine for strife, drunkenness and
wounds. –Little children stifle their maledictions
along the rivers.

Arthur Rimbaud from ILLUMINATIONS as translated by Louise Varese

Krystall Klear & The Buells @ Carmelo’s in the Valley, Los Angeles — March 25, 1981 — Peter Erskine, drums; Buell Neidlinger, bass; Marty Krystall, tenor saxophone, Jerry Peters, piano — photos by Mark Weber

RIFFING ON RIMBAUD

Santa Anita never was luck for me,
pervaded in carbonic smog, choking pine
trees of coughing San Gabriel Mountains —
miserable drunkenness the horse tracked
the woodlands without me, the
the freeway on-ramps crowded with
hitch-hiking French children.

As promised: Part 2 of our Live radio talk with maestro Buell Neidlinger — possible threads of conversation:
* Studying bass with Walter Page
*Playing at Eddie Condon’s club with Pee Wee Russell
* Edgar Varese
*the intricacies of bluegrass + jazz
*seeing the ghost of Henry Grimes through the window of Catalina’s while on stage
* Harry Partch
*subbing for Haden in Ornette’s band at 5 Spot
*accordionsville: Frank Marocco, Mat Matthews, Art Van Damme
*and who is “Mike” in Buell’s composition “Cecil/Mike”?
*and maybe we’ll find out who let the mouse loose on the live Jimmy Dorsey radio broadcast during Jimmy’s solo


Krystall Klear & The Buells @ Carmelo’s in the Valley, Los Angeles — March 25, 1981 — Peter Erskine, drums; Buell Neidlinger, bass; Marty Krystall, tenor saxophone, Jerry Peters, piano — photos by Mark Weber

3 Comments

  1. Mark Weber

    Obituaries NEW YORK TIMES

    Louise Varese Is Dead; Literary Translator, 98

    Published: August 16, 1989

    Louise Varese, an American biographer and translator of French and the widow of the composer Edgard Varese, died on July 1 in Eugene, Ore. She was 98 years old.

    Mrs. Varese wrote a biography of her husband, ”Varese: A Looking-Glass Diary,” which was published in 1972. Among the authors whose works she translated are Stendhal, Proust, Georges Simenon, Julien Gracq, St.-John Perse and Arthur Rimbaud.

    In 1948, she received the Denyse Clairouin Award – named for a French Resistance heroine who died in a concentration camp – for her translation of Baudelaire’s ”Paris Spleen.”

    Mrs. Varese is survived by a son from an earlier marriage, Michael T. Norton, and a granddaughter, Sylvia Calderwood, both of Eugene, Ore., and three great-grandchildren.

  2. Mark Weber

    Santa Anita is the race track (horses) up along the San Gabriel Mountains, a common haunt of poets Bukowski, and Ron Koertge.

    Other horse tracks in Los Angeles:
    Hollywood Park
    Del Mar
    Pomona

  3. Mark Weber

    the albuquerque yacht club
    KUNM host MARK WEBER
    September 6, 2o12
    1. theme w/MW on piano
    2. Buell Neidlinger’s Thelonious “Locomotive”– Nov.1986
    3. Buell Neidlinger Quartet “Buejerk” cd BIG
    DRUM — rec. June 6, 1990
    4. as above “O.P.”
    5. Live telephone conversation w/ BUELL
    6. BN Quintet “Love, Gloom, Cash, Love”
    July 1994 cd BLUE CHOPSTICKS
    7. Anthony Braxton & Buell “‘Round Midnight”
    8apr89 cd 2BY2 Duets
    8. Frank Zappa “20 Small Cigars” 1969
    9. Marty Krystall “Billy’s Blooze” LIQUID
    KRYSTALL DISPLAYED

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