[NewMusic] Youtube of the week

[Phillip Greenlief]

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No, it happened, there a bunch of articles about it and thread on  
jazz sites. I was a big festival in Italy. In one of the threads  
there was a link to this article:
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=18112
Man, I love Gary Peacock. Finally someone with some integrity...

PG:
It's definitely authentic. He's been doing this for years. I wish he'd
go away. I like some of those recordings that trio has made, but who the
fuck wants to be in the same room with that guy?  

I saw him twice, once at Keystone, once at Great American.  He walked
from the Keystone gig because there was too much "noise" - the sound of
cups clinking and waitresses whispering to see what you wanted to order.
He was playing solo, and I guess no one is supposed to breathe when that
happens. 

When he played at Great American with that quartet with Jan Garbarek and
company, he threatened to walk, but didn't...same thing - he was
intolerant of the fact that they were serving food and drinks while they
were transmitting their superior sounds to us wee lowly listeners.

World's greatest asshole, if you ask me.

Polly - great comment on Nora - I agree, time isn't linear, but there's
no way Jarrett could go from world's greatest asshole to intensely
amusing cat in one life-time...I just can't see karma working that way.