[NewMusic] underwhelmed @ Mills

[Sarah - 21 Grand]

David Slusser wrote:
got the trusty all-star performance instead
of the kind their students are turning in
around here: ones with more respectful
space.  My colleague swore some of the
players never laid out.  I countered that I
had made note that most did - just not
long or often enough.

-- the sound was kinda weird where I was sitting, but I felt that it was
less a "problem" of people not sitting out, but the standard phenomenon when
people are playing with others they're not used to playing with where they
politely play around each other, instead of with each other. Fred was doing
some nice things rhythmically that did feel more like "playing with" rather
than "playing around."

sl