Magic cities and other planes of there, all disguised as jazz - From sideman to mesmerizer to evangelical to interstellar space - Its as if Sun Ra planned the hopelessness of the task from the beginning. Pick the best of what might be an infinite number of recordings? Nobody has them all or knows how many exist. Find the recording dates of music made by people for whom time meant nothing, who often mixed together recordings from different years? Even the album titles are dicey, sometimes with a word or two wrong, or with the same title used on more than one recording, or with no title given at all. Sometimes there was no cover. It's all part of the Sun Ra mystique and also, incidentally, the force that drives all collecting: not just that you want to own them all, but that you'll never be sure if you have them all.

jazz listings and other jazz artists guids. but here again my point about it all coming to "sonic youth: the best band in the universe" --Robert Christgau - "let me be the one to say ney" --bill schwarz
- bill 6-10-2006 5:21 pm [add a comment]

if he keeps saying stuff like that, people are going to start believing it.
- bill 6-10-2006 5:45 pm [add a comment]

"If Sonic Youth did not exist it would be necessary for Robert Christgau to invent them." --Voltaire
- tom moody 6-10-2006 5:58 pm [add a comment]

"If Sonic Youth did not exist it would be necessary for Robert Christgau to invent them." --Voltaire

the voltaires sounds like a good name for a band.
- dave 6-10-2006 6:24 pm [add a comment]

or a cabaret
- bill 6-10-2006 6:39 pm [add a comment]