JAZZ GROOVE
DESERT ISLAND DISCS
| Each month we ask a Jazzgroove member to review their ten favourite/most influential albums. June's selector is drummer Dave Goodman (who made up for last selector, Dave Symes' nine, by choosing eleven!). Selector - Dave Goodman - 20 th June 2006 1. Big Drum , Buell Neidlinger This album for me is a pivotal realisation of just what music can sound like when one simply goes for it - all stops out! It seems rather controversial to write up a 1991 jazz album from Los Angeles as being my pick of the crop as far as Desert Island recordings are concerned, but I cannot help but feel that this record is so far ahead with its prophecy that most of us will be old and grey before we really understand its profundity. This record speaks to my soul, and this is done with a lot of humour - thank God! There is obviously a lot of trust and love in the ensemble, despite the fact that it is reported to be only the second time the drummer had played with the band. I love the liner notes, too; a letter that Neidlinger wrote to his old pal Herbie Nichols. I've got Buell Neidlinger playing bass on Cecil Taylor's Looking Ahead from 1956, too. Forty years later, he's still looking ahead. |
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