Paris Transatlantic

[Nate Dorward]

There are two reasons to start this thread, one immediate, the other more general.

1) the general: it's a darn fine magazine. I toss Dan a few things & other folks chip in too but, let's not kid ourselves, the reason to read the thing is Dan.

2) the new issue is up & it's a corker.....BUT: Dan, er, jumped the gun a bit & posted up the penultimate rather than final draft of my TWL piece. He'll get to fixing it in a bit but meanwhile:

-- if it seems to end unsatisfactorily that's because I'd not written the last couple sentences.
-- the bit on Geraldine Monk is a bit ambiguous as it stands. As least I suppose it must be because Geraldine wasn't too happy with it....! What I'd meant to say was that her lively readings of noncanonical authors were a welcome affront to the canon-obsessed. Perhaps it'd make this clearer with a little patch: correct "embarrassments to the canon" to "perpetual embarrassments to the guardians of the canon".

Anyway, other than that bit of wire-crossing, read & enjoy. (The site's www.paristransatlantic.com if you haven't already got it bookmarked.)

[Jason Bivins]

Yes, a great site/magazine. Nice to see your stuff up there Nate. And there's also some fine writing from another new guy named Stephen Griffith. Folks should check in regularly at Dan's site.

[Nate Dorward]

Jason--thanks for the kind words. Glad to report the revisions are now online to the TWL report, too (no small relief, given the crossed wires with Geraldine about what was in the first draft). Yes, I liked the Triage piece, & Steve will have a few other things up in future issues (just tossed him a few interesting bits & bobs from the incoming review-copy pile).

Kind of interesting to see that Dan's 40 desert island discs are so heavily slanted towards his classical/new-music background, with some jazz & a few other things; whereas there's virtually nothing in a free-improv/free-jazz vein. This perhaps says something--I'm not quite sure what!--about his own approach to improvising. Anyone heard his new one Traque by the way? Good stuff.

Hm, he can play well on piano & violin, he can write darn well....I guess I'll go curl up in the corner with envy. Don't you hate people like that? ;)

[MRS]

Originally posted by Nate Dorward
Kind of interesting to see that Dan's 40 desert island discs are so heavily slanted towards his classical/new-music background, with some jazz & a few other things; whereas there's virtually nothing in a free-improv/free-jazz vein.

. . .listened to "The Nightfly" on the way to work this morning and am surprised to see this made the list. I don't knowif I agree w/Dan as far as the solos, but nonetheless a fine, glossy album. Yes, Nate, an interesting "Top 40" to say the least.