[silence] Cage and Jazz

[Thomas Gaudynski]

Re: this thread

When I made my "realization" of Imaginary Landscape No. 5 circa 1976  
(and determined to use only Cage phonograph records instead of jazz  
phonograph records), I did a bit of research and seem to recollect,  
that because Cage's "tape music" explorations of the time were  
financed by Paul Williams (i.e., Williams Mix, et al), and besides  
the stated goal of using jazz recordings which he disliked (like the  
radio, consequently No. 4 and Radio Music, etc.), I imagined the  
recordings came from William's collection. What jazz recordings would  
a young hip architect from Black Mountain College have had available  
in 1952? Or were sitting around in Louis and Bebe Baron's NYC studio,  
which is where I imagine the piece was created. Parker, Mingus,  
Roach, Baker, Mulligan, MJQ, Getz, Gillespie, et al? And speaking of  
which, has anyone ever heard the resulting recording?

The Hat Art recording of No. 5 using Anthony Braxton's work (I assume  
for copyright reasons) doesn't seem to follow the score correctly,  
and being done digitally, seems like the wrong approach for this  
clearly analog piece.

Any thoughts?

Best Regards,

Thomas Gaudynski

Necessary Arts LLC
www.myspace.com/thomasgaudynski



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