On Friday, October 20, 2006 at 2:21:15 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> gyro...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > Howdy,
> >
> > Wow, since I'm being pinged I'd better check in...
> >
> > Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > That is just incredible - this is online? Link? URL?
> > >
> > > Joe didn't give a link the last time I looked . . .
> >
> > OK, here's a little more info... The review was in an old issue of
> > "Factsheet Five" from 1989, so no link.
> Too bad, but those were the 1980s, when snail mail was king.
> I do remember Gunderloy writing about an online F5, but over two
> decades ago and I guess befor things became routinely archived, as they
> are now.
> If only he'd used Usenet...
> > I was actually scanning some
> > Kerry Thornley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Thornley) columns so
> > they'd be available on the web (not for any particular reason, other
> > than they aren't already on the web, and it's just something to do).
> > While flipping through the rest of the magazine, capturing the
> > zeitgeist of 1989, the "Waterworld" review caught my eye. Figured I'd
> > see whether I could turn up anything about it on the Internet, 17 years
> > later... (man I feel old now) So like I mentioned, a Google search
> > brought me to rec.music.makers (Didn't occur to me to simply ask right
> > here on the group, I'm quick that way)
> Hmmm... perhaps you'd consider scanning the page "Waterworld" was
> reviewed on, or even more selected pages? My F5 collection was
> unfortunately ruined when the trunk of my car glooded back in 1995 or
> so, it would be really interesting to see some of that stuck finally
> become archived...
> > That "Waterworld" review would have appeared right around the time I
> > started to become interested in jazz (I was in college and had enrolled
> > in a Jazz Appreciation course. I got a 107 average for the course, as
> > the tests had bonus questions, while I got a C or C- in my other
> > classes that semester). Factsheet Five didn't review many (if any)
> > other jazz recordings -- though for all I know, their description of
> > "Waterworld" wasn't accurate, or "jazz" was too narrow of a pigeonhole
> > etc. But anyway, the word "jazz" there should have caught my eye at
> > the time, since it was just an unusual context to find a jazz review.
> > So with that in mind, seeing this review 17 years later, I'm just
> > curious as to what caused the reviewer (I assume it was Mike Gunderloy)
> > to take notice.
> Glad you did, since the musician is thinking on putting it out on CD,
> and even doing new work in that direction.
> > > Looking for Joe Castleman...
> > >
> > > "Hey Joe... where ya goin' with that saxophone (or is it a windowscreen?) in
> > > your hand..?"
> >
> > Was that a lucky guess or something? I do play the sax, or did anyway
> > -- Nothing beyond woodshedding, though. Ah, one of these days I'll get
> > serious about it again...
> Actually, I cheated and Googled your name... heh...
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