[Dixielandjazz] Paul Motian

[Ed Danielson]

Steve Barbone beat me to it -- I was about to post the same very interesting 
article about Paul Motian.  I sometimes question his choices in 
instrumentation (multiple guitars and saxophones), but his drumming is 
superb.

The article reminded me of something Whitney Balliett wrote in the New 
Yorker some years back about drummer Leon Parker, who works on what some 
would call the fringes of jazz.  Balliett caught him in a club, introduced 
himself and, in the course of interviewing him for the piece, introduced him 
to the work of Big Sid Cattlett.  Balliett heard something in Parker's 
playing that echoed Catlett's drumming.  Parker had not heard Cattlett, and 
was "blown away" by his work.

Does anyone know if Balliett is still writing?  I haven't seen anything of 
his in the New Yorker for several years.

Ed Danielson