Comments on: Rescuing Earle Brown

By: Evan Johnson

Evan Johnson — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:48:22 +0000

Yes, I heartily recommend http://www.earle-brown.org – a fantastic site with tons of fascinating stuff. The Tzadik disc looks very interesting; I’ll happily write it up if you get Jerry to send me a copy

By: Micah Silver

Micah Silver — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:58:31 +0000

Thank you for the nice writing on Earle and his legacy! In the past few years I and Earle’s Foundation has been doing a number of things to preserve and secure the availability of Earle’s music and thinking into the future. I would encourage people interested in Earle’s work to visit the Foundation’s website, where score examples, audio examples, audio interviews, videos, writings, exist and are expanding on a regular basis.

Further, please check out the CD to be released by Tzadik in the next month or so. It was a pleasure to produce and is a very diverse exploration of FOLIO from artists from Joan LaBarbara to Merzbow! –

Micah Silver (composer and former Administrator of Earle Brown Foundation)
micah@earle-brown.org

By: Sparky P

Sparky P — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:54:35 +0000

I am glad that New World going ahead in re-releasing the CRI catalogue (and, in time, will get to their Feldman compilation). I have the LPs which the bulk of the material comes from (the “Times Five”, Tudor’s “December 1952″, “Novara” and “Octet” come from the CRI LP; the piano trio is from the Time LP, which also has the Feldman Durations), and the thing that sticks in my craw is that, for some reason, “Novara” is shorter on the CD than on the LP, that somehow the last two minutes were lopped off.

By: DJA

DJA — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:34:25 +0000

Thanks for this, Evan. I don’t know if many people are aware of this, but my own mentor, jazz composer Bob Brookmeyer, is a massive Earle Brown fan and is hugely indebted to his work, and indeed to him.

When Brookmeyer dried out and moved back to NYC in the early 1980′s, he decided it was time to engage in the formal study of composition, for the first time in his life. His teacher of choice was his old acquaintance, Earle Brown. I credit Brown’s influence for the incredible creative renaissance Brookmeyer underwent in the 1980′s.