Matt Smiley

As promised we are back up and running in full force for the new year. Our first post of 2009 comes from Matt Smiley, friend, bassist, musician, throat-singer, etc. I know Matt from my days at JMU, but strangely we were never there in school at the same time and didn't actually meet until after I graduated. The reasons for this are probably boring, and won't be explained in any further detail. Matt is a great jazz bassist, and is pursuing a masters degree out in Colorado. He checks out a LOT of stuff. His initial list had to be edited for length...everything on there was deserving of mention, but there was just no room. And now for the goods:

Music:

"Jazz"
Terry Riley and Don Cherry--Bootleg (download!)
Victor Feldman--Arrival of Victor Feldman (Scott Lafaro's major recording debut)
Curtis Hasselbring--New Mellow Edwards
Steve Lacy/Joelle Leandre--One More Time

"Classical"
Morton Feldman--String Quartet No. 2 (a six hour continuous piece of music)
La Monte Young-The Well Tuned Piano
Charles Ives--Universe Symphony, String Quartet No. 1
Giacinto Scelsi--Quattro Pezzi Su Una Nota Sola (Four Pieces on a Single Note)

Books:

Jack Kerouac--Dharma Bums, American Haikus
Coleman Barks--The Soul of Rumi
Samuel Beckett (first minimalist)--Collected Plays of Samuel Beckett

Film:

Anything by David Lynch
True Stories (David Byrne film)
Outside Out (Michael Gordon film featuring Col. Bruce Hampton
Film (Buster Keaton)--Samuel Beckett

TV:

Stella Shorts
Twin Peaks

Youtube:

Don Cherry--link
Charlie Haden--link
Ken Vandermark--link
John Hollenbeck and Theo Bleckmann--link

Adam is listening to The Vastness of Space by Reid Anderson at the time of this post.