(TV) On TV but off topic

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@volpe.dot.gov>]

I was watching Ken Burns Part 4 or 5? ----the episode on 'Swing' Tues. night on ch 2 in Boston, and when the show ended at 10:30, he station wanting to fill the next one half hour immeadiately with some music broadcast a 1999 live concert and interview cum documentary on this Cuban piano player and his band. 

His  piano playing was astonishing (a McCoy Tyner Glenn Gould amalgamation of sound--hard to describe in words--- his name is Ramon "Bebo" Valdez, he apparently has been playing in various incarnatrions since mid-70s.  I'd like to track down some of his recordings.  Did anyone on the list see this broadcast or know anything about this guy.  My limited understanding is that he had/has knothing to do with Ry Cooder's Cuban music projects.  He's quite a large man  who a looks like he might be in his late 40's to late 50's. 

	Leo

-----Original Message-----
From: Maurice Rickard [mailto:maurice@mac.com]
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 11:58 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) Eagles: I repent


At 7:47 AM -0800 1/19/01, Russ Van Rooy wrote:
Gosh folks ! Didn't mean to ruffle so many feathers. Suffice to say 
you'll hear no more about the Eagles from me. I think I'll go back to 
lurker mode for a while.

Nonsense!  Welcome to the list, Russ.  Get down here in the muck with 
the rest of us.  (Seriously, no one'll hold it against you.  We've 
even got a few Steely Dan fans around here...myself included.)

I don't suppose I should start a thread about the similarities 
between Television and some progressive bands like Rush and King 
Crimson.....;-)

Dunno about Rush.  I went through a brief Rush phase as a teenager, 
sold all of it.  (It was Television that ended that phase, 
curiously...)  Ever see the absolutely hilarious interview with their 
first drummer that's on Jim O'Rourke's site?  (Just tried it, seems 
to be out of commission.)  It was a tragicomic portrait of someone 
inhabiting embittered has-been space.

As for King Crimson, there are some really good discs and 
performances.  And Tom said in a _Dreamtime_-era interview that he 
was originally supposed to do something with Fripp, but the 
scheduling apparently didn't work out.  Would have been interesting 
to hear.  (I suspect the connection was Bowie doing "Kingdom 
Come"--anyone know anything about it?)

-- 
Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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