wildflowers

tonight, while intermittently working on a cover story for the fw weekly, i downloaded wildflowers: the new york loft jazz sessions complete from amazon. it's five lp's/three cd's worth of performances recorded in a single weekend at sam rivers' studio rivbea in 1976, perversely released at the time on disco-and-kiss label casablanca and reissued by knitting factory in 2000. lately, '60s and '70s free jazz is sounding really satisfying to me. plus, i can get lost in it while i write.