McNeil Jazz newsletter

Since this gig is on May 4th, the members of Urban Legend were torn
about whether to celebrate Ron Carter's birthday or that of conservative
commentator George Will. Normally in these situations the jazz birthday
wins out, but George Will did write a commendable book about baseball,
and such contributions cannot and should not be ignored. At the group's
weekly barbecue and sewing bee the controversy raged back and forth and
threatened to sunder the good fellowship of the band.

$25 cover (includes a drink)

Jam session at the Tea Lounge (837 Union St., Park Slope, Brooklyn) from 9 to 12 (or 12:30, depending on the crowd) co-hosted by John McNeil and trombonist Mike Fahie.

$5 suggested donation (718) 789-2762

All are welcome but this is a high-level session for experienced players. Beginners are welcome to join the audience, listen and learn.

In our society, fads come and go with alarming rapidity.
Today's medallions of veal are tomorrow's Chow Fun, if you know what I mean.

As an individual, all one can hope to do is to row one's boat eastward and pray that 
the fickle winds of fiduciary malfeasance do not bring one's dreams to naught.

To that end, Urban Legend will be performing a clutch of new tunes guaranteed to restore regularity and confidence in the shredded social fabric of our civilization. 

the gravy maps an archipelago
on white linen

familiar voices
cheer the creaking scaffold
of prosthetic limbs

who will carve she asks
i look away
and smile behind my rubber mask

who will carve she asks
and all are silent
thinking of the giant musk ox
with sage stuffing

and one voice answers
i i will carve
and now we dance to bartok
and stravinsky

the john mcneil quartet featuring ethan iverson on friday and saturday november 25th and 26th at the cornelia street café 2 sets starting at 9:00

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