So, I read somewhere that people are Google-ing themselves and to their shock finding out that their personal photos are being co-opted by “adult” websites and other publishers. Apparently those photos of you and Grandma at the petting zoo can become the cover of the latest Eastern European “specialty” DVD release.
In that spirit (haha) this is what Google delivered to me tonight:
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Ok kids,
CPZ is back on @ Jimmy’s, 18 hours later.
3pm Saturday June 2
special “let’s-play-and-then-catch-a-cab-to-JFK” show, please come and see us. 
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I downloaded the new Wilco off iTunes today.
So far, so great. I love it. It’s very easy on my ears.
Then it occured to me that the reason may be that Tweedy & co. sound like the Grateful Dead on the Mars Hotel album.
I’m not complaining, just making note where its due.
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(isn’t that a Seinfeld quote?)
Our June 1 @ Jimmy’s NO43 has just been cancelled. The venue has booted us for a private party that wants to pay to rent the space. Oh well. Rob is furiously working on a replacement gig, potentially Saturday afternoon June2 in NYC.
Stay tuned, CPZ cannot be denied!
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It has come to my attention that many of my adoring local public have NOT purchased plane tickets and arranged for expensive mid-town accomodation in New York for the June1 CPZ gig.
Despite my shock, I’d like to suggest something for you to do since you’re all staying home:
http://www.aimtoronto.org/interface/mayjune2007.php
This is an AIMT weekend concert series featuring cellist Thomas Charmetant. I saw TC perform a duo with Paul Dutton last summer and it was fantastic. He’s a great player, and he’s collaborating with many equally wonderful artists during this Interface (as the AIMT calls it). They need our support by attending and encouraging others to attend, this (our) music is struggling world-wide (if the closure of Tonic in New York is any indication), and the guys and girls of the AIMT make sure there are at least two full-scale concerts of improvised music EVERY WEEK here in Toronto. It’s hard work, and no one’s making any money. Support them if you can, and enjoy the music!
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I’m releasing a compilation CD, it’s going to be for sale at gigs this summer. It’s a compilation of album tracks and unreleased wonderful-ness from 2000-2006. Cat# cc1003, it’s officially untitled, but the cover art says it all.
Here’s the track listing, and some notes about the music:
1. theme from an imaginary instructional video
cc/drums, mike pelletier/acoustic bass, eric boucher/clavinet
A recording from 2003 (I think) with cc3, though cc3 itself wouldn’t form until a year later. I just happened to call these two guys for this session, and this was the first time we’d played together as a band (who knew we’d do hundreds of gigs in the near future). A funky track that was used for a modern dance performance. Those handclaps are live off the floor, baby!
2. dark
cc/drums+bells, michael occhipinti/guitar
A track from cc1001 winter music This was 100% improvised and it really came together. Kudos to Kevin Cooke who recorded this, as it sounds like we are in a batcave somewhere. In reality I was setup in his laundry room, MO’s amp was in the bathroom, and we couldn’t see each other. I guess if we were in the batcave we wouldn’t have been able to see each other too. 
3. laurel and the mathmatics of moonlight
cc/drums + percussion, eb/rhodes piano, laurel james/vocals, nikku nayar/bass
A track from cc1004 mathematics One of my favourite tunes (of mine), Laurel’s entrance after the piano interlude in the middle is really phenomenal. On this tune I played a big 24″ Sonor Phonic bass drum and 14″ 602 Soundedge hihats from the ’60s. I don’t have either of these instruments anymore, so I’m glad I have recordings of me playing them.
4. mango
cc/drums, rob price/guitar, ed zankowski/tenor sax
From our first-ever performance, at Leftover Daylight in Toronto. This was also the first time ever attempting this tune of Rob’s. The fact that it came off so funky and interactive is a testament to all the things that are right about this combination of musicians. One of my most enjoyable bands to work with. Also, thanks to Tim Shia for loaning me his great-sounding Yamaha HipGig kit for this gig. If I had the room in my basement, I’d buy one of these. They are small, funky, and yellow!
5. MEGtwo
cc/drums, tim posgate/guitar, ez/tenor
From the ill-fated first CPZ band (P for posgate instead of P for price). We did do a really nice record that this track comes from cc1002 the fruits of our limitations I just couldn’t get the right gigs to keep this lineup happy and busy. Tim’s playing a lot of banjo these days, and there’s a few moments of finger-picking in this performance that maybe foreshadow that…
6. planet of grapes
cc/drums, vocals, bruno ierullo/guitars, nikku nayar/bass
The original studio demo of this song (which was recently recorded by cc3 on (pamplemousse)), featuring yours truly on lover-man lead vocals. This was recorded way back in 2000, and features the loose-tuned “goosh” snare drum I was infatuated with at the time. I was bringing that drum out to all my gigs, much to the horror of soundmen and bandleaders still stuck in the “Spin Doctors snare drum style”. Having a loose snare head and hitting hard means lots of dented heads; my drumhead expense line was a healthy tax write-off that year.
7. hope song
cc/drums, eb/piano, mp/bass
The ballad from cc1005 (pamplemousse) First appeared on cc1001 winter music, but gets a deeper reading by cc3. I’m quite happy with this version, and the amount of air we managed to trap between the notes.
8. one more
cc/drums
A track from my solo DVD (currently unavailable, soon to be re-released as a downloadable video), which was an entirely improvised concert at Leftover Daylight in spring 2005. I was using a big marching bass drum with calfskin heads and had a towel on the snare drum (it slips off near the end and headphone-listeners will hear the snare drum sound open up…). A fun night, and one of the first times in a while I had been scared on a gig; I have to play more solo concerts for this reason alone: high flying, no net.
So, I hope to see you at a gig soon to sell you one of these. If you want one but can’t make it to Toronto or NYC (here’s my schedule), mail-order is possible too.
ECM has had been on the ball in spring07. So many good releases; I’ve only managed to listen to a couple of the four or five I am planning on getting to. I’m currently hung up on this record by pianist Anat Fort, “A Long Story“. It’s a quartet record (but the band breaks off into various smaller combinations on some pieces) with the master, Motian on drums, Perry Robinson on clarinet and Ed Schuller on bass.
Ed Schuller is the revelation here. I am admitting my neglect in that I haven’t heard him on anything since Motian’s Psalm record 25 years ago; but this guy’s performance on “A Long Story” is wonderful. He has a time feel and a “hookup” with Motian that is so sympathetic. They shift effortlessly in and out of swinging and straight feels, and Schuller just knows where Motian is going, all the time. It’s astonishing to hear a bassist be so supportive throughout, while still playing so adventurously. It reminds me of Rick Danko, actually.
I’d like to hear Ed Schuller play with Ringo.
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