Blurt is no squirt
By Richard Meltzer ( The Village Voice ) continued
2. No jazz players (including Mingus and his crew. who were basically too jazz-serious to take it to the limit, and all those AACM folks who've generally seemed to be slumming) have ever had sufficient grounding or interest in R&R Mystery to tackle it as any. thing more than a sometimes passable genre exercise.
3. Prior to Milton nobody from the rock side of the fence (excepting maybe Hendrix who like Ted wasn’t even thinking about it) had the actual chops or daring to gorge 'emselves or such honking. squawking VOLUMES OF SONIC OOM-PAH. (Eat yer heart out, James Chance!)
Ted is simply the greatest white R&R saxperson ever to breathe & blow. Come to think of it you can drop the R&R disclaimer and just say sax cause who's in
fact greater? I'm looking thru my six miles of jazz LPs and finding no one. Throw in vocals and
-mid-period leky w/ protein—the lyrics “I Am the Walrus" as
authentic stream of consciousness- and you've got yourself SOMETHING YOU BETTER JUST LISTEN TO EVEN AT IMPORT PRICES.
(Wait-stop the presses-Slash has
just picked up domestic rights to Blurt in Berlin; while it maybe ain't as spectacular as the other stuff it's better than 99% of
what's currently available, so buy it the day it arrives in the store--a plug.)
Blurt will appear November 7 at Chase Park and November 14 at interferon