Re: Mark Feldman

on 9/13/02 1:15 AM, Emmanouil Papagiannakis at papagian@nat.vu.nl wrote:

Has he been a big influence on the Masada pieces, marking them with his own style, or is it that the Masada string trio has influenced him so much that even in a relatively free setting he sounds close to it?

Mark is a brilliant player, and yes he does have some stuff he uses a lot (so did Coltrane). My fav Feldman is his solo on "The Little Boy With The Sad Eyes" on A THOUSAND EVENINGS. The way he just takes the straight-aheadness of it and turns it into some kind of liscence to really run off the leash. One of my fav solos in yrs. Plus his playing on the last Abercrombie album was a big fav around here. skip h http://www.skipheller.com