<<<....I heard thatcalvin weston was maybe gonna play (alongside ben perowsky) with electric masada at Tonic on NYE. can someone who was there confirm or deny?>>> unfortunately no... though perowsky with baptista was quite a treat. i am not very familiar with perowsky as a 'jazz' drummer; i am more familiar with him on the elysian fields releases. however he was quite spectacular tuesday evening and i was pleasantly surprised by what he offered, though i was disappointed to learn kenny wolleson would not be playing when i entered the venue. supposedly he was across town at the 55 bar with tony scherr and others from 11 till 4am, but we did not make it over there. i would compose a full on review of the show, however this was my first time seeing all the musicians in person so my review would be no more than a gushing of excitement. but i will mention it was a really, really great show and besides masada pieces there was at least one gift piece (snakecharmer i believe. my disc is back at school so i can not compare), possibly two. marc ribot's trio consisted of trevor dunn & bruce cox (?, i know the last name was cox. large african american fellow who was really laying it down) and it was predominately 'rock'-ish but there was a middle eastern peice towards the middle. yuka honda's group was entertaining however i left just after their first metal piece, the first two being cibo mato like tunes w/ asian girls singing. i imagine their set got quite better through the early hours of the morning. -darryl. ps. i noticed a couple photographers, are any of you out there? i would be interested in seeing some of your photographs...