Email Author David Cook

2000 Stories by David Cook

• Hear This

  published December 20, 2000

  On late '60s albums like Bitches Brew and In a Silent Way, Miles Davis moved away from his trademark "cool jazz" sound, combining... More >>

• Hear This

  published December 13, 2000

  If pianist Ethan Iverson were based in the Bay Area, he'd probably work with the handful of top-notch musicians in the Mills College and S.F.... More >>

• Genie in a Bottle

  published October 4, 2000

  It was the sort of oddball idea one has late at night at a club, perhaps after a certain amount of drinking. "Steve [Dye] and I were watching some... More >>

• The Crushing Spiral Ensemble

  published September 27, 2000

  The first minute of the Crushing Spiral Ensemble's second album comes out and grabs you by the wrist, dancing you around the room on a funky... More >>

• Waxing Nostalgic

  published September 13, 2000

  A good performance artist plays upon audiences' attentions and perceptions, disarming them with humor, drawing them in with insight, and going for... More >>

• Finger-picking Good

  published August 23, 2000

  When shopping for a Duck Baker album, it can be hard to know which section of the record store to look in. On one record he collaborates with... More >>

• Fun Factory

  published August 16, 2000

  Has a deck of cards ever gotten the best of you, spraying out of your hands when you tried to shuffle? Has a hammer seemed to bite your thumb, a... More >>

• Eine Kleine Odd Musik

  published July 26, 2000

  As a high school music teacher, Bart Hopkin didn't have much chance to explore his fascination with strange and exotic instruments. It's not like... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published June 21, 2000

  Vive La RévolutionLife as a high-profile newspaper columnist is, God knows, demanding. But life as a publicity-seeking would-be... More >>

• Building a Better Battleship

  published June 14, 2000

  The lights go down, and the images begin to flicker on the screen: Hands perform the gestures of cooking food, washing dishes, and winding the... More >>

• Of Heroes and Fools

  published May 31, 2000

  Imagine living in an era in which one's association with certain political groups, or even rumors of an association with those groups, was grounds... More >>

• Hear This

  published May 17, 2000

  Rovaté III with Gerry HemingwayGerry Hemingway first came to the attention of creative improv fans as a member of the Anthony... More >>

• Life is Art

  published March 29, 2000

  It's oddly appropriate that right across the street from the infamous alley where local ladies of the night ply their trade, the "Scarlot Harlot"... More >>

• Steve Lacy and Roswell Rudd

  published March 15, 2000

  Steve Lacy and Roswell Rudd Monk's Dream (Verve) Forty years ago, Thelonious Monk went to New York's 5 Spot club... More >>

• Mono Pause

  published March 8, 2000

  Mono Pause Peeping Through the Listen Hole (Electro Motive) The "pause" in Mono Pause must be your own. It's the one the band's... More >>

• On Another Road

  published March 8, 2000

  Clark Coolidge got turned on to the potential of extemporaneous speech when a college classmate gave him a copy of On the Road soon... More >>

• Re-Illuminated

  published March 1, 2000

  It's a Thursday afternoon in Potrero Hill, and Sonny Simmons is perturbed. He's having a hard time getting his bassist, Herbie Lewis, to play the... More >>

• Sonny Smith

  published March 1, 2000

  Sonny Smith Who's the Monster...You or Me? (Self-released) There's a moment in every Sonny Smith performance when a... More >>

• Perfectly Weird

  published February 23, 2000

  At a pair of shows the last weekend in January, local quintet Zmrzlina demonstrated an unusual -- some might say downright weird -- ... More >>

• Sisters Grim

  published February 9, 2000

  Remember those childhood lullabies your mother used to sing to you, the ones you couldn't get out of your head even after you'd gone to sleep?... More >>