BassDrumBone's sixth and most recent release finds it's home on my recently recussitated Auricle Records. Culled from our private archive this record features a number of works that were never released on record by this group, including Ray's "Elegy for Willie Vargas" which was recorded under a differnt name on his 1980 quartet album for Moers Music, and also "Portrait of Mark Dresser" which also originally hailed from that same record. Mark Helias ' "Question Mark" has a very powerful live performance here along with a magical version of a piece originally titled "Mudpie Anthem", here retitled "Mississippi Mud". A work I later developed for quintet and released on the record "Outerbridge Crossing" called "Endorphin" is heard here in it's original trio version and a newer work, part of my meat series, called "Pork" is featured as well. That work dates from a performance in 1996, but most of the rest of the pieces come from live recotdings from 1986 and 1987. -Gerry Hemingway
ARTISTS Ray Anderson (trombone); Mark Helias (bass); Gerry Hemingway (drums)