Four Bars Up Front From Dave...

I'm Dave Wild, owner/operator of this small snag in the World Wide Web, with a number of items of interest.

There's information about my recent CD, Wild Sides, and the latest Temple Jazz Orchestra CD, Bill Watrous and the Temple Jazz Orchestra.

You can follow the links to pages on the music of John Coltrane, a towering figure in the jazz artform,

including an abridged Coltrane Discography (still under construction, of course, with a little more than eight years on line).   Some details on recent Coltrane releases and other trivia can be found on the Coltrane News page. You can share some recollections of Coltrane in performance on the Coltrane FirstHand page. And there's information about The John Coltrane Reference, a massive work of scholarship by Lewis Porter, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Chris DeVito, Wolf Schmaler and David Wild (your tour guide), just released by Routledge and now available. I've also started a page for saxophonist Ornette Coleman, rather limited so far, although it does have some details on recent appearances and reissues.   We also have pages about my brother Ken Wild, an exceptional bassist and long-time first-call member of the Los Angeles music scene; about the Temple Jazz Orchestra, a remarkable ensemble based in Temple TX; and about yours truly Dave Wild, author, pianist and friend to man and beast.

Music in these here parts is officially divided into "country" and "other", but the "other" includes some jazz--with performances by Dave Wild Trio, the S J Q (Swann Jazz Quartet), and the Temple Jazz Orchestra, with info on their current CD, pairing TJO with trombonist Bill Watrous. There's a separate site for the wildly eclectic ten-piece group Elephants . There's a page on my CD, Wild Sides . And there's a page with some performance listings for jazz in the central Texas area (including DW3, SJQ and a number of others). Finally, of course, we have the usual boring personal trivia.