"If it isn't in remission, I'll be ringing you up and saying, 'Listen, I've got a story for you,' " he said.
DAVE KING TRIO "I've Been Ringing You" (Sunnyside) After more than a decade of steady touring and recording, the Bad Plus truly knows itself.
So while there are songbook standards on "I've Been Ringing You," his coming album with the pianist Bill Carrothers and the bassist Billy Peterson, there's no demonstrative agenda at work — just a push-and-pull commitment to coherence and abstraction.
"I've Been Ringing You," due out next Tuesday, is the first release by Dave King to evoke a conventional jazz outing, complete with standards like "Autumn Serenade" and "People Will Say We're in Love".
I am ringing to tell you that you are about to meet a truly remarkable young man".
When you ring up you say: 'Hello I am ringing to hand myself in.
Which soon morphed into this married man calling me to say "I'm ring shopping right now, wondering what you feel about that?" You mean, the fact that you have been dangling my dreams, my career goals over me, deals and opportunities I could have, oh wait, but only if I date you.
Why am I ringing you?" Exasperatedly, I replied, "Because you've reached B in your address book".
After one long, rambling, solipsistic intro, he finally asked me, "Why am I ringing you, love?
I assume he's ringing to cancel.
