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https://www.eichlernetwork.com/article/rare-neutra-destroyed

Those long jams like Spare Chaynge, Bear Melt and Thing are the Airplane at their best. Spencer Dryden is great too.

That is correct. He discussed working with Jordi in the Zoom interview I did a few weeks ago. I just got the new Downbeat and I felt the article about Zev Feldman was edited down for space too much, it deserved more.

I will try and remember. [Waldron-Lacy] But it won't arrive until next week. By then other posters will likely have shared impressions.

Check out Casady on this long instrumental from their great 1967 album After Bathing at Baxter's (my favorite of their albums): Great story, thanks!

Ugh. Sorry to hear that. Hopefully, it'll be a quick fix. I actually think I'm going to get these RSD releases on CD. I love vinyl too. But the RSD CDs are less expensive. (Most of the vinyl that I buy is used.) Occasionally, I'll plop for a new LP if it's the only option -- like last year's RSD reissue of Black Renaissance - Body, Mind, Spirit. I also have a few Pure Pleasure LPs in my collection that aren't available in any digital format.

Frank Wright (tenor saxophone), Bobby Few (piano), Alan Silva (bass), Muhammad Ali (drums) Pretty intense stuff. Must have been quite a show there in Rotterdam.

Everything VG+ or better, discs played once. $50 plus $7 shipping media-CONUS only but send me a pm and we'll see if we can work something out if you're elsewhere. Paypal (friends and family) or Venmo via bank account. Post here and then pm please. Thanks for looking!

Not that I expect to learn anything extra but the NYT seems especially late on an obit.

Pat Martino - Live at Yoshi's (Blue Note, 2001) with Joey DeFrancesco and Jabali Billy Hart Pat was such a badass. And when I'm listening to his records -- like I am right now -- he still is. Amen to that!

Casady is such a great bassist; I didn't really think about him as an instrumental soloist until I saw the Tuna live. Things definitely clicked. Tuna fans are pretty rabid, too, and it's always fun to talk to someone wearing one of their t shirts.

Plaza >>>>>> any Pratt anything

Héctor Lavoe "Soy Vagabundo" (Fania Records) 1981 .... Héctor Lavoe in the early 80`s still a force ....

The Libertines "All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade" (EMI Records) 2024 ....

Indeed! But signs and part of the times. Remembered differently according to everyone's musical conditioning during that period. Their record contract with MPS made them a staple on a wide variety of German Music shows and broadcasts during the 70s. Usually in (Very 😁) "Easy Listening" formats - for people not quite sophisticated enough to really dig the Siwngle Singers, for example. Not my cuppa, neither then nor now, never miend their undoiubted craftsmanship. But I remember back then I came to sit them out as part of the intermission fillers you were often served, and today I take them as part of the "70s sound" for "adult teens". They probably were also part of the typical music served on a radio show on Sunday nights (taken over from Austrian radio, I think) called "Schlager für Fortgeschrittene" ("Pop music for avanced listeners") hosted by Gerhard Bronner (whom Gheorghe no doubt remembers WELL!). The few other artists I remember from these shows were the Swingle Singers and very similar acts as well as Brazilian latter-day Bossa Nova tunes (with what to my young'un's ears sounded like puzzling, deliberately lifeless singalong plodding). And among the non-vocal items there may well have been some production that would be filed under "sophisticated elevator music". To the ears of this 14-to-15 year-old just getting seriously into music (though not at all the then current hit parade or rock "in crowd" stuff) the fare served there came across as utterly bizarre sounds, making me wonder who on earth would ever buy this and what the point of producing such music was anyway ... Oh well ... BTW, seeing these clips now, I now remember that back in the day I never would have guessed they were made up of only 1 female but 3 males. To the average listener they must have sounded more like 3 females and 1 male. And I remember now this is how I visualized them back then too.

be aware that the Frog reissue has some of the best sound I have heard on materials of this vintage.

The Fletcher Henderson disc (Vocalion & Pathe 1924-5) looks interesting but unfortunately 11 of the 25 tracks have been previously released on the Henderson/Armstrong Forte 3CD set, making it less appealing to me

Drawn in by clickbait thread title. This is all "news" to me. But I'm proud to say that I had never heard of Chris Pratt before seeing this thread. 🤣

'Musho' is outstanding

Elis – Como & Porque ... Brazil 1969

Thanks for this tip. My copy just arrived. What a group. Pat Thomas is a master..but then the whole thing swings and heaves. It's like being hit by a heavy object and yet enjoying the experience. looking forward to hearing this in due course.

According to Discogs, it was [f]ounded in 2012 as a partnership between American producer Zev Feldman and Spanish producer Jordi Soley.” That’s the only info I’ve been been able to find.