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4 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:
I plan to leave one hell of a mess for whoever or whatever steps in.
I sometimes fantasize about having my estate sale while I'm still alive, and then showing up in disguise as a shopper, just to see who is fighting over what.
well, my wife looks around at all my crap, and after what happened to me in the last few years, I figure I better get it together.
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1 hour ago, Larry Kart said:
Leave us not forget Fruscella's like-minded friend Don Joseph. He left behind a fine album on Uptown, lovely solos on Chuck Wayne's "String Fever" and a gorgeous passage on Gerry Muligan's no less gorgeous big band arrangement of "All the Things You Are."
I have to admit that, much as I admire Joseph's playing, I know too much about him. Last time I said this about a musician everyone got mad at me for revealing some things, so I will keep it to myself.
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this an old thread, and I apologize if I've already said this, but back in the '70s when I lived in NYC, two musicians - separately and completely independently of each other - said almost the same thing in almost the same words about Fruscella - Sir John Godfrey the drummer and Bill Triglia the pianist (one black and one white and there was no racial politics involved):
"Fruscella was playing that style before Miles, and he had it together before Miles."
Also, Triglia told me that Sonny Rollins used to go to Fruscella's place to rehearse with him. Imagine that.
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1 hour ago, Teasing the Korean said:
Allen, what did you think of this? Or does the fact that you're selling it tell me all I need to know?
I like it, I just don't listen to it much, and I have to reduce my baggage in anticipation of, if you'll pardon the expression, death,
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Captain Beefheart Mirror Man Sessions Buddha Mint $15 plus $4 media shipping.
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43 minutes ago, jazzbo said:
PayPal sent for Taylor and Silver. Thanks.
thanks, I will start packing them up.
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11 minutes ago, mikeweil said:
I have that CD but would take the statue ...
p.s. try to listen to Israel Crosby and Vernel Fournier for a change
I'll do my best; Jamal's playing makes me want to run for my life. Wouldn't you like a second copy just in case of a National Emergency?
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(if you can sit through this much Jamal you are a hero and they should build you a statue)
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On 2/17/2023 at 8:01 PM, Larry Kart said:
I ran into Dodo right after he made that album with Ammons; there was a trio album too. Our college dorm at the U. of ChIcago put on a concert circa 1962 with Ira Sullivan and company, don't recall right now who the other players were, but it was a fine Chicago rhythm section, I think Jodie Christian, Donald Garrett, and Wilbur Campbell, don't think there was another horn player. The recently built skyscraper-like dorm, since torn down, was divided into two-floor units, with the top floor of each unit circling the one below -- it was a well-and-balcony-like setup with. the dorm rooms running along the outside of the building, and the band played in the well between maybe floors seven and eight. The audience was as large as could be fit in, people were hanging over the railings of the balconies, and was appropriately enthused. Dodo was there, IIRC Joe Segal brought him along; the whole affair had been coordinated with Joe, with the musicians being well paid, though I don't recall there being an admission fee. So at one point between sets I found myself in someone's dorm room with Dodo and two or three other people. Seated on a bed he seemed rather withdrawn but not unhappy; how could he be with the music that was being played? I don't recall any conversation with him taking place, though I certainly knew who he was.
he was playing pretty well on those early '60s recordings, better, I think, than some from the later '50s. And his style had changed, less "modal" sounding (see what I said above) and less streamlined, a lot of Garner-esque touches.
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9 hours ago, danasgoodstuff said:
It's lovely and maybe a little reminiscent of Blood Count?
Listening to some more of this on YouTube, would it help you more if I bought this directly from you, from ESP, or from my local bricks 'n mortar?
if you can buy it from me it will be very helpful, to defray a lot of money I put into the project. I will announce when it is ready. Thanks!
3 hours ago, Jack Pine said:Usually not my sort of bag, but that was exceptional. Really works with the visual. Would this be considered a 'walking ballad'? It is in some way reminiscent of 'Ask Me Now'.
thanks, and maybe so. I tend to like that tempo for ballads, very similar to the way Earl Hines used to handle them.
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2 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:
Is "official" modifying "video" or "Allen Lowe?"
Are there Allen Lowe imposters out there?
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now that it's the 21st century I figured I should catch up to the 20th; I've got 4 CDs that will soon be out on ESP, and here's a little video to promote it all (it also contains an amazing alto solo by Aaron Johnson); this is a piece I wrote:
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I love Dodo's playing, particularly the early work, but there is some later stuff with Ammons etc from the 1960s that is pretty good, if more mainstream in approach. One thing that no one seems to notice is that Dodo's early soloing hints at so-called "modal" approaches. The way he played lines - instead of using the typical bebop scale arcs and resolutions, he seemed to be just going in a straight line, not unlike later Miles, as though the line was stretching forward. (and I don't think he plays well on the first Uptown release).
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2 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:
Ellington was apparently criticized for his score to Anatomy of a Murder, but he responded that they used his music in different scenes than he originally intended.
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I did a month with Bishop at a restaurant in Hartford back in the '80s. Sweet guy; almost all we did was talk about Bud Powell, whom he described as "infantile" in every respect except musical.
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some of these are CD versions: https://www.discogs.com/sell/list?master_id=789464&ev=mb
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I think the song Alfie (not to be confused with S.R's Alfie's Theme) is one of the best songs ever written; multi-sections yet all unified musically; complicated yet accessible:
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I love older music, and I love playing older music, though I have some very specific ideas of how it should be done. There are, I think, two ways to go. From a revivalist perspective you've got to play the hell out of the music; take, for example, Jon-Erik Kellso, one of the great trumpeters of our time, who gets so inside the music that there is no creative distance between his playing and the song.
For me, the way to go is to deal with the spirit and the energy of the original source and try to find an alternative way in; I note that there has been a recent recorded tribute to James Reese Europe, though to my ears it is done badly, with a deadness that comes from trying to do a literal re-creation. For our upcoming CD In the Dark I composed a piece as a parallel to what I hear as Europe's way of playing, an attempt to harness that incredible band's amazing energy. I think I can say, immodestly, that we have succeeded, in a way that puts us way in advance of anyone else today (there have been other, older, approaches, which have used something closer to the original arrangements). For our thing, which I call Castles in the Sand, I allowed for "free" improvising, within certain felt constraints, and I am very proud of it. I can't get the New York Times to acknowledge my existence these days (they recently wrote about the recent re-creations by someone else) - but here it is, and I challenge any other contemporary approach to get closer to the spirit of this old and amazing music: (and you can all order this stuff, it will be out within the month):
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1 hour ago, Teasing the Korean said:
Thanks for this. When did the upgrade occur? Between the original CDs and the RVG editions?
I honestly don't know.
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I am reading Koloda and I have to admit I like it. The writing seems fine, but if there as many errors as claimed, that's troubling, but I would like to see some specifics. If he depends too much on other sources, well, that's a problem I see more often in academic books. But, as I said, I would like to know what the errors are, as "disaster" is a pretty strong condemnation.
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one important thing to note - the 2 volumes of the Amazing Bud Powell were reissued AGAIN, some years back, with significantly better sound. Those are the ones you should own. The difference is dramatic -
(same thing, BTW, with the Monk Bluenotes)
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I am going to slide in here and say the best, most soulful, bari player today is Lisa Parrott. She's also a great alto player.
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I wonder if anyone can advise me - I have read repeatedly about what a good guitarist Verlaine was, Coltrane-influenced (or so I have read); but I have never really found much of his playing which shows much of that. Am I missing something?
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It's not what he said but what he did. Let's just say, remember that Beatle song "Boys"? Or maybe "Younger than Spring Time;" "Go Away Little Boy;" "I Want a Little Boy."