danasgoodstuff

You don't love Gene Harris? Why you...!

New York Review of Books (the most literate thing out there, IMHO) Turning Wheels (Studebaker Drivers Club rag, surprisingly good if somewhat narrow) Classic [moter]Bike (again somewhat specialized, but v. good) Scottish Life (neoJacobist, which makes it nearly as reactionary as some of our posters here)

It's great to see all the love here for Mr. Jackson. In general I've always felt group vocalists didn't get no respect, at least compared to instrumentalists, any thoughts on why? Should probably start a new thread on whether any new groups compare to the Spinners, Temps, et al. I'll Be Around... Dana

Grinding it for the daytimers?

Valerie, I certainly woulda thought so but, unless I'm having a major brain glitch, no. Maybe that assumption that he shoulda been inducted years ago accounts for him not being in...? dana

Overlooking the gratuitous insult of the purple one (I'm no fan, but I don't see the point in this context)...I'd like to encourage everyone here who's even thinking of voting in this poll to consider Ray Charles for the HOF. "Jazz, blues & beyond"; he's certainly all that...and a bag of chips!

Yes, we all know LeRoi (good enuf for his mom, good enuf for me) went off the deep end a long time ago, but he did some good work before (and after?) he did. anyone here know anything about the unissued don Ayler album he produced/recorded?

yeah! All the best...

can't decide which is my fav ST session, but "ThinK" may be my fav cut, but then I love the 5 Royales and love to hear stan play the hits (release "Georgy Girl" nd "Up, Up & Away" now!)

thanx, muchly

Nice article, but there is at least one inaccuracy - Wexler may have brought Dusty to Memphis but it was to American, not Stax, studio. Probably the result of an editor simplifying a more complex exposition. I think the perfect ttribute to Mr wexler would be a Mosaic collecting all the recordings of the allstar band he cherry-picked from the Memphis and Muscle sholes guys and used behing aretha, King Curtis, Wilson Picket and Solomon Burke, the defining combo being Tommy Cogbill (Memphis) on bass and Roger hawkins (MS) on drums. This was really a quite different and better band than any of the regularly working studio crews from which it was drawn.

was at my fav record store (Music Millennium in Puddletown) this noon and forgot to even look! Must remember....

finally upgraded my Capt Mrvel, much better sound. Would love to have that Montreaux perf at full length in any format, avail?

No, comparing Benson to Reifinstahl isn't "nuts", it's hyperbole. Just as saying that he'd turned "to the dark side" is... If noting the skill involved in Benson's latter work isn't a defence, what's the point in this context? I'm as big a populist as anyone here, but that's the point - his latter work (draw the line wherever you want, where exactly is interesting but not crucial) isn't populist, IMHO his early work is, even if it was much less popular. I love Grant's latter work, tolerate Wes's, but something about Benson's just seems wrong...and to suggest that it's just because I'm white (plaid?), middle-aged, middle-class, or whatever is just insulting and cheap. The point about people having struggled long and hard to get to "slick" is perfectly valid descriptively; it's just not on point normatively.

JSngry, Usually I'm happy to defer to your articulateness and real musician life experience, but if the foregoing is an elaborate defense/non-defence of "Turn Your Love Around", etc. then I gotta say I thinks that's the most over-thought, neo-romantic pretending to b ralist pile of BS I've read in a long while. Thinking that if something's hard to do it's gotta be good is lowbrow ignorance. Compared to 'Turn Your Love Around", "Work Me Annie" is fucking Shakespeare, and "Fever" is one of his better plays with really good actors and direction. That TYLA may be about coming in the back door might be it's most socially redeeming feature, otherwise it's nearly as big a misuse of skills as Triumph of the Will. I don't care how wonderful his audience may be/have been in other ways, the music still sucks... What happened in Ren. Florence? did they suddenly lose their skills? No, they might have actually gotten more accomplished in some technical sense but they still went from genius to crap in a generation or so. And if you think this is crumudgeonly, I'm still working on my what happened to Rock respnse. Dana

i have a few good 'ns that I believe meet the criteria set forth above: Bud Powell - Plays Charlie Parker on Roulette Stan Getz - studio date on Verve with Gary Burton from the '60s, one with chick remains mostly unissued! Sonny Rollins - the Alternative... leftovers from the '60s on RCA, first issued in FRance, 20 years+? Eric Dolphy/Chico Hamilton - Ellington Suite, first version Miles Davis - various bits and pieces on the boxes, despite the carping from some corners,ther's good stuff there...and not so good too.

Who let his mind spill out in a bucket?

the Belmonts, with and without Dion, made some nice party music

and Nina Rota, either the originals ST's or Amacord Nina Rota's reinterp's.

Spaghetti Western soundtracks - the Good, the bad, etc.

"All My Trials" from Sonny Sharrock's Highlife. Wish Stanley T. had done some more spirituals &/or gospell.

There are no wrong instruments, just wrong times/ways to play them...

I do, I love hearing genuine jazz populists like stanley or Grant Green play hits of the day. neither of these is any more unlikely than "Little Green Apples" or "McArthur Park" which were issued at the time. Not quite the range grant showed doing evrything from "On Top of Spaghetti" to Mozart... Sonny Criss did a very swinging "Up, Up & Away", apparently he thought it was an instruction as to tempo.

John bonham neil Peart No jazz drummer comes close to annoying me as much as these two.

Got and am enjoying the Turrentine, anyone have any idea why the versions of "Up Up & Away" and "Georgie Girl" listed in discographies for the second session seren't included?