[BFT #82 Discussion]

I think it's significant that, from the Hubbard/Shorter/Fuller band on, his young sidemen seldom hired Blakey for their own albums.

I don't think anything of significance can be inferred from this, for two reasons. First, most established leaders don't take a lot of sideman gigs, and second, many young musicians leave bands to pursue musical directions that differ from those of their erstwhile leader's.

[BFT #82 Discussion]

On a first, cursory listen, the only instant recognition for me was the opening track, which is Buckner & Burrell doing the title cut from Milt's Mighty High record.

[Most bizzare band names of all time.]

Since no one's mentioned them yet, Dead Kennedys.

Even better, is the band name they inspired : The Dead Kenny G's

Some of the guys from that group are also a part of the cleverly-named , Garage-A-Trois.

[Chet Baker - Baker's Holiday, Verve SACD]

What do you guys think of the Baby Breeze?

I think it's easily the stronger of the two Limelight recordings. Unlike Baker's Holiday, I think the addition of the other horn soloists on Baby's Breeze really brings out the best in Chet. Frank Strozier in particular I think spurs Baker in the way he did Conte Candoli in the Shelly Manne quintet of the time. While Baker and Strozier share solo honors on the instrumental tracks, pianist Hal Galper leaves his mark by way of his pen, providing some catchy melodic frameworks for blowing. I do however find that drummer Charlie Rice is sometimes, especially at tempo, overly busy and distracting.

[The Jazz Version of....]

Another one that should be on the list is Oliver Nelson's Impressions Of Phaedra (United Artists 1509) which contains his interpretations of the score from Jules Dassin's 1962 film, Phaedra.

[When did you buy your first CD?]

I bought my first CD purely by accident in 1993. Mosaic mistakenly sent me the 2-CD Freddie Redd box instead of the 3-LP Redd set I had ordered. Rather than send it back, I took it as a sign that it was time to be a little less zealous in my rearguard action against the digital onslaught, notwithstanding the fact that at that time the economics still favored analog music (I was buying 3 or 4 LPs for the price of 1 CD).

[Chet Baker - Baker's Holiday, Verve SACD]

Just bought this title on a Hybrid SACD from Verve, and compared it to my late 1990s Japanese MiniLP cd...

...The music itself leaves much to be desired, imho, with Chet's singing lacking in pretty much everything that these songs contained when sung by Billie Holiday, on both the musical, as well as the spiritual levels.

Is this the ne plus ultra of audiophilia - trying to find the best sounding version of music you don't like ?

[Wishing all a great 2011]

[The Jazz Version of....]

Another one that should be on the list but inexplicably isn't :

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Hmm....this one isn't on the list either, and it's not even obscure (or groovy for that matter) :

[Maybe It's Because]

I've recently because smitten with the 1949 song "Maybe It's Because"...

Evidently

[Those who left us in the world of jazz in 2010]

Looking over the just published Village Voice Jazz R.I.P. List there are a bunch whose passing escaped our collective notice.

[Lennie McBrowne albums discussion]

Jordi lurks here

[Can You Please Merge My Staccato Threads?]

Maybe add them to the existing Staccato thread found here

[The Jazz Version of....]

Here's a handy list.

Here's an obscure one not on that list :

[Lennie McBrowne albums discussion]

I imagine a few people here will be interested to learn of the new double-CD issue of the complete recordings of Lennie McBrowne And The 4 Souls.

Details here.

[THE worst version of "Christmas Time is Here"]

Dreck the halls with Pomo folly...

[Google Launches New Book Database]

And here is the word jazz in American English-

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=jazz&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Looks like interest in jazz increased with the arrival of Wynton Marsalis and decreased with the arrival of Ken Burns

[Blindfold Test Master Signup Thread]

Al--who's doing #82 in January? Just curious...I know there'll be a signup thread when the time comes. I definitely want to start joining in on a regular basis as a listener.

BFT Grand Pooh-Bah is now Jeff, and he's compiling BFT # 82 as well (see here).

[Album Covers Showing Multiple Images of the Artist]

That Peggy Connelly cover was already posted upthread.

Here's one that hasn't made an appearance yet :

[Cassavetes Staccato Box Set]

I'd read that several West Coast jazz stalwarts appear in various episodes of this series, but this screencap of what looks to be Joe Maini on flute was still a pleasant surprise :

[The Jazz Version of....]

Don't have this one so this isn't a recommendation, but there's this one as well :

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Just thought of one that fits this thread : Rod Levitt's Forty-Second Street album on RCA features his arrangements of movie melodies of the 1930's.

[Those who left us in the world of jazz in 2010]

Hadley Caliman

[The Jazz Version of....]

That said, I cannot find that idea of doing "jazz versions" of musical or movie scores to be half-baked at all. Considering that a LOT of the all-time jazz standards originated as Broadway, musical or other show tunes written for a quite different musical concept, it speaks for the richness of the musical "raw material" that they have lent themselves so well to the jazz treatment. So wasn't it only logical to apply the same approach not only to individual tunes but to the entire "body" of tunes of a given musical or movie (considering this "body" might have been intended as a "unit")?

I agree completely.

I for one find the whole "Third Stream" idea a LOT more half-baked, for example.

Here we part company. In my view there is nothing half-baked about the idea behind Third Stream music. The execution, well, that's a different matter.