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On 6/23/2025 at 5:01 PM, JSngry said:
Hell yeah.
Came across this LP at a used record store the other day. Gave it a listen and the music was amazing, but vinyl was showing its age. so didn't pick up. I do have the Composers Quartet version.
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Barre Philips has recorded many excellent solo albums. Call Me When You Get There is probably the best but the relatively recent End to End is a good one, too.
John Lindberg’s Comin’ and Goin’ is excellent.
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Really enjoyable BFT. Some good stumpers.
4 is a pair of AACM giants doing Maple Leaf Rag.
5 sounds like Henry Threadgill and Air?
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#8 Is that Ralph Alessi on trumpet? With Frisell on guitar, sounds like it could be from a Scott Colley album.
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Is Track 7 Hal McKusick?
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Really enjoyable blindfold test!
Track 1 is really fascinating. I agree with Jim in that it starts off Mingus-like and goes somewhere else. No idea who this is—alto player sounds like a Dolpy/Mariano hybrid, while some of the others sound like they hung out with David Baker in Indianapolis.
Track 5. Mats Gustafsson duetting with a bass saxist?
Track 10. That was nice. I feel like I know this pianist, but they aren't giving many clues.
Track 12 sounds like Jack DeJohnette on drums along with McBee, so I’m guessing Donald Smith on piano?
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On 2/2/2025 at 1:21 AM, mhatta said:
Agharta and Pangaea are great, but a bootleg known as "Another Unity" (from Jan. 22, 1975) is even better. And music from the 1973 tour is also teriffic. I really hope they release someday something like "Miles Davis Bootleg Series Vol. 9: Japan Tours 1973/1975".
Agree, the Jan. 22 date is spectacular. Cosey actually play drums on the last track and there's two Lucas solos during the second set. The Feb. 8, 1975 stuff is interesting, too, though the sound is poor--"Maiysha" stretches out to half an hour and the band brings out the "Honky Tonk" DNA to the forefront at one point.
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On 1/11/2025 at 5:37 AM, Pim said:
Sometimes suddenly a single vinyl reissue pops up. It's hard to track down the sources and even if they are official or not. I know bootleg labels already messed with the catalogue. I would love to see a good vinyl reissue of Mal's Seagulls album.
Seagulls was at my local record shop lately--priced at $200!
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Thanks for sharing! 👍👍👍
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Track 1 has a post-Thrust Headhunters vibe to it
2 First thought was Jon Lord, then Stockhausen, then Don Ellis. Took a minute, but Ellis indeed from the Fillmore album. Wild stuff!
3-7 dunno
8 Love this! No idea who.
9 JB!
Fun BFT!
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Winnipeg 35. Go Bombers!
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Robert Duvall, too. Earl Holliman, 96, is also still around.
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On 9/18/2024 at 9:17 AM, colinmce said:
Lots of discussion about the Blue Note version of Town Hall, and the status of the acetates. Both LPs have been posted in full on YouTube. This is record 1, side A. The other 3 sides can be found on the account page:
Wow, great to finally hear that. Some top-notch Ornette and wonderful to finally hear Izenson's "Taurus." Too bad ESP got involved as that would have been a fine pair of LPs. "Story Teller" got named "Doughnut" on the ESP release, while "Doughnut" matches up with the tune recorded as "Doughnuts" elsewhere.
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51 minutes ago, medjuck said:
Konitz and Braxton played together on Dave Brubeck's "All the Things We Are" Lp. Did Braxton record with Konitz or Marsh elsewhere?
Braxton and Konitz did a couple of tracks together at the 1981 Woodstock Jazz Festival with Chick Corea. I believe there was a CD that eventually came out.
Braxton sat in with Marsh a few times. I think there is some bootleg documentation out there.
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In Forces in Motion, Braxton is asked about this and basically says although he was impressed by Dolphy's work, "I was not as influenced by him as people have thought... So Eric Dolphy's work was very exciting to me, but I never felt that his way was my way."
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3 minutes ago, JSngry said:
Aren't they all dead now?
Tim Bogert died, but the rest are still around. They were a fun band.
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I've been there. Usual culprit is album gets hidden in the gatefold of another LP.
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8 minutes ago, medjuck said:
Is it in stereo?
All in mono.
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The 1991 European Sony CD has the original album with "Oh what fools these mortals be..." and all.
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14 hours ago, Gheorghe said:
Didn´t Mingus use three fusion guitarists on "Three or Four Shades of the Blues" ?
And I think Miles on "Dark Magus" in addition to Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas used a guy Dominique Gaumont..... also on the studio album "Get Up with it".
On Dark Magus, Gaumont shows up for Sides 3 and 4 and while Cosey is mostly on percussion while Gaumont is playing, all three guitarists are playing at once during the wild rave-up at the end. There's some tracks with all three on Get Up with It plus the box set documenting that era.
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19 hours ago, tranemonk said:
Are the liner notes... REALLY Good??? I'm leaning toward getting the digital, especially since each disc is only about 90 minutes or so. The digital is much cheaper given that we're talking about all three sets....
Nothing revelatory. Pretty sure some of them are repeated from the earlier sets. The music is excellent.
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I do recognize Track 12. Won't spoil the fun, other than to say the pianist wrote it and the saxophonist is a bit of a surprise. Don't know the rest, but digging each track and look forward to the reveal.
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Just picked up Vol. 3. Great stuff from 1966 to 1968, all with Jamil Nasser and Frank Gant.
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21 hours ago, bresna said:
I have a mid-70's RVG pressing of "Cornbread" so when I heard the warbling on the Tone Poet, I gave it away. But that warble was not from cutting too hot. No one seems to know what happened there. There were about 4 or 5 Tone Poet releases in a row that had some warble. Seems to have gone away though.
The hot cuts that I know about were Andrew Hill's "Passing Ships", Art Pepper/Chet Baker's "Picture of Heath" & Lou Donaldson's "Blues Walk" (Classic LP - not Tone Poet). There were a couple of others but I can't confirm them because I didn't buy them.
It's too bad for BN too as I'm sorta their target market.
Andrew Hill's Black Fire had bad warbling to the point that it became unlistenable and sounded like Alvin Lucier remastered it. Passing Ships sounds fine on my setup, but I'm lo-fi. I did like the Blue Train reissue.
Summer With The Juilliard String Quartet
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Saw this in the local record store yesterday and, despite Mendelssohn never being on my radar, gave it a spin. Unbelievably nuanced, indeed, and I love how the dial back the sweetness on some of the lusher passages.
I'm really enjoying your posts on these three box sets. Julliard Quartet has an admirably broad repertoire, going from daring modern choices to the classics to the hardcore classics to the softer side of string quartets. If I had to pick my 10 favourite string quartets, they've recorded 9 of them (the missing 10th, Feldman's 2nd, is as much endurance sport as music). I love their Ives recording and I see I also have the original Berg and Carter's 2nd/3rd in the stacks.