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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. I've been able to get most of Coltrane's Impulse albums without really trying. I think non-jazz people buy them, get scared when things go all altissimo and sell them again. Ditto Archie Shepp, I've managed to pick up almost every Impulse album used in the past year. I remember when Ahmad Jamal albums were everywhere, but nowadays they get bought quickly. I work near two used record stores and I could pretty much buy Bob James entire non-ESP output in the next 15 minutes if needed.

  4. 4 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

    Thanks!  I have a couple on Cadet, including the one with voices that I just played. 

    Was that Cry Young? If so, while it certainly has many breezy, easy listening moments, that version of "Nature Boy" is incredible. Also a big fan of Heat Wave on Cadet.

  5. 5 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

    What label would these have been on?  Most of my Jamal albums are on Argo.  I have two early ones on Epic, one on impulse!, and the aforementioned Oil Can Harry's.

    Mostly Cadet. First few were on Argo and the last before the Impulse sides was on ABC-Paramount.

  6. On 4/16/2023 at 4:16 PM, Teasing the Korean said:

    Given the news, I am reminded of Ahmad Jamal's Live at Oil Can Harry's, an early jazz album of mine.

    Speaking of Jamal, I have a soft spot for the albums he recorded between the last by the Crosby-Fournier trio and the Impulse dates.

  7. 7 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

    Also, do any of the electric Miles studio records from the late 1960s into the early/mid 1970s include configurations that never performed live?  (The concept seems to potentially reverse there, at least with the "Lost Quintet," into "bands that played live but never recorded in the studio.") 

    From Bitches Brew to On the Corner, Davis' sessions featured all or part of his working band with a lot of extra musicians, most of whom didn't play live with Davis during that period (John McLaughlin sat in a few times live and Maupin did once). 

  8. My favourites:

    • Plugged Nickel
    • Fillmore East box
    • Cellar Door box
    • In Concert
    • Agharta/Pangea 

    Bootlegs:

    • 1969: Rome, Paris Nov. 3 where Corea and DeJohnette swap places on a track, Stockholm Nov. 5 with a nice version of "Nefertiti" and Chick switching to acoustic
    • 1973: Tokyo and Belgrade. Both are in good sound. Belgrade has some nasty Cosey rhythm guitar and Lucas takes the first solo.
    • 1975: Every single Japan date. Fascinating to hear this band reinvent the material every night. You might get compositions superimposed on each other. For Dave can be a dirge one day and a rocker the next. Maiysha gets stretched out to half an hour on later dates, incorporating more of the Honky Tonk riff. There's one night where Lucas takes a wild solo on Funk instead of Cosey. Jan. 22 is in excellent sound, plus you get Cosey playing drums on the final track.
  9. 12 hours ago, felser said:

    Winnepeg 39.  I know nothing about CFL, just did some quick number crunching!  That being said, if any of you have followed it for decades, there was a QB named Condredge Holloway who had great success in the CFL (and is in the CFL hall of fame), and I played on a youth team with Holloway in Huntsville, AL in the mid-60's.  He totally dominated our league (I sat on the bench).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condredge_Holloway

    That's a neat story about Holloway. He was a great quarterback in the CFL--he could throw the ball like a rocket!

  10. 11 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

    Thanks.  I realize that folks probably have not been able to absorb all 8 discs already, but regarding the tune repetition, are they basically playing the same arrangements from set to set, or are the tunes reinvented from show to show?

    Note that the band was concentrating on the new tunes while they were being recorded. Listening to the Both/And stuff, they had a much bigger repertoire, including "Ceora," "Willow Weep for Me," and Mabern's "The Chieftain" and "Rakin' and Scrapin'."

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