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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.
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Thanks for doing this again!
I pick Winnipeg, 50.
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I really like this album. Nice solos from Tony Scott, Lucky Thompson and Stan Getz. Some great writing and arranging, but just enough jazz and swing not to scare everyone away. The Verve Elite Edition CD has some interesting alternates and extras.
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That was a fun interview, Allen!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Winnipeg 45. Go Bombers!
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Teddy Charles and Hall Overton, 3 for Duke with Oscar Pettiford. Excellent all-Ellington album.
Walt Dickerson with Sun Ra, Impressions of a Patch of Blue
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Record Surplus in Santa Monica is a good spot.
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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).
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1 hour ago, JSngry said:
I think the first live one on Elektra/ Musician was exquisite. But next one was not
Master of the Art, with Bobby Hutcherson. That is indeed a great one.
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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.
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I haven't listened to enough of these, but two of my favourites are JATP 1946 and 1949, which both feature Bird and Lester Young.
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Sad news. Really enjoyed his contributions. RIP. My condolences to his family and friends.
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I've had good experiences with the blue Trident pressings. The hissy, recycled vinyl pressings I think are from an earlier period. I will say the Analogue Productions reissues are excellent and I'm generally not a fan of a lot of the modern vinyl reissues.
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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).
That's a neat story about Holloway. He was a great quarterback in the CFL--he could throw the ball like a rocket!
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Winnipeg - 40. Go Bombers! Thank you Russell for organizing this again.
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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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There's a few Volume 1s on eBay. As per above message, the label still has the remaining volumes in stock. It was a great series.
Groups with three guitarists
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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.