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B. Clugston
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Graham Lock's excellent book on Braxton, Forces in Motion, has been reissued with some extra material by Dover Publications. The book covers the quartet's 1985 tour on England and provides excellent background on Braxton's approach to music. One of the best jazz books out there.
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2 hours ago, JSngry said:
Besides Hank, I don't see John Patton or Duke Pearson or Stanley Turrentine or Johnny Griffin or Don Byas or Don Redman or Jimmy Giuffre on that list.
Oh my, what a shame.
I voted for Jimmy Giuffre. I followed your lead and wrote Nessa on the write-in ballot for label.
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Paul Desmond Quartet Live
Herbie Hancock, Flood
John Coltrane, Transition
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Bob Dorough has been named one of this year's NEA Jazz Masters, along with Abdullah Ibrahim, Maria Schneider and Stanley the Grouch.
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Lewis Porter writes about Both Directions at once, including a theory that someone other than Coltrane wrote “11386”
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33 minutes ago, medjuck said:
I read a comment somewhere which said it sounded like Pharoah Sanders meets Cannonball Adderly. Interestingly enough at Arroyo Secco festival I saw him right after I saw Pharoah. His father, Ricky Washington, played with him on all but one number. Is he on the record?
Rickey Washington plays flute in the orchestra that's on many of the tracks. He also plays tenor on one of the "hidden" disk tracks.
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5 hours ago, B. Clugston said:
Picked up the 2 LP set. The music is wonderful and the deluxe version is worth it. Nothing deluxe about the vinyl presentation, however: the records on my copy are warped, the liner notes are on a poster you have to fold out to read and the design is oh so 2008.
I got a replacement copy--still warped and the second LP has the same labels on each side. Musically speaking, there is some stellar Jimmy Garrison on this.
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I'm really enjoying this one. I've only heard bits of the The Epic (which I admired but not really my cup of tea), but I think Heaven and Earth is a step up and more jazzy. At times, when the choir and orchestra are added, it sounds like Ennio Morricone hijacking a CTI session.
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Here's a fascinating look at the making of, written by Carla Bley: https://ethaniverson.com/accomplishing-escalator-over-the-hill-by-carla-bley/
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3 minutes ago, felser said:
The last track is really strange, 27 minutes long, mainly sounds like an extended one-note fade. Will definitely be relistening, but definitely skipping some tracks and using repeat on others. Other thoughts on this thing?
I believe the last track was under 10 minutes on the original but ended in a locked groove, so it went on forever. Some of the CD versions try to replicate this. I've never really dwelled much on this record, but it's delightfully bonkers!
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Picked up the 2 LP set. The music is wonderful and the deluxe version is worth it. Nothing deluxe about the vinyl presentation, however: the records on my copy are warped, the liner notes are on a poster you have to fold out to read and the design is oh so 2008.
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Happy Birthday! Hope you are having a great one.
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Ganelin/Chekasin/Tarasov - Con Anima (Melodiya)
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Nice to see a jazz festival with actual jazz. Good to see Guelph and Victoriaville, Quebec are still putting on great festivals.
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Guitarist Reggie Lucas passed away earlier this month. He would get my pick as Miles Davis' most unheralded sideman, though he got plenty of recognition and a Grammy for his later songwriting and production work. I love his guitar work on Miles' 1975 Japan tour. He also briefly studied with Ornette Coleman and was the guy who set Ornette up with Jamaaladeen Tacuma.
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RIP. Quite a multi-talented guy. Not too often you see someone with credits on Blossom Dearie, Miles Davis and John Zorn albums. He was also an accomplished recorder player and did some classical albums with recorder heavyweights such as LaNoue Davenport as well as the Medieval Jazz Quartet album, which is quite a blast.
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Thank you! Picked up Herbie Hancock's Flood and Bernard Vitet's La Guepe for a birthday treat.
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Dollar Brand, African Space Program (Enja). Great music, though this is one album that sounds much better on CD. I've listened to a few copies of this over the years and all have sounded not so great.
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"Legal trouble may be brewing for a Northern California brewery that sells “Brother Thelonious Belgian Style Abbey Ale,” with a label showing jazz pioneer Thelonious Monk in his trademark cap and sunglasses in front of a halo of piano keys...." https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Monk-s-son-wins-right-to-sue-over-Brother-12553201.php
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RIP. Fabulous musician and a wonderful champion of Herbie Nichols.
On 12/25/2017 at 10:36 AM, AllenLowe said:
the one pic I have of us performing together, in Rhode Island, in the 1990s.
Great pic Allen. I was just reading this piece by Frances Davis about Roswell Rudd's Catskill days and it ended with this postscript: "The New York Art Quartet reunion never happened, and Rudd eventually lost his job at the Granit. The good news is that he’s been working with the tenor saxophonist Allen Low (sic)."
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On 12/13/2017 at 7:40 AM, clifford_thornton said:
was supposed to be Alan Silva on bass but there was some sort of travel screwup (iirc) and he couldn't make the date.
Interesting! Glad the replacement worked out so well.
Susanne Lautenbacher, Biber -- Sonatas for Violin (Vox). Nice 1960s recording of the Mystery Sonatas, mastered by RVG.
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Ha! My cousin and I used to watch Die Hard on Christmas Day.
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Jimmy Lyons/Sunny Murray, Jump Up/What to do About (Hat Hut). RIP Sunny Murray. The only guy not listed on the cover--John Lindberg--is really impressive on this one.
What vinyl are you spinning right now??
in The Vinyl Frontier
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Ornette Coleman, Who's Crazy? 2 (Trio Records, Japan)