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  1. Not bad list. I'd certainly agree with the first three. The rest is a bit heavy on the adventurous, but usually these lists are so predictable or banal.

    Hot Rats is an oddity. It's not a bad album, but I could name 100 jazz records that are better.

    Sam Rivers' Contours wouldn't be my first pick.

    I wouldn't replace Sidewinder with Search For the New Land. They both should be on there.

    No problems seeing Zorn and Naked City. Fun album.

  2. Helpful comments from all to make me understand that my objections are subjective rather than objective.
    I think that some folks are more Motown and others are more Stax (I'm definitely the later!).

    Also, a few years back, I heard something on our local jazz station

    that sounded like On The Corner outtakes or something!

    Instead of calling the station, I began a hunt for this item...

    then, I thought that they had gotten hold of some promo

    for an upcoming set that I didn't know about,

    and so the searching went on. I've heard OTC sooooooooo many times,

    that it was clearly some version of one of the cuts, but I could never come up with anything.

    Still don't know, but maybe there's a Laswell reworking out there somewhere?

    If this box is anything like I heard...well, hell, I'd buy anything on Miles anyway... :g

    Laswell's Panthalassa has a version of "Black Satin," though it sounds pretty much the same. There's also a previously unreleased song from the sessions featuring John McLaughlin, but it doesn't sound like the On the Corner stuff.

    "Black Satin" also gets the remix treatment on Panthalassa: The Remixes. "Black Satin" reappears again on the 1972 live album. Henry Kaiser's Yo Miles! recordings can sometimees sound like the real thing during the guitar solos.

  3. if you don't want to plunk down the money for the Montreux box, "Live Around the World" is an excellent album to have covering the 80's early-90's material.

    I'll second that emotion.

    Let it be noted, though, that the Montreux box features several worthy lineups that never got "officially" recorded otherwise.

    Agreed. I quite enjoyed the set with Robben Ford on guitar, despite the mushy synths. But frankly I don't think I've ever played a couple of the later dics.

  4. While the quartets would fit nicely on a Select, there's a lot more great music that isn't in quartet format: the duos with Muhal Richard Abrams, Braxton and George Lewis with a chamber orchestra, the Creative Music Orchestra date, For Trio with Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman on one side and Henry Threadgill and Douglas Ewart on the other, the solo album, For Two Pianos with Frederic Rzewski and Ursula Oppens, a sax quartet, etc. etc.

    But don't hold your breath on seeing this any time soon. BMG is run by goofballs. Best case scenario we will get "Braxton for Lovers."

  5. This just as easily go in the political forum...but if you do not like the current regime in the U.S., you got to watch the Joe Dantes-directed "Homecoming" in the Masters of Horror anthology series. It's freaking hilarious!

    It's basically about soldiers from the current conflict who return from the dead with a message for the president. Lots of commentary about Iraq, counting ballots in Ohio and Florida and right-wing pundits. If you dislike the Bush crew and love B-grade horror, this is a riot.

  6. It's all very strange indeed.

    Some of the recordings with Corea, et al. were briefly issued on a CD called Early Circle.

    Of the nine or so Arista recordings, only Creative Music Orchestra and 3/4s of the Berlin/Montreux concerts were ever issued on CD. Meanwhile, quartet albums with Kenny Wheeler and Dave Holland have never been reissued. These include some of Braxton's best. The reason is that BMG is run by dorks. There has been some lobbying to get at least some of this material out on a Mosaic (particularly considering the Cuscuna connection), it appears no one crack the BMG vaults. The Braxton Yahoo group finally got so frustrated some kind fans got together and put the whole shebang on CD-R.

    There's also some material on Moers and Ring from this era that haven't made it to CD, including a great solo concert and a double live album with the quartet that included Wheeler.

  7. Loved this show.

    Haven't seen it in years. The episode that comes to mind first is "The Hunt."

    "An old man and a hound dog named Rip, off for an evening's pleasure in quest of raccoon. Usually, these evenings end with one tired old man, one battle-scarred hound dog and one or more extremely dead raccoons, but as you may suspect that will not be the case tonight. These hunters won't be coming home from the hill. They're headed for the backwoods of the Twilight Zone."

  8. From the same guy selling the Coltrane cds. How is this worth $100.00???? Is something else going on here, or is he trolling for crazy people who don't know any better?? :unsure:

    So I e-mail this guy and ask him why is this going for $75-$100 when I can get it brand new on Amazon for $32.

    This is the reply:

    "The Cd is in its original mint condition state. This quality is for collectors who never open the CD for use. It is not a remaster.

    Thank You for your interest!

    michaelg1053 at Bargainland-on-e-bay"

    Whatever.

  9. i have one - when pharoah sanders came to new york in 1962 he met sun ra and began to work for him.

    doing what?

    :)

    no one has gotten the right answer yet!

    :cool:

    Kalo Posted Yesterday, 10:49 PM

    Waiter? Page-turner? Rest-room attendent? Cigarette Girl?

    Tenor saxophonist?

  10. ...and Miles Davis' Cellar Door Sessions. (More than 4 CDs worth of extra live tracks.)

    Lee Morgan Live at the Lighthouse (pretty much two discs worth of unreleased material).

    If you want to expand the topic to include 2-CD sets, there's a lot of Monk with extended/expanded live material (Big Band and Quartet In Concert plus others on Columbia) and Sun Ra's Black Myth/Out in Space (9 unreleased tracks).

  11. While we're waiting for the correct answer on Garbarek, I have a jazz question ABOUT a jazz question. Back in 1955-6, the speciality of one of the contestants on the hugely popular TV game show "The $64,000 Question" was jazz. I, of course, at age 13 or so, followed his progress toward the top with great curiosity and competiveness -- certain that I could blurt out the correct answers before he did. As I recall -- and here's where things get a bit blurry -- one of two things happened at, perhaps, the $32,000 level. The question was, "Who were the original 'Four Brothers?'" My memory is that either the contestant gave the wrong answer and was eliminated, or he gave the wrong answer and it was accepted as correct. In either case, What was the right answer? And -- for all the money now -- What was the incorrect answer? While, as I said above, I'm not sure whether the contestant's incorrect answer was accepted or rejected, I am sure what his incorrect answer was. You're in the isolation booth and have 60 seconds.

    Correct answer:

    Incorrect answer:

    P.S. Yes, back in '55-'56, I got it right. Never bet against a adolescent jazz geek.

    I'll guess Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Herbie Steward, Serge Chaloff were correct.

    Substitute Al Cohn for Steward for the incorrect.

    p.s. I thought it had been established that Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis was Garbarek's favourite.

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