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  1. funk without a bass..interesting. I've read nothing but positives about this cd, i prolly should check it out.
  2. i kind of object to the caricatures that get drawn sometimes--when I listen to music my ear seems to invariably drift to the bass line & if there's a funk groove riff or whatever that repeats over and over-that might be great on the dance floor, but I can't listen to it without starting to pull my hair and go bug eyed so music that features the verities of swing, or some interesting rhythmic action that marginally approaches swing, is what i enjoy to listen to. It moves me, that doesn't make me (or the music) necessarily reactionary. i like jazz i don't like fusion funk jazz or whatever it is. fwiw, i generally like Potter's playing as a sideman w/Dave Douglas, David Binney, Dave Holland, and Adam Rogers, but i haven't heard this new cd so i'm not commenting on it per se.
  3. I have a ver early cd incarnation of this titled 'accent on trombone'--I think it's from fresh sounds..hard to tell, the cd was manufactured in Switzerland, but all of the notes are written in Spanish. No identification of 'fresh sounds' on the cd booklet or case. Whatever the case, beautiful music but lousy remastering (assuming there was any), with Milt Hinton's bass sounding like mud.
  4. Charles Lloyd--Lift Every Voice And some Blue Notes Grant Green--Talkin' About (the combination of Green with Larry Young is one of my favorites) Hutcherson--The Kicker Mclean--Right Now!
  5. That first session on the Clifford Jordan (w/Kenny Dorham) is outstanding. And very well-recorded to boot.
  6. I don't think it's Lloyd's best for ECM, but if you like the other ECMs you'll probably like this one. Some great stuff on here -- "Blood Count", the Silvio Rodriguez tunes, "Amazing Grace", the flute tune on the second disc. Parts of the second disc ramble. Guy Just received this. I haven't gotten to the second disc yet, but I'm really lovin' what I'm hearing on the first one. I'm not a particularly big fan of the ECM stuff in general, but something about the LLoyd/Abercrombie combination speaks to me in just the right spot.
  7. I was at Three Rivers Stadium the day Clemente got his 3,000th hit. Growing up in the Pittsburgh area in the 70s, I was amazed many years later, after becoming a jazz fan, how many great jazz artists were from Pittsburgh..the only Pittsburgh musician I ever heard about while growing up was donnie iris, blue collar rock, if you know what I mean. Anyway I say all that to say this: Turrentine's tone just knocks me out, and it somehow manages to take me back to those Pittsburgh days of my childhood. His sax tone is Soulful and Deep, (those words don't really describe it well, but that's the best I can do). I think Jubilee Shout (on the Mosaic set) is my favorite Turrentine session.
  8. actually, I just ordered it. Chuck's right, if I like Andrew Hill, it's kind of self-evident
  9. 'self-recommending' is a good term--I enjoy Hill's music ( I have many of the Blue Notes, including the last one) and I imagine I'll like this a lot; I guess I was just wondering if, over time, this set holds up with the body of Hill's work or if it is viewed as more of a curio
  10. up. i'm thinking about getting this, and I'm wondering, now that many board members have lived with this set for a year or two, how it has held up.
  11. OJC Limited Editions are 10.98, as are any remaining K2's (good luck with those). SACDs are 13.98. As far as the Hybrid SACDs go, I can heartily recommend the following: Cal Tjader with Stan Getz Gettin' Together - Art Pepper Art Pepper Plus Eleven (probably the best-sounding of the bunch, and that's saying a lot!) Happy shopping! the zoot sims gershwin sacd hybrid is really good-sounding too. not to mention great music!
  12. That's the manager of Birdland, Oscar Goodstein. Thanks!
  13. Good point, and it's very well-taken. I feel a responsibility to support jazz artists working today; in fact, I recently received some funding from the university I work at to bring in a couple of jazz concerts next year, something of a mini-coup. I try to routinely include a CD from artists who are making new music today whenever I place cd orders. But the reality is, a lot of the new music I buy is hit and miss- 15 bucks is a lot to shell out on a chris potter cd, for a hypothetical example, only to find out you don't really dig it after all. Compared to an rvg or some other reissue that has stood the test of time, it's hard for new releases to compete with catalog. Since, unfortunately, live jazz is pretty rare where I live (a mid size metro area in Illinois), what basis do I have to figure out what might appeal to me from the plethora of new releases? Some lame review in jazz times? Word-of-mouth (check out the new releases section on this board, there's not a lot of buzz being generated). 30 second samples from amazon? Lately, I find myself buying cds from living artists who themselves have stood the test of time--Oliver Lake, Billy Harper, Sonny Fortune Von Freeman, Fathead Newman and so forth. It's a good compromise, I guess--I'm supporting artists working today and I'm generally pretty excited about the music I'm discovering. edited for typo
  14. Some pretty amazing stuff on the Birdland CD, as others have said. I really like LD here too. Incidentally, on the cover (below), who is the guy standing behind Pee Wee? Looks like Mussolini, but I'm guessing that's not him
  15. This label has been steadily building a catalog over the past couple of years, bucking the trends. any favorites? smalls records
  16. I recently picked up one of those Jarrett 'impulse story' samplers for a buck, my first Jarrett CD actually. Pleasantly surprised, especially Dewey Redman--I found myself waiting sometimes for KJ to stop noodling so that Dewey could come in.
  17. in the studios in the studio Al Green, The Wood Bros, Amos Lee , Priscilla Ahn and so forth.... nothing wrong with this music, obviously, but aren't they squeezing out what little of jazz remains on the blue note label.
  18. I picked this up recently & listening to it now--very nice! Koto song is a real beauty.
  19. down to 230 students. ouch. times have changed, college isn't a place where students go with the intent of learning to think---college is viewed by a lot of students and parents exclusively in terms of vocational training. I remember walking on the campus of Antioch on a beautiful Fall Saturday, back in the late 80s, it still seemed pretty vibrant at that time. They had (have?) a pretty good public radio station too.
  20. The sound samples on the Mosaic website for the Newman Select are unusally soft--I have to really crank the volume on my computer speakers to hear the music. For those who have the Newman Select, do the CDs sound OK; that is, is the loudness level within a more or less normal range?
  21. The A-Team for the Hamp set: Disc transfers: Mark Wilder and Andreas Meyer Mastered using 24-bit technology by Malcolm Addey
  22. Lon, You've been waiting for decent reissue of Ellington's 'Drum' for awhile, iirc, hope this works out
  23. montg

    Teddy Charles

    A new interiew with Teddy Charles posted today at the jazzwax.com blog jazzwax.com
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