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Knock Knock - Has anyone been essentialising me today? Essentialiser #1 No way...not me. Essentialiser #2 No ma'am, no way, not me either.

They kinda/sorta form the same function as Smooth Jazz but for a different audience. Cindy Blackman should have gone around and paid them a visit

oooooohhhhhhh 'musical clitoris' Bad Plus is just Smooth Jazz in sneakers anyway. Oh the irony.

This is very sad. Ms Brown was a very big presence on the TV and entertainment seen over here in Australia when I was younger. I often wondered what happened to her. Many African American entertainers came over here in The Seventies to be in Stage shows and theatre and often stayed or became citizens. Sammy Davis jr also had a special relationship with Australia and was here constantly. Great memories of great people and artists. Here are a few moments from time!!!

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Well that would make sense then. Carryin On was recorded on Oct 3. Is it the liner notes to that one that mentions GG has just returned from playing a guitar workshop in Europe? If the Ronnie Scott date of 24th Oct is correct, it makes sense the Paris film was made sometime in the last week of Oct before Green may have returned to New Yorkand participated in the Reuben Wilson 45 session, if indeed the date of that session is correct. So maybe GG was only in Paris and London for a week or a few days, while Burrell and Kessell (who was living in London at the time if I'm not mistaken) remained for the body of the tour? Interestingly Grant plays I Dont Want Nothing in Paris, which he has freshly recorded for the Carryin On album a few weeks earlier. I'm assuming the Carryin On album hadn't hit the streets until after the Guitar Workshop gigs? All this is conjecture at any rate?

I might have known I read about it on a thread here!!

That's right, now I remember, it was Tal Farlow!!! But where did I read this? Liner Notes, The Andrews Green bio?

Same drummer too, Don Lamond. i think Barney Kessell's got the same suit on as well. Why no mention of GG in the Braff discog? Three amps set up? Maybe Grant didn't make those gigs? I seem to remember reading somewhere that Grant Green was a late call up for this tour when someone else cancelled? Maybe Herb Ellis or Charlie Byrd? Can't remember. Fascinating information anyway. And Grant backed it up the following year with a return visit by playing Antibes.

RIP A true great.

I think it's just High Heel Sneakers and Upshot. Probably from a French Radio broadcast of the concert from Antibes 1970. Great stuff!

JC Moses? What a great name. Other great names I like is Candy Finch and Hugh Walker Course it's good enough for official release. How Insensitive is sublime. Yeah, Twenty odd minutes of High Heel Sneakers leaving the audience screaming in appreciation.

http://www.ina.fr/video/RAF02011061/pre-festival-de-jazz-a-antibes-video.html http://fresques.ina.fr/reperes-mediterraneens/fiche-media/Repmed00380/le-festival-de-jazz-d-antibes-juan-les-pins.html There's full length film of Aretha Franklin and Lionel Hampton from this festival. Surely the cameras were rolling for Grant Green. However I think he performed on the same night as Archie Shepp. There was an album made of Shepp's performance that night. Maybe if no film of Shepp exists of his performance they didn't film the GG, Stan Getz, John Surman Archie Shepp night? INA France is the key. I suspect that''s where the Paris 69 footage has leaked from.

There is also Antibes France 1970, http://wearytune.com/product/antibes-jazz-festival-70-2/

Bump!! More Eastbound/Westbound.

Hey, Bob Porter produced The Real Thing!!! Paging Mr Porter

Maybe Beldon misremembered Angel Eyes or Since I Fell For You as Dearly Beloved when he was doing the Lighthouse liners. That could be the explanation. It's seems like a long shot that he ever actually heard the complete Real Thing live sessions tapes if they still survive, but you never know. The other possibility, that there was an unreleased straight ahead Houston Person session seems to good to be true.

What does that make Baby Face then

The great Larry Coryell has passed. I saw him in person for three nights here in Melbourne, Australia in November last year. The memory of those superlative performances is fresh in my mind and heart. It makes this sad news more poignant. . Those nights I recently witnessed represented the pinnacle of what high energy Blues drenched Jazz guitar ever was or ever will be. His minor blues excursions were breathtaking and unsurpassed on those three nights. I once read Mr Coryell say that seeing Grant Green in performance was like witnessing a great philosopher king. Mr Coryell was a great philosopher king in Melbourne in November.

Welcome Mr Bob Porter!!!!!! Wake up MG...Mr Porters in the house!!!!

Geez, the guy plays for three hours every concert apparently. Adding another 1 hour of Chameleon might really be pushing the audiences concentration spans.

Two of my very very favourite albums!!!