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You're quite the Kenny Burrell buff for a saxophone player are'nt you JSngry

The Green doco is essentially just the film of the book as it were. It seems most of the interviews that appear in the book were also filmed, although I have noticed some extra comments that weren't presented in the book. No actual Grant Green film or music however. I believe it was screened in Harlem fairly recently. I too would look forward to seeing it soon somehow!!

This looks like the same band that backed up Wes Montgomery as well. That was filmed. Nobody filmed Hank at all in Europe?

mmm...who didn't pay the piper, Lou Ronaldson Jimmy Swift Frizzy Lefty Barry Castle New Setta Teeth

Human Arts Ensemble were important albums to me. Junk Trap was a big favourite. Everyone in the peer group I was in had those albums.

Seen as how this book has been so well received and appreciated here, wouldn't it be great if Mr Porter might kindly join in a discussion here himself and add in a small way to the wonderful insights and memories he has shared in his book. It would be a fine opportunity to have a kind of tangential appendix to things. I can't see any way such a question and answer type discussion could be anything other than a celebration and further flowering of the general tome of the book.

Haven't seen the film. Does Miles play any trumpet on the missing tapes or just keyboards? Who's on the sessions?

I guess this is the session MG is talking about!!! Universal Recording, Chicago, October 23, 1956 56-562 Boogie Googie (part 1) Vee-Jay (unissued) 56-563 Boogie Googie (part 2) unissued 56-564 Ain't No Justice unissued 56-565 She Left Me Alone unissued 56-566 Come On unissued Our information about all items is from Lord. Grant Green, we might note, is said in other sources to have made his recording debut in 1959! If only because Green went on to greater fame, it is surprising that no attempt has been made to issue this material.

Sorry for late acknowledgement. That's very interesting Corto. I came to the Album through an older guitar player at the time who gave me some of my first lessons. He had been over and studied at a place called GIT in LA, which focussed on training guitarists to be Studio aces. Anyway, he lent me a mix tape that someone gave him over there, which contained as I remember it, some Santana, Miles Fat Time featuring Mike Stern and some other Fusionesque things. One night, i was lying in bed listening (I was about 17 and first hearing Bird and Wes Montgomery), and there was a thing on the tape I fell in love with, and on the tape it said James Blood Ulmer, with no other information....I moved to the city soon after, and I saw a record in a used bin that said James Blood...and it was Are You Glad. I bought it hoping to hear whatever I heard on the cassette But what I heard instead, was a maelstrom of (what sounded like) discordant improv. I wanted to know everything about the guitar in Jazz at the time, so I played the record everyday for about a week. Suddenly it just clicked, and I heard it for all its power and beauty. I ended up buying every second hand Ulmer l could find, trying to find the song I heard originally on the mix tape. After about a year, of hearing, and inadvertently absorbing everything Ulmer had done up to that point (the year was 85), I finally found the song I was looking for was off Arthur Blythe's Lennox Avenue Breakdown. But by that time I was naively trying to incorporate Blood's approach into my limited Jazz and Blues vocabulary, and found myself being asked to play with lots of Post Punk players (many horn and reeds players and drummers), who were listening to similar stuff to what you were into as well. They loved those early Blood albums, and they dug what I was doing even if I wasn't coming from where they were. These guys were serious musicians, some of whom had played with, or would go on to play with Nick Cave and others (this was in Melbourne). If I hadn't have been listening to those Blood albums, and then Ornette, I doubt I would have got the chance to play with so many great musicians at such a young age (although they used to make fun of me because I could play ACDC songs)

Awesome. That is quite a first up purchase. Do you still like it?

The Missing Link.

i got this during the Blue Note reissue times round 85-86. Possibly my first time hearing the great Melvin Sparks. Last year I found an original Liberty pressing locally. Love this session of course. Son Of Ice Bag was my favourite.

I'll be keen to hear this at least. Potentially comparing the Blue Devil project to the wisened old hands of Richards, Wood and Watts is jumping the gun maybe. Keefs a sloppy drunk but a good one. I'm expecting a shit hot release.

Someone should pair this up as a festival double bill with the recently premiered Grant Green doco.

Have you ever heard this material before Dan Gould?

Your Hawks didn't make it this year GA. They got rolled in the Preliminary Final. It's gonna be a great game. The first time The Western Bulldogs (Footscray) have made a Grand Final in 60 years. Many old faithful supporters will finally get to see their team play off in the big one. The whole of Australia who doesn't barack for The Swans will be cheering 'The Doggies' on. You will have to be an honorary Bulldogs supporter tomorrow mate

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It doesn't get any funnier.

I saw (smile) this band live when I was 19 or so, Eddie Moore on drums and a young Gerri Allen on piano. I believe Mr Moore did his saw thing that night. Awesome it was. Sorry for the thread cap. Just reminiscing. and CTI...badass players doing it (mostly)

Jazz cigarette. Jazz beard. The musical All That Jazz.

Another recommendation for Night Song from me. Overall I find the Verve and Fantasy albums to be A1 in playing and tone. There's a small few I don't have yet. For some reason Asphalt Canyon Suite has eluded me. I might make a concerted effort to track down an original pressing on Ebay. Is there a Jazz Discogs sessionography for Mr Burrell? The internet might run out of bandwidth if there is.