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  1. Late to this party, but what a party it is! 

    Tracks 1 and 2 are a good reminder of how jam sessions can go right (making me suspect Bob Weinstock was not involved [JK]). I'm most impressed here by the trumpet player who solos first on both tracks.

    The tenor player is just so in the pocket on that slow blues. Nice tone, too; not too heavy or syrupy. 

    That bass player could be only one bass player. The ideas, the technique, the swing, the tone, the tuning... that has to be Mingus.

    I think I know what this is from context clues. (Spoiler below.) If I'm right, I've got to do some more homework to track down recordings featuring this trumpet player. I'm also going to have to go back and listen almost exclusively to the rhythm section.

    Track 3: Sonny Rollins sounding gruff, even a bit hoarse. I guess some listeners get turned off by this choice — it's more R&B than "jazz" strictly speaking, I suppose —  but I hear it as just another color in his paintbox. It also reminds me a bit of how Lee Konitz roughened up his tone as he explored other avenues of free playing. His solo here does seem oddly unresolved; truncated, even. Probably better to say it sticks a landing in an unexpected spot. And to enjoy how he makes a meal (as the actors like to say) out of every note he sustains.

    Spoiler:

    Newport in New York '72, the tracks with Milt Buckner, Mingus, Alan Dawson, Jimmy Owens (!!!), Buddy Tate, Charles McPherson, Cat Anderson, and Roland Hanna

  2. 1 hour ago, sgcim said:

    I saw Arthur Lee live at Town Hall perform  the entire FC album  His band, Baby Lemonade, did a superb job, and they were augmented by a string trio and trumpet player.

    David Angel was hired by Elektra to do the arrangements for FG, and he had an amazing career as a jazz saxophonist, ghost arranger for Woody Herman, Art Pepper and others, wrote music for TV shows, and led his own big band that played his own pieces. He worked with AL every day for a few weeks at the piano for FC, and said that AL was a genius, and could've become a great composer if he learned how write music.

    Thanks for sharing that! I recently discovered this recording by David Angel and have enjoyed it very much.

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    https://vsoprecords.bandcamp.com/album/v-s-o-p-127-cd-the-david-angel-big-band-camshafts-and-butterflies

    Arthur Lee didn't often help himself, but he also got a pretty raw deal on that "third strike" offense that sent him to prison for almost 6 years. But he got his flowers at last not long after.

     

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    Probably the first record I remember putting on repeat. Well, asking my parents to put on repeat... I was 4 or 5 at the time.

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    Bought a gold label copy for 4 bucks at a DFW record show based on something I'd read about it. Hearing it and falling in love with became the thing that decisively separated my musical tastes from my siblings', particualrly my older brother: child #1, so he typically controlled the radio and TV.

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    I'd been "investigating" jazz up until the point I auditioned this. (It must have been a used CD I came across.) I knew Joe Henderson from Tyner's THE REAL MCCOY and Richard Davis from OUT TO LUNCH. Hill I knew nothing about, not Haynes really. This is when I became obsessed with Blue Note and following all the threads between leaders, sidemen, etc. Which obsession soon spilled over to the other great independent labels of that era (Prestige, Riverside, Contemporary).

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