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  2. "Talkin' Jazz" with Scott Willis

    in Jazz Radio & Podcasts

    Posted

    One of my local Public Radio Stations has a morning Jazz show during which they play a brief (3 minutes?) feature called "Talkin' Jazz". It's very good and often rather esoteric: e.g today I heard about Billy Bauer's (sp?) only recording as a leader. The local station usually follows it with a number that relates to the feature. They didn't have the Bauer record (is it on cd?) but did play a Lee Konitz cut with Bauer on it. Anyone else ever hear this show?

  3. 3 Bass Hit

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted · Edited by medjuck

    Last night I went to the Hollywood Bowl to see a friend of mine who was opening for George Benson and SMV (Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten.)

    My friend, Sharon Robinson, was great and I recommend her new cd to you (It's called Everybody Knows after the song she co-wrote with Leonard

    Cohen.) I doubt if anyone in the audience could tell that this was the first solo performance she's ever done. Good way to start: in front of 15,000 people.

    I stayed around for the last 2 acts because we were a invited to a small gathering after the evenings performances, but hadn't really paid attention to what they'd be. SMV was the 3 bass players accompanied only by a drummer and a keyboardist! They rocked the place! I haven't seen 3 bass players together since I saw Ornette Coleman and obviously he was in the spotlite. These guys were having a great time and so did the audience.

    George Benson bored the shit out of me but he got the crowd up dancing which was fun. He didn't even hold his guitar on many numbers. When he did play it was smooth jazz. As a singer I'm not sure what you'd call his genre. Smooth R&B? The women in the crowd sure loved him though.

  4. an oldy but goody - a CD with: David Murray/Doc Cheatham

    in Offering and Looking For...

    Posted

    Just got this. It is a goody!! What ever happened to Stash Records?

    Bernie Brightman (Stash) died awhile ago and from what I've heard the cds and lps are sitting in a barn somewhere in upstate NY.

    I've been checking barns as I see them and still no luck on finding the recordings

    Stash was shut down by the Harry Fox agency for never paying royalties. Sorry to hear Bernie died, but while a charming guy, he was a crook.

    Does Fox collect for publishing or for performance or for both?

  5. How on earth did this happen?

    in Audio Talk

    Posted

    If I were you, I wouldn't use iTunes for ripping and tagging due to privacy (or lack thereof). But that's just me!

    I can see your point. I don't rip anything that is not in my collection on CD (to go to the iPod) or LP (to make a CD-R) but I can see how all sorts of problems might emerge.

    I just had the same thing happen again, having CD-RW'd Ralph Towner's 'City of Eyes' from vinyl. 'Gracenotes' recognised it immediately on inserting in the PC!

    This would explain why every so often I get a disc mis-identified.

  8. Bix, Hoagy and Skylark

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    well, no solid evidence - and I still can't hear that bridge as anything but something worked out at a piano-

    Bix played piano licks too. . . ;)

    There's a documentary about him where one of his ex-band-mates plays an unrecorded Bix piano piece. He discusses it first, then says to the interviewer "Should I play it for you?". At that point the audience I saw it with all yelled out "Yes!".

  9. ECM Touchstones

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    No "Koln Concert"? They probably sell enough of those at the regular price. (I'm presuming that it's their biggest seller-- though I've never read that anywhere.)

    So then it wouldn't be OOP. :blink:

    Were the others all out of print?

  12. Gil Evans's Jambangle

    in Discography

    Posted

    One of the Gil Evans biographies suggests that Gil could have sued The Doors over Light My Fire because of its resemblance to his own Jambangle. But I think I remember hearing a Basie number that ended with that same riff. (The one that goes "Come along and light my fire" in the Doors' version.) Anyone know what I'm talking about or is this just another of my acid flashbacks?

  13. Bix, Hoagy and Skylark

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    I was listening to one of the Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Shows the other day (the theme was "Birds") and he claimed that Hoagy Carmichael based Skylark on a Bix solo. If this is true, what solo is it. Ooops I just realized that it may not have been a recorded solo.

    (I've also heard the Stardust was very influenced by Bix.)

  16. "Oscar Peterson meets..."

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    A sentence in the new Mosaic catalogue re: their new OP box set reads:

    "Norman Granz' vision of the "Songbook" album, was perfected by the trio and the series of "Oscar Peterson Meets…" have long been unavailable and are finally in one package."

    I know there area no "OP Meets....." in this set. Does this mean they're planning another box in the future? Or did a line of type get dropped?

    BTW They mention that there were several masters missing from the Universal Music vaults. After the infamous fire there maya be several more missing.

  17. Kind of Blue reissue

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    I think the best sounding versions to my ears are the Japanese DSD remastered cd and the US SACD. I have one of the lp versions, the gold cd, the box set version, and the DSD remastered cd and the SACD.

    I no longer have my SACD set -up (had to get new amp for HDTV) but my memory is that they'd changed the placement of the bass on the SACD. Not that the original was necessarily more "correct"-- just what i was used to hearing for more than 30 years.

    I was thinking about this the other day and realized that I've been listening to KOB for nearly 50 years, not 30. Got it from the Columbia record club when it first came out. I guess I'm older than I think.

  18. Sad news concerning Jerry Wexler.

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    i liked Jerry. We first met when I took a picture of him snorting rails of coke backstage during a Willie Nelson show at the Austin Opera House in 1974; instead of being surprised or (S)angry, he offered me some and, it being the '70s, I said sure. Jerry tried and failed to fuck Marcia Ball that night also, not that it was first or last time he'd make such an effort. Was he ever sucessful? I am uncertain but... it's possible.

    Those Dough Sahm sessions were very very wasted days and wasted nights, I can say that. In conclusion, for a record biz man, Jerry was almost a mensch but do not mistake him as any kind of altruist. He was less of a scumbag than Ahmet, probably more than Neshui wanted to be but he'd cut your balls off and shove them up your ass sideways if he thought he could get away with it.

    The eternal hepcat schtick got a little old, as did Jerry, but he surely wore it much better than a phony prick Orrin Keepnews and he forsook, for the most part, the suave bullshit of Ahmet-- no wonder the equally wealthy, equally soulless at the end scumbag like Mick Jagger was such an admirer.

    wtf??!!!

    WHO IS THIS GUY?

    :wacko:

    Someone too chickenshit to give his real name.

  23. Kind of Blue reissue

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    I think the best sounding versions to my ears are the Japanese DSD remastered cd and the US SACD. I have one of the lp versions, the gold cd, the box set version, and the DSD remastered cd and the SACD.

    I no longer have my SACD set -up (had to get new amp for HDTV) but my memory is that they'd changed the placement of the bass on the SACD. Not that the original was necessarily more "correct"-- just what i was used to hearing for more than 30 years.

  25. Kind of Blue reissue

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    It was only recently that I got to hear ALL of the Robert Herridge TV performance, thanks to Youtube and Dailymotion. That material is outstanding and should have been put onto a CD long ago.

    Trane's solo on the TV "So What" is a spine-tingler, and totally different from the LP solo. You can see some of the musicians in the wings (Frank Rehak and others) really digging it.

    Interesting to see Trane drafted into Gil's band on alto. (Cannonball would probably have done it, but was not well that day.)

    It's available on an amazing 2 DVD set that also includes Jammin' the Blues, the Dizzy/Bird tv appearance, the 2nd Norman Granz film "Improvisation" with Bird, Bean and Prez and The Sound of Jazz. It's rightfuly called " The Greatets Jazz Films Ever."

    However it is possible that the Sony release will look better. They may have access to the original materials since the show was not shown live. That would suggest that CBS would have made sure that they had good film materials for later broadcast. I believe that The Sound of Jazz was broadcast live and the best extant prints are Kines. Unfortunately that may also be true of The Sound of Miles Davis-- I'm not sure what the technology was for recording multiple camera tv shows at the time. I believe it was before video tape was commonly used .

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