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It's Album of the Week right now!

Ummm...okay. Great music, even so. Other fake live albums, anyone?

Me too (well, 295...)

Wow, now I am a newbie all over again! Yup - I've fallen from the very cool "Supa-Groover" back to the more staid and ambiguous "Veteran Groover" since lunchtime. Ah well - nothin' but love for ya, Jim.

Listened to this twice today at work, and was struck all over again by Woods's performance. Very unique to my ears, seeming to strain against the rest of the band and the lines they're laying down - but in a good way. Just seems to me he's really seeking out possibilities in his solos, or roughing it up against the grain in some really revealing ways.

For now, the web site seems to warn us off until July -at the moment, they require a request for info, or a current member to invite you to join? But Come July, they claim, things will be all together...

Recently received from the queue: Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come. Next in the queue is Jackie McLean - Right Now! But straight from the cart, I just ordered two from Andrew Hill: Judgment! and Andrew!!

Truth.

Unquestionably emusic.com They huge slabs of labels like Riverside, Milestone, Prestige, Contemporary, Concord, and Fantasy, among hundreds more. All the best of Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Shelly Manne, Art Pepper, McCoy Tyner, and tons more, including great contemporary stuff.

"Monkeys are our enemies."

Yeah, Elvin Jones is indeed a monster on Conflict - incredible stuff from him. One wonders if his special cover credit ("featuring Elvin Jones") was conceived beforehand, or simply came after the company promo men heard the tapes! Some of Elvin's best work, in my opinion. But listen to Andrew Hill here, too, and his positively spooky, propulsive, chant-like chordal work. Amazing eerie contributions. I agree, too, that Awakening!!! is also a real delight.

Yup, that's a great one. I'd also reinforce recommendations of the Matt Wilson discs, especially those with his group Arts and Crafts.

Yes, a great, great artist with a most remarkable eye.

So, a couple of weeks ago I'm goofing around and happen to run across a thread begun by our friend Rooster Ties way back in April 2003 - three years ago, almost exactly to the day - about the first U.S. release of Jimmy Woods's Conflict on CD. Rooster Ties went apeshit about this album in that thread. He loved it. It's the best album in the world - in fact, all other albums are now crap. Well, I exaggerate, but he did seem quite taken with it back then, as you can read for yourself, and he wasn't alone. In fact, I was struck by the consensus that emerged from the thread: Conflict MUST be picked as Album of the Week, and soon! Yeah!! Well, in the three years since that thread, no one followed through. But I will. So here, at long last: Jimmy Woods Sextet - Conflict (Contemporary, 1963) (click to buy) Jimmy Woods: alto saxophone; Carmell Jones: trumpet; Harold Land: tenor saxophone; Andrew Hill: paino; George Tucker: bass; Elvin Jones: drums. 1. Conflict 5:47 2. Coming Home 6:01 3. Aim 7:57 4. Apart Together 6:44 5. Look To Your Heart 5:50 6. Pazmuerte 6:32 7. Conflict (alt. take 5) 4:54 8. Aim (alt. take 43) 7:12 9. Look To Your Heart (alt. take 39) 5:53 * eMusic subscribers can download the album here. Original liner notes can be found here. * This is Woods's second album as a leader - and his last, for whatever reason. His first, Awakening!!! (Contemporary, 1962) is terrific too, but the writing and the personnel on Conflict give it a special edge. Hill's weird, vamping chords, Elvin Jones's thunderous drumming, the varied and twisting solos by Woods, Land, and Carmell Jones...this album makes a strong, strong statement. Straight-ahead, modal, and "outside" all get their moments here. A real head-turner, I think. I'd suggest reading through the 2003 thread on the album, and picking up the conversation now, here, exactly three years down the road...

I don't know the album, and it may well be a terrible thing from hell. But I wonder if some of the disappointment doesn't have to do with expectations - on paper, I'd think that a solo Rollins album would/could be very interesting, simply because his recorded output shows Rollins to be such an interesting, endlessly inventive saxophonist. Just thinkin' aloud...

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Great news! Loved the first one. Indeed. And it's great to hear from Frank Kimbrough here on Organissimo - love your stuff, Frank! Uh oh. this is post 666 for me...

One can also find Javon Jackson on Palmetto, as well as Bobby Watson and Horizon, some Dewey Redman (In London), Bobby Previte...the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra...

Seemed OK when I called last year in but maybe I caught it on a good day? Or, you're one of the pushy and smelly old men.

Great production values, and a great catalogue. Check out Ben Allison, Frank Kimbrough, other participants in the Jazz Composers Collective. Palmetto also offers Andrew Hill's Dusk, which I think is a very fine latter-day effort from him. And Fred Hersch...and Marty Erlich...a great label.

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By some people's count, we're talking 85 or so titles!

Ben & Jerry Elton John Raoul Garcia

Please tell me those are both imagined.