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  5. BG's Bop Experiment

    in Recommendations

    Posted · Edited by ghost of miles

    Since your topic subheading asks where to go next, I would highly recommend, if you haven't done so already, getting into Artie Shaw's '49 band which featured modern arrangements by Tadd Dameron, Gene Roland and others. Shaw was much more open to the newer developments than BG ever was, and without getting into the hoary controversy of who was better, Shaw is the clarinetist I've always preferred. Check out the review on the Amazon website:

    http://www.amazon.com/Artie-Shaw-His-Orche...9/dp/B0002KQK34

    Yeah, this stuff is PRIMO.

    Great band indeed. I think about 11 of the 16 cuts on the MusicMasters CD show up as well on the Shaw SELF-PORTRAIT box that came out a few years ago.

    Speaking of Shaw...

    Confirmation of Mosaic box

  7. Mickey Tucker

    in Discography

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    Been listening to Charles McPherson's NEW HORIZONS today at work (recorded Sept. 1977) and Mickey Tucker is great on this record! Definitely going to see if I can track down some more recordings on which he appears.

  23. Night Lights: 25 Reasons to Give $25

    in Jazz Radio & Podcasts

    Posted · Edited by ghost of miles

    Posting this here because I'm doing an online drive for Night Lights to try to help my station make up a large shortfall in our budget. If you listen to the show regularly or periodically, or even if you've heard just a few programs but feel like they've given you something of value, please consider contributing to the Night Lights drive:

    Night Lights: 25 Reasons to Give $25

    ...and you can give lower, and you can certainly give higher if you want to. (We throw in a Blue Note RVG of your choice at the $60 level.)

    Many thanks to the board member who's already contributed. Very grateful in general for all of the support folks here have shown for the show over the past several years.

  24. "Young Wynton: Early Marsalis"

    in Jazz Radio & Podcasts

    Posted · Edited by ghost of miles

    The inspiration/idea to do this show, iirc, came from reading Larry Kart's book--a book any jazz fan should read in general, but in this case particularly the passages I cite on the Young Wynton program page. IMO these early recordings would appeal to many lovers of classic hardbop/straightahead jazz (which describes a fair-ish amount of this board, I think) and/or even those who would normally avoid Marsalis recordings. Although I alluded in the show to WM's post-1982 development as both musician and personality/jazz spokesperson, the intent was to attempt to focus primarily on the music that he was a part of during his first years on the jazz scene, at a point before his image became such a large element of any discussion about him.

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