AndrewHill

One of my favorite unissued Morgan sessions!

Playing the Rare Groove now. Sounds like an accoustic guitar to me.

Highly Agree! I like everything from Hill's three stints at Blue Note.

Me too. Seems like I'll have to drive at least six hours to see the man some day.

Great score! For some reason, that Andrew Hill CD is very hard to find. It is a good album as well. Thanks. Still can't believe I found this one for cheap. I think I shouted out holy sh#t! in the store if I recall Holy Ghost shouts holy sh#t??? Sounds good...

I really hope things turn around for you Shawn. You'll be missed for all the reasons that have already been mentioned above.

Joe Henderson's Our Thing always felt more like a Andrew Hill date than a Henderson date.

Great score! For some reason, that Andrew Hill CD is very hard to find. It is a good album as well. Thanks. Still can't believe I found this one for cheap. I think I shouted out holy sh#t! in the store if I recall

I brought this up because I've been enjoying his contribution to Coon Bid'Ness/Dogan AD; so it would be great to hear he's still around/active.

Did you ever get a response over there? A look at Wiki still hasn't added a date of death, so maybe there's still hope he's alive?

This a great clip and a great song!

Some of my favorite Kirk to watch appears in "Sound" form 66/67:

Man, really dig the Mbari cover, any chance you'll reconsider making that the cd cover?

Can you post a pick of the Mbari? I don't even know the original label, let alone the "original" artwork. Thx!

Please tell us how it was Bill! Really great session which left the audience rapturous! Here's a review of their performance at Cheltenham the day before: http://www.thisisglo...il/article.html To this I'd add that the classic John Coltrane quartet was everywhere in evidence, with Tyner, Jones and Garrison echoes in the superb accompanists. Age didn't seem to have lessened Pharoah's ability to play tonally superb post-Coltrane tenor and most of the tunes were Coltrane associated: "Giant Steps", "Naima", "My Favorite Things" and "I Want to Talk About You" - "A Nightingale Sang" being the exception. Each of the two sets ended with "The Creator Has a Master Plan" from Pharoah's 2003 album of that name. On these he took competent vocals, and here lies the big difference from Coltrane's serious intensity - Sanders is a great entertainer who includes a good deal of hokum in his act - strumming the tenor like a guitar, singing into the bell, getting sounds out of a bottle and doing a groovy dance (despite being a bit unsteady on his legs!) As someone who saw Dizzy in action several times, I took all this in my stride and the club audience loved it. Finally summoned back onstage by unending applause, Pharoah ended up in a bear hug with a large man in full African gear who'd been prominent in the audience. A night to remember! Sounds like a blast, thanks for the report.

Found the Clark Terry title today at Half Price for an astonishing $5 even though the disc is a little scratched up. Needless to say, I'm just glad to have it and what a line up on this one: Blakey, Silver and Cecil Payne! Swahili is a killer track!

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Please tell us how it was Bill!

Spoken like someone who has little interest in the subject. The work is there, so you can take it or leave it. Speaking as someone who was around during his last years, who listened to what he had to say, spent much time with his music, looked through the scores, read his notes, spoke with his students and watched him give advice to musicians (I hesitate, now, to use the word "lessons"), and to trust him to have done the things he said he did or wanted to do, I know that he was/is both a composer and an instrumentalist of a very high caliber. And for me, personally, his music means as much (if not in some instances more) as anyone else's. Nobody else has to have their lives changed by the work for it, and him, to have changed MY life for the better. Word Clifford. I was thinking about what Mom's said a day ago and I think Bill Dixon's music is so much more than that. It is a unique combination of composing, improvising and the moment it was done in. Bill's music has touched me and I know that is a subjective statement; but, I suppose, what else matters? At least for me, its how the music strikes you, and Bill's music strikes me just right.

Great great record (well cd for me ) Nice find! (nice to say that to you for a change )

So any chance we can have a proper reissue of "Forms and Sounds"?

Matthew, I don't own this record and its one of the few Davis recordsI don't; based on that review, I'm ordering it straight away! Thanks for mentioning this album! HG

Yeah, count on my order for Dogan AD. If its anything like your Bill Dixon reissue, its a no-brainer. Love Coon Bid'ness which I've been spinning a lot recently, so to have this album reissued would be most welcomed.

Going to see Rush tonight. Haven't seen them in concert for 25 years.

Can't stress enough the amount of care and detail that went into this reissue. Thanks again!