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Yes, sure!

There's a "corner" here:

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=32937

And three threads (at least) about the great Select:

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=986

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=1626

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=17362

Big, big fan here!

To truly grasp his genious, I'd recommend you search for some of his great Verve discs (roughly 1988 or 89 to 2000), like "Volcano Blues" (with Teddy Edwards) and "Saga". Some have guests like Pharoah Sanders, Dizzy Gillespie and Idrees Sulieman, on some he adds Moroccan Gnawa Musicians...

And don't neglect his 70s work either... there's a great live album with Billy Harper on Freedom (it was on CD), as well as plenty of great piano solo releases.

Most recently, he's played with a trio, the release "Zep Tepi" is recommended!

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=26656

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I guess I'm a big fan. I have all the official catalog, and quite a bit of unofficial recordings.

Flurin gives you good recommendations. Don't neglect the material released by OJC. I find I am most charged by his earliest work, and his most recent. Long may he run!

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He's playing in Newark, NJ tomorrow night.

I didn't know that. I would have kept Friday open and went. I work 2 stops from Newark by the Path.

Tomorrow is Saturday.

He's playing at the Bethany Baptist Church.

Amiri Baraka's 75th birthday events

Tomorrow: Jazz vespers at 6 p.m.

at Bethany Baptist Church, 275 West Market St., featuring piano player

and composer Randy Weston.

Admission is free.

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In my collection:

Randy Weston The Spirits of Our Ancestors Antilles 314511896

Randy Weston & Melba Liston Volcano Blues Antilles 314519269

Randy Weston The Splendid Master Gnawa Musicians Of Morocco Antilles 314521587

Randy Weston How High the Moon Biograph 147

Randy Weston Berkshire Blues Black Lion 760205

David Murray & Randy Weston The Healers Black Saint 120118

Randy Weston & Vishnu Wood Perspective Denon 8554

Randy Weston Nuit Africaine Enja 2086

Randy Weston Carnival Freedom 41004

Randy Weston Blues To Africa Freedom 41014

Randy Weston African Cookbook Koch 8517

Randy Weston Solo, Duo & Trio Milestone 47085

Randy Weston Mosaic Select Mosaic Select 4

Randy Weston Trio/Cecil Payne Jazz A La Bohemia OJC 1747

Randy Weston Trio Get Happy OJC 1870

Randy Weston Trio + Cecil Payne With These Hands... OJC 1883

Randy Weston African Nite Owl 14732

Randy Weston & His African Rhythm Trio Zep Tepi Random Chance 27

Randy Weston Spirit! The Power of Music Sunnyside 3015

Randy Weston Portraits Of Duke Ellington Verve 841312

Randy Weston Portraits Of Thelonious Monk Verve 841313

Randy Weston Self Portraits Verve 841314

Randy Weston Sextet Monterey '66 Verve 314519698

Randy Weston Marrakech In The Cool Of The Evening Verve 314521588

Randy Weston Tanjah Verve 314527778

Randy Weston Saga Verve 314529237

Randy Weston Earth Birth Verve 314537088

Randy Weston Khepera Verve 314557821

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Guest Bill Barton

Another big fan here...

One of the most memorable concerts I ever experienced was a duo with David Murray at the Montreal Festival.

Hopefully I can catch him with the African Rhythms Trio when they play Jazz Alley here in Seattle soon.

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Many years ago, after college and in need of an adventure, I moved to a strange city where I knew virtually no one and brought very few belongings. I had left most of my albums at my Dad's place. The only jazz album I had with me - accidentally - was a 70s twofer of two early RW albums, "Trio and Solo" and "With These Hands." I unexpectedly found myself playing it nonstop.

Many years later, I was living in Beantown, and went to a performance/lecture RW presented for a class at Harvard. Just him at a piano in a classroom of about 40 students. I got the impression that many of them had no idea who he was. His solo playing was riveting.

Over the years, I've accumulated a decent number of his albums from between the 50s and 70s.

I had one of his more recent albums (i.e. last ten years) on CD, can't remember the title, but found it less interesting than the earlier stuff. It seemed much more straight-ahead and lacked the edge of his earlier stuff. Maybe there are other recent albums by him that are better.

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Randy will be playing a solo concert in tribute to Thelonious Monk a week from Monday, October 12th, at The Somerville theater in Somerville, MA (next door to Cambridge).

I am very honored to have been asked to introduce him that night.

I just purchased a ticket - first row in the balcony. That'll be me whooping it up when you come on stage, Steve. :D

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In a similar vein, I quite enjoy Marrakech in the Cool of the Evening.

Oh - that's one of the most beautiful solo piano recordings I own - in any style! And the sonics are so natural you can feel and almost smell the room ... I will put this on tomorrow.

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