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2 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Heads of State-Search for Peace: Gary Bartz-Larry Willis-Buster Williams-Al Foster, really an allstar group.

Can´t post the cover. Anyone ?

I also have the second output "Four in One" . Too bad there is only those two records, a third might be welcome. They are so great.

I saw them at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival a couple years ago. Gary Bartz was on fire.

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3 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Heads of State-Search for Peace: Gary Bartz-Larry Willis-Buster Williams-Al Foster, really an allstar group.

Can´t post the cover. Anyone ?

I also have the second output "Four in One" . Too bad there is only those two records, a third might be welcome. They are so great.

Here you go Gheorghe. 

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On 2/10/2019 at 5:23 PM, Brad said:

Disc 1

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Disc 2. 

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40 years old, and I swear it gets better with every listen. Right now it's at "whoa, pretty damn good, actually, how did this happen?" level. Ok, "Tai Chi" sucks, but now that I'm not letting him get in my way, Larry Coryell is no longer a nuisance, and Sonny is flowing freely. Granted freeing freely in the "Studio Sonny" manner, but as always I ask - who the hell else in the world has or could ever play like this? and perspective reveals itself.

 

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Dipping into the big RCA Duke box again tonight:

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The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1927-1973)
Discs 11 & 12

Ivie Anderson. The best Ellington vocalist ever? ...Betty Roché comes close, but she didn't stay long.  Nell Brookshire was wasn't half bad.  Adelaide Hall's and Kay Davis' wordless vocal things were beautiful.  ...But I'd put Ivie in the pole position. Anderson may not have had a knock-you-on-your-booty voice -- but she had soul.

IMHO, none of the men come close. I do like Herb Jeffries "Flamingo"; otherwise, I'd rather hear the ladies sing. ;) 

 

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43 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Dipping into the big RCA Duke box again tonight:

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The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1927-1973)
Discs 11 & 12

Ivie Anderson. The best Ellington vocalist ever? ...Betty Roché comes close, but she didn't stay long.  Nell Brookshire was wasn't half bad.  Adelaide Hall's and Kay Davis' wordless vocal things were beautiful.  ...But I'd put Ivie in the pole position. Anderson may not have had a knock-you-on-your-booty voice -- but she had soul.

IMHO, none of the men come close. I do like Herb Jeffries "Flamingo"; otherwise, I'd rather hear the ladies sing. ;) 

 

As much as I love Betty Roche, I'd probably agree that Ivie noses past her as Ellington's "best" regular-band vocalist; Joya Sherrill's another favorite of mine.  When it comes to male vocalists, I know Al Hibbler drives some folks up the wall, but I actually enjoy his presence in the mid-to-late-40s edition of the orchestra.  

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"This is your brain on Coltrane."

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