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Randy Weston “Khepera” Verve cd Alex Blake! He really makes this album something else. 225×219 16 KB

Idris Muhammad “House of the Rising Sun” Kudu/CTI/King Japan Blu-Spec CD

never mind.

Okay thanks. Loud and clear. You have saved me a listen. Weird that these don't get reissued.

I was about to jump in to say exactly that. Sorry - I should have been clearer. I am talking about Monk's timing more than the harmonic thing. I think it is easier to see harmonic descendants.

CBS D 88529 - V.S.O.P. The Quintet Live Under The Sky - rec. 1979 at Denen Coloseum, Tokyo

Anne Mette Iversen: Marbles (BJU CD)

Days of rain here, so I decided to listen to albums that work with the sound of raindrops blending into them

Oh, being from STL area, I’ve been to Euclid Records probably close to 1,000x over the years (especially me going back to visit my folks/dad several times every year over the last almost 40 years since I went off to college in 1987 — to say nothing of weekly visits when I was late in my high school years, and summers in college). My dad still lives there (in assisted living the last few years), and we’re visiting him for his 99th birthday next week (on our way to KC to visit my wife’s folks for a week). It’s the vast expanse between STL and DC (now PGH) that I barely know — and that I’m looking forward to exploring on our frequent driving trips to STL (and to KC via STL). I also have a couple cousins in Chicago, and we plan to drive there every couple years now — thru the upper parts of Ohio and Indiana (with cities we’ve never been too as well).

Dylan bootleg series binge continues.

Whoa, wait a minute. You don't like Miles' second quintet? Somehow that surprises me.

Superb. So much musical magic happened at Montreux through the years...

This note reminded me of the Tiberi tapes: From the Bill Myers column “Mile High Jazz” published in The Mile High Underground [an “underground” newspaper from Denver, Colorado], April 1967, Vol. 1, Number 2, p. 14: “Wes Westbrooks sez that John Coltrane had some of the best tenormen in N. Y. walking away muttering to themselves after a recent session at Slug’s in the Village. Wes noticed several tape recorders in operation so maybe someone will release an album of Trane’s wipe-out.”

Yes, absolutely. Clear monkisms in Griffith's playing, IMO. It is interesting because Cecil also sounds quite monkish on this excellent album.

Rabshakeh, it's not one of my favorites. It's OK, but I don't think it's very exciting. And Michael Brecker is one of my favorites.

I hear some Monkian mischief in the vibes playing of Warren Wolf.

Jackson's approach to the blues could be pretty Monkish at times. See also: that Prestige quartet date with Horace Silver. I'm thinking specifically of the way Hutcherson uses space (or silence) on those records. I would agree that, by the mid-60s, his playing had become something a bit more conventional. Dickerson ... I thought of him as well. Maybe inasmuch as he translated much of what Coltrane was doing to the vibes, and Coltrane incorporated lessons from Monk. Earl Griffith, who played with Cecil Taylor, may be another. But the recorded evidence is so scant (that one record, LOOKING AHEAD!, IIRC).

Walt Dickerson

I went only a few times when I lived there, pre-Internet. Bought quite a bit online over the years and I do agree, excellent shop. Vinyl Fever in University City (where Washington University is located) was my go-to when I lived in St Louis. Or was that Vintage Vinyl? I always get the one located in Tallahassee mistaken with the one located in St Louis.

Isn’t Euclid in St. Louis? Great record store.

“Miles in France – Miles Davis Quintet 1963/64: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8” disc 1