All Activity

I saw Butcher playing last night in a fairly so so setting, but the group included Steve Beresford, and I was struck by how well they worked together. I know that they've recorded together occasionally. Does anyone rate any of their recordings?

Seems like there is less interest this time around. I was surprised that my 8 year old who is football mad had barely identified that it was coming. For my part I am still recovering from last night's walk home from seeing Mike Cooper at Cafe OTO to Angel.

I like that one a lot and spin it frequently. I think I first picked it up after a mention here. Love the cover too.

Many musicians mentioned here:

Blue Note All-Stars “Our Points of View” Blue Note 2 cd set, disc 2 400×363 30.2 KB It’s been some time since I spun this one. Some of it I really like.

$23

I rarely see this mentioned when McDuff is discussed. Anyone else here who has and likes it? This may have been my first exposure to a good conga player in a jazz context. Fred Walker, later changed his name to Derf Reklaw Rahim.

Saw them both. Trane only once with quartet. Miles with 2nd great quintet and once near the end of his life. (Double bill with Gil Evans at Hollywood Bowl. I was hoping Miles would sit in with Gil's band but it never happened.)

Sounds like a Xanadu Barry Harris I purchased a few years ago. Horrible. I was going to toss it but never did. I recently purchased a Vevor ultrasonic cleaning machine so I may see if that improves the sound at all.

I have read this and thought it was very well done. R.I.P.

Yeah I bought a Inner City pressing of Monnette Sudler’s Time for a Change on a fair last year that was sealed. Never gonna do it again. Multiple scratches and even worse audible defects.

Playing this now. This is really fantastic. Thank you so much for this recommendation.

Nearly got run over taking this photo. Thought it was a deserted track. Not so.

👍

I was only a teenager in the 60s and wasn’t interested in jazz in those days, not until the late 90s, so never saw them.

I was way more into rock bands when Miles last toured and I was a kid when Coltrane died. My parents didn't even have any Brubeck LPs, much less Coltrane. We used to sing along with Mitch Miller.

There was an article in the NYT last week or so how Argentine fans are doing whatever they can, including going into debt, to go to the Cup. Crazy at those prices.

Tilaye Gebre - Tilaye's Saxophone with the Dahlak Band First listen. It sounds very similar to Hailu Mergia, with basically the identical saxophone licks played. I enjoy Mergia and Astatke but I'm not sure why this needed a marquee reissue.

I have the 1998 one (as well as the RVG) and I think that’s probably enough for me although I’m sure yours sounds really good.

I've listened to two of these so far and the sound is excellent. IF your system allows SACD to shine I would say these are worth pursuing. CD layer sounds great too, but on my system the SACD is better sounding still.

That's right - from the point of "age". But stylistically speaking, it seems to be a different matter. Like I said in a previous post, it is amazing that bebop of the 40s (i.e. some 80 years ago by now) has been considered part of the natural continuum of jazz for a long, long time. Whereas the "avantgarde" of the 70s and afterwards (i.e. after the first Free Jazz generation of the 60s - Coltrane, Coleman, Cherry etc.) that is now some 50+ years old too is still causing controversy (and some of the music of the first generation too, possibly). So maybe I am not the only one who feels that at some point a limit of what can immediately or instinctively be grasped as "jazz" has been exceeded somewhere. What I also find surprising, seen from today, is that most discussions of avantgarde keep focusing on the period from the 60s ONWARDS. So what about 50s "avantgarde" musicians in jazz, like Jimmy Giuffre or George Russell (and others)? I can see and hear where they came from in jazz, but - to me anyway - there is a lot in what I've heard of their music (not nearly all, of course) that still is challenging to listen to. Because it IS "far out". But how come Jimmy Giuffre et al. seem to have fallen by the wayside within the avantgarde narrative? Taken for granted? Artists that are not "Black" enough? I'd be surprised if the general consensus were that their avantgarde work is far too accessible to today's avantgarde listeners' ears to warrant the "avantgarde" tag anymore. (But who knows ... )

Another Miles Davis SACD in lp packaging from Universal Japan, with Tone Poet mastering from Kevin Gray. Great sound. Miles Davis “Volume 1” Blue Note Japan SACD