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The working trio of Don Patterson, Billy James, and Sonny Stitt was a great combination indeed!

Eddie was big time into fourths.

On TCM.

OK, but what about FJD’s cousin, “Hopscotch”???!! — from Charlie ‘Charles’ Rouse’s Two Is One — credited to Joe Chambers. Did Chambers ever record the tune again? The Two is One version seems to be the first and only(?) version either Rouse or Chambers ever recorded. Did/does Chambers ever play it live? Or has he ever commented on it?

I think 14 of these are with Don Patterson. They were a great, inspiring combination.

Eddie wrote several tunes with such angular melodies; Mean Greens is my favourite. The part resembling Freedom Jazz Dance is in the middle, before the sesond and third solos. Ambidextrous is another one, more or less a new version of Mean Greens. What is remarkable about Mean Greens is that the boogaloo riff is present from start to finish, selfless Cedar Walton plays is all the way through except when he solos and Eddie and Roy Codrington play it for him. Walton also plays the riff all through Freedom Jazz Dance, freeing Ron Carter and Billy Higgins. These guys groove the hell out of this tune!

The solution, then, is to stop relying on changes to get over.

Count me in.

Von Freeman with Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink? Nice.

I just finished Johnny Dankworth's autobio, "Jazz in Revolution" (1998), and came across JD's explanation for why Jazz isn't and will never be popular: ......."jazz is a music for the minority. It can only be truly understood and evaluated by people gifted with 'chordal ears'- IOW, those lucky folk who can listen to the improvisational skills of a soloist and still hear the underlying chord structure. So jazz music can only by luck become popular in the wider sense.,and can rarely enjoy the financial security and mass acclaim which goes with that phenomenon. Thus most jazz musicians remain skilled, dedicated and poor, and even a jazz world-star name like Dizzy Gillespie's was and still is for that matter-unfamiliar to most people in the country of his birth." He used Diz as an example, because he was working with him at the time, and was a very close friend of his. This explains a lot.

Easiest buy of the year:) Just another version of Stone/Water alone is worth the price True peak period for this music & this wide swath of musicians

Eliane Elias “Cross Currents” Denon cd Ms Elias here in her third Denon release with a great cast . . . predominantly trio and showing solid jazz chops.

Wallace Roney “Verses” Muse cd Roney’s first as a leader from 1987. What a band! 300×300 8.83 KB

I saw Alex Foster with the Mingus Dynasty Group (Jack Walrath leading) back in, I think, the early 90's, and he was pretty great. He's never reached me on record the way he did live that night.

I've wondered about Alex Foster on those albums... His best moments are amazing... But he also comes across as someone who know exactly how to respond to "let's play this as a slow bounce with a samba backdrop in sixth"... And in many ways it's great that he knows his craft... But maybe, from time to time, it would have been even better if he would have said "I don't know how to do this" with the subtext of "I know exactly how to do this but what an awful idea"

I've been waiting in vain for decades, but the long hoped for classical album Iannis Xenakis for Lovers has never appeared. 😭

That would be Nipples?

And Alex Foster...lost to studio work and the SNL band, but no small potential shown. Both slick and slippery!

I'm fairly proud of my "Ken Peplowski for Lovers" playlist on Spotify... Not saying it's better than his regular albums, only saying it works better for me...

I think Cosmic Chicken is invaluable listening in order to place the (old) Directions albums on ECM in time and space... it's even less consistent but it gives you a sense of what is Eicher and what is DeJohnette on those later albums...

What is this crap?

Same here. 'One Step Beyond' is the other one I know would be on my list of 2-3 favorites by him.