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An interesting recording where all the tunes were originally by Serge Charloff.

I was pleased to see that Pinnacle is being reissued in April as part of Record Store Day. 😃

Has there ever been a jazz "Buster" who has ever been less than a total badass?

I saw Buster Williams once in 1979 as „second bass” in the Ron Carter Quartet (with Kenny Barron and Ben Riley). I must admit I like Ron Carter much more on the regular bass than on Picollo Bass that he played. Buster Williams had one solo but it sounded more interesting to me and he got very much applause for that. I love him on records, to bad I saw him live only one time.

Here is my Buster Williams list, and did not include any you already listed. Gene Ammons - Boss Tenor / The Boss Is Back Stanley Turrentine - Another Story I Dexter Gordon Tower of Power / More Tower of Power/ Generation I Great Jazz Trio - Love For Sale I Charles McPherson- McPherson's Mood I This Is Buck Hill I Illinois Jacquet - The Blues That's Me I Red Rodney - Red, White & Blue I Albert Dailey - That Old Feeling I Lee Konitz Nonet - No No Nonet I Junior cook - Somethings Cookin' I Bobby Hutcherson - In The Vanguard I Ted Brown - In Good Company I Ralph Moore - 623 C Street I Houston Person - The Big Horn / Very Personal IDavid "Fathead" Newman - Resurgence / The Gift I Frank Morgan - Lament / Bebop Lives / Mood Indigo ICarl Saunders - Out Of The Blue I Benny Green - In This Direction I Ronnie Mathews - Shades Of monk I Teddy Edwards - Midnight Creeper I John Hicks - On The Wings Of An Eagle I Larry Coryell - Shining Hour / Crdars of Avalon I Steve Kuhn - Porgy / Temptation / Plays Standards I Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway - Just Friends i Claudio Rodito - Free Wheeling I Cedar Walton - Voives Deep Within ? Song Of Delilah I Ben Riley - Weaver Of Dreams I John McNeil & Tom Harrell - Look To The Sky I Emily Remler - East To West I Kenny Barron - Green Chimneys I Gary Bartz & Sonny Fortune - Alto Memories I Billy Childs - Skim Coat I Sonny Stitt Meets Sadik Hakim I Timeless All Stars - It's Timeless / Timeless Heart / Essence / Time For Timeless Allstars i Woody Shaw - Setting Standards I Renee Rosnes - Without Words I Sphere - (6 albums) I Willie Jone III - Groundwork/ My Point IsI Benny Golson Terminal 1 / New Time, New 'Tet I Jeremy Pely - The Art of Intimacy Vol.2

That documentary was fantastic. Highly recommended. Was listening to Pinnacle on the radio today.

I remember a photo of Kenny Clarke sitting on a drum case behind his kit, probably because he forgot to bring a seat, but that was not an album cover.

What's up there? There seems to have been two Costas, thoughtful pop and schlocky pop.

I was in Odense in 2024 which I turned into twice 2 hours in Copenhagen to and from the airport. There are loads of record stores. The two best ones I saw are Jazz Cup and Sound Station (even though the latter had somewhat ambitious and erratic pricing... I am the rare customer who might buy a Burt Bales LP for 12 Euro... but not for 30...), the two stores are in fairly different parts of the city so in each case, it's super easy to find three or four others stores in the area which may or may not be hit or miss... Anyway, it was a fun city for record shopping and I confidently recommend building your hunts around either of those two stores...

More music less tape.

Musicmasters Digital CIJD 20126z/27X - Benny Carter American Jazz Orchestra " Central City Sketches" - rec. 1987 - Engineer: Gegory K. Squires

This again: Enrico Pieranunzi - Live in Paris (Challenge, 2005) with Hein Van de Geyn & André "Dédé" Ceccarelli Excellent!

I think you meant a faster tape speed would = more tape/second.

What Jim said. KB is arguing that 7.5 inches of tape is more tape than 15 inches of tape. When you see 911 recordings the tapes move super slow - because they are maximizing capacity of reels / efficiency of recording calls.

Don Costa And His Orchestra – The Sound Of The Million Sellers

They're sitting on the drum cases.

Privat Production KSCD 0900 - Herb Geller " Birthday Party At NDR's Rolf Liebermann Hall - rec. 2008

Disc 2

I don't think so...15 inches of tape is more than 7.5 inches of tape, right? A slower tape speed gives you more total capacity, but that's because you're using less tape per song (or whatever).

Buster Williams Quartet - Lost in a Memory (TCB Records, 1999)

Is that a cover of this?

Some photos of Buster: with Herbie Hancock & Billy Hart I'm sure that many of you have already seen it, but I'd be remiss if I didn't recommend Buster's documentary: Buster Williams Bass to Infinity.