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Taik Givens - The Nature Of Life (Vol. 2)

Dexter Gordon “Night Ballads - Montreal 1977” Uptown cd This one cost me a pretty penny but it was worth it. Recorded live at The Rising Sun in Montreal, November 9-12, 1977. Featuring the great saxophonist Dexter Gordon, pianist George Cables, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Eddie Gladden.

Tatum must have been frustrated dealing with noisy club audiences. Too bad he didn't live to do the international solo tour in concert halls that Norman Gran had scheduled for him. European audiences would have gone nuts over him. I get a kick out of his remarks after playing "Kerry Dance," a signature sign off piece, to "Go home."

Yep .... btw we should mention Günter Lenz in the "Underrated Bassists" thread ....

Good call ....

Tommy Flanagan - Positive Intensity (Sony/Japan). Tommy with Ron Cater & Roy Haynes from 1977. Nicely done if a bit too brightly presented on the Japanese CD I found in a used bin yesterday.

The Complete Capitol Studio Recordings of Stan Kenton 1943-1947, disc II Revisiting this set with enjoyment. That studio at that time had such a rich sound for their releases.

Oh goody, I like this series very much! Sound is good, consistent approach. We were just getting to a lot of the best stuff in the mid and late 30's and then the monthly releases stopped.

It is just very dense. And those quotations often need a couple of reads to be understood. Also intense. There's a lot there.

I think it is rape ideation because it substitutes a male fantasy of women's submissiveness, as though they want it whether they know it or not.

Clara Haskil performs with Henry Swoboda & the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra: - Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19 in F Major, K.459 - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37

Another thumbs up for Swing to Bop from me also. I read it early on in my jazz explorations, and it was massively helpful.

I’d say that some of these posts are getting strange but then most of this thread is.

In what way?

I got that one and Baritone Monk. I got a few dls from Screwgun: 5 by Bloodcount, Sanctified Dreams by Tim Berne and No Tamales on Wednesday by Science Friction (also featuring Berne). and a couple of things from British Progressive Jazz. I'm strongly leaning towards the deal on Greenleaf Music where you can get all their back catalogue (as dls) for $775 - $75. Will ponder a bit longer before, most likely, pulling the trigger.

La Forme De L'esprit Est Un Papillon * Couleurs Inventées * Univers Nerveux (Inédit) (In Memoriam K. Stockhausen)

It's still faster than real time.

The Albert Mangelsdorff Quartet - Never Let It End (MPS, 1971) with Heinz Sauer (ts, as), Günter Lenz (b), and Ralf Hübner (d) Brilliant band. Brilliant album. If MPS ever reissued this on vinyl, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

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Claire Daly - VuVu For Frances

There is a difference betwen covering 80 (or even 50) to 100 years or 10 years (as in this case) on some 300 pages. So doesn't this explain that? I think I know what you mean but what you call "slow going" is what i would call "intense".

Al Di Meola - Soaring Through a Dream (Manhattan, 1985) Al Di Meola – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, classical guitar, Synclavier guitar Phil Markowitz – Steinway grand piano, synthesizers Chip Jackson – electric bass, acoustic bass Danny Gottlieb – drums Airto Moreira – percussion, vocals This is one of my favorite jazz records of the 1980s. I bought it when it first came out, during my junior year in high school, when I was first diving into jazz. I must've listened to it a thousand times. (I literally wore out the LP.) . . . It's an atypical Di Meola album, much less jazz-rock fusion, much more dreamy & Brazilian. That's largely due to Airto, who brings his usual soulful brilliance, both as a vocalist and percussionist. Fair warning: Like many 80s jazz albums, Soaring Through a Dream is very synth heavy. But unlike many 80s jazz albums, the synths really work well here. They add to the gauzy, otherworldly aspects of the music; they actually open up musical avenues, rather than sounding like nifty gizmos that are added on as technological afterthoughts. That said, as much as this music in engrained in my brain, it's likely impossible for me to hear it like most folks do. So, there's that.