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Indeed! Same here. It's musically very good, but the sound is very problematic IMO. The drumset and amplified bass do not mix well with the Cuban percussion the way Jeff Chambers and Eddie Marshall sound. No drum set and a drier, more Cuban style bassist would have made that a terrific record.

Bobby Hutcherson's Blue Note outputs The new Mosaic box will cover: The Kicker (1963) Dialogue (1965) Components (1966) Happenings (1966) Stick-Up! (1966) Oblique (1967) Patterns (1968) Total Eclipse (1968) Spiral (1965, 1968) Medina (1969) Now! (1968) -- seems omitted, available on CD San Francisco (1970) ---- After 1970 Head On (1971) -- available on CD Natural Illusions (1972) -- available on CD Live at Montreux (1973) -- available on CD Cirrus (1974) -- in Mosaic Select 26 Linger Lane (1975) -- available on CD Inner Glow (1975) -- in Mosaic Select 26 Montara (1975) -- available on CD Waiting (1976) -- in Mosaic Select 26 The View From The Inside (1976) -- in Mosaic Select 26 Knuclebean (1977) -- in Mosaic Select 26 All of them are available on Spotify anyway.

Recorded @ Royal Festival Hall London on April 2nd, 1991 .... worth the ticket of entry for a furious reading of the Smetana Overture .... and Dvorak 8 is excellent too ....

I've recently been uncovering the wonders of Tommy Potter by way of Jimmy Forrest and Willis Jackson. Who would have thought, the backbone of bop is also one helluva soul jazz player! Fresh Sounds has a CD of the Willis Jackson session with Tommy playing on 14 songs.

Kenny Werner Trio "Herbie Nichols" (Sunnyside) 1989 .... good call on Ratzo Harris ....

Fuel – Take Effect ... US 1990

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I like Wilbur Ware as a group player, but on one 5 CD set of Clifford Jordan Strata East recordings (which I actually bought for the "Rhythm X" which was one of my favourite in my early youth, I had it on cassette then), well the Wilbur Ware solo CD on it, that´s a bit too much for me. And I think in 1968 Wilbur Ware was already towards the end of his career. My favourite underrated bass players when I had discovered bop (AFTER "free" I must admit), was Tommy Potter and Curley Russell. They the unsung heros of all those murder sessions with up tempo stuff, when there still was no amps and pickups for the bass fiddle. And it´s interesting that they could also play solo very well, only there was no space for much solo then. But Potter could play wonderful bass solos, and Russell the same, both were very very good bassists. In my youth there was a great bass player around, who played with Joe Henderson. His name was Ratso Harris I think, a helluva player.

Oh well, a “Duke Ellington turns into Grateful Dead” thread… 😎

Whaaaaat that's awesome! Out of the options to: 1. Mention his name and his playing but ignore his vices. 2. Mention his name, his playing and his vices. 3. Omit his name but mention his playing and his vices. You definitely chose the strangest one!

I also have this, I had bought it after I had heard about Tatum thru Jakey Byard and Don Pullen, the only pianists I knew then. It´s wonderful, maybe then at first listening it was a bit hard for me (bad piano, unusual for me a solo piano no bassist, no drummer no horns), but it HAD something. I remember that version of "Begin the Beguine". Then I didn´t like that tune in general, I associated it with old people, but that intro with a light spanish tinge in it was really sharp, and how he goes into stride in the course of the tune. It´s so great that Woody´s son publishes so many live dates of his father. I don´t have this one , but I have Bremen or so, maybe on other from Elveția, but with another pianist....

Fabulous ....

You recalled him being an excellent bass player, what was the most important part of the story (to me) ....

Recordings I've enjoyed since shortly after I became alert -

I had a number of communications with Michael in the 90s suggesting a BH Mosaic set - he was keen but had difficulty in choosing a cut-off date so in the end it didn't happen, until now

At first the Trap and then later Little Bills in Iowa City.

Tender Trap?

Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 49.

Flapper O'Hulahoop - Around & Down!!!

Interesting - Dale Oehler was a school chum in Iowa City while he was playing nightly with JR Monterose. John Wilmeth was the bassist and the drummer was Rusty Jones.

I've always been OK with some of the "lesser" titles like Natural Illusions, Montara, and maybe Knucklebean. Don't know if it's because of Oehler on those last two or if it's just the ex-vibes player in my heart. I do remember playing Natural Illusions on the radio and a guy in the studio telling me I was mispronouncing Bertoncini's name on the air because he had studied with him and he knew ! I probably was.

20-30 years ago, one afternoon at the Chicago Jazz Festival in Grant Park, Charlie Haden played for an hour exactly as Wilbur Ware would have played. Afterwards I told Charlie he sounded like a true Chicago bassist. Charlie said, "That's the best compliment." Bill Johnson was a powerful bass player on the Johnny Dodds Victors. I wonder what he sounded like in the original (pre-Oliver) Creole Band.