cool_blue Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 (edited) Recently picked this up on vinyl (Contemp 80's reissue) and whoa!. Instantly one of my faves and not heard about much. Very recommended!!! AMG Review Edited April 19, 2005 by cool_blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BbM7 Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 Second. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave James Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 Third. One I picked up as a direct result of the "Before OJC's Go Away" thread. Glad I did. Terrific music, consistent from start to finish. Up over and out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 If you like this one, be sure and also get Jimmy Woods' Awakening: same lineup a half year later. I even like it more than Lookin' Good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool_blue Posted April 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 If you like this one, be sure and also get Jimmy Woods' Awakening: same lineup a half year later. I even like it more than Lookin' Good. If anyone has a extra copy of this on Lp I would be very interested. Please PM me. THX-cb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 picked this up on cd as a result of the recommendation here. GOOD STUFF!!! the notes refer to Joe Gordon's "tragically brief life" - what happened to him??!! was he shot by a common law wife? did he die in an auto accident? was his body found in the east river? inquiring minds want to know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPF Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 picked this up on cd as a result of the recommendation here. GOOD STUFF!!! the notes refer to Joe Gordon's "tragically brief life" - what happened to him??!! was he shot by a common law wife? did he die in an auto accident? was his body found in the east river? inquiring minds want to know! ← He died in a fire in his apartment in 1963. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 He died in a fire in his apartment in 1963. ← Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 I found a used copy of this at Streetlight Records a few years ago, and thanks to a mention in Gioia's West Coast Jazz book I knew it was worth a listen. Never regretted the purchase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 FWIW, both the Joe Gordon and Jimmy Woods albums are available on eMusic. I downloaded them quite a while ago. Definitely give my thumbs up, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 Very fine trumpet player. He's on half of the Horace Silver Columbia Legacy CD that's due for release soon. Too bad he didn't stay with Silver. Isn't he on some of the 1954 Blakey stuff on EmArcy, too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fitzgerald Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 Yes. See my website for detailed Joe Gordon discography. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 Very fine trumpet player. He's on half of the Horace Silver Columbia Legacy CD that's due for release soon. Too bad he didn't stay with Silver. Isn't he on some of the 1954 Blakey stuff on EmArcy, too? ← Yes, that's a Verve Elite well worth tracking down... and I'm excited to hear the Silver re-issue. Gordon's also on the Shelly Manne Blackhawk recordings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted May 25, 2005 Report Share Posted May 25, 2005 If you like this one, be sure and also get Jimmy Woods' Awakening: same lineup a half year later. I even like it more than Lookin' Good. ← just listened to "awakening". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Kat Posted May 30, 2005 Report Share Posted May 30, 2005 picked this up on cd as a result of the recommendation here. GOOD STUFF!!! the notes refer to Joe Gordon's "tragically brief life" - what happened to him??!! was he shot by a common law wife? did he die in an auto accident? was his body found in the east river? inquiring minds want to know! ← He died in a fire in his apartment in 1963. ← I believe the word is perished.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 30, 2005 Report Share Posted May 30, 2005 Canned goods perish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgraham333 Posted May 26, 2006 Report Share Posted May 26, 2006 I've been in a trumpet mood lately and came across Joe Gordon's Lookin' Good!. I have to agree with the positive comments here. I can see this one getting a lot of playing time. I also picked up in the same CDU order: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted May 27, 2006 Report Share Posted May 27, 2006 Just found out that this Lp fell victim to one of my fundraising Lp sales in recent years. Another OJC to get before it's too late .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chas Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 The scene-stealing performances of both Jimmy Woods and Dick Whittington should not obscure the fact that Lookin Good was the pinnacle of Joe Gordon's career , both instrumentally and compositionally . This makes his demise shortly thereafter all the more tragic . John Tynan wrote as definitive a review of the circumstances surrounding Gordon's death as we're likely to get : Downbeat January 30 , 1964 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 picked this up on cd as a result of the recommendation here. GOOD STUFF!!! the notes refer to Joe Gordon's "tragically brief life" - what happened to him??!! was he shot by a common law wife? did he die in an auto accident? was his body found in the east river? inquiring minds want to know! Actually, the real story is that he got in an argument with his common law wife, Svetlana, who compelled him at gunpoint into an automobile. She directed him to drive to the east river. Along the way they narrowly avoided an accident which resulted in the death of another trumpeter who shall remain nameless. Arriving at the river, they parked and got into another argument which resulted in them buying a house together which then burnt down, causing him to perish, a death which would have happened anyway some years later because he unknowingly suffered from mesothelioma owing to fact that his favorite trumpet had, before his acquiring it, been temporarily housed in a building under renovation where asbestos insulation was being installed. The album he would have recorded after Lookin' Good, which would have been entitled Feelin' Better had he lived, would have been nominated but would sadly have failed to win as "Best Small-Combo Jazz Recording without Vibraphone" in the Boston Musician's Union Newsletter "Member Recording of the Year" poll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 But seriously, I recently acquired Lookin' Good and the Jimmy Woods's Awakening!! session and have been enjoying the bejesus out of them. I sure wish that Gordon had lived. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Ain't no good way to die, but that was a damn BAD way to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 I just happened to be playing Lookin' Good a few days ago, and thinking how this ain't such a bad world after all, that has such albums in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 I just happened to be playing Lookin' Good a few days ago, and thinking how this ain't such a bad world after all, that has such albums in it. So the album's title is quite appropriate in your book! (Not to mention mine as well...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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