Chuck Nessa

I do so with full awareness of what I'm saying, but...the best Turrentine records to me are Salt Song & Don't Mess With Mister T. Not the best "jazz" or the best "tenor playing", just the best records, presentations. They're pretty much the ultimate manifestation of what CTI was meant to do, imo, those two and Sunflower. Some others came close, but those...you have to be really, really anti-whatever it is that "that" is to not hear Turrentine on those records and enjoy it some kind of level. No other prerequisites required. This convinces me Jim is more a "marketer" than anything. It clears up some other stuff.

Record 2, the "live" version - never on cd.

In our back yard.

with minimal searching you can find software to download the stream.

Hmmm.

Great topic. No time to enter in but great topic.

No, but I knew Mike a bit.

Thank you sir.

That sounds like a good deal, then. I was worried that they tried to make the Village Vanguard sound like the Village Gate, or some such. "Modern tastes" and all that. Glad to hear that's not what happened. I'd be really interested to know if this was originally recorded on analogue equipment. If it was a relatively early digital recording I wonder about the limits to "improvements".

This cover always bothered me because is it derived from an old photo of Earl Hines, if I'm not mistaken.

Hope we all see 2015.

I think I have all I need.

Seems to be a real find. Thanks.

Elanore Clift Cliff Edwards Dwight Eisenhouer

Exactly what Jim said. Blue Train has never been a favorite of mine either. Listened to Dakar earlier today, I really like that session and I like the RVG. Blue Train was the favorite of Mr. Coltrane according to the interview included on the Dragon Miles set.

Ben E King King Vidor Gore Vidal

Clyde Flowers Russell Thorne Derek Rose

I started buying this music on lp at the beginning of the '60s, accumulated all the music, sold it and replaced it with cds and eventually bought them for the "final" time in the current 3 boxes. This music has been wonderful for the last 50+ years of my life. Don't worry about which is "best".

Back in the day when this was a new release Jerry Valburn gave me a copy of this. It might be the "Valburn connection" but I never "connected" with this record.

Dang!

If you got a couple of dollars, go buy/rent Museum Hours.

We should back off the sad "author" and direct real criticism to the publisher. They be the really stupid ones.

Back in the day when I was working to program the Chicago Jazz Festival I tried to book Horace a number of times and his answer was always the same; "that is the time I have with my son and I don't care how much you are paying". I always felt frustrated but admired his attitude.