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I just wish that he would get some kind of grant and spend 5 years doing nothing but updating his writings. Was the MacArthur grant all spent on music rather than writing?

Have you tried here? Does anyone here have the full three volumes of the TAW? It seems like the thing I need to have, but it would probably sit on the shelf. I've done a similar thing collecting what has been translated of the Gramsci Prison Notebooks (3 Volumes, 8 Notebooks worth so far). They are definitely collecting dust, but I still want em. How about Leo Smith's self-published 1973 Notes (8 pieces) source a new world music: creative music. Anybody here (Chuck?) have a copy of this? Is it available somehow?

It's been awhile since I saw Taxi Driver. Is that Rollins playing on the soundtrack, though? I remember being in high school and digging the sax on the theme. Is that theme on your twofer, and if not, is it available on LP/CD?

I got that Blue Potato LP for 6 bucks at a local store a year ago. I'd like to hear the Horo LP, Open City. Imagine if they had a complete Horo Records Mosaic like the Commodore set! I know it's impossible, but one can dream.

Just googling the Murray album for more info I found this. Regarding only issuing vinyl rather than cds of these albums, check out this little debate between Eremite and the bloggers on a site that had a rip of the Sunny Murray album posted. I linked to the site because they took off the link for the download. Moderators, if you want to remove this because it makes you uneasy, please do so.

Sounds good. I think I may go for red, black & green. I'm getting into BAG, and the Benjamin Looker book Point from which creation begins is probably on deck in my reading list.

Yes , keyboard duties in that band were handled by Ray Santisi . Thanks. Very curious to hear this Pomeroy session... Don't have the album anymore (one of those that mysteriously evaporated at some point in my life) but recall liking it a good deal. On the other hand, I have no memory of any Byard tenor solos on it (all the tenor solos IIRC were played by ringer Zoot Sims), though there is a fine Byard chart on his piece "Aluminum Baby" (based on you know what). Also no longer have (for the same mysterious reason) its successor, "Band in Boston," on United Artists, which was also very good, though I do have the CD reissue of the Irene Kral-Pomeroy album "The Band and I." Incidentally, I was reading John Litweiler's excellent book The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 recently, and Jaki Byard is referred to in Chapter 10 as a "pianist-altoist." I noticed since then that Byard plays alto in On The Spot! (Prestige), but does he play alto in any other albums? I haven't heard his tenor or alto playing but am really curious to do so. Did he play anything else in the saxophone family?

Randy Weston--Carnival: Live At Montreux '74 (Arista)

Clifford Jordan Quartet (with Vernell Fournier, Kevin O'Connor, and Ed Howard)--Royal Ballads (Criss Cross)

Kimiko Kasai and Mal Waldron--One For Lady (Catalyst)

McCoy Tyner--Tender Moments (BN Liberty Pressing)

McCoy Tyner--The Real McCoy (BN Blue Label)

Clark Terry Sextet Featuring Ben Webster, More (Cameo)

On the right-hand side of the page, there is a link for "More Buying Choices" showing independent sellers offering used and new copies of this set on Amazon. Strange that it's listed as used-like new if it is brand new factory sealed...

I just bought it and received it, but I haven't had a chance to listen. I'll give it a listen this weekend and see.

Congrats!

True. Off the top of my head, though, I can't think of any T-pain singing without it. I don't own his albums, so I've really just heard his singles. He rapped before really delving into the autotune thing, but when did he sing without it? Any recommendations?

Nice. I'm listening to Zapp and Roger now in "More Bounce To The Ounce" in a funk compilation from 1980. I guess that is a slightly different technology--a talk box. So it is probably more musical because it is put through a guitar or keyboard that you actually have to play. With autotune you don't have to sing/play in tune at all. Definitely similar appeal anyway.

It's really easy to be hip and automatically put down artists who use autotune, especially those that use it for correcting their pitch. That was definitely my immediate reaction when this started to become a trend. But does anyone here have any fondness for some of the stuff that has been done with it, in commercial mainstream hip hop? I have to say, I have a weakness for the occasional T-Pain tune. I really think autotune is being manipulated in funky ways. I may be single-handedly killing my reputation here, but I kind of think T-Pain is the fucking man. His shit is catchy. What about the Kanye album? Lil Wayne is kind of huge now because of it. Is it all bad, or is there some inherent quality in autotune. The same goes for some of the stuff that is chopped n screwed. Anybody (that isn't tripping on Robitussin) like DJ Screw or Mike Jones? How about this controversial analogy for the future of autotune: piano is to B3 organ as vocals is to autotune. I'm not sure I actually stand by any of this, haha. But I thought it would spark an interesting discussion.

Is that the one on 20th near Irving? Yup. I'll have to remember that one. I didn't know about it. I may be coming into SF Friday or Saturday. I'll make an effort to stop in and check it out. Don't get too excited because the hours are extremely erratic, and it is just one guy's operation, but I think technically it is supposed to be 1pm to 6pm Tues.-Sat. Tom from the Jazz Quarter was just featured in yesterday's SF Chronicle!!

Great news! Thanks.

Happy Birthday!!

Playing the CD now. I think I like this firt tune more than his stuff on the Charlie Parker Project. Braxton is such a genius. I guess after a little research "Donna Lee" is actually a Miles Davis composition, although I've always associated it with Bird. Does that track on the LP also end abruptly? I know it has been discussed in the Free America thread that it happens on everyone's CD, but is that the case on the vinyl too?

Playing the CD now. I think I like this firt tune more than his stuff on the Charlie Parker Project. Braxton is such a genius.

First you've got to have a man singing it. Second, they're hard lyrics for a male singer to bring off and not sound lame. To sing those words effectively you need to put your heart and soul into giving them meaning. Ray Charles did it. Third, no male singer with any sense would want to have their version compared with Ray Charles', which is definitive. MG Why does a man have to sing it? iirc Ella Fitzgerald sang it, and so did Anita O'Day. Jazz shouldn't have to live by the laws of heteronormativity.