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  4. Stella by Starlight

    in Musician's Forum

    Posted

    Of course the Miles/Coltrane version is a blueprint. That said, always dug the Mobley/Green/Elvin/Larry Young version too as much as any other. One of my favorite standards to play...never gets old because it's never easy.

    Yeah, for B3 this is a good one. It's on disc 3 of the Larry Young Mosaic. It's also on Grant Green's I Want to Hold Your Hand.

    Just looking through my itunes there are other versions caught on Mosaic sets: Anita O'Day's, Chet Baker with Russ Freeman's, Horace Parlan's, Max Roach's, and Maynard Ferguson's.

    Can't think of any notable takes of it on my vinyl off the top of my head...

  11. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    Donald Byrd & Gigi Cryce--Xtacy (Trip Jazz)

    Barry Harris, Charles Greenlee, Roy Brooks, and Vishnu Wood--Cadillac and Mack The Detroit Four (Eastworld Japan)

    Art Hodes with Raymond Burke, Pops Foster, Truck Parham, Barret Deems, Volly DeFaut, George Brunis, and Nap Trottier--Hodes' Art from the art hodes notebook (Delmark)

    Art Hodes with Milt Hinton--just the two of us (Muse)

    Earl Hines, Teddy Wilson, Ellis Larkins, Marian McPartland--Concert in Argentina (Halcyon)

  14. Fave Freddie Hubbard sides

    in Artists

    Posted

    The Hub Of Hubbard (MPS) will always be special to me. That stuff is just nuts, and in the best possible way.

    I just bought this LP today at the Streetlight Records here in Noe Valley, SF that is closing next month. Anyway, I'm listening now. Badass!

  19. is clementine lost and gone forever?

    in Forums Discussion

    Posted · Edited by zanonesdelpueblo

    I rather like Clem and enjoy his posts and his style, whether I agree with him or not.

    His blog's pretty interesting, too. I don't think it's all him, though.

    MG

    Me too. And I wasn't even a member here at the same time as him. But reading old topics with his posts can be not just entertaining but surprisingly enlightening.

    Edit: our membership coincided for a month it seems.

  22. Gigi Gryce

    in Artists

    Posted

    Quick answer is: Yes!

    And be sure to check out the Noal Cohen/Michael Fitzgerald bio Rat Race Blues if you haven't already.

    Noal Cohen came out to introduce/moderate a pre-concert discussion with Teddy Charles back in early October, I believe. He did a good job and we have one mutual friend.

    I want to read this, b/c Gigi was not only a hell of a musician, but he caught hell starting his own publishing company and the powers that be, that famous non-instrumental group, tried to run him out of the business.

    Sadly, it seems they succeeded.

    As you'd expect from Michael Fitzgerald, it's a thorough straight-forward book. It has a full Gryce discography at the end. It covers the compositions and the publishing company struggle well. There are some revealing quotes from Horace Silver on that. Gryce's disappearance from professional music to become a teacher is a fascinating story. It mentions an intriguing third world suite called A.S.I.A. that has never been recorded--I'd love to hear that some day. All in all, an enjoyable read, and obviously a labor of love.

    If you can get used to the enormous block quotes, it is quite a story. I don't want to discredit this work because Michael is a former board member, and I have been guilty of an overabundance of block quotes in my writing so I understand the tendency, but some of the monster 4-page quotes in this book can be overwhelming. They could have easily been paraphrased or at least edited for their function. Did anyone else feel that way?

    Either way, definitely check it out. Gryce and his legacy deserve nothing better than the fine research that Cohen and Fitzgerald did.

    -Jay

  24. Free America

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    Great thread. I've noticed some of these (if not all) are available on Amazon for around $9 as MP3 downloads. I pretty much still never buy MP3 albums, but does that make the limited amount moot?

  25. musicians playing an ENTIRE session NOT on their primary instrument

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    David Newman & Ray Charles - Fathead - Atlantic

    Ray Charles in Person - Atlantic

    Ray Charles at Newport - Atlantic

    Hank crawford plays only baritone sax on all these albums.

    I've actually seen an album or two where Ray Charles plays alto sax--I believe for the entire album. I can't track down the info though right now.

    Edit to add that it was a tribute to Charlie Parker, iirc

    That's "Soul brothers", with Milt Jackson. Ray plays piano on most, if not all, tracks, but gets in some alto playing, too. And Milt gets in some piano playing, when Ray's on alto, and guitar playing. But they're both on their main instrument most of the time.

    But you've reminded me about

    Ray Charles - Genius + Soul = Jazz - Impulse

    Ray Charles - Genius + Soul = Jazz Live - Golden Age of Jazz

    Ray plays organ throughout these two albums.

    MG

    That's the one, yep. Oh, I didn't realize it wasn't the whole album. How are the Ray Charles organ albums?

    -Jay

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