Jazz Kat

Yes, I'm sorry. STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID yes, but we got on a topic of Go, well I did, about his drumming on that. Sorry for the left turn.

It's pretty good!

that would be awesome... Then we wouldn't have to waste all that money on those Japanese imports that cost over 17 bucks, although in the final outcome it wouldn't be wasted, but you know what I mean. The Sounds are in need of one! More than most, because of how their albums have been reissued over the years.

I'm guessing the jazz store cataloge??

I have never heard Let Freedom Ring, I was ONLY talking about Go, which wasn't that hard to figure out.

On Go? Umm yeah man!

I gotta turn the treble down when I listen to that album, and that is not because of Billy. He had the standard rivet setup, but for some reason it just cuts through everything else. With that along with his left hand is how he got his volume on that record. Art Blakey was louder, but completely different in style. Everything was sharp and accented. He would play something that went through the roof, volume wise, then just end it like that, and go back to what he was doing before.

I just heard Hub Tones on WBGO live radio.

I doubt that you're deaf, but yeah, you're totally wrong. And it's not often that I say that as unequivocally as I am now. Either that, or else we have completely different definitions of what a "basher" is. Allright, take back that basher thing. I wasn't referring to Billy Higgins as a Basher. I was saying he was playing really loud on some Blue Note albums and if you dont think so, you are totally wrong. Someone might be wrong to call him a basher, but they wouldn't be to say he was playing pretty loud on Gigilo and Go. His playing is beautiful on Ornette Coleman's album, and is just perfect on Sidewinder. In the last years of his life, he was playing beautifully. Billy Higgins isn't a basher. He's a great drummer with brilliant talents who happened to play really loud on some BN albums which made me not like them.

I used the term to describe his really loud playing on some songs that I have heard, and he's playing pretty loud. Or I'm just DEAF, and TOTALLY WRONG, yeah I think thats it.

In that period. He played great, (to me) in his later years.

Either Organissimo's just really GOOD, or effects all the other sites.

Organissimo seems to work under every circumstance. I remember last week I couldn't get into any sites. Organissimo was the only one that worked.

Isn't that the name of Max Roach's latest album? Stick It! In Stores this May!

He's the boss.

Seems compulsive.

Basher? Isn't it hard to see/hear anything with your head up there? Flame sent. I'm a drummer. You are not. I know a little about playing loudly. Go keep writing up your tickets.

Basher? Isn't it hard to see/hear anything with your head up there? Flame sent. Allright, you dig his intense drumming. I dont! And that's why it detracted from my enjoyment.

Why can't/shouldn't people get "carried away" if that's the way they feel about these recordings? Are you the jazz police, ready to tell people what they should value and how much they can value it? He would be the jazz cop. (one person...)

Billy Higgins usually detracts from some of the later 60's Blue Notes. I mean he was a basher! Lee Morgan's Gigilo, it almost turns into a rock piece. And on Dex's Go, it's like a one man drum show. He was allright on Royal Flush, (don Byrd), I loved his playing on Ornette's Shape Of Jazz... And you get the idea. Flame away. But back to the main subject. Let Freedom Ring men!!! edit- just my opinion.

I hope they come out with a Three Sounds Mosaic. I can ONLY hope.

Only got the last one. Just wanted him to solo more. I like the trio version of Wonder Why.

I'm gonna go change my HUB CAP!

Aren't we all?