bertrand

I meet young folk all the time who are just getting into jazz and devouring it with a passion that I remember well from my younger days. Bertrand.

Jazzbo, Actually, someone told me the Blue Moon sounded almost as bad as the Vee Jay partnership one. There's some wierd distortion in the drums that sounds totally unnatural. In fact, for all I know, this distortion may be in the tape and therefore still be present on the Mosaic. Never thought of asking here... The Shorter/Morgan Mosaic sounds great (except Wayning Moments), so if the tape is OK, I think the Mosaic will be OK. Anyway, I digress... Bertrand.

Dr. J is on the money. I hardly ever upgrade, but when I do, it's because the original source sounds like such crap that *any* remastering would be an improvement. There's no need to sit down and do and A/B comparison. I put the new version in, and if the 'problem' is corrected, I'll know immediately. I also agree that the sound changes between CD players even with the same speakers and receivers, regardless of what the schmo at Circuit City says. I have one CD I would love to upgrade - the 1993 US version of Wynton Kelly's Kelly Great. The one I have is totally fucked up. Unfortunately, the only remastering is the soon to disappear Mosaic Kelly box, and I just can't justify buying this one which contains a lot of material I already have, when I have 5 Mosaics on my wish list that I still haven't gotten around to buying. Bertrand.

Thanks couw. I'm glad I kept the vinyl. I was listening to a library copy of the CD last night, and I thought it didn't sound as good as I remembered. AND that 40-minute movie excerpt is boring as shit. I always supsected the movie was a dud. Bertrand.

Quick question - The CD of Frank Zappa's Uncle Meat has some bonus tracks on disc two which are really just filler. The original sides one, two and three of the LP are now on disc one (side four is on disc two with the filler). What were the opening tracks to sides two and three on the vinyl? I vaguely remember that it was 'Sleeping In A Jar' and 'Mr. Green Genes' respectively, but my vinyl is in France and I can't find a listing on the net. Can anyone confirm my recollection? Thanks in advance, Bertrand.

Didn't notice when I saw this in theatres, because I was too busy shaking my head in disbelief at how truly awful this movie was. Melanie Griffith lisping through the line 'I've got a head for business and a bod for sin'? Please! Bertrand.

It turns out there was a typo in the Mosaic box - the track is actually called 'Hootnan', according to the copyright deposit and the first vinyl issues. Bertrand.

Action is indeed an overlooked masterpiece. Bertrand.

Tony Williams Lifetime - 'To Whom It May Concern - Them/Us' and 'Allah Be Praised', both from Turn It Over. Bertrand.

Wayne once was quoted as saying something like: 'Composition is just improvisation slowed down' (I'm paraphrasing - I don't have the article handy). From my years of thinking of Wayne's music, I have never come across a better synopsis of his musical conception. Bertrand.

http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/ind...Genre&genre=JAZ Even better: it's the Dave Holland Big Band scheduled for 1/22/05 - I'm there! Bertrand. P.S. They have Roy Haynes doing his bird tribute on 3/12/05, i.e. exactly on the 50th anniversary of Bird being killed by Art Blakey

Happy birthday! Bertrand.

Dewey has been slowed down a bit (principally due to illness), but he can still catch fire. I saw him last year in a septet setting with Jane Bunnett and Stanley Cowell (they did a CD with this lineup), and Dewey took some beautiful solos - not too long, but extremely melodic and thought out. He's been doing that crowd-pleasing/clap yo' hands blues/rock and roll tune for years at a lot of gigs - it's usually either 'Turn Over Baby' or 'Blues For J.A.M.' It's fun the first few times, but it's kinda getting old. But for people who only see him once in their lives, it's probably fun. Bertrand.

Happy birthday! Bertrand.

Happy 73d birthday to two of my favorite musicians, Jackie McLean and Dewey Redman, both born on this day in 1931, in NYC and Texas respectively. What are the odds? They have yet to record together. Neither has a contract with a label in the U.S. Anyone want to start a record company? Bertrand.

Stefan, You forget to mention the amazing light show at the Dave Holland concert. It was like being back at the Fillmore without the acid. Bertrand.

These 'commissioned pieces' are a back-door the Library of Congress uses to put on jazz concerts. They have some money from a fund (it's called McKim, I think) to commission a violin/piano duet from a composer, and they then build a concert around that. I've seen several concerts there where this was applied in different ways: - Oliver Lake and his quintet (including Russell Gunn, Charles Eubanks and Cecil Brooks III) ran through some originals and a few of the Dolphy/Little collaborations. The second set opened with the duet, which was a classical-type piece played by Anthony Davis and Regina Carter. - Cecil Taylor chose to turn the whole concert into what I suspect was a completely improvised duet piece with Matt Maneri. I was told he played a bit of solo piano in the second set. I left after the first set, because I really could not stand Maneri's sawing away. He's part of that slew of avant-garders I just can't bear to listen to - pretentious crap with no aesthetic value whatsoever. Music is meant to be enjoyed, not suffered through. Bertrand.

How does Francis Davis know when Golden Boy was recorded? Bertrand.

Chalupa, You can start a thread entitled 'I met Francis Davis'. Bertrand.

C-ball addict and Stefan and I met at a Dave Holland concert last night at the Library of Congress which was absolutely fabulous. They played a new Chris Potter tune, 'Vicissitudes' that was totally amazing. The whole band (Potter, Eubanks, Nelson, new drummer Nate Smith, and of course the leader) were on fire throughout. A truly memorable evening. Bertrand.

I have a question about the Harold Mabern slated for 5/25. It combines the LPs 'A Few Miles From Memphis' and 'Rakin' And Scrapin'. A search at AMG shows that the first has 7 tunes, the second has 5 tunes. The Fantasy catalog shows 12 tracks, so no track was dropped. Does anyone who was the LPs know if they're short enough (i.e. under 40 minutes each) to both fit on one CD, or will Fantasy have to edit a track? Thanks, Bertrand.

According to a blurb in the new Downbeat, Steven Spielberg's upcoming film The Terminal (about a guy who has to live in an airport due to a bureaucratic glitch - this must be based on the true story of the guy who lived at Charles de Gaulle airport for a decade or so) has a jazz subplot involving someone (the main character?) who is an avid autograph collector. He has the autographs of everyone in the Great Day In Harlem photo except Benny Golson, and part of the story has him searching for Benny. How hard can it be to find Golson in New York? All the musicians know him, he most certainly is an AFM member, and he did a lot of TV work (including the Cosby show a few years ago), so he can't be too hard to find. Obviously, they were limited to the half-dozen or so musicians from the photo who are still with us, but I'm sure there were guys in the picture who were a lot harder to track down. Take Gigi Gryce, for example: he dropped off the face of the planet about 3 years after the picture was taken. I'm mightily impressed that the guy had the foresight to know right after the picture was taken how historic it would be, and that if he wanted Gigi's autograph he better move fast. It just doen't make sense. Bertrand.

Rooster, Weren't there six tracks on One For One? Bertrand.

Mike, According to this site: http://www.binkie.net/wrdisc/Sweetnighter.html Vitous plays electric bass on only two tracks on Sweetnighter; Zawinul hired Andrew White to play on the other cuts because he was funkier. Two tracks feature both bassists. Eric, What is the Atlantic? Is this something I can get on newsstands? How long is this article on Wayne? Thanks, Bertrand.

It was Matt Pierson (sp?) who said this in a Jazz Times interview in which he came off as a complete asshole. Based on the personnel, song titles (or lack thereof), and recording dates, there is no way in hell that this can be a funk date. It clearly must be along the lines of Super Nova/Odyssey Of Iska/Moto Grosso Feio, and in fact the personnel is basically the first Weather Report group with Tyner in place of Zawinul, and no Airto (Barbara Burton and Don Alias both play on the first WR record, but Zawinul took out their names due to some financial dispute). My guess is that Pierson was confusing it with Herbie's unissued BN session, which, based on the sole released track on the Lost Sessions, may indeed be a rather lame funk session. Pierson also called the unissued Lee Morgan session from 1968 a bad funk date. The three issued tracks (on the Sixth Sense) are hardly bad funk. Either that, or I'm all funked up and don't know what people refer to as 'funk'. Maybe I need a refresher course from George Clinton! Bertrand.