Big Al

When I read the story in the paper this morning, my first thought was that Satriani plays so many thousands of millions of notes per second, just about ANYbody could be plagiarizing him without even knowing it.

I bet Jerry Jones is very interested in making Plaxico a Cowboy in the very near future. He'll fit right in with T.O. and Pac-Man.

I'll have a glass of scotch and toast your dad's birthday and memory tonight.. One very cold winter night I stayed at his place on a trip back from either Baker's or Cliff Bells and when I went to my room there was a lovely bottle of scotch and a scotch glass and a bottled water waiting for me on the night stand. Your dad was the quintessential host and a great hang.. I sure miss him. beautiful memory! What conn said. I never met the man, and your memory makes me miss him as well.

I was just thinking of this thread last night while listening to John Klemmer's BAREFOOT BALLET. Damn, that is some beautiful music. So what if it sounds like Kenny G for the 70's? For some reason it works for me!

Terry Gibbs Quartet TAKE IT FROM ME, his only Impulse! album, for $7 Don't know if this would be a "great find" or not, but I didn't even know it existed until I found it. Plus, I love this kind of lineup (vibes, guitar, bass, drums) and it features some of my favorite players (Gibbs, Kenny Burrell, Sam Jones, and Louis Hayes).

Hooray!!!!

I really really hate the bass clarinet. If a soprano sax is the sound of a duck farting through a kazoo, then a bass clarinet sounds like an elephant farting through the muffler of a '76 Buick Delta.

Ah, don't be so hard on yourself, man! I didn't notice any inferiorities in the LP transfers; and, I'm not sure anyone's ever batted 1000 with their BFT. In fact, I remember thinking of my own BFTs, the first one (#21) was far superior to the second (#54), and was actually surprised more people enjoyed #54 than I figured. Like Dan sez, YMMV. Obviously, NHCOT™, but then neither one of us HAFC™!

Ah HAH! I knew my ears weren't deceiving me! I know pain when I hear it!

PM sent about buying the Hamptons!

PM sent on the Rollins box

Extra kudos for the iron-willed self discipline ! :rsmile: 'taint easy, Icantellyouthat!

12 - Amazing how everyone thinks this track has bass clarinet but it's actually baritone sax ! Well, that's okay; I still don't like the bass clarinet!

Oh I did!!! Now I don't feel so bad that I don't have any of those albums. Yet, anyway!

Damn, beat me to the joke! Rock on!

PM sent with question about the Hamptons.

For the record, I do have the answers from Sidewinder, but I have not peeked at them, which oughta be pretty evident pretty quickly! Track 1 – Picking up right where the groove left off! What is that, trombone & tenor? Very cool! Love the acoustic guitar accompaniment. No clue, of course. Track 2 – Well, I guess this answers the question “How might it have sounded if ‘Peace Piece’ had been accompanied by bass & drums?” This is LOVELY! I love rubato drones like this! And it always seems to be on a BFT where tracks like this end up! Oh, there’s a sax on this as well? Even sweeter! As long as he doesn’t pull some kinda Dolphy shenanigans. Track 3 – More loveliness! IF this is Peter Leitch, and IF this is from Up Front, then I’m a bigger dumbass than I ever thought before. I should NEVER have gotten rid of that CD! Track 4 – Ahhhh, nice fat big band! (Yes, Al, that’s right: it IS a big band! What about it?) I don’t know. Just.... cool, y’know? A lot better than the stuff that passes for big band these days! Oh that is SO Freddie Hubbard! Or a reasonable facsimile. Even someone as musically dense as I can spot those licks a million miles away. Track 5 – No clue on the singer. Nice track, though. Track 6 – Ahhhhhh, drat. I have this somewhere and I am drawing a total blank and I’m gonna kick myself as soon as someone easily ID’s it. I have now reached the point in my music collection where I have more music than I remember. Oh, this one’s gonna sting. Track 7 – AAARRGGGGHHHH!!! I think I have this; that intro is WAY too familiar. Almost sounds like Urubu-era Jobim. Okay, no, I don’t have this. I would’ve remembered that piano trill. Sounds kinda Christmas-y! I likey! Ha! That almost sounded like a cross between “Jingle Bells” and “Silent Night.” Don’t know if I’d call this jazz, but I’d sure call it lovely! Electric piano makes me think this is some kinda CTI/Deodato thing. Whoa, where did THIS come from? It’s started swinging something fierce! Now I’m convinced it’s a CTI thing, either a Deodato arrangement or a Sebesky arrangement. That’s my story and I’m sticking with it! Track 8 – Sounds like something off the Hutcherson Mosaic Select. If it is, then see the comment about track 3. If this isn’t from the Hutcherson Mosaic, then see the comment about track 3. No wait, I take it back: Charles Lloyd perhaps? From one of his recent ECM albums? Lovely, either way! Track 9 – Sounds like a bunch of young lions trying to emulate the Miles 60’s quintet. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, and this bunch sounds particularly inspired. Darned if I know who any of the players are, though. Maybe they got Smilin’ Billy to sit in on this session? That does sound like his brand of drummin’ joy! (Of course, if I’m wrong and this is actually from the Tony Williams Mosaic Select....) Track 10 – That riff just SCREAMS Horace Silver. I can’t tell if it’s him from the 70’s or someone doing a nice tribute to him. Track 11 – Oh this sounds SO like a Freddie Hubbard CTI deal. This is getting more and more embarrassing because I’m pretty sure I have this somewhere. Track 12 – First, let me admit my bias against the bass clarinet. I don’t like it. I don’t like its sound, its range, and the fact that too many players use that big range as an excuse to jump from low growls to high-end squeals over-and-over in a matter of seconds. That said, I actually skipped to the eight-minute mark where this song finally gets going. The ensemble is cool enough, at least they drown out the BC player well enough. Track 13 – Paging Mikeweil! Paging Mikeweil!!! Great ensembles, frenetic without being frantic! Terrific disc, Sidewinder. Every one of 'em a keeper (except 12). Can't wait to see the answers, I know I'm gonna kick myself on a lot of these!

You've been added! Good to see you posting again, and looking forward to next November!

Very cool on the Rare Grooves. Glad these are in there, as I ordered a copy of each!

As long as you're getting TRUE BLUE, get Freddie Hubbard's OPEN SESAME. It makes a perfect companion album.

I've never liked Mannheim Steamroller, but that dislike was elevated to outright hatred when my family and I went to look at Christmas lights with my cousin, who not only cranked up the a/c so that it was unbearable; not only subjected us to MS; but also turned the volume up to ear-shattering volumes. So there we had it: cold robotic "music" inside a cold robotic vehicle! Kenny G makes my blood boil every time I hear it anyway, but hearing his destruction of holiday songs--especially when trapped inside a Hallmark store--should be more than enough for a judge to be convinced that temporary insanity is the only defense for going on a destructive rampage that results in the mall sound-system being completely vaporized. No, this is more than music that merely blows: this is music that needs to be made illegal, much in the same way that smoking is illegal in some states because of the effects of second-hand smoke. Well, this is second-hand noise pollution. It is so evil that I'm afraid this shit could really drive someone right over the edge and cause a very bloody massacre. Really wanna cause a stink at Gitmo, or make the prisoners talk? Subject 'em to this shit. They'll rat out everyone INCLUDING Allah! This is music that gets played in hell, but even Beelzebub himself has to make sure not to venture too closely to that section of hell, for fear of causing irreparable damage to his central nervous system. Pass the Pepsi, aloc, spike it with rum and I'll join in the HUMBUG chorus!

Oh yeah! "Frank's Tune" is my favorite song from that set, but they're all tremendous. A picture of this album cover is next to the word UNDERRATED in the dictionary.

Terry Gibbs Quartet TAKE IT FROM ME (Impulse!) Found this at Antone's yesterday; I didn't even know this album existed! Gibbs in a pianoless quartet on Impulse! I love finding little surprises like this.

No kidding! Especially since you say track 8 is neither "Riot" nor "Sorcerer," and track 9 is not Ella or Sarah! PS: I got the answers. I haven't peeked, either!