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Sun Ra - The Soul Vibrations of Man (Saturn)

Booker Ervin - The In Between (Blue Note). A fine album, and Bobby Few's recording debut.

Not to get over-dramatic, but one arco bass solo changed my life by opening my eyes to the wider possibilities of music. When I was 12, my sweet mom gave me Budd Johnson's Argo album Ya! Ya! for Christmas, since I had just taken up the saxophone. She wasn't that hip - she just found it in the cutout racks and picked it up because it had a picture of Budd with his horn on the cover. George Duvivier plays on half of the record and Richard Davis on the other half. On a tune called "Exotique," Davis plays a remarkable bowed solo - very avant-garde for 1964, especially in this straight-ahead context. It's mostly double-stopped, full of quarter tones and other dissonances; it's just amazing. I liked it right away - my reaction was something like, "Oh - you can do that!" That was my first jazz album, so it changed my life in that way, but it was RD's arco solo that really opened my eyes.

Karl Berger - Tune In (Milestone)

I'll take a download.

Tony Scott - 52nd Street Scene (Coral stereo). Scott, Pee Wee Russell, Bean, Red Rodney, J.C. Higginbotham, Jimmy Knepper, Tommy Flanagan, George Wallington, O. Pettiford, Roy Haynes, etc. Just beautiful!

Coltrane Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings - disc 4

Have a great one!

Slick CTI production and possibly inappropriate drummer notwithstanding, I've always had a weakness for the album. Glad to see that someone else likes it. Very slick but nice. Like you I've never taken to Gadd's rather stiff drumming. Better here than elsewhere maybe? I agree. Not an expert on S. Gadd, but I like his playing here more than about anything I've heard.

Slick CTI production and possibly inappropriate drummer notwithstanding, I've always had a weakness for the album. Glad to see that someone else likes it.

Cool!

Yes - the RLR (unfortunately) Monk CD The Last Concerts has two sets from the Vanguard by that quartet. The sound is decent bootleg quality. I think the music is pretty good.

This afternoon I cleaned and played some R & B records from my recent purchase: Roy Milton on Juke Box and Specialty Chuck Willis on Okeh Joe Liggins on Specialty Fats Domino on Imperial Good stuff, especially Roy & Fats.

Alec Wilder Octet - 10" Columbia LP

For the couple of people who wanted to know - Atlanta's 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra will be playing: This Saturday, November 21 at around 10:00 - Highland Inn Ballroom (CD release party!) Saturday, December 12 (9:00-ish) at Kavarna in the oh-so-trendy Oakhurst neighborhood Sunday, December 20 starting at 3:00 PM at Eyedrum Gallery - part of a memorial concert for artist/filmaker Thomas Peake. There is a rumor that this will include a second-line parade from Oakland Cemetery. If so, I'll be squealing some New Orleans-style clarinet.

Listening to Agendacide right now. You peoples is crazy....

One local record store has been selling 78s - they have several boxes of "primo" discs as well as stacks of uncleaned, mostly junk records they sell for almost nothing. I finally got the time to spend an hour and half looking through them all, and walked out with about 40 discs. The best so far: The Gulf Coast Seven - Fade Away Blues/Daybreak Blues (Columbia). This 1923 recording is fabulous! Trumpeter Gus Aiken, from Charleston, makes this record, but Garvin Bushell is also good. George Lewis - Mama Don't Allow/Willie the Weeper (Good Time Jazz). I have this on CD, but always thought the sound was kind of metallic. This near-mint 78 is nice and warm. George Brunis - Sweet Lovin' Man/Wang Wang Blues (Commodore). Wild Bill Davidson and Tony Parenti sound good on this. Ted Heath - So Easy/With a Song in My Heart (London). The first side is a very nice Tadd Dameron chart. Golden Gate Quartet - Bedside of a Neighbor/Found a Wonderful Saviour (Bluebird) Rev. B. C. Campbell and Congregation - Jesus Was Great/Let Me Go Back (Apollo). A sermon backed with a song. Cool! Big Bill Broonzy - Let Me Be Your Winder/Louise Louise Blues (Conqueror). Played almost to death, but still very cool. It has the original Conqueror sleeve. Big Bill Broonzy - I Feel So Good/Tell Me Baby (Columbia). In good condition for a blues record. I also got more jazz, R & B, and a few old-time country records. I'm in for a fun week.

A little later - Jelly Roll Morton's Library of Congress set on Rounder - discs 4 & 5, including Jelly's wonderfully dirty version of "Make a Pallet on Your Floor."

The "Kirk in Copenhagen" session from the Roland Kirk Mercury box set. I'm trying to come down after a gig, and I'm not sure why I picked this. It's fabulous, but maybe I would be better served by some Paul Desmond right now. But Kirk and Tete Montoliu sure sound good!

I have the Henderson track on a double CD which I'm sure is now out of print - Ridin' in Rhythm on DRG. If you can find it, it's got some great stuff - Ellington, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Henderson. You'll have to get up pretty early in the morning to stump me on James Booker. I got the Lost Paramount CD at the Louisiana Music Factory on Decatur St. Thanks for sending me to the head of the class. I enjoyed this BFT - thanks for putting it together.

Put me down on the "thumbs up" side of the ledger for the Lacy/Potts combination. I like the contrast, like Miles and Trane. As far as Potts without Lacy, I also have a French album by blues harmonica player Sugar Blue that Potts plays on.

I should have gotten the Abrams/Monk piece - I've loved those CDs for years, just forgot about this solo piece.

I've tried my best to avoid reading anything else in this thread until I had listened to part 2, but it was tough - it kept showing up when I clicked "view new posts." I did glance at enough to see that someone has identified the Skatallites track, but I managed to restrain myself otherwise. Here's part 2 for me: 1. George Russell – “Living Time, Event V” from the New York Big Band album. I love Russell, but this album is not one of my favorites. Stanley Cowell is the pianist. Interesting piece – the best part is the amazing out-of-tempo opening section. But George had some tricks up his sleeve. Just when you start thinking that the piece had gotten too conventional, he builds up to all that wild trumpet stuff. Pretty cool. 2. My favorite cut from Hi-Bop Ska by the Skatallites with guest David Murray – “Flowers for Albert.” Love the Skatallites, and this tune fits them well. I’ve heard Murray play this tune solo and with the Octet – it can be joyous or elegiac. 3. Good musicians and nice enough piece, but nothing I need to hear again. The composition has vaguely Corean overtones, but I don’t know who it is. 4. “Ghost of a Chance” by some really nice swing-era piano player – maybe Teddy Wilson, although the touch seems a little heavy for him. I’m amazed at how the touch and timing of the ascending runs (like at the end) sounds like Thelonious Monk when he did similar licks. This is excellent music. 5. Another really good track that I don’t know. Good solos and group interaction, and the clarinetist is masterful – Don Byron, maybe. I’m guessing it’s the pianist’s date, since he gets the lion’s share of solo space. Like I say, I don’t know who it is, but this is really good. 6. “Reincarnation of a Lovebird” played by – I don’t really know. Sounds like Bill Frisell on guitar, but then again, he spawned lots of imitators. This is an unusual interpretation - really beautiful, although I’m not sure about the eccentric stuff near the end. 7. Cool stuff – I like the middle Eastern influence. I do think it goes on a little long, even with the changes that occur. And once again, I have no idea who it is. Another excellent clarinetist. 8. I’m not familiar enough with this kind of stuff to even venture a guess. It’s very well-done and enjoyable, though. 9. This drove me crazy! I knew it was something I was familiar with – probably in my collection - and I recognized Fletcher Henderson’s band and the soloists: Dickie Wells, Red Allen, Coleman Hawkins, and Buster Bailey (I thought), but I couldn’t remember what the tune was. Then I remembered that odd session the Henderson band recorded under brother Horace Henderson’s name for a British label and pulled out the CD. Yep, it’s “Minnie the Moocher’s Wedding Day.” Pretty good little early swing tune. And I see that I was wrong about the clarinetist. I hate the fake stereo mastering on the issue you used, the CD I have sounds much better. 10. Pretty good tenor player in what is, in my opinion, a pretty silly context. 11. Somber and excellent. I heard a little of “Summertime” in there. No ideas as to who it could be. 12. The great James Booker from The Lost Paramount Tapes. Booker is one of my heroes , and one of the few R & B musicians I would classify as a genius. There are times, like near the end of this track, where it sounds like he has three hands, at least. Among the other pleasures of this cut is Jessie Hill’s two-tambourine style – funky, funky, funky. I regret that I didn’t visit New Orleans for the first time until after Booker was dead. I prefer Booker solo, but this is still great. Thanks! 13. This is the Coolbone Brass Band from the Brass-Hop album. Ironically, it’s way less funky than if they had just used a second-line street beat. Almost any NOLA brass band is worth hearing, but this ain’t my favorite. The Rebirth or the L’il Rascals playing “Saints” would eat these guys up. 14. More bourbon in the eggnog, please. Whew! Let me go back and read the rest of the thread, now.

Glad you're doing better.

Speaking of Rova.... How about two tributes to my hero, Steve Lacy: Rova Saxophone Quartet - Favorite Street Mats Gustafsson - Windows. Lacy wrote the liner notes to this, and he sounded amused, impressed, and touched.