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World Saxophone Quartet - Live in Zurich (Black Saint)

Happy Birthday, 2014, Paul! At this rate, I'll never catch up to you.

Coltrane - Soutrane, from The Prestige Recordings

Anthony Braxton - In the Tradition (Inner City)

Somebody (leeway, I think) posted that they were listening to Lumps by Steve Lacy yesterday, and I had a fit of jealousy, since I've been looking for an affordable copy for years. I decided that the only way I would ever hear this album would be to find a bootleg download. While searching, I saw to my surprise that it's available as a legal download, and it's cheap - less than five bucks at Amazon. The album is listed as by "Instant Composers Pool," although the individual tracks are under Lacy's name. Steve Lacy - Lumps

I'm assuming that the Kodaly piece is the Sonata for Solo Cello, op. 8. It's a cool piece of music.

Record/CD filing systems (or lack thereof) can be idiosyncratic. I've got a few things that could go under "Q," but which I file elsewhere - like The Quintet, which I put with Charlie Parker, for whatever reason. And more folks need Snoozer Quinn in their lives. I should start a thread.

Jim Robinson (Smoky Mary). This fine 1976 album is Big Jim's last. I bought it in Preservation Hall last month. I was tickled to once again see vinyl for sale at the Hall (new and vintage); on my first visit (in 1990), I bought The December Band, Volume 2 and Kid Howard's Sam Morgan Revisited there, and felt like the records were as legendary as the venue itself. And I know that those titles won't mean much to most folks here, but they're among the best New Orleans-style recordings of the 1960s.

McCoy Tyner - Cosmos (BN)

Sounds like The Intro & the Outro by the Bonzo Dog DooDah Band... That's it.

Mousey Alexander Beaver Harris Squirrel Ashcraft

I've looked at Wardell Quezergue CDs every time I've visited New Orleans. The credits and tune selections have never been such that I felt inspired to pull the trigger on any of them. Possibly my loss. Same as you on Gene Quill.

Ooh - I need some Quartet Out! They got 'em a pretty good tenor player. Find them CDs and send me a PM, Sangrey.

A thoroughly unimportant question, which occurred to me as I was filing away this recently acquired CD: What in the "Q" section of your record/CD shelves? For me, not much: Ike Quebec Snoozer Quinn Paul Quinichette Quibco U'Nite (a 2-LP free jazz jam including Daniel Carter, Perry Robinson, and Arthur Doyle, among others). So what y'all got under "Q?"

Complete Argo / Mercury Art Farmer / Benny Golson / Jazztet Sessions; Meet the Jazztet and The Jazztet & John Lewis. This is one of my least-played Mosaics, but tonight I'm not sure why - as I was looking through the booklet to decide which sessions to spin, it seemed to have an embarrassment of riches.

George Adams/Don Pullen - Don't Lose Control (Soul Note)

Composition 19 (For 100 Tubas) was written in 1971. It has been recorded and is available for download on Braxton's site. Among the tubists on the recording is at least one who has been mentioned here, Jose Davila, and those interested in contemporary jazz are likely to have heard of several of the other players. The piece is kind of a mess, in my opinion, but it's an interesting mess. Later: Looking at the personnel list again, I see that Joe Daley is there as well.

I've been avoiding these kinds of threads, because they turn into a list of every .... player who has ever recorded. But this is a case in which my favorite tuba is unlikely to be mentioned by anyone else. Matt Perrine, the busiest tuba player in New Orleans (for good reason), is more associated with the city's traditional jazz movement and with brass band funk than "mainstream" jazz, but he's excellent at everything he plays. (He's a very good string bassist, as well). His best album is probably Sunflower City - his website describes it as blending traditional jazz and calypso, but there's a lot more than that there. And the cover photo is touching, but only if you look carefully. I tried to find a YouTube clip that shows off what he can do. This is ten minutes of the Tin Men, one of the many bands of which he's a member. Matt plays one of his amazing solos at 4:45. (By the way, genial cover songs sung by Washboard Chaz are only part of what the band does, although that's the only part of their repertoire represented here.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqB88W7cXpw

Happy Birthday, Brownie! You are one of the jewels in our crown.

Haven't done a BFT for awhile; I'm ready to jump back in.

Mississippi Fred McDowell and harmonica player Johnny Woods. They are almost telepathic in their responses to each other.

Pee Wee Russell Plays (Dot stereo). An all Pee Wee-composed program, with Buck Clayton, Vic Dickenson, and Bud Freeman as the other horns.

I found the 1984 Jazz LP True Fun by Liz Gorrill, Lenny Popkin, and Eddie Gomez in an Atlanta record store today. It has apparently never come out on CD. I talk about it

Liz Gorrill/Lenny Popkin/Eddie Gomez - True Fun (Jazz). I found this 1984 LP today. It's on the label dedicated to Lennie Tristano and his followers, discussed recently I'm really glad I picked this up - it's Tristano-influenced, but goes pretty far afield. Popkin's "True Fun," based on "There Will Never Be Another You," and parts of Tristano's "Lennie's Pennies" sound the most Tristano-ish, but Gorrill's "Astral Projection" is a modal vamp tune, and the three-part "Suite for Vincent" is apparently totally improvised by the trio. Gorrill is more aggressive and hard-edged than Lennie, and even plays the first head of "Lennie's Pennies" as a boogie-woogie(!). A little poking around the internet reveals that Gorrill later had a health crisis, followed by a spiritual experience, and is now known as Kazzrie Jaxen. The quality of True Fun is so high that I just might set aside my aversion to new-age spirituality and check out some of Jaxen's music.

I find that whole idea oddly intriguing and tempting. I don't know why but maybe because it harks back to early childhood music/book packages, some great tunes and combuines that with a cottage-industry/craftsman, self production ethos. I'd love to hear and see one in the flesh Do you know this: Brilliant (though high production) set of completely varied Disney interpretations. Imagine the Disney songbook up to the late 60s played by the houseband on Pinocchio's Pleasure Island. A rather disturbing listen. No I don't but I'll look it up. There's the Sun Ra Disney on Leo Records too The Tom Waits version of "Heigh-Ho" on Stay Awake is very cool, and is one of my wife's favorite recordings. Yes, Jamison Williams' Disney efforts have an appealing, do-it-yourself quality to them. And the covers all have Disney illustrations which have been disturbingly altered, as in the cover above, which features Snow White scrubbing a blood-stained Dopey.