mikeweil

Anyone remember the hot discussion when a track from what could be taken as Harry Allen's Stan Getz tribute was included in a Blindfold Test? IMHO this album shows a thorough knowledge of Brazilian music, deeper than Getz' when he recorded his first bossa nova albums (as great as he was), and indeed shows an inventive approach. When I remind myself how many saxists copy John Coltrane or Joe Henderson or Ernie Watts or Michael Brecker licks, I can't blame him. He does it well. I saw Scott Hamilton live last year and was disappointed, one lame quote from older players after the next, without any trace of the fire of the originals. On that Allen CD pictured, I hear a lot of fire. There's room for many ways of playing jazz

... darned typos ... at least, a funny one, and typically Germon ...

Up - how's the Patterson session? Maybe if it is still around by the time I get my tax refund ...

That Don Swan always featured nice cover(girl)s ...

Bruce played acoustic on Things We Like and some other albums recorded during his cream years (Graham Bond? or Dick Heckstall-Smith?) - I always thought he was one of the most versatile and substantial Britisch musicians of his generation. Check out the independence between his singing and his bass lines on the Cream recordings - incredible!

I have Ron Horton's CD - Jane Ira Bloom is on it. excellent album.

Who are the players of The Jazz Five? Thanks in advance ...

Very well said, ep1str0phy - if I had the funds, I'd sure order some. Many are called, but few are chose, and those are tested to their limits. There is a need for people sticking to their values and convictions in these crazy times.

Some samples of his work can be heard on the website of the Swedisch label BIBA records.

Swedish alto saxophone player Lasse Hörnfeldt has passed. He was 71 years of age. He came to my attention when singer Carla White recorded a track with the duo he had with guitarist Jonny Johansson - but I have no confirmation that it was actually issued. Obituary

I wonder if Italy would have won without their killer player Balotelli .... congrats to them, anyway. I now wish them the best for the final.

Up again ....

Where, and when???

So this is Burchard ... never heard him play vibes, I must admit, though I am pretty familiar with that band. Playing with Waldon must have been their jazziest time. Hampel I didn't consider for a second. I remember some other vibes player saying about Hampel that he was not a vibes player but someone tinkling around a set of vibes ... jazz players were almost as unforgiving about Burchards at that time. I never got to hear that recording back then - I'm sorry for that now. Bailey is one of the most underrated drummers of all time! I always wondered what that album sounded like - went straight to my wish list! Michael White ... I must have this lying around in some form here ... a long time since I listened to it. Great pioneering band. It's not intonation problems but his attempt to play softly, which results in afragile tone like this when you are playing on steel strings without or with little vibrato, as he does here. That slow, wide vibrato is unusual, but sound very much in control to these ears. Intonation on violin functions totally different from that on reeds or brass. A pianist friend of mine back then raved about The Sun And The Moon Come Togther!

Sorry I'm again so late to the party ... Let me just say that I enjoyed this compilation, but didn't recognize anybody. When listening through it all once more just now I read through Big Al's comments and found it funny that I feel just the opposite about some of the tracks, like the soprano on # 5 which I find very nice, or the violin on # 11 - I really dig the sensitivity of his tone, almost fragile, which is hard to do on steel strings. Walt Dickerson would be my guess for the vibes player on # 7, the short-wave vibrato is his, although I never heard a live recording - taking that into account, it could show the more more energetic side if Dickerson. That drummer on # 13 annoys me - playing so much he has almost nothing left to intensify when it's his solo turn. Well, each to his own taste. Thank you so much for that selection - I'm really curious about the answers now! Trombonist on # 4 plays quite a lot of phrases that Priester uses, but the tone tells it must be someone else.

On vinyl, yes - but for the first of the CD releases of these sessions on Blue Note Michael Cuscuna already kept the sessions intact. I always thought they sounded great in session order.

I, too, was disappointed by last night's match - problem is, methinks, that all teams developped their defense to a degree that almost inhibits any more playful attacks. They are all afraid of getting the first hit and being unable to get through the other team's defense. Germany so far ist theonly team to win all their games - I cross my fingers for them, since they were so consistent and Löw managed to make a real team out of them, taming all their egos - that's what the others don't do as well. Looking forward to tonight's game!

Played the first two discs of the Gerald Wilson Pacific Jazz set this morning - power and relaxation at its best!

IIRC all of them have been added to the first Impulse reissues of the sessions at which they were recorded. Never heard of a CD reissue of these three CDs as compiled back then ... If they really do not add them in the recent reissues, that's a shame. The playing time of these LPs is so short ...

How's the session with Don Patterson? That's the one I'm the most curious about. Bad thing is, I simply do not have the funds right now ...

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That would be a reason to buy this - I sold my LP before getting the CD and was disappointed by the remix.

Download link for me, please - and I promise this time I will be back on guessing.