mikeweil

Chiming in, at last - too many things keping me busy. Didn't peek at the other guesses. 1 - Dr J - Very professional performance, clean, proficient, very good singer and band, but somehow doesn't move me. 2 - Dan Gould - evokes a similar reaction as the previous track. Very clean and competent, excellent soloists, but doesn't move me. I think it would have sounded better with an acoustic bass and recorded in a good natural acoustics. The strudio sound is a big part of the cleanliness. But I would like to hear more of that band. 3 - JSngry - Very nice. I love that old fashioned stompy swing feel. When I read who that tenor is I probably will exclaim "of course!". Is that Roy Eldridge? I can listen to that kind of stuff for hours! 4 - Felser - I dunno. We all love Trane's and Tyner's innovations, but again this lacks the emotional power , at least to my ears, that the 1960's modal music had. 5 - mjzee - Reminds me of Basie, the new testament band. I would take my wife to a concert of that band, if it still existed. 196O's? Three minutes is all you need to say what you have to say. 6 - medjuck - nice calypso groove, it looses a bit of impact whenever they switch to swing in the B section and the percussionists lays out. Pianist phrases too sloppily. They should have given they percussionists a chorus. Strange ending. 7 - tkeith - now that's the most insteresting track to me, so far, catches my attention with its mix of early jazz and Carribean styles. I like the natural balance of the recording, too. Who is this? The trombonist quotes from some Joao Donato recording. Very nice! More tomorrow.

Percy Heath and Connie Kay - whenever they were hired as a team it was special, e.g. by Michel Sardaby. I second the praise of the Boland-Woode-Clarke team. And Byard-Davis-Dawson, of course.

https://www.discogs.com/release/5265269-Bernie-Worrell-Elevation-The-Upper-Air

Thanks! I totally forgot about that! I almost fell into Aliki Ashman's cleavage - that was my type back then. No more need to buy a DVD or CD now, me thinks ... 😉

I remember watching it on tv back then. I would consider a DVD, but just the music? I want to see this again! Watching the singers raised a 16 year old's hormone levels.

It was a birthday present from a friend who works at the German publisher of Vasks' works. Definitely worth a listen - partly calm, partly energetic, but never hyperactive, the music takes its time to develop, is never bland. He has a style of his own. The CD, btw, plays a few seconds over 80 minutes!

Sometimes it's just sloppiness when filling out the data sheets accompanying a tape box, especially when it's done after the fact. While researching Cal Tjader, S. Duncan Reid was lucky to find out there was a Tjader fan among Californian journalists who announced upcoming concerts and/or reviewed them. The dates in the Fantasy archives often were a week off. Sometimes dates in the album credits had the wrong days of festival appearances. I'd rather not muse about studio recordings involving overdubs over a lengthy time period. How do you date these?

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That one convinces me. Just found a nicely priced copy and ordered it.

It's hard for me to imagine some of your examples without the meoldy they are sung to. So I would say it depends. I know a lot of excellent poetry that could not be sung. In classical music, composers chose the song lyrics according to their potential as songs. But these were not written with that in mind, which may be the main distinction to song/sung lyrics.

I wonder what Erroll thought about this cover .....

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Count me in!

I will find the time to listen only tomorrow - I won't peek.

Where did you get this? Me want! Seeing that Monterey performance on TV was a key moment in my musical lfe! No copies for sale on discogs.

Agreed. It was so nice to have a series of CDs which heavily featured percussionists.

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