mikeweil

To regain track of my panic sales for OJCs and others during the last three months, here I go:

This rather looks like a case for research in German libraries ...

... and Trane winding up in the Sun Ra Arkestra for the rest of his life? Hell yeah ....

Happy B-Day, and a hundred more to come!

Now that's peanuts compared to the sales of rock icons, isn't it? Any other jazz record selling more than 250.000 copies? George Benson's Breezin'? Some Hancock?

In the meantime I had an opportunity to ask my new neighbours - they say it wasn't them but the guy below. Will have to inquire, I thought he was a hard rock fan. I get to talk to him every now and then.

I wish he would get himself together and return to the B3. Never liked his later synth recordings, but those 1960's and 70's organ albums are great!

I think "electric bass" denotes the Fender bass guitar, an upright with a pickup is not considered "electric" in normal jazz usage, the pickup used for amplification purposes only, although it certainly alters the sound, especially when recorded via direct imput (from the pickup into the mixing board). To be exact, it would have to be called "electro-acoustic".

I have Blues Farm - no electric bass on this, just upright with pickup. Not sure about Anything Goes, don't have it anymore - an album best forgotten ....

I'm gonna brew me some Earl Grey Tea next - the last, regrettably, of the fine brand I bought in Antwerpen.

Which brand?

Where the hell did I post that? Was that this thread? Something about a guy with muttonchop sideburns kicking back in an Eames lounger on a flokati rug, with an arco lamp, listening to "Fire and Rain" from Hubert Law's Afro Classic on reel to reel - with a litho of "Moon Germs" on the wall...

Reading the personnel, that Hancock could be a sequel to Speak Like A Child - without the religious texts and vocals, that is.

William S. Fisher - Circles (Embryo) - Billy Cobham on drums, Hugh McCracken & others on guitar. Interesting cello arrangements on some tracks. Pretty rocky.

... the last Silver Blue Note missing in my collection.

Hmm ... on some albums it's hard to tell an electric Fender bass from his upright with the darned pickup. On Power To The People heplays electric on two tracks; same with Black Is The Color, btw.

If you like any of Willie Bobo's Verve LPs, you will like this one - pretty much the same mixture. This was a party boogaloo band. Too bad - Bobo was a helluva timbale player, and the quest to have a crowd pleasing dance band lowered the level of his music. It's entertaining, but I wish he would have made some in the vein of Mongo's or Tjader's band along the way. His groove was unique, of course, and with Sonny Henry's guitar riffs, led the way for Santana.

If that record is nearly as curiosity evoking as the remainder of their catalogue .....

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3 rare Helen Merrill CDs!!! (Please correct the spelling!!!)

When I returned home today I heard trumpet sounds in the yard - new neighbours moved in in the house next to ours, a couple with three little children, the 6 year old boy made friends with me last weekend. I couldn't believe my ears: I identified Chet Baker's Riverside album with Herbie Mann and Bill Evans, It Never Entered My Mind. That would be so nice! I didn't see anybody or I would have asked, but their windows were the only ones open ..... Does anyone here happen to have jazz loving neighbours?

Capuccino made with a Gaggia machine and Saquella Bar Sud beans.

Now playing a Cal Tjader Savoy EP with Hank Jones, Al McKibbon and Kenny Clarke. I have a 1970's LP reissue of this, but the EP sounds better and is in surprisingly good condition. This isssue is missing in existing discographies - 45s are somewhat negelected.