mikeweil

And the brand of the bottle you pull is a surprise?

Up for Mr. Bassman, who got curious after telling him about this thread I started. Any updates, gentlemen?

Don't know anything about his motivation, but find it a fascinating career development. If you have his Mosaic set covering the Capitol and Atlantic sessions, you can follow the transition very clearly. I'd say just a great, exploratory spirit who moved on, and following on this path is very rewarding. His way to free style playing was totally different to that of Trane, Taylor, or Ornette, and just as valid.

I like the SACD's sound (which I bought on tjobbe's recommendation) a lot and, contrary to most on the Steve Hofmann Forum, think it improves a lot over the previous CD - but those bonus tracks are tempting. Let's see if Universal Europe makes this available in time.

Mine is on the left ear, like a high frequency sinus wave. Too many agogo bells when traning a samba band many years ago. Now I use earplugs whenever appropriate. It gets worse when I can't catch enough sleep, but fortunately it never bothers me enough to keep me from falling asleep.

A real good bass player, and, yes, taken for granted. RIP and thanks for the music.

My father (born 1907) was 47 when I was born and never intently listened to any kind of music! But he confessed that he liked Louis Armtrong as he did play a little cornet in a brass band in his youth. My mother (born 1919) had the radio playin' all day, mostly classical music - and she put on records with Beethoven and Schubert symphonies, which I all knew by heart when I started developping my own tastes and began to appreciate only when I found a new approach to them when played on period instruments. She played a little piano, had to abandon her wish to become a dancer when WWII hit the world ..... woefully restricted her musical asctivities to that of a housewife tinling Xmas tunes .... Now my brother (born 1941, 13 years older than me) loved rock'n'roll and always turned the radio's knob for AFN - when he moved out with his wife they left over a handful of records, mostly Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and the like, but there was a Vogue EP by a Lionel hampton Trio which I found strange, and a Metronome EP with the Modern Jazz Quartet's first Prestige session (Vendome etc.) which fascinated me - the subtlety as opposed to the highly emotionalized rock by hendrix and Joplin which was the hits of the day. When I started buying singles it was all pop, but when I switched to LPs it was three rock albums (Paul Revere & The Raiders, Cream, Pink Floyd's first) and then all jazz, well almost ....

Mike, Is this a good album? Guy I find it hard to call any album "good" or "bad" as it's all a matter of taste, beyond obvious technical/musical incompetence. Palmer is pretty much a free form organist, using just simple, often nutty heads, and then wailing. I like his style,as he takes some chances that others won't, but if you expect impro over chord changes, he might be the wrong man for you. Check out any sound sample for an impression of his style; Blythe is Blythe, playing somewhat more blues drenched with Palmer than elsewhere (there is another CD with Blythe on Audioquest); Ali plays more "time" than, say, with Trane, but is much looser than most drummers in organ combos and very interactive; John Abercrombie is the fourth man, whom I like very much with Palmer: he is on most of his albums and more daring here than usual. I find Palmer is a rare example of a B3 player engaging in free style improvisation, that's why I find him interesting, and I personally like his humour etc. It's not a free jazz record, but certainly more "free" than your average Hammond record.

If the land was indeed reissued on Water, could someone please post a link to that? Seems I lost my bookmarks for Water .... thanks!

Back to the Land ..... could it be this was intended for release on another label and just issued on Blue Note by Cuscuna as that label or rather the Classics series was the only outlet for jazz vault issues in the Capitol EMI label group at the time? If so, what label could that be? I can see why Cuscuna doesn't view this as a Blue Note session, but so many albums originally released on other (and West Coast) labels have been reissued on Blue Note ..... seems he gets pickier with age.

I know - that's why I said "a hint" .... I mentioned this because it's a rare opportunity to hear Ali with organ.

Well, the Turrentime was one of the last batch, IIRC, which had a blue frame, whereas the earlier ones had that paper bag look. The ones I remember: McCoy Tyner - Cosmos (part was on the Asante CD, all will be on the Mosaic Select) Sam Rivers - Involution (the quartet session led by Andrew Hill was in his Mosaic, the other session was on a single CD and Rivers' Mosaic) Andrew Hill - One For One (one half was in the Mosaic and was just reissued as Pax, the other is in the Mosaic Select) Wasn't there a list somewhere or was thsi discussed here on on the old BNBB? I remember mopre twofers by Freddie Hubbard, Randy Weston, Stanley Turrentine, Jackie McLean ...

R.I.P., and "Thanks For The Memories" (the opening track from her Verve album with Cla Tjader, which forever implanted her voice in my inner ear).

Not ugly, but unimaginative in the sense that they were not really jazz related - a small photo insert of the leader would have been sufficient.

There's a Jeff Palmer CD on Soul Note with Arthur Blythe and Rashied Ali that might give a hint at what we missed .....

Getting back to topic and continuing the vibes talk: I recently purchased Leucasia (released on Mike Mainieri's New York label - and he plays on it as well) - one of the most beautiful folk/jazz encounters I have heard!

I'm pretty sure I don't need this ....

Mouse Gestures - Firefox add-on So someone finally got the message ..... but judging from the site you linked, there seem to be some problems. With Opera they work perfectly.

There's one thing in Opera that I don't want to miss any more that no other browser can do: Mouse gestures. Navigate with movements of the mouse: Very cool!!!

That session is one of the worst examples for binaural recordings ever: piano on one channel, the rest of the band on the other! The latest CD reissue remedied this, fortunately. I would love to have reissues of those early RVG sessions, no matter for what label,and Atlantics in mono - they should sound great. OTOH there were some 1954 (!) stereo recordings by Cal Tjader for Fantasy that sound terrific and have a perfect soundstage.

We had this in one of our first listening-evenings.... Well... it is a hommage to an instrument.... and the title of this tune states this perfect... now... guess or search So it's got to be the "Old Resin Bass Fiddle Four" doing "No Dogs Allowed" .........

James Moody, Last Train From Overbrook (2 versions on Argo or Prestige)

What a surprise - Gil arranged quite a number of older tunes for his own orchestra, but not this one.

The pronounciation and what it implies probably was the reason for that first version to stay unreleased. Slim Gaillard stated they first called the tune Flat Foot Floossie - a Floossie is a whore - but the record company wouldn't have nothing of this, so they changed it into Flat Foot Floogie - and ever since everybody wonders what the hell it means .....

I am deeply impressed, never thought that someone will catch this one that quick ! It is one of these Klaus König discs, but it is the only one, that i possess. As there is still a lot of time and some people haven't got their packages yet, I will not unveil, which one, so they can try.... I told you Nate was an ace at these things!