mikeweil

Here are my guesses for disc one - sorry that I'm late to the party, but my crazy working schedule that thrusts unprecedented changes on me at least twice a week makes for a common scheme with each BFT: I get the disc, play it once and enjoy it, and then don't get around to listening for another two weeks ..... the usual disclaimers apply. Track 1: Great!!! Would buy it any second. Some very proficient slap bass technique that suggests the late Milt Hinton. I'm not sure about the doorbellist - not Hamp, I'm pretty sure. Nice dry sound, sans the motor-driven vibrato. Excellent, and a great opener. ***** Track 2: The sound of the alto playing the theme suggests Arthur Blythe. Bassist does not hit the notes right in the upper register. Is this some Horace Tapscott big band? Like the baritone in the section, has a very big sound. Hamiet Bluiett? Very energetic, but I don't feel the urge to listen to that once more. Track 3: I have that one, my favourite band of that pianist. Wore out the LP and am glad that the CD box has the unedited and unissued performances. One of the rare instances where I like the sound of a bass with pickup, and what he does with that little riff although he reportedly hated to play them, is magnificent. ***** Too bad the saxist left us a few weeks ago - I love his playing in that band. Track 4: No idea who this is. That's the type of modal hard bop so popular in the 1970's. Doesn't thrill me that much any more - I have stated here that I probably listened to too much of that kind of jazz. Soemtimes I have the feeling that the pianist's comping and the saxist are not really together. That guitar comping alongside the piano is a little too much. Solos could be shorter, for my taste. Don't like the sound of the bassist. Would have liked it better with either guitar or piano. Track 5: I know that from somewhere - rather forceful flutist. Neither Rahsaan nor Steig. That's a good track, and a very good flutist with a sound and concept of his own, but I like 'em a little less forced and more fluent. Hm, electric bass .... it's on my tongue ..... arrghh! Track 6: That opening figure is from some bebop vehicle - first had me thinking "Now when does he finally get around to continue?" But then the saxists drops in and plays another bop fragment against it. Well .... I often have the problem with live recordings like this and track 4 that I find the solos too long for home listening. Just me, of course .... They all play some nice things, especially that drummer, only would have preferred a shorter version. Track 7: Accordion ..... and tenor. This has a nice vibe. And the right dash of humor. The recorded sound of the accordion is very nice. A real surprise track. Isn't that some pop tune. Nicely done - like it very much. Track 8: Back to freewheelin' stuff. After listening to the whole track I find that fade-in somwhat odd, as the drums solo makes for a big change of pace. That drummer uses a very tightly tuned piccolo snare, sounds like the special type of heads the Remo company designed for marching bands to use (Falam heads?) - and he does some very fascinating things with it, like those scraping sounds - wonder how he does that. That highly original drummer saves the track for me - he knows his funky patterns, too. Who is this? Track 9: That soprano saxist has some almost old-style swing era phrases mixed in, but the exuberance of a much later era. He sure is the leader. Curious about who he is. Track 10: Yesterdays, very original way to start that tune. They obviously know it inside out and love it. He has something like Lucky Thompson's coyness on the soprano. Now could that be Lucky? I received so many live recordings of his last year that I kind of lost track of it all. Yes that should be Lucky. What a great player he was - nobody else sounded like this on soprano. That roaring applause is appropriate. Thanks, Tom, for a very nice trip. (Edited for a typo)

Has anybody else here the impression that the piano solo was edited out on the Columbia LP pictured above?

Just ordered the last two Sonny Stitt - Don Patterson twofer CDs on Prestige that are missing in my collection: Soul People and Low Flame.

IIRC the Trip LP issue was the first of Kawaida.

I have to admit I never heard the whole LP, just one track on the radio that didn't thrill me too much. If I ever come across a copy I will give it a try.

Wasn't Pinnacle a rather more straightahead date compared to the Mwandishi band?

Out Of This World Blues In The Night Key Largo If You Could See Me Now

Well, I don't worry about Swiss future, considering the nation has survived the era of the worst German tribalists ..... p.s. using the Fast Reply feature has one disadvantage: if you don't recall the code for certain smilies, people may get you wrong ..........

Ah - Geoge Maycock! He was pretty active but had a very mixed reputation. Thanks for posting this!

How is the sound quality of the CD? Wasn't there some word of master tape problems? The LP of this has been a big favourite of mine and as you say, side 1 packs a heck of a groove. Sounds pretty much like the LP to me. No tape problems audible.

The earliest Machito I have (besides sideman recordings with the Sexteto Matamoros on the Tumbao label) is a Palladium CD PCD-116 Machito and his Afro-Cubans - 1941 1941 Machito and his Afro Cubans Featuring: Mario Baúza (tp) REFERENCE: PCD-116 PRICE: 8.80 € Tracklisting: 1. Sopa De Pichón 2. Chacumbele 3. La Rumbantela 4. Nagüe 5. Parabola Negra 6. El Muerto Se Fue De Rumba 7. Tingo Talongo 8. Yambú 9. Rascando Siempre Rascando 10. Intermezzo (Souvenir De Vienna) 11. Paella 12. Que Vengan Los Rumberos Temporarily out of stock.

This is 9o% Eddie talking about this and that, recorded before live audiences. If you dig his humor, it's mandatory. If not ........

Is it really that difficult to guess? From the Legacy set, of course - they just re-arranged the track order (in a better way, BTW, IMO!).

Very much looking forward to see the Kevin Hays Trio at Wiesbaden tonight: Kevin Hays (p), Doug Weiss (b), Bill Stewart (dm).

Why? Aren't the Swiss just another German tribe ....

I remember reading in the liner notes to some Ray Charles Atlantic reissue that people like Blakey admired Ray's band. A small step towards Horace .....

Okay here we go: Leaving this planet 7.29 - CD same Red clay 7.05 - CD same Warp factor 8 6.18 - CD same Brown eyes 12.50 - CD 11:45 Asteroid 6.51 - CD 6:40 Mason's galaxy 7.17 - CD same No me esqueca 7.41 - CD same Tyner 6.03 - CD same Van Jay 8.55 - CD 8:36 Never ending melody 9.45 - CD same

If you have the LP, please post the track timings - I will post the CD track timings for comparison!

If I were Brit, I'd want to be French, too ......

Happy Birthday to a man dedicating his powers to jazz! Many Happy Returns! :party:

You really seem to be plagued by bad Mosaic luck ..... I chose Airborne delivery as it was the same charge, and didn't pay a cent for customs.

BTW - Leon Thomas didn't record as a leader for Impulse, just as a sideman with Pharoah Sanders. His own LPs were on Flying Dutchman which now belongs to SONY/BMG, and are a mixed bag, IMO.

IIRC Gaynair was on the German scene for a while, but I'm not sure if I ever saw him perform ..... or what the band was he played in.

The tunes on those 70s sides are where most of the interest lies for me. Horace's writing kept growing & deepening. Not at all a retread of his "hit" sound, these tunes are meatier than the more famous stuff. They still got the Silver "flavor", but the forms and chords are expanded far beyond what had come before, usually. Meatier doesn't necessarily mean better, but you gotta recognize that the although the trappings might've looked "commercial", the tunes themselves were anything but! I always wonder if Wade Marcus was the ideal choice for the orchestrations (the way I see it, Horace arranged them, and Marcus just added the instrumental colors). He did a fine job, and I sure like it, but I'm still waiting for the equivalent to Silver of what Hal Overton was to Monk.

This statement makes me want to check it out, as I am growing somewhat bored with the genre. Same here, but this one sounds fresh like on the first day I heard it!