mikeweil

I consider myself a serious jazz aficionado, and depending on my mood, there are times when I cannot endure too much "noodling". It is like playing and thinking, "do i really need that many notes?" It is part of jazz, playing licks over the chord changes or whatever. The point is whether it makes sense to the player, or to the listener, are you experimenting - that band certainly did - and so on. I think it comes down to saying you do not like or get something without making negative comments. Talking about music or anything without judging. It is hard, I know. "Noodling" can be such a negative term, unless you use quotation marks.

Well, yes, but - isn't this a jazz forum, and isn't jazz some kind of music? 😎

I couldn't, although I think I know what it is. I think of much jazz in the same way, rather often. You need a special attitude in your listening, depends on your mood as well as listening experience.

Thanks for the reminder. Very good for a Sunday morning. Always nice to hear Heath and Kay with somebdy else.

The term "orchestra" has changed a lot over the centuries, and only when musicology created standard terms in the late 19th century became associated with large ensembles as we are now used to. Originally it could determine any size ensemble. Some still use it that way. Standard sizes and instrumentation are a rather new invention, and before 1900 were defined by practical circumstances rather than musical requirements. Studying early music history taught me such things. Wikipedia is not of much help here.

Michael Ranta was Germany's leading expert as well as importer of Asian percussion - I will forever regret not buying a terrific sounding China cymbal which I tried at his stand on the Frankfurt music fair. His instruments were first class.

https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/r/renotte-pièces-de-clavecin More for harpsichord specualists like me, I guess. But the second suite here is rather charming music. Renotte was from Liège in Belgium, and his music shows more modern Italian and German influence than French. He who likes Haendel's suites will probably have a taste for this.

Horace Parlan was Kirk's regular pianist at the time. Getz and Rhyne probably sat in - as I said, Rhyne had played with Kirk when both were still unknown, before Kirk recorded his first LP for Bethlehem.

Melvin Rhyne had played with Rahsaan very early in his career, c. 1955. This must have been a happy reunion. Rhyne was in New York for a session with Wes Montgomery for Riverside. https://resonancerecords.org/product/rahsaan-roland-kirkvibrations-in-the-village-live-at-the-village-gate-cd

No exact info on date of release or content, I will pm you for contact info.

Hi all, Nils Winther of SteepleChade records is looking for some photos of Pony Poindexter for an upcoming CD release of live material. Does abybody here have any? I only have the Polaroid that is posted on the first page of my Poindexter disco. Thanks a lot!

What in the world has a Dürer self portrait to do with Bach?

The two "unreleased" Village Vanguard tracks were included in the box set from that gig a few years after. Nothing that isn't available elsewhere in more complete form, which most completists probably have. No idea about the mastering, but if it's by Hoffman, it probably sounds great.

If the Heath Brothers gets a CD reissue, I finally might get to hear that one.

Yes, that's what it's all about. And they had blues roots, too. They were Alexis Korner's rhythm section before Pentangle, he thought they were the best for Renbourn, Jansch, and McShee. All other folk bands in Britain had rockish rhythm sections that all sounded similar.

Exactly the same here. Would be nice. I just have one Hank Mobley cover on a wall above a window. Pim, how many LPs do you own?

I bought that album as soon as it was out. Saw them live when the second or third was out, neither Thompson nor Terry Cox. The jazzy groove was missing.

I definitely will check this out. Hart and Cyrille!