mikeweil

Some expert told me it had to do with voltage fluctuations, which cause considerable stress on the filaments. Of course their gauge is another factor - thicker filaments will withstand wider fluctuations. How about energy saving bulbs? They are growing more and more popular over here, and thus are being a lot cheaper than when they were introduced. They last several years and save much more on electricity cost than the higher investment. This here has a life span of 10.000 hours. (link)

Brian Auger's albums with or without Julie Driscoll have all been reissued on CD by Sanctuary - they are all interesting enough. Georgie Fame's early albums have enough jazz content for me, they have a nice groove, and he has a very pleasant jazzy voice. Once saw a guy Alan Haven on TV, I think he was leaning more towards MOR entertainment but did some interesting things with a glockenspiel. Eddie Hardin, anyone? I regret Hardin & York never did a simple duo live album - they were killin' as a duo!

..... but most will probably suggest something like this: The drum stool is too far on the left, of course.

You will get as many answers as there are drummers ...

I have three more or less wrecked tape decks (all very cheap or gifts by upgrading firends), and one late 1960's Teleton receiver that needs some fuse and one microchip replaced - I won't dispense it as it has a unique feature - you can seamlessly blend from stereo to mono - wish my current amp had that. Gave a pair of speakers to a friend who saw his speaker cones turning into black dust ...

Happy Birthday to one of the great organ trio guitarists!!!

Just ordered a copy ...

I'm with you here - unfortunately I neither have the time nor the facilities to do so. I will have to make my way to the Darmstadt Jazz Institute this summer ... Until then, I'll try to locate a copy of the Brew Moore disco some Dane has written a while ago. The location for Dues Blues is mentioned in the LP liner notes, but not the date. Trombonist Bob Collins is mentioned as well to have participated. That rhythm section personnel (and the sound) matches that of Tjader's Journey's End on the Jazz Confidential LP - maybe they are from the same concert?

Thanks a lot, Mike, but I can't help but wondering where both got this exact date for "Journey's End" (which is not identical, as I said, to any other Tjader quartet recording) - doesn't Bruyninckx place "Dues Blues" from a Brew Moore Fantasy LP at that same session?

Welcome to the Organissimo Institute of Jazz Studies - I really love this place here!

I think the MJQ was the first jazz recording I listened to real close, Percy's bass solo on La Ronde (the European Concert version) was the first jazz bass solo I was exposed too, and I still remember (and have) the first jazz musician photo where I saw deep expression in the music, showing Percy Heath. So you see how deeply connected I feel to him. A sweating player, almost in trance, was seen on that photo. I had heard elegant MJQ before - what a contrast, but what an introduction to the wide span jazz covers! Thanks, Percy, and RIP ..... This is a tough week - three great jazz bassists passing, and two of them meant an awful lot to me

My edition of Bruyninckx says November 5, 1957, San Francisco. I'd be willing to bet that this track can also be traced to Fantasy, but somebody's gotta sit down and compare tracks, and I just don't have the energy. I compared this to all other Tjader quartet tracks on Fantasy - not identical to any other. Is that the latest edition of Bryuninckx you have? I can't afford the update right now. In my older edition he links this to a Brew Moore track with Tjader, "Dues Blues"" on Fantasy 3-264. Sound and style etc. would fit into the scheme.

Gary Foster, that is.

Yes, even when I use the occasional misspelling "Schrieber" the Bola Sete session is the only other music turing up. Too bad - a fine bassist. There are used copies of that Tjader Blackhawk LP around - they deserve attention.

That the majority does so is not an argument that this is the better way to do it - it is only the more common way. There are many more ways to phrase things than by swinging - but these are not as "groovy" and thus not as popular or as accessible. Fritz Hauser played very sparingly and "unswinging" in Franz Koglmann's group (on HartArt) and reveived similar criticism. But Koglmann thinks this concept of conventional swinging is out of date. It is your listening habits that make you think a drummer is an accompanist. Can you imagine a pianist accompanying a drummer? Just a solo for the drummer - that's highly conservative.

Since we're talking about those Crown LPs: Bruyninckx mentions "Jazz Latino" by a Tjader group on Crown CLP 5288 - do you have any more info on that? One guy who offered this on ebay says it is a lengthy 12 minute track.

Thanks a lot - Jackie McLean came into my mind, too. Bruyninckx has "Concert, University of California, Los Angeles, California, early 1958" for the Tjader track - is that info from you, Jack?

Not insane - he just gives in what other drummers do not. If a drummer overplays, but stays in time, we just don't notice as much. I think most drummers are selfish and play too much instead of intelligently and carefully selecting their strokes. But if they stay in time we don't find it as distrubing. Motian chooses to play in his own phrasing - three-way improvisation, that's what the Bill Evans trio with him and Scott LaFaro did. In his way, he was as revolutionary as Elvin or Sunny Murray or Tony Williams. I understand it sounds edgier than those. As Ralph Peterson once stated in a down beat Blindfold Test: "Motian is always interesting, although his swing is not to my taste." I second that remark.

Forgot to mention: Schreiber is on part of one of Tjader's last Fantasy LPs before the switch to Verve, too: Fantasy 8068 - Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings

I have four Cal Tjader albums he plays on: Verve V6-8459 - Saturday Night, Sunday Night At The Blackhawk Verve V6-8470 - Cal Tjader Plays The Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil Verve V6-8472 - Anita O'Day & Cal Tjader - Time For Two Verve V6-8531 - Soña Libré A bassist with a beautiful instrument - a 1795 Joseph Klotz double bass that he sold almost everything he had for, including his car - great time, big tone, swing - especially the Blackhawk disc shows what an excellent player he was. Does anybody here know any other sessions he is on, or what he did before or after his time with the Tjader band (he stated he'd play with Cal rather than anybody else)? Thanks !

Just finished: Stevie Wonder, Music of my mind Now Playing: Traffic, John Barleycorn must die

This LP is a compilation, and could anybody provide me with info on the titles marked * - thanks as always: Side One: 1. Crazy Time (Dave Brubeck) 2. Blue Lou (Wardell Gray) 3. Cold Night * 4. Big Boy * Side Two: 1. Journey's End (Cal Tjader) 2. Groovin' High * 3. Wash Out * The LP cover just names all (?) musicians on the front cover without attributing specific titles. Recording dates on the unmarked tracks would also be appreciated.

This morning I recieved Cal Tjader's 2nd LP for Verve, recorded live at the Blackhawk, and it's some of the best Cal I have ever heard, and certainly his best jazz session. A shame this has not been reissued.

Take the consumer's vote: If you think two discs is one too many, ask to be sent only the first or sit one out. (Some do that already, depending on their listening time available.)