mikeweil

Amazing how tastes differ - I wish I could have heard the Mwandishi band live - I find this the most exciting thing he ever did. Maybe they had a bad day. Mwandishi is Kiswahili and means composer. IIRC this came up when a number of musicians looked for some pan-African cultural heritage in the 1960's - even the Temptations recorded a single with a Kiswahili title - Umwenga za ulimwengu (unite the world), or Ramsey Lewis (Upendo ni pamoja - love is togetherness). Kiswahili is rather easy to learn, but it didn't catch on, and practically all except Mtume dropped these names; here are some I remember: Mtume - priest - James Forman Mwandishi - composer - Herbie Hancock Mwile - body - Bennie Maupin Pepo Mtoto - child's spirit - Julian Priester Mganga - native doctor - Eddie Henderson Mchezaji - player - Buster Williams Jabali - rocky prominence - Billy Hart Tayari - readiness - Jimmy Heath Msafari - traveller - Don Cherry Fundi - craftsman - Billy Bonner Kuumba - ? - Albert Heath Kuumba's rare Trip LP Kawaida (cultural heritage), his other on Muse (Kwanza - "first") and Mtume's live double on Strata East "Alkebu-Lan" (land of the Blacks) were full of Kiswahili titles and all, the latter had Mtume reciting a prayer in this language.

I'm located at 8°26 East and 50°01 North, close to where the river Main flows in the Rhine - central Germany, that is. How about an amendment of the board software automatically placing a pin on a world map whenever a new member registers?

It is 16% - do you want to say there is no VAT in Switzerland?

I found Choices somewhat disappointing, only on one track they are heard together. How about the other disc - more tracks together?

I have to correct myself as far as that Baby Laurence Lp is concerned: Only side one is included on that Black & Blue CD, and the LP was on Classic Jazz, not Master Jazz. The other dancers featured on the CD are Jimmy Slyde, Chuck Green, and Bunny Briggs, and was obviously pulled from 3 different LPs from 1974, 1978 and 1979 on the Black and Blue label. All of them are hard to find, I'm afraid, but I would prefer buying the video Jim has located - tap has to be seen! (Although I think that the rhythmic, drumming aspect of tap dancing is vastly underrated!)

Boogaloo Sisters??

I see they don't - so I'll have one of these:

May I ask again if there is a non-alcoholic version of this tasty Stralsund brand? Oh - I'm old unfaithful - having Paradigm Shift spinning in the background instead of Organissimo. Gotta change that! You all have Organissimo spinning right now? The "What are you listening to now" thread will look like an Org ad!

This one was my first encounter with Mobley, IIRC, and it didn't keep me from diggin' deep into his discography. I still have the Cobblestone LP. Not so bad at all, and not "lousy" at all!

I bought this CD as I really like organ trios, but contrary to Organissimo's debut the trio as a core group is almost obscured here, there's only one or two numbers by the trio alone, which do not impress me very much. Nicely played, but I miss the touch of the original, unique conecption in that band. All the guests, including Locke, turn in fine solos, but nothing really stands out. Their version of Stevie Wonder's "Big Brother" is not nearly as groovy as that of the Larry Goldings Trio. I have to say I am a little disappointed. If you want some first rate Joe Locke, try to get the New Quartet CD with Keezer, which is outstanding, or Locke's own group on "4 Walls of Freedom".

Glad to hear you like it, Jim!

His CDs are available though CDBaby - I will order some later this year - they have an excellent reputation. A German jazz bassist, Dieter Ilg, who worked with Randy Brecker among others, did two CDs of jazzed treatments of German folk songs he pulled from the German Folk music archive in Freiburg, where he lives, some of it is very nice. I think back in the early 2oth century jazz was at least partially folk music, but has developped into an art music at least since the late 1930's. Now good folk music can be artful, must is not as ambitious most of the time.

Part of that Baby Laurence is on the CD I mentioned - man, he was a master drummer!

Kampf If it wasn't so damn serious during its time, it should be retitled "Mein Krampf".

Now isn't that something that cries out loud for release?

There was a handful of recordings with tap dancers, one of it on a MasterJazz LP, some were sessions for Black&Blue in France. Some of them were on a Blac&Blue CD. (PM me about this.) Don't know about any others. My time on the board is limited for the most part ofg this year - be assured I appreciated and enjoyed your selections a lot, and would have liked to discuss more, but ...

Jokes aside, I have one of the thousand copies of Randy Weston's only LP on his own Bakton label. Some musician-produced LPs might be pretty rare, by Jay Clayton, Jane Ira Bloom, Lloyd McNeill - there are two LPs by bassist Terry Plumeri with John Abercrombie, Herbie Hancock etc that I never saw again.

I've seen a few people but find it hard to pick one as the greatest. Perhaps one rather unspectactular club gig of the Mal Waldron Trio with Jimmy Woode and Allan Blairman where I had the feeling of being right inside the music rather than just listening from the outside. A very nice moment was at a gig of the Dexter Gordon Quartet with Kirk Lightsey, Rufus Reid and Eddie Gladden on a rather cloudy Sunday Morning in July - 11 am - Dexter hesitated to start playing, telling he found it "unusual to play some mid-day bebop" - but when he counted the band off, the sun hit the stage through the clouds at the exact fracture of the second the band hit the first note! The entire audince held their breath as the band soared through "Moment's Notice" (what a appropriate song selection!).

I always have trouble finding this guy in the group photo - now who is it? To me the trumpet player looks different.

I don't know if it is more difficult for a melody/harmony instrument than for me as a percussionist, but I have a good memory and have a reputation for knowing a lot of them - I concentrate more on the form and certain rhythmic clues and take the harmony as a sideaspect.

Second the recommendation on the Paul Horn - some excellent music. The McIntyre is at the top of my OJC wish list. I think one that hasn't been mentioned is the Red Mitchell Quartet with James Clay and Lorraine Geller (was Contemporary).

From this and other interviews I have read, he seems to be at peace with himself, which is the most important, IMHO. Was glad to see that at last he had a new label (MaxJazz) to put his music out - but instrumental mainstream (in the best sense of the word) is not what the majors are after right now. He'll continue to make his way, I'm sure, and one day many people will wake up and wonder how they missed this great master who has been around all these years. Still have to get the latest live trio CD - I hope he plays on it with the "abandon" he strived for in the liner notes to one of his RCA CDs. I wish he would do a solo piano album - I know he doesn't seem to be interested in it - but he would be great at it.

Is that the new pianistic superclone?

Same here.

The Dreyfus remaster is one extreme - you have much less surface noise but lose most of the natural room ambience. I think the instruments sound more natural on the RCA Centennial box set - haven't heard the new remaster. The two Robert Parker CDs stop in 1938, AFAIR before Balenton joined the band - Jack the Bear is not on them. I found the Parker remasters startling when I first heard them, but now I prefer the Centennial box - I guess the Davies must be even a notch better.