mikeweil

Here's the promotional text from the label's website:

Bought it today, what a pleasant surprise! Personal tone, original treatments of some well known tunes, a good backing trio but avoid it if you only like it straightahead - there's more than a dash of funky rhythms here. No wonder for a cat from New Orleans. Anybody else here like it? Donald Harrison alto sax Glen Patscha piano Vicente Archer bass John Lamkin drums Recorded December 1 & 2, 2003 at Avatar Studios, New York City, by Jim Anderson (that's why it sounds so good .....) Nagel-Heyer 2059

I had that one and sold it - he didn't get me there. Same with the Pablo solo albums. I'm not that much of a guitar freak, maybe someone more into the instrument can appreciate him better. Just me, of course. The first album where I really dug him was Richard Groove Holmes' Trio on Pacific Jazz: Pass is on half the albums and swings like mad and with melodic invention.

I ordered this, but can pick it up at the shop only next Monday ... Please keep the discussion burning on small fire til then. I used to play with a local saxophone guy who was proud he did a gig with Humes in the 1960's shortly after he had started playing ... I should send him a copy of this. I think he never bought any of her albums ...

Now do you actually buy any of the dics you like in the tests, or do you just forget to post here? Today I picked up this one from # 19: Last week I received Richie Beirach's Snow Leopard after a nice track on a previous test: So what?

This is a 12" Bulgarian tupan - the one used on track 4 may be similar.

Found a pic of a Bulgarian tupan player - although this has plastic heads and is larger than the ones I have seen in folkloric bands.

This is a Pakistani tabl baladi, from the same family, to give you an idea: It is a very interesting thing to apply rhythmic patterns and playing techniques of this drum type to the trap set - I am always disappointed that most Turkish and Kurdish drummers play standard rock/funk patterns instead of the ones from theuir own heritage, which are just as funky!

I will purchase this. Are there more tracks with Bulgarian rhythms on any of the other CDs? Can anyone tell the nationality of the musicians involved here, especially who are the Bulgarians? The tupan is the drum used in Bulgarian folk music, a small bass drum carried in front of the belly, ca 12 - 14 inches in diameter, hit with a thick wooden beater on the right head and a long thin wooden rod on the left head - when you rest the latter on the head while hitting the right side you get a snare effect. This is a type of drum and playing technique found all over Eastern Europe and the Orient over to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India - the Greek call it dauli, the Kurds call it davul, but theirs are larger. Impossible to say who invented it. It is however probable it was brought to the Balkan area during the Osman occupation, or by the Proto-Bulgarians. I would have bet there was a trap set player besides the tupan - is it really only one drummer? If so, my hat is off!!! Was there no Varna Jazz Festival in 2004? One page linked does not display a year - anyway, I will try to coordinate our next Bulgaria vacation with the festival, if possible.

No mention of the Keith Tippett Group so far?!?! This and their next, Dedicated to ou, but you weren't listening were my most often played British LPs at the time. Both are on CD from Disconforme, maybe dubbed from LP.

Of course, I keep my fingers twisted for y'all - and keep looking for multiple causes: as a former doctor friend of mine used to say, one can always have both flees and lice! Any movements of the neck you remember with short-term effect but forgotten soon after? Head and neck position while sleeping is okay? I used to have dumbness in my arms from using the wrong pillow at night!

Any fillings in her teeth made from different metals - gold in one and mercury amalgam in another? If so, it will act like a battery - the low voltage electric current could affect nervous impulses. Just a wild guess - but read about this some years ago.

Besides many of writers heralded above I would like to mention Robert Farris Thompson, who wrote some very informative and knowledgeable liner notes to Fantasy Latin music LPs.

The DIW / Koch 4 CD set I recommended earlier in this thread may be the best ever done. Besides that: Tommy Flanagan - Thelonica (ENJA) Bud Powell - A Portrait of Thelonious (Columbia Legacy) of course, the many albums Steve Lacy dedicated to the Monk songbook Giorgio Gaslini Plays Monk Eddie Lockjaw Davis & Johnny Griffin - Lookin' at Monk (OJC) Not all tribute albums in the strict sense, but all worth a listen.

These exact notes were on the back of Savoy's reissue of Elektra 134 Four French Horns - I wonder how many Elektra sessions they bought. They did buy, not license them?

Indeed! There's one rather bland poppish track on Dreamland and about two thirds country folk blues, but the rest is 1920's style bluesy jazz - considering the lines bewteen jazz and blues and whatever you name it weren't as segregated back then as they are now .....

Don'r forget Bill Evans' important contribution to the development of modal playing - something Red Garland never got into. As nice as Red is to listen to, I find him somewhat limited and self-content and a little overrated. Just my two cents, of course.

Convinced! As soon as I have the time and a new computer next year I will hammer all my stuff ino Brian .....

... and Waldron too, on some McLean LPs Draper was on! Gigi Gryce recorded with Blakey in 1954 under the drummer's leadership (EmArcy) - you can always take a look at Mike Fitzgerald's fabulous Messengers Chronology ...... (link)

Poor Tom - must be close to a heart failure each time he expects a Mosaic shipment ....

Well, her music - as far as I can say after listening to this one CD - is a mixture of country blues and folk blues with early jazz leanings. I think her sound and phrasing are jazzier than Norah Jones - many compare her timbre to Billie Holiday, whose heavy inspiration she acknowledges. There is indeed some similarity in the voices - of course she would be the first to admit she is no Lady Day reincarnation. I find it sympathetic she took her time that long before recording another album. Her style between folk blues and jazz some how reminds me of Maria Muldaur's repertoire in the 1970's. I'll watch and listen and see how she develops.

... and this is the new one:

Between her two this was recorded:

Some links: Webpage with her new CD Webpage after her debut CD