mikeweil

What do you think of the bonus tracks included? I know some diehard originalist in Frankfurt who passed by this CD because he found them to be inferior to the Lp as issued.

No more love for that beautiful album?! Or ist it just that so few have it? I'd be surpprised - it was one of the first Pacific Jazz titles Cuscuna reissued, and he hailed it as one of the labels classics, which it is, alongside the Mulligan/Baker quartet, Almeida/Shank and some Baker and Chico Hamilton.

As I said, that Sam Jones /Louis Hayes team was swingin' like crazy! In all tempos!

Oh, I'm the first this time ... didn't peek at the rest of the thread before I posted my guesses. Well, avoid the links, folks!

Very nice Blindfold Test, rockefeller center, and very well programmed, you should audition for a radio station! # 1: first track from this album - as a percussionist, I should have this album for the conga player alone. The bassist has never been my personal favourite, I have to admit. But the idea to play this tune that way was very cool! # 2: That tenor sax sounds familiar, but I can't identify him right now. # 3: I've heard this tune ... maybe I had this album ... no, wait a minute, I still have it! Of course! The sound makes think I should upgrade from my old LP ... (track 8 from this album). # 4: Got that one during the first bar! Have all of his records on this label. Great talent. And a great vocalist that sadly crossed over into the disco league. They wrote a number of nice lyrics to many a modern jazz tune, like this Hutcherson composition, written to celebrate his child's birth - the couple had children of their own to praise. I listened to them a whole lot back then, find the second and third LPs even better. (Track 2 from this album). # 5: Of course, track 4 from this album. # 6: Very very interesting, that slow bossa nova tinged 3/4 groove, and that mellow voice, like it a lot, but would have liked to hear more. Much too short. Who is this singer? # 7: I may have heard this. After repeated listening, I find it an interesting experiment, but too disjointed, the different ingredients not connected enough to make a tasty dish. # 8: Tenor sax and some electronically enhanced sounds - no idea who it is. Or is this Derek Bailey displaying his guitar effects wizardry? Nice, warm tenor sound, not as shreaky as most cats in such a context. # 9: I like the combination and witing very much in this piece, but the string quartet uses too much vibrato, for my taste. The pianist shows some Tyner influence, but it's not him, I'd say, for the sound. Woody Shaw on trumpet? Very nice track! # 10: Some instruments from the Andes, quena, harp, a guitar, and that very familiar tenor sound: from this album or another from this series - a friend of mine has them all and could tell instantly. For my taste, he is nice to hear on one track on a disc like here, but I simply can't take a whole album - his sound and phrasing is too one-dimensional for me, as great as it is. # 11: I'm tempted to say the trumpeter is Benny Bailey, he has that cry in his sound. But I'm not sure wether he ever recorded within such a group concept. No idea about the others, but sure would like to know. # 12: Perhaps my favourite track on the disc. Very moody, with a - how's the rest of this album? No idea, but very curious about this one. These gospelish overtones, the guitar and soft rattles ..... very, very nice! # 13: Title track from this album. This must have been among the first twenty or so jazz LPs I ever bought, still have it, from the sales bin of a record shop at the bus stop on my way home after school. To these ears, the most moving tribute to the musician heralded here, and maybe the single greatest track of the leader. # 14: The name of that old tune escapes me right now ... Marc Ribot? It's his mixture of nostalgia and posed kaputtness - would convince me more without the simulated vintage recording sound. # 15: Just One of Those Things - singer has a definitive Tony Bennett influence, but he maybe not be a native speaker of English. Do not know any no-Hammond organist by the name of Kenny ... Who's this? He sure plays well. Very nice disc, very well programmed! Thanks! p.s. edited for a typo: rickefeller venter ..... the spirit of Freud still rules in Vienna!

Found a photo at http://www.apassion4jazz.net/page18.html

Jazz singer Thelma Carpenter began performing at an early age. In 1939, she joined Count Basie, where she produced her most memorable recordings. After leaving Basie she worked with Teddy Wilson's orchestra. She continued recording into the sixties and began an acting career in the seventies. Born January 15, 1922 Brooklyn, NY Died May 14, 1997 New York, NY Films: 1970s Barefoot in the Park (1970) (TV) The Devil's Daughter (1972) (TV) Call Her Mom (1972) (TV) The Wiz (1978) 1980s The Cotton Club (1984) New York Stories (1989) (Source)

Some details: Thelma Carpenter w. Count Basie: CO 33955-1 I Didn't Know About You - Columbia 36766 December 6, 1944 dtto. Call Me darling - AFRS BML P-574 January 11, 1945

Frankly, not as successful as the Les McCann / Eddie Harris pairing. McCann's ryhthm section, especially drummer Donald Dean, was too sluggish to match Rahsaan's relentless energy. I found it disppointing and sold it. Only for the Rahsaan completist. Someone asked for live records in an early post: His first Atlantic LP Here Comes The Whistleman was recorded live before an audience at some radio station, he has the audience blowing whistle all through the title track ... I like this one a lot, it has Jaki Byard and Lonnie Smith (not the organist) alternating at the piano. I bought all Kirk Atlantics on LP as they came out, and still have them all, which is telling.

I tried, but it seems it is OOP and one source that wanted to import from the US cancelled after a few months. I'd still like to hear it, if only for the drummer ...

I'd say, not everybody has to comment on every tune - noone here can say as much about every tune. Just comment on those that prick up your ears. And, as with the Albums of the week, it is possible to comment even months after the "official" running time of the test has ended.

RDK, are you ready to go as you stated? Then now would be the perfect time to start your signup thread, just as the discussion of # 10 gets going. EKE BBB or Nate Dorward are ready to step in if anyone runs into problems, they have informed me.

Received the disc this morning, will drop the one for deus62 in th mailbox before noon - my wife wants breakfast with scrambled eggs and salmon on a sunny town square .... I'm spinning it right now, and so far it's feast: I instantly recognized 4 of the first five tracks! Please start the discussion thread!!!

But it should let you sit back self-assured that you would, if you could!

To prevent the box with the receipt inside from aging I recommend shrinkwrapping in black plastic. I tested one of these in the deep freeze and then in the pond, and it stood the test.

dtto.!!!

This is currently available as a digipack reissue from Zweitausendeins as part of their Universal Jazz sales, for EURO 6,99. So I will get this, at last ...

If all men were brothers, would you let anybody marry your sister?

Yeah, it shouldn't be a problem to tell Gary Bartz from Lucky Thompson!

@ 25.000 posts: Can't get the funk outta here!

Michael Cuscuna has complained at various occasions about the comparatively low level at which Atlantic recorded at that time, thus the hiss and the "weakness" you mention.

Now how dumb do they think we are?!

BTW - do you have all of these? That list misses a 1987 recording of Italian pianist Marco Fumo - is there any place to send this info to?

You've got me all bixed up, EKE BBB !!!

Thanks a lot, very interesting!