mikeweil

Well, she isn't exactly well-known, but obscure they are, she is a very underrated singer.

What would we do without Gottlieb's photos!?!?

This CD includes the date with Shorter, the other with doorbellist Lytle is no slouch either: This is the one with Blue Mitchell: This Cd combines Chun King and Little Barefoot Soul: Sometimes I hear him losing his concentration a little, perhaps due to his heavy drinking - he passed away in the middle of the Nat Adderley session with Wes Montgomery. I like him on Johnny Griffin's Big Soul Band!

'cause they don't know how they sound or how they should sound, same goes for the average buyer, reads 24-bit digital remastering and thinks it sounds fine .... but it's just those digipack reissues, the jewel case issues sound like the US editions. But of course you're right, I'm close to ordering all my Fantasy label group CDs from the USA!

So Koller kind of returned the favor to Konrad, who had been on the CD "Out on th rim". I am not a Koller completist, he has a few typical mannerisms he uses a little too often for my taste, like sliding into the main note.

So you did a record with Pat Peterson ... I had that ENJA LP, but sold it later on, Fathead played as beautifully as ever, but Billy Hart made the impression on me that he was really delighted playing backbeat all the time, and she was not jazzy enough for my taste. For a soul singer it was okay. But singers are a very personal thing, they either attract you by their voice and phrasing or they don't. Fine if she looked good for you.

..... presumably looking after some beer, which we all deserve after this long ride through the mysteries of the world of rare records ...

I hope this link works!

Bingo!!!

I have the June 3, 1976 issue of down beat in front of me, with a review featuring that guitarist as a sideman, and a review of the pianist in question with the bassist. Damn, my down beats go only back to 1976, and I thought I remembered a review of that LP.

I never thought I could send you back to the closet! That West Coast pianist is not on your list, Jim, he recorded an album with this bassist and drummer together for Prestige in 1973, and all three as the rhythm section for that guitarist's first album on another label a few months later.

Maupin led only one date for ECM as a leader, The Jewel in the Lotus, which is a beauty but not the record in question. It had Summers on percussion. AFAIK Maupin did only once appear as a sideman on ECM, on Marion Brown's Afternoon of a Georgia Faun. Both have no guitar ....

Can you imagine this bass and drums sound recorded for/by ECM? Sorry, no. There was a guessing game running on German TV running for decades, where 4 VIPs had to guess a guest's profession, or the name of another VIP (blindfolded ), the guests were allowed to respond only with "yes" or "no". Each "yes" gave the team another shot, each "no" was a five deutschmarks coin into the guest's piggy bank. Mine would be filled by now and the game over. Any more guesses?

I quote myself: Does this apply to Don Alias? No. -_-

Please accept my apologies, but this ball was too nice to let it pass ...

John, you give up? I selected AllTheWeb in my search window but cannot think of someone decent to add to the name of Maupin Now here we do approach the real problem ...

John, you give up?

Bill Summers would have been my man of choice for that record, he would have handled everything with a lot more taste and restraint, with a mellower conga sound. I've been watching Bill's work for a long time now, he's one of my idols, I had the fortune to meet him personally on one of his tours with Herbie Hancock in Europe, but ...

But apart from this, I can hear the similarities pointing you to Mtume: the relative lightness of sound, that wooden tone, the fast runs - but this guy here hits much harder than Mtume, and his repertoire of licks is limited. He uses to many triplets in his solos, and his fills are always completely off groove, where Mtume often keeps some aspect of the groove during his fills or solos. This percussionist did quite a number of record dates for several years, published an introductory book on conga playing, but has not been in the spotlight for the last 15 to 20 years, AFAIK.

Jim, I hate to say this, but your skills in recognizing conga players are far from your fantastic resources for identifying saxophonists ...

I'm afraid it will be of little help when I say I use AllTheWeb to search the internet, and that help me find it, but with the name of some other band member ...

No.

Correct! If you had ever seen how much he enjoyed himself - and the audience enjoyed his joking - this wouldn't be much of an issue. But I can see that it might alienate someone who never caught him live. And you need a rhythm section capable of handling the proper groove for Listen Here!