mikeweil

Thanks for identifying that LP. I listened to it only once, many years ago.

Glad to hear we turned you on to Barney, Jim! You're right, it is a melodica. I posted the link to the original album above. Howdya like the alto cat?

I only drink Italian coffee, my breakfast most often is just two cups of capuccino, but double strength, with 50% steamed milk, sweetened with rapadura (Brazilian sugar: dried and ground sugarcane juice), I like it strong and very sweet. In the afternoon it is espresso with the same sweetener. I dig Café New York, which is available from Blue Mountain beans, or Caffée del Doge, right now it is Mambocino, because my good Italian machine is being repaired.

p.s. if your hints on the tracks I do not know are as cryptic as those I understand, then they will not be a big help ....

There is a Japanese issue out of their rare third LP that I ordered a few weeks ago. I dig that band very much, and that saxist all the more - he's severely under-recorded, IMHO.

Well, nobody knows nothing is not correct. Track # 12 is the first piece from this CD, and I know that couw identified this, too. Sorry ubu, it's not Lucky T, wonder how you could take this entirely different sound for him. (So you had your appendix removed? Good to have you back!) Track # 13 is track # 6 from this LP, available on a twofer CD that is not correctly listed on AMG; click here for a complete track listing. And I am certain the last track of the BT is by this guy, one of my all-time favourites, but I cannot identify the album. I enjoy a lot of this but still have to find the time for a track-by track commentary.

No Jimmy Smith here - Paul Griffin and Jim Hall, if my memory serves me right. This is the film I have seen the most often - that park scene in the early morning hours with the wind in the leaves is very special to me. Have to get me this DVD!

AMG lists some producer's credits that looke like there is another Michael Howell on the pop scene.

I knew you would - and this is the proof

I dunno. But I think the real high art lies in posting a lot and still have something relevant to say. If someone here visibly posted here continuously just for the post count, he or she certainly would get some feedback or be ignored.

Two threads! Wow! Please view the other thread for my thanks, I'm really moved and love y'all. Yours, Mike

This is the jazz player's version of what caused Joni Mitchell to perform a similar step last year. The list of frustrated musicians who do not have the mindset for studio gigging or quit out of frustration, at least temporarily, was never written down. Lucky Thompson is the first that comes to my mind.

All of this material was reissued on two Pacific Jazz CDs titled Far Wes and Fingerpicking. I think they are still available. They left off some tracks on which Wes played only written parts, which weren't on that twofer LP either. All of this was scattered over three or four Pacific Jazz LPs. If you want more Brothers, you have to get the Fantasy CD Groove Brothers (Two complete Fantasy LPs) or the OJC reissues of two Riverside albums, one is with George Shearing, a little latinized, the other without him is excellent. The CD Live at Jorgies contains some good live material of the Brothers band.

Quite simple: This was the Montgomery Brothers' home-based working band of local musicians.

Excellent choice! I'll be there with you!

I have that one, Allen and Patrick play nice, spirited solos over a lively percussion background. The vocals are there, I find them a trifle obtrusive on the classic Drums of passion, but not here. I guess it's pretty rare, If you can get it, go for it.

Gimme a double, please!!

That's an alto, John ... and I'm sure you probably never heard this guy before, at least not in a jazz context. The accordion was not enhanced.

Sure sounds nice! Oh, the power of imagination ...

There's an interview on http://www.darkerthanblue.com/.

The way she looks, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some Indian blood in the mix ..... From http://trendcentral.com

0 (the numbers key) 6/& 3/§ Q/@ in that order Now what does this tell you?

Wayne Shorter with Richard Davis and Andrew Cyrille. Herbie Hancock with Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille. Geoffrey Keezer with Christian Mc Bride and Jeff Tain Watts. (I restricted myself to still living musicians, with those already passed the possibilities seem endless.)

I'd like to see the unreleased Horace Silver Tentet session for Blue Note redone, if he still likes the arrangements. Don Sickler would love to do this.