mikeweil

That Hosea Taylor also participated in several Columbia sessions of the late Babatunde Olatunji in 1962, playing alto sax, flute and oboe alongside Clark Terry and Yusef Lateef, among others. He solos on flute. Theses sessions were included in the Bear Family box set that I recommended in the Solomon Ilori thread.

Hosea Taylor was a member of some of the Olatunji bands featured in the box set I mentioned above. But I'm afraid he's not a prominent soloist, most of the solos were given to more prominent players, most of them to Clark Terry. Yusef Lateef, Budd Johnson, Bob Brookmeyer, Seldon Powell and Jerome Richardson are among the horns. Olatunji often had jazz experienced players in the band, I have a rare Roulette LP with Pat Patrick and Marshall Allen, where they get a lot of solos.

These were issued in the US as a 3-LP box set "The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor", Prestige P-34003, in 1977. OOP, of course, and not yet on CD.

At least Google takes notice ..... This search result seems to be fun, too.

I just ordered this CD, will get it before Xmas! I too thought these remarks very appropriate - considering how old this stuff is, one of the foundations of jazz drumming, its modernity is amazing, and his work with rhythmic themes is something I miss with most more modern drummers.

Yes, played by Roland Wilson. Tucker plays organ, Eddie Gladden on drums. Was a Xanadu LP, reissued on CD in Japan, but I regrettably don't have it ...

Your comments about the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band set give me some kind of relief. I have one Solid State LP, the Blue Note Consummation CD, just got the that great live recording made in Basle in 1969 by Swiss radio - the latter seems so much better to me due to its spontaneity. What I had heard didn't inspire me to buy the set, somehow, although they were such a great band. Strange, isn't ist? Didn't buy the Jacquet either after having the Aladdin and RCA stuff. I like Cobb better, in the long run. Of the ones I have, the Woody Shaw - I got one of the last five - was not a disppointment, it was like I expected it to be. Some of the writing on the Woody III is magnificent, but I do not like the sound of those Columbia records of that time. The only one I think I should sell. Seems you're all Mosaic subscribers?!?!?!?

Happy Birthday to our master poster, master tester and master Texan with the help of Germany's greatest cartoonist: p.s. I am aware you're actually younger than myself, so take it as a prospect of the furture!

I clearly hear what phrase it was that lead you to thinking it was "Ask Me Now", and all the other suggestions. Noone to blame. This has become one of the most interesting items in the test, it seems! Great choice, Jim!

Well, you can show us your ........ instead.

Can anybody please give a more detailed prescription of this one:

Congrats for this loving wife, Dan!

I saw Holdsworth on TV with Husband and found it boring, 'cause Husband is an accomplished but flashy and somehow superficial player, but Wackerman is a class all of his own. The most intelligent fusion drummer I have ever heard. He has a jazzy sensibility and dynamics and at the same time that jazzy unpredictability. Where the others play amazing technical tricks, his are musical as well. He composed most of the tracks on his first CMP CD, and the way he navigates through them is great. Holdsworth plays much more interesting phrases on this one than on his own albums - he needs a drummer a notch superior to himself or he will fall back into technical flashes. A friend of mine to whom I played this, said: If it has to be fusion, then like this, please! I'll check out thatz new live trio CD.

Collectors are at least in part completists. Otherwise they wouldn't go out hunting for that last session missing in the collection. Listeners just enjoy the music and buy anything that comes across their way, maybe go after more from the same artists, but without any serious system. Collecting gets dubious IMHO when searching and finding becomes more important than the music itself and listening to it for enjoyment. I was a collector for a while, tried to assemble a representative collection of every style and important musician, but gave up on it. Couldn't afford all that stuff. Now I collect only certain musicians I really dig, and thumb through my racks twice a year to get rid of stuff I rarely listen to or listened to often enough to get what I wanted from it. Space is limited, so I try to keep it on a certain level. I keep stuff that still excites me after many spins.

Any suggestions Dan, beyond your initial post? I know just as certain this is not Monk's tune as you thought.

After a few more spins of 1-1 I'm pretty sure it is that Horace LP. Found details on the fifth Silveto LP, but that too can't be the one. I suspect Moore and Harris don't play together. This sure is Moore - saw him live with Cedar Walton and know his style quite well. These Silver Silveto LPs sure would make a nice Mosaic Select!!!!! Some tracks I have not commented on so far: Disc 2 - 1: I was pretty sure at first listen this is Chick Corea on Rhodes, Dave Holland on bass and Jack deJohnette on drums, so this has to be the 1969 Eric Kloss LP they recorded for Prestige. Has a vibe similar to Bitches Brew and the Corea "Is" sessions. I like this almost better than their companions ... Kloss was very, very good, a child prodigy that is kind of overlooked in retrospect, but he sure was at the edge of the current developments. Recently got me his Prestige debut sessions with Don Patterson (a Prestige twofer CD), highly recommended, but he had grown considerably and very fast till this here. I dig deJohnette very much on this one, I often find him too busy, but it fits in perfectly here! There is no "Nature Boy" on this LP, but I'm pretty sure about this. This was reissued on CD by Fantasy, I'll get me this one. As Ubu already complained, these Blindfold tests are an assault to our financial resources! Disc 2 -2: Reminds me of the stuff Kahil el Zabar did. Don't know if it is him. This combination of a hand drummer keeping the earthy groove and the horns blowing freely sure works nice, but I would like to hear the drummer take some chances as well! 2 - 3: No idea - I'm not that much at home with that soul music. I love Marvin Gaye but couldn't say wether that's him. I have heard him do other stuff I like much better. 2-4 to 2-7 I already covered. 2-8: Of course Basie is an obvious guess, but this sounds a little too jumpy to me, and there's something in the sound and phrasing of the tenor making me doubt it is Prez or the Vice-Prez. And I don't hear any Freddie Green! 2-9: I understand many think this is a European live recording of Rollins, but this soemhow doesn't sound like Rollins to me, it is great but he uses some inflections untypical of Rollins, who also has a darker sound. If it is from Europe, the drummer could well be Humair, but he once confessed in an interview he had played with practically every name musician except for Rollins and Miles ..... Like the previous track, I'll patiently wait for the solution. 2-10: As I said, that hollow voice sounds like Percy Mayfield to me. A unique character! 2-11: Read through the discussion on this - I don't know Threadgill's music enough - this is something to check out! Nice mixture of Jazz, African and Carribean grooves. Additional commentary to Disc 1: 1-13 could well be a Woody Herman Herd track. 1-14 somehow reminds me of the John Lewis / Bill Perkins collaboration with Chico Hamilton and Jim Hall, this is not from that Pacific Jazz disc, but who knows wether they had a reunion .... 1-11 I somehow fell asleep during this and overheard that wargame rap .... no idea. Thanks a lot Jim for this great and variable anthology - there's some stuff in here I sure will get. Disc 1-2 is the one I'm most curious about.

Soul on Top - doesn't seem to be available as a single disc right now. That particular tracks is on the Ballads compilation.

After his Blue Note contract ended in 1980, Horace Silver recorded four (or more, I have info on four) LPs for his own label, Silveto. (An inidicator for how it was on the jazz scene in those years, and still is, that someone like Silver doesn't get a contract!) The first "Guides to growing up" has no trumpet and Eddie Harris. The second "Spiritualizing the Senses" has Bobby Shew and Ralph Moore alternating with Harris. The third "There's no need to struggle" has Bobby Shew and Eddie Harris. The fourth has Carl Saunders and four flutes and strings. So it could only be the second, and the drummer on that one, Carl Burnett, fits in the picture. Bob Maize is on bass, no vocals. I'd go for this. Ralph Moore of course, this must have been his first session with Silver. It is not Eddie.

Great that you have been there! Would you mind sharing some reminisces about KD with us?

This is in the top ten on my wish list ...

Forgot to comment on Disc 1, Track 15: Hamp it could be, like several of you suggested. I know he did these sessions for his own label with Candido playing conga on some, but have never heard this. Not quite my cup of tea. I screw up at least one on each Blindfold Test, but it cools me down I'm not the only one to mistake JB for a woman ... I played this to a 16-year-old girl (with German/Mozambiquean parents) that helps us around the house to upgrade her pocket money and sings in a choir - she said after one note it was a man! And when I think about the very first track: Horace Silver, that's the piano concept, crystal clear. He has some touches of Ellington and Monk, of course. But Monk's tunes are built in a totally different way! I have them all here in a very recommendable book, all 70 of 'em. Some phrases, yes, but not the tune. Silver had Harrell and Berg in the band for a while, so that makes sense ... Have yet to think about some tracks, didn't read the commentary about those ... this is some bunch of work to do!

No, that ain't Clarke/Boland! They never used an electric bass, and I'm not sure about a guitar, but certainly not one as fuzzy as this! And it's not Boland arranging style!

It was two tracks on the LP.

No, definitely not - I have this LP and that ain't the one!