mikeweil

I think that thematic improvisation may be more attractive for an audience, but how many out there are good at this? Given two songs with different themes over the same changes, will the impro sound the same? The saying "lost in the changes! may get a new meaning here.

I just got me a copy of an album that was on my want list for many years, and I am delighted. I'd love to discuss it as AOTW. Why nor re-start the series in a more casual way? When there is no opposition, I will go ahead. What do you think?

Back to main topic: Apart from those I repeatedly suggested or supported, like an early Ellington set and a Lionel Hampton Decca/MGM set, I'd like Ben Webster and Illinois Jacquet Clef/Verve sets.

There is a link between the two styles of Tony - you can hear it on The Old Bum's Rush. On that album he almost plays like he did in the new Lifteime and the Stanley Clarke album on Nemperor, and later in his Quintet. After the Rush LP he switched drum brands, as he needed a bigger sound for that style that Gretsch drums couldn't project. I also sense Tony's personal image of the sound of black power on drums in the direction he took.

This album is from 1998. Their trumpet player. Raudel Marzal Torres, an excellent player, now lives in Berlin. I was introduced to him by a mutual friend and old percussion buddy a few years ago, and during our two weeks trip to Berlin in late March had an opportunity to talk to him at length. He is now a member of Juan Marcos Gonzalez' Afro-Cuban All Stars off and on and will tour this summer with the Euro-Cuban All Stars, a Slovenian-Cuban joint venture.

I bought my first Mosaic in 1984, when I was 30 years old, and it was their first issue, the Blue Note Monk LP set. The last I bought was the Mobley 1960's box at age 68, but via Jazz Messengers, which is less of a hassle with the customs and costs about the same.

Congrats to all! Let's make it another twenty years.

I promise I would buy a copy!

This afternoon: That's one I need to get!

Back home after two weeks in Berlin. Bought the first one im the Musical Instruments Museum, it features the glass harmonica, invented by Benjamin Franklin.

I sure will look out for this. Great!

This must be taken with a grain of salt. E.g. they identify both takes of This Is The Blues by Curtis Amy and Paul Bryant which l found out to be different.

I hear a lot more Max Roach than Blakey in Hogan's drumming.

the pianoless sessions with Kenny Dorham

BTW - these sessions with Dorham were Ernie Henry's last before he died of a heroin overdose on December 29, 1957.

I was wondering about that, too. This was recorded on December 2, 1957. On December 20 & 23, Dorham and Max Roach recorded the latter's first pianoless album for EmArcy. Must have been their common brainchild. The December 20 tracks were first issued in Japan on this album, and included in the Max Roach Plus Four Mosaic box set.