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from the site:

is there a little bird that pops out every hour to call the time?

From surfing some on his site I get the impression the guy has a very healthy sense of humour. He would probably agree with the critique.

Alastor "Mad Eye" Moody

outline of the book

oy, RIP

and Chic Chic Chico (Impulse) 9 years later.

drats, no guesses on track 14...

Track 1: It had to be Bugs & Daffy. No clue on who is performing here, but of course this track illustrates one of the most important charcteristics of music: fun! Theatrical fun in this case and though it may sound silly, I love silly stoopid tunes, so this is a good opener. Track 2: doorbells galore and more theatrical big band. does the guy on alto have a name? I'd put the vibist down as leader, but cannot pin a name on the man, many variations with the vibrato, nice! Track 3: I have the distinct feeling I have heard this one before. Nicely laid back on the trombone there, no guesses on that front I'm afraid, but I would put down Donald Byrd for trumpet and that (those?) tenor(s?) sound mighty familiar as well. I like this a lot. Track 4: nice old time big band to dance the booty off. No familiar sounds, but then again that doesn't mean much. Probably this is just Gustav Brom or some such underground name. Track 5: Kinda Dukish followed by some other famous Ellingtonian piece. Going entirely by my stoopid logic that the band is in the background, my guess is this is from one of those recent foreground/background Ellington reissues. (edit: a little allmusic sleuthing shows it's likely to be the latter, which doesn't make sense, but ah well). Track 6: I gez diz iz da vice-prez with a Basie bunch. This swings like mad and lifts the spirits. The steady beat can have the same effect as caffeine, but it is more healthy. Track 7: quite a sweet trumpet, but I wonder who the tenor is. That's one nice drive that player got goin' there. The pianist plays Basiecally sparse, but I doubt it is the Count. Very nice track one more! Track 8: nice little latin ditty. no guesses. Track 9: ah it's that little hidden gem! it is by the guy that has 26 going before. hidden amidst a load of brotherly horns. It caught my attention the first time I heard the album so no steenk for me, heheheh! Track 10: it may be because I have been listening to too much Max Roach Quintet off late, but this sure sounds like Clifford Jordan to me. Then the trumpet sure has that wavey soothing quality mr. KD puts in there. This is a VERY pretty track, I'm curious. Track 11: It's that character from Harry Potter, the one with the magical eye. The self titled album in that replica series. I still wonder why nobody told the baritone that it's off and needs to readjust some. ah well, this is big fun once more and the arrangements are fantastic. Track 12: ST-W-INGS! and cheap-o brazilian rhythms! and darn stoopid horn ensembles! YES! I bet brownie hates this one. Track 13: that's James Brown on the intro. Then there is a well hidden edit and what follows is something completely different, well not where funkiness is concerned really. It's Reuben Wilson playing Blue Mode to be precise. Big FUNKAY Fun this is I wonder whatever became of John Manning Track 14: oy, this one sounds familiar too. One more of those slippery albums. Reminds me of that ole lard bucket Don Wilkerson set. Or that Braith. Track 15: Eeeeelectric Soifboad! Ga-Reat! Played this at a party recently and had fun with the title. Great Motown theatry combined with the best of the slippery stuff. Track 16: Along came John & Grant & even more grease. Having two tenors on this sessions never really made sense to me, but the results are fine fine fine, so who am I to complain. Track 17: ah! as I couldn't place this right away, I have concluded it must be from that recently re-released BN date with mackie sharpening his knife on the alto and the pirate looking at us from underneath the eyepatch. checked some online sample and: yup. need to get me that one pronto. that's it, it has been a great trip. Now I'm off to read the other guesses, hoping someone has identified that track 14 as it is bothering me.

hey, I was gonna post that! happy birthday Matt 33333

to return to the original query, I have noticed that amazon.com has started to post ~500x500px scans instead of 300x300px ones. The latter were a tad too small to produce nice prints. You can recognise the larger scans by the slightly larger size of the thumbnail. If for instance you do a search on Art Blakey w/ amazon.com, you will note that Free For All and Buhaina's Delight have larger thumbnails than Mosaic or Live at Birdland.

Manfred Hering Ernst Ludwig Petrowski Friedhelm Schönfeld Friwi Sternberg ...

oy, I returned from being away and still haven't found time to listen to this disk. Maybe I can squeeze in a little slot in about 11 months when the mood hits? I will want to put down a post on the regular BFT soon and may return to this thread if it itches enough to do so.

all of the above plus: and of course: w/ Lateef there is also the Impulse album Jazz Around The World, sorrily out of print. The best Williams is playing ballads. He's nice w/ all the rest, but his ballad playing is truly fabulous.

James Brown?

Helge Schneider! uhm... that ain't right is it?

Cecil Taylor

up for AllenLowe

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Albert Ayler

That disk 8 is great not for the splendid solos - hardly there - but for the utter beauty of Brownie's tone. Check out how he manages to give you goosebumps by simply playing a straight theme. Once you're done with the box and have your ears full of Brown, pop in a version of I Remember Clifford, just to hear how the theme catches some of the essence of Brownie. Well at least that's how it works for me. The version by Lee Morgan on BN 1557 (Vol. 3) is very good, or the one by Richard Williams either from his Candid album or Lateef's Live At Pep's.

plus part of was recorded in 1955, the remainder followed two days later.