Kalo

Besides Ellington/Strayhorn?

Sounds like something I'd make. I resort to the pasta option a little too frequently myself. But tonight I'm firing up the grill for the first time this year for some lamb shoulder chops rubbed with olive oil, garlic, and rosemary, to go with a nice bottle of Tuscan wine.

I dig Betty Carter, too. Not everything, but she sure had her moments. I recall a thought that occured to me when I saw her live in the '80s. It struck me that her approach to recomposing a tune had a lot in common with Monk's -- idiosyncratic, suspenseful, and engaging -- but representing the distaff complement to his. Now this may not be the most politically correct observation, but Monk's recompositions and phrasings were hard, angular, and masculine while Carter's, just as radical, were nevertheless soft, curvy, and feminine.

Very cool CD & one that I'm assuming saw pretty limited distribution; I happened across it in a box of giveaway items that a previous employee had assembled at the station, picking it up and thinking, "Can't be the Richard Davis..." but it was. I think it had very limited distribution. Richard released it himself. He mailed a copy to my house, so that's how it was distributed to me. I think that the arco bass selections at the beginning of the CD rank with any in recorded jazz history. Richard Davis is one of my favorite bassists -- no, make that jazz musicians on any instrument. Where can I get me one of these? I would email him at rdavis1@facstaff.wisc.edu, and ask him for one. This email address comes from his website. Thanks! He gets a ton of email and letters from former students, as he has been very well liked as a professor at the University of Wisconsin since 1977. He tries to respond to all of them, sometimes with a one sentence reply on a postcard, but he does respond. To put your request for the CD at the top of his list of mailings to respond to, some enthusiastic words about your love of his music wouldn't hurt. Also, he puts on a very low cost several day bass clinic every spring for elementary through high school students, and pays for any shortfall in funds out of his own pocket. Some of his friends have made sporadic attempts to raise funds for him for that annual clinic, but the fundraising effort is not very aggressive, from what I can tell. If you enclose a check payable to "Richard Davis Foundation For Young Bassists", your request will most certainly be noticed. The amount of your check can be deducted as a charitable contribution. He doesn't know I am suggesting this, and he would not suggest it. All I am saying is that if you really want the CD, this is the specific way to truly get his attention in a major way. Thanks again!

It is an amazing site. Love the pix of the labels. Thanks for posting, EKE BBB!

Very cool CD & one that I'm assuming saw pretty limited distribution; I happened across it in a box of giveaway items that a previous employee had assembled at the station, picking it up and thinking, "Can't be the Richard Davis..." but it was. I think it had very limited distribution. Richard released it himself. He mailed a copy to my house, so that's how it was distributed to me. I think that the arco bass selections at the beginning of the CD rank with any in recorded jazz history. Richard Davis is one of my favorite bassists -- no, make that jazz musicians on any instrument. Where can I get me one of these? I would email him at rdavis1@facstaff.wisc.edu, and ask him for one. This email address comes from his website. Thanks!

Very cool CD & one that I'm assuming saw pretty limited distribution; I happened across it in a box of giveaway items that a previous employee had assembled at the station, picking it up and thinking, "Can't be the Richard Davis..." but it was. I think it had very limited distribution. Richard released it himself. He mailed a copy to my house, so that's how it was distributed to me. I think that the arco bass selections at the beginning of the CD rank with any in recorded jazz history. Richard Davis is one of my favorite bassists -- no, make that jazz musicians on any instrument. Where can I get me one of these?

Sad to Hear this. I fondly recall devouring the Prydain series in the early '70s.

Yep, my birthday came five weeks early this year. (I also ordered Playtime, Trouble In Paradise, and Dazed & Confused.) Three of my favorite movies. I'd even put Playtime and Trouble in Paradise in My Top 10.

Prestige dates of that era often tended to sound like rather off-the-cuff, let's roll the tape and see what we get affairs, compared to Blue Note dates of the same era on which similar musicians were playing the same style of music. Alfred Lion opted for pre-session rehearsal and preparation, and Bob Weinstock typically did not. This album almost has a Blue Note feel to it. Far more typical of Prestige's "shagginess" would be, say, the Jenkins-Jackie McLean "Alto Madness," also from 1957, which has some fine moments on it but hardly seems to have been produced at all -- given the minimal writing and the blow-till-you-drop length of the title track, with its seemingly endless series of exchanges between the two altoists, intense though those exchanges are at times. Again, I have the feeling that Clifford Jordan was the de facto producer on "Jenkins, Jordan, and Timmons." Yes, I remember being quite surprised at how little I liked Alto Madness. I always thought of you as more of a "Tenor Madness" kind of guy.

I recently bought the Jazz Icons Thelonious Monk Live in '66 DVD, only to discover that the Oslo concert is the same one that was offered on a bonus DVD that came with the 2003 Thelonious Records/Hyena release Monk in Paris: Live at the Olympia. I don't really mind, though, since The Icons DVD version is better quality and from a different source, looking more like actual film, while the Thelonious Records/Hyena version looks to be lifted from a broadcast, with a distracting logo in the upper right corner.

The remastered french 2 DVD reissue is great. One of my favourite movies. http://www.amazon.fr/Playtime-Édition-DVD-.../dp/B000BKJ794/ One of my favorites, too, as you may have guessed.

You can be sure I'll be getting this for myself when my birthday rolls around next month.

E-nuh-vold-sin That was the way one of his former colleagues pronounced it to me. Always wondered about that one myself.

Happy Birthday to one of the Organissimo Forums' M.V.P.s!

Just saw this for the first time myself. Well, here I go: Art Blakey - Pissin' Donald Byrd - Two in the Bush Sonny Clark - Gapin' and Gropin' Jackie McLean - Impetigo Grachan Moncur III - Intelligent Design Walter Davis, Jr. - Davis Protector Horace Silver - Song for Your Mother Horace Silver - 30 Pieces of Silver Horace Silver - Bowling the Blues Away Wayne Shorter - Nocturnal Emission Dexter Gordon - Gord! Andrew Hill - Hill!!! Art Blakey and John Coltrane - Bu Trane

Welcome back! You were missed.

Both records use early drum machines in the rhythm tracks.

Sad news indeed. I've been a fan ever since the RCA Arrangers CD came out in '88. I'd be all over a Mosaic set (or any reissue) of the RCA stuff.

I found this on sale a few weeks ago at the Newbury Comics in Harvard Square. Very nice! I'm listening to it again right now. Man, I love the way Jordan sidles into "Tenderly."

Great disc. Very interesting movie as well. I recall the impact of hearing Ornette's version of "Misterioso" in the theater when I saw the film. I seem to recall that Francis Davis reviewed the soundtrack recording in, I think, the Village Voice at the time it was released. He wrote something along the lines of: "It's the closest thing we'll ever get to an 'Ornette with Strings' record."

Hey, thanks for that! Still not available on DVD as far as I know. Directed by James Whale, of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein fame.

I first encountered his work on Arthur Blythe's recordings. Nice player!

Sad news. I always enjoyed his appearances as "The Peeper" on The Bob Newhart Show.