Soul Stream

With all the Basra talk going on....has anybody had a chance to listen to the other RVGs?! They all sound really good to my ears...and True Blue is a downright national treasure.

Nice to hear someone complitment an actual organ bassline. Someone's listening! Anyway, along those same lines...Jimmy really lays the bass down nice, simply and clearly on this whole session. Not only a textbook example, it's the example on how to play this stuff right.

...so did Jim really go...seemed up in the air as of his last post? anybody know?

Why would ya'll try and order this when it's obviously not paying the artist in any way? I thought we all wanted to see these guys or their families finally paid. Not to be the royalty police, I'm not...but this is obviously not kosher.

How 'bout Tehran? Oh, that's probably next...not a good idea I guess. Hafta wait and see.

Well, from what I was just told, you can blame the war in Iraq! First off, I'm not making this up. Pete LaRoca's "Basra" has been temporarily withdrawn from the release schedule. There is some pressure to change the title. There is intense sensitivity to our guys dying over there and this sensitivity extends to the Jazz world. Sorry guys. BTW, Pete Sims prefers "Lazy Afternoon" and Michael Cuscuna prefers "Candu" (because the number of letters is the same and the cover change would be minimal). Later, Kevin If they can't release it as "Basra," they shouldn't release it. That's just silly. We're turning into a police state here, and we're doing it to ourselves. I hope you're joking Kevin. If not, I hope you tell Michael this is insane.

Now I know what it's like to see a bunch of crackheads looking for that one rock that rolled under the couch.

O.K...everybody join hands and put on The Sermon and Houseparty.... and hey, even if you're not the biggest organ fan, there's plenty of great horns here for anybody...lee, tina, lou, george....so no whining.

I didn't see that performance. And yes, I don't dig all the warbling myself. That said, it's the way people sing today, and of all the people out there Alicia could do less. She has a nice pure voice when she chooses to lose all the bs. Plus she's fine and can play.

I thought Alicia Keys sang and played her ass off (she's hot, no doubt about that...incredibley hot). Surprisingly too, Jamie Foxx came out and hit it out of the ballpark (can't BELIEVE I'm saying this, but I give credit where credit's due no matter what I'm predisposed to think). I thought Foxx and Alicia were going to jump their pianos and start making love right on stage, seemed a LOT of chemistry was happening there. Anyway, thought Green Day kicked ass as well. Even thought the opening montage was well done and that thing at the end of it where they all sang together was pretty wild and adventuresome for the Grammys. I actually liked the grammys this year. On the crap side....that horrible faux-gospel bs with K. West and poor Mavis Staples. Bad taste central....especially the part where the poor Blind Boys have to stand next to a damn casket.... uggggg. U2...please go away. You're irrelevant and booring (and your hit song "Vertigo" is just a blatant ripoff of The Supremes "You Keep Me Hangin' On." Hasn't ANYbody else in the world noticed this but me. Copyright infringement o'plenty.)

LeDonne will be there Tues. Also, go early and check out the HH if you can, it's a hammond happy hour...don't know who's playing...maybe George Papageorge. Scone's out of town, so he won't be there.

Damn you Jim!!!! Christo and Organ Night at Smoke. What a combo! Also check and see if anybody's playing at Showman's Lounge on 125th Street, almost always a great organ combo there. Let me know how it was sittin' in w/Eric Alexander and Peter B..

what tha faaa.....HOW DO I GET THIS!!!!! Same here. Been search since I came across this today. Hopefully it still exists somewhere. JOS Organist: Closest we can get --- Now playing: WKCR - Columbia University Is there SERIOUSLY any way of finding this. It's GOT to be out there somewhere. Any ideas?! What's with the "wild cock" thing? Mike, have you seen the trio's appearance on the old Jazz Hour show? It's floating around on VHS... it's Jimmy Smith, Don Bailey, and Quentin Warren. Cool to see them in the flesh, jammin' away. Jim, I have that DVD of them on JAZZ Scene USA, w/Oscar Brown Jr. hosting...is that the one you're talking about...they do "Walk On The Wild Side" "Mack the Knife" and "The Champ"... is that the one you're talkin' bout?

My thoughts exactly. I'd love to see the gates and then slip on over to Birdland to see Lou Donaldson. Damn!

Dude, if "Root Down" is your Jimmy Smith collection....man, you need to backtrack a bit. Root Down is bad no doubt, but you need some classic JOS where he plays bass himself. Midnight Special or Small's Paradise or, well, anything!

They had a nice "in memorium" of Jimmy on This Week With George Stephonopolus. Nice to see one bit of national TV coverage on him. By the way, was this on the Nightly News at all? I'm guessing not.

what tha faaa.....HOW DO I GET THIS!!!!! Same here. Been search since I came across this today. Hopefully it still exists somewhere. JOS Organist: Closest we can get --- Now playing: WKCR - Columbia University Is there SERIOUSLY any way of finding this. It's GOT to be out there somewhere. Any ideas?!

Yes Chris, the sketches looked very interesting. The shots from your window look like a construction project in Central Park.

I think Jimmy Smith's style was predominantly steeped in the blues.. He always played everything soulfully, often mixing blues influenced runs and phrases into his solos.. There was also bebop influences, but mostly blues.. Hmmm. I don't know Randy. I put on "Groovin' At Small's Paradise" or "The Boss" and hear a lot of very advanced harmonic sh*t going on in a way only Coltrane might could relate to. Jimmy could play the hell out of the blues and could bring the blues into his playing at anytime. Then again, he could shun the blues totally and go dancing in a harmonic wonderland all his own. Jimmy Smith played piano before his discovery and love affair with the Hammond B3 organ. A lot of his harmonic approach and chord voicings originated from the piano and a lineage of piano players. There was always an underlying blues element in almost every tune he played which I believe was in part because of the obvious influence of the blues in most genres of jazz as well as the unique "one of a kind" design of the organ & leslie and it's deep and soulful range of sounds.. well...when you put it that way!

I think the last couple of issues were horn-oriented. And I dug the first several issues a lot...the ones on Coltrane, Miles, Monk, ect... But for a long time it could have been a guitar player's magazine

I know that in her liner notes for "One For Me" she said that on this album she finally got to do what she wanted. Thus the title. Wonder if part of that meant playing her own bass.

All I know is my 2 favorite albums w/Shirley Scott are One For Me and Turrentine's Dearly Beloved. She's a monster on organ bass. Check her out on Yesterdays on DB. Wow.

Why Scott was always SADDLED with bass players I'll never know. She plays the hell out of the organ bass and always could. Here' a quote from Jimmy McGriff about Shirley Scott's bass capabilities...(and this was prior to McGriff really making much of a mark on the organ himself at the time).. Shirley would come up and play with her trio, wowing the crowds wherever she went. See, Shirley had a rough sound. A man's sound. But at the same time she had a woman's touch. She'd take her shoes off and just tear it up.

Why wouldn't BN issue this? They reissue and issue everything else GG ever did.

...don't remind me I'm not in NYC. I'd kill to see Lou and the great Dr. right about now. Especially in light of JOS' mortality. Don't know how long we can count on seeing all these guys at our leisure.