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Been buying the Blue Note Conns and the Prestige RVGs lately and I'll tell ya...I'm just about fed up on this f'ing plastic sticky crap that doesn't peel off!!!!! I pull it off and it leaves half of it behind and is crapping up the CD cases. Can't they get some decent glue goddamn it!!!!

I don't know about the rest of ya'll...but the packaging on this release has totally disinegrated. The 2 CDs were held by the flimsy plastic that broke all apart and the outside tab broke.

just check out Larry's version on "Of Love And Peace"... ...so yeah, just imagine what would have happened if Lifetime did it.

I'm in the same boat. I don't dislike the Tony Williams stuff, but it never really reached me either. This CD, however, is really something. Might be my favorite new release this year so far, along with the Andrew Hill. For me, this trio seems much more "traditional"(probably not the right word) than what Tony Williams/Larry Young/John M. were doing. Goldings is definatley keeping it more grounded. There's more of a groove here than what Lifetime was going for. This band was inspired by Lifetime, but is up to something completely different. I really like Goldings on this, and Jack D. is just so killing it.

Wow, this is a drag. From my recollection, there were 12 or so tracks...maybe more. However, it was all on one CD so I could be wrong I guess. It was late and I was a little drunk. . I hope I'm wrong. I do remember Jan Jan, More Today and Walk on By. And others I didn't recognize. Anyway, great stuff I'm looking forward to!

Thanks, very nice.

Supposedly it was uptown on 7th Avenue. A lot of the NY Giants supposedly hung there in the 80's. It might have been an organ room or at least had a house organ in it. John Patton played there in the mid 80's.

Was he always on crutches? Do you know why?

I'm looking for information on a Harlem-based trumpeter Bucky Thorpe. He died in the 80's I believe, and to my knowledge has no recorded legacy. I think he was a BeBop-era player. Does anybody know of him or can give me info on him?

Can anybody tell me anything about this club? Supposedly it was in Harlem on 7th Avenue and was a big jazz spot.

I heard this whole session about a month ago when I was in NYC. To answer the question, yes it is Grant and band performing music in even tighter arrangements that the Lighthouse tapes. Grant soloing on pop songs of the day, boogaloos, ect.... And yes, I can't wait... Not the best Grant Green in that vein. For that I'd take the Lighthouse. However, it's better than Alive imho in sound quality and performance I'd say. Although I'm sure that's arguable. Great stuff. I loved hearing it and the treatment Grant gives of "More Today Than Yesterday" is quite surprising. Grant put lots of thought and work into what songs to record and the arrangements on this recording. You might not like the route he takes. But as a working band for the times, it represents club performance as it was and done as well as it could be at clubs like the Mozambique I would guess.

Hey, I was playing my organ trio gig upstairs next to the Continental Club at the Contental Gallery right after the Frissell show. I watched the majority of the his show and then went up and played my gig....should have come by Aggie.

Funny, I pulled this one out yesterday for my trip to Houston. I've always dug this one a lot, Lonnie's killing and Melvin Sparks is just badass. The twin tenors of Plas and Red...well...they don't make 'em like that anymore. Avalon is burning. Lonnie makes everything sound like THAT was the way it was meant to be. I love hearing him on standards. He's pushed so much in the funk catagory on his own albums these days, that when he does a sideman recording such as this, I'm always "all ears."

No offense, but Juneteenth was the day slaves in Texas found out they were freed. Why no Texas jazz artists?

I really love Coles on "The Waiting Game." Although I do remember some board members saying he ruined it for them. I dug it, but if you're waiting for some Freddie Hubbard blistering through the changes you'd be disappointed. I'm not very familiar with much of Coles work, but do dig what I've heard of him with Mingus and his own BN date along with the Grant Green's "Am I Blue". Gotta get Chuck's recommendation as I've slept on that one.

Really diggin' the Gil Evans.

Ain't it? Love it. When I saw Lonnie a few weeks ago, he played a number of tunes from the CD. Including the title cut (a super funk homerun), Willow Weep For Me (6/8 charger) and one of his original ballads which was really beautiful. This album is gonna be great, can't wait. Release of the year for me.

Dr. Lonnie Smith - Jungle Soul (click to buy) July 11th.....shit, that's too damn far away!

I've heard some of the stuff from the Mozambique. It's killer. Wish it'd come out.

The worst decision Mosaic ever made was to not give John Patton a "Complete Blue Note Recordings Of" treatment. The Select just doesn't do justice to what he did on that label.

is this out already?

Yeah, everyone has their own way with this techique. It's like snowflakes...no 2 are the same.

I've seen that each player has their own way of tackling this. The best way (and easiest way imho) is to do an octave with the thumb and pinky while LIGHTLY hitting the 5th and 6th inside the ocatve. This takes away the need to decide whether your third is minor or major. Joey D. leaves in the third, Jimmy and Lonnie Smith leave it out. It's pretty sloppy and if you actually "play" the 5th and 6th all the time will sound wrong. You have to have a light touch inside the octave and "ghost" them more than anything. Don't be too particular or worry about hitting "wrong" notes. Jimmy hits a lot of fourths instead of fifths on Jazz Scene U.S.A., proving he's not hitting notes so much as getting the SOUND. With that setting 80000888, the harmonics are flying creating a mashing effect that make the sound so appealing yet, easy to pull off harmonic oddities. Don't be bashful. Just go for it. The trick is not so much getting the sound and technique right, but then playing melodically after that. You can't hide behind a lot of single notes once you go into this!

THAT would have been a good season finale!

The Sopranos sucked this year. A lot of time on nothing...NOTHING!!!! I mean, Christopher and his drug relapse...again?!! Who give's a rat's ass. Carmella??...Desperate Housewives without the entertainment value. A.J. is boring me to tears. Bring Meadow back and at least take off her shirt. The therapy...why is it even in the script anymore? Damn it, they couldn't even make the killings interesting this year. 8 final episodes could never wrap up all the boring crap they've delivered this season. Perhaps N.J. will get nuked in the final episode, that's the only way they could tie every boring story together with a nice finale bow.