Soul Stream

Yeah Trane, already came and went but thanks anyway. I'll keep it on file for my return trip! Hope to return, really enjoyed it but my trip didn't seem to coincide with much jazz I was interested in seeing. Next time I'll time it better.

Yeah...but hell...I'M pretty tired and I'm no world traveler!

Picked this up in San Fran after listening to "Someday MPWC" by the same line-up all month on my CD player in the car. Love them both.... The Great Jazz Trio stuff is new finds for me and I've been really loving them.

Thanks!

I'm not a huge fan of Javon. Really buy the CDs for Lonnie's presence. Javon seems like a good, functional tenor in the soul jazz tradition. He doesn't seem to be trying to be the latest Coltrane or anything. I'm not a big stickler for people having to push the envelope or avoid history to garner my admiration. Expressing oneself can be vastly overrated.

Yes Javon is playing a lot with organ it seems usually Dr. Lonnie Smith. On that BET show, Sam Yahel played organ. Great show too.

I saw McCoy play several months ago, got to meet him an talk with him in his dressing room. He seemed in good health for someone his age and in good spirits. He did play his ass off. If health was that bad, playing certainly would diminish as well. I bet he's just tired. How these guys keep up that travel schedule at their age is always a mystery to me. They HAVE to be exhausted at some point.

Several hundred times I've tried to load a photo onto one of my replys and 99% of the time it comes up as FILE TOO BIG! Can anybody tell my how to get my photos down to a size where they will be accepted by the Organissimo forums??!!

My pleasure! Glad I could help! Did Freddie Roach ever play with Stanley T? I could SWORE that was Freddie, and not Shirley. Maybe their styles are more similar than anyone's noticed previously? ← Dude, that ain't no Freddie...that's surely Shirley! No mistaking that one. The only similarity to me is perhaps the light sound both have the ability to illicit from the instrument. But those two are especially distinct sounding organists. And no, Freddie and Stanley never did record together.

You're right Bertrand. I think I spelled it incorrectly.

Oh, you're ahead! Any comments on Track Seven? ← Oh Yes! Well, it's late Jug. THIS is the Jug that I personally love the most. The bass player is killing me, I love what he's doing here. The big band, strings...whatever this is I've GOT to get the whole LP or CD. Jug is what jazz sax is, was, and will be till time stops. Heart. Heart. Heart. Great tune, performance and pick. By the way, read a Buster Williams interview. His 1st professional "big" gig was going on the road with Stitt and Ammons. He's got some great stories on those guys. But one was about Ammons leaving Buster stranded and screwing him royally. By the time Buster made it back to Chicago, Ammons called and wanted him for a gig!!! Buster did it because he said you just couldn't get mad at Ammons.

Thank God! I felt like I was going crazy....uhhh...it SOUNDS exactly like the same track, but master yoda keeps telling me to look further.... This is the most exhausting damn two organ songs I actually guessed right the first time to identify. I'm quitting while I'm behind (or ahead, but I'm afraid to ask for confirmation at this point). P.S...Shirley Scott is really killing here.

No it's not! This has been covered previously! ← It IS "Time After Time" by Stanley Turrentine and Shirley Scott on the "Let It Go" CD reissued by Impulse. It says on the CD that it was originally issued on "The Definitive Jazz Scene, Vol. 3." I've A/B'd the song and it's exactly the same one. So, it might be on different LPs or CDs, but it's the same song....

....The original name of John Patton's tune "Funky Mama" was actually NOT "Funky Mama." John Patton's original title was "Mary Louis" after his first wife. Lou Donaldson changed the title because he thought it had such potential as a hit song.

Yeah, 15 is Stanley T. from his Impulse "Let It Go" LP with Shirley Scott on organ. That elongated vibe on Time After Time is really, really, really a groove. And it's cuts like these that make me want to listen to Shirley much, much more than I do. She's so tasty and swinging. Really love this, thanks for the memories....

Thanks Al....

I'm not sure how these two different version's of McDuff's "How High The Moon" are spread out over various Prestige LPs and/or CDs (ya know how Prestige and Fantasy are about comps and combinations)....however...I think your version was originally on "I Got A Woman"(no not the McGriff LP, let's not add to the confusion!) on Prestige. McDuff did two different versions of How High The Moon. Your's is the version with either Martino or Benson (the CD says it's Martino, but it's kind Benson-y to these ears). SUPER smokin' arrangement. He also did one with Kenny Burrell.

O.K. Jim, you're a REAAAALLL hardass. My blind guess was basically a bullseye. It's Brother Jack McDuff's version of "How High The Moon" on his "Silk and Soul" Album (sorry, I blindly guessed the "Crash" CD version) with a young George Benson on guitar. Ooooh...sorry, but that's not the McDuff album I took it from, and that's not the group listed on the album. Not saying you're wrong, because I don't have that album, just that I've got different personnel from a different album. It's an album whose contents have been scattered over several CDs, and appears to have been one of those Prestige compilation albums compiled of left-overs and/or incomplete sessions, all of which in this case prove to be very worthy. Does that help? ← Great pick....

O.K. Jim, you're a REAAAALLL hardass. My blind guess was basically a bullseye. It's Brother Jack McDuff's version of "How High The Moon" on his "Silk and Soul" Album (sorry, I blindly guessed the "Crash" CD version) with a young George Benson on guitar. Thanks for the CD Jim. Just got home tonight from San Francisco and popped it in just now. Only listened to the first song but look forward to hearing the rest. Thanks again. (P.S.---all people who guessed Jimmy Smith should be spanked, hopefully by their wife or closest loved one or enemy of choice. Jack McDuff is so unmistakable here, especially given the arrangement. Jimmy Smith never cared an iota about arrangements.)

Can't wait to see it, now that it's been affirmed to be horrible!!!! I love this kind of stuff....sorry....

Heard bits of Red Clay and didn't really dig it that much.

"That Certain Feeling" is one of the greatest jazz organ records of all time. Hands down a masterpiece. Patton was certainly riding a wave at the time. His basslines and soloing, comping...EVERYTHING is unimpeachable.

I bought this the other day and can't get it off of my mind or my CD player. This is just some of the baddest of the bad. To think, I use to AVOID that CTI stuff...what a huge mistake that was. This is the REAL Night of the Cookers....

Hard to believe that wasn't issued originally. Amazing!!!

Saw it today. Pretty underwhelmed. Revamped the end, which was just plain bad imho. I'm a huge fan of the original and thought Gene Wilder's performance couldn't be beat. Today I found that to be proven true. Johnny Depp's portrayal trys to be quirky but leaves out the utter humanity that Gene brought to the part. Gene Wilder rules Johnny Depp drools on this one. Burton really missed a huge opportunity here. Very underwhelmed by the look of this one which is surprising given I usually love Tim Burton's visuals. Thought he'd be a kid in a candy store, so to speak, with this remake....but it's one of his lesser efforts in the end. Burton swings back and forth between trying to recreate the original movie and make something of his own. He fails on both attempts. And the oompa loompa's musical interludes are horrible and borish. Or, just plain bad to put it simply.