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kenny weir

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  1. Going by posts at the Dead site and talking to fellow Australian heads, it's a mess. And when you do get through, chasing up a problem, customer service is hopeless. I got three releases yesterday no probs - RT2.1 and 2.2 and To Tarrapin - but tore the covers of two of the sets trying to remove the discs.
  2. I'll still get to Scotland afore y'all.
  3. As I rarely hang out in bars and other joints of dubious morality, I can assure that just about the last thing I want when hanging out on BBs is to feel like a "grown man". Whatever THAT is.
  4. Oi Bev, here's me thinking I've been more active here in the past couple of weeks than I have for a year or more! Must ... pedal ... harder. MUST ... lift ... O post quotient. Tha's all right - I'm going to put on my new Starry Eyed And Laughing double CD, rank up the volume, do the housework, turn in a few job applications - all that even before lunch!
  5. There's a thread on 'em at the Steve Hoffman forum, but I didn't get any clear picture of what the score is. Might have another read. And besides, when it comes to non-jazz stuff I'd much sooner rely on the great taste of my pals here and at JC! I'm only up for one of them, really. I have no great desire to re-purchase Happy Trails, either. For all that I love a wide array of bands from the period, including a bunch of Bay area outfits, I'm always bemused that no one really nails it like the Grateful Dead in terms of transcedental jamming. And figure that a good QMS boot might be the best bet.
  6. Being currently unemployed, I have put a break on box-set purchases. However, as there are a couple of things around I want to get into my life, I figure I may as well put some of my lesser utiliised Mosaics up for grabs. I have no idea what these are worth on EBay/whatever. My aim is simply to get some good, new music in my head and heart - and maybe do a fellow member or two a good turn. All sets are close to mint. Stan Kenton: The Complete Capitol Recordings Of The Holman And Russo Charts (4 discs): I'll part with this in return for having the Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet (The Complete Mercury Recordings) 5-disc set ordered on my behalf. $90 from Amazon. Classic Columbia Condon Mob Sessions (8 discs): Ditto, but this time for the soon-to-be-released Louis Armstrong Mosaic. Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions (12 discs): Same deal, but for BOTH the Pops and Sir Doug sets. PM me if interested ...
  7. Maybe, but the chances of a cylinder lasting that long - Katrina probably didn't help - seem extremely slim. I'm looking forward to hearing the redone Freddie by the same folks who did King Oliver. And I figure that when I'm digging Kid Thomas or Bunk Johnson, I'm at least getting the spirit of the thing, as opposed to WM's efforts.
  8. Think of how many Monk, Coltrane, Diz, and Bird records we've all heard. Still, those Town Hall and Carnegie Hall records were spectacular, and still quite revelatory. Would love to hear Trane and Wes, but I seriously doubt it exists. Oh yeah - that was mind-boggling how they both came out in the same year. But, see, that's the point - we HAVE heard them. Bolden seems certain to remain unheard. 'Cept for WM doing his best Buddy impression for Ken Whatshisname. A silly point in a silly question, but what the hey ...
  9. I think they're talking about these rascals. Yes, that's them. Anyone?
  10. Nope.
  11. Funny thing about bulletin boards. Calling up a thread, assuming at first blush it's a newie - only to find one recalls reading it a few years previously. FWIW, when talking of the holy grail of jazz, talk of anyone 'cept Bolden is - to me- just silly. And that's not a judgment on my part of the merit of the many artists mentioned on this thread, nor my interest in hearing any of the suggestions. Fact is, all those cats we have heard one way or another.
  12. Anyone taken a punt on any of the (relatively) recent QMS live CDs/boots? Interested in hearing your impressions/opinions.
  13. My modest Sun Ra pile - in order of purchase: Jazz In Silhouette Greatest Hits Lanquidity Strange Strings The Night Of The Purple Moon Angels And Demons At Play/The Nubians Of Plutonia Secrest Of The Sun Until very recently I've been bemused and not all that impressed In fact, it often seemed to me that Sun Ra albums did what many consider would be impossible - they were even more sloppy than the Grateful Dead! I dunno - maybe that's the point. In any case, I'm really, really digging those last two albums named - they seem to strike the right balance between the early, older styles and spacey stuff, with a bit of exotica - always been a sucker for that kinds of thing - thrown in. Strange Strings I find fascinating, but a little too ... well it's not that it's too out there for me, at all, but I just kinda get bored with it. I have the singles double CD on its way from Amazon. Incredibly, I gave away a review copy I scored on its release. Whereas now I reckon it'll please me plenty. I found Lon's comments about the Ra lecture interesting. I'm not sure I'm up for reading the Szwed book if he not only addresses Ra's philosophy and schtick but also endorses it. Is that the case? I can dig it, but if I get too close to that sort of thing I feel I may slip back into a state of Ra cynicism. Ra albums I feel may push my blast off button: Atlantis The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra Super-Sonic Jazz When Angels Speak of Love Music From Tomorrow's World Other Planes of There The Magic City Great Lost Sun Ra Albums: Cymbals & Crystal Spears Fate in a Pleasant Mood/When Sun Comes Out Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy/Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow Nuclear War Sun Song Cosmos Visits Planet Earth/Interstellar Low Ways Sound Sun Pleasure We Travel the Spaceways/Bad and Beautiful Music From Tomorrow's World My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2 Mayan Temples
  14. I hear you, but ... I reckon Neil fits with a bunch of folks I consider sort of "righteous whitebread blues". Others: Leo Kotke, John Martyn (maybe), Jack Teagarden, Paul Siebel, Johnny Mercer, Tim Buckley, Aussie harp man Chris Wilson. It's a style/sound that has its own unique flavour and is quite different from white folks TRYING to sound black, though that can be cool, too.
  15. I heartily recommend this: It's a four-disc set that I suspect is OOP, although Amazon has it for $67 and there are heaps of cheap 2nd-hand copies there, too. It covers 23-34, so a selection of King Oliver, Hot 5s/7s and early big band stuff.
  16. I'd like to thank all the contributors to this thread, on which I have not posted until now but which I have monitored all along. My record buying of late has been very muchly of the hillbilly variety, but this set is top of my wish list - maybe a reward for when I score a job! I thought I had at least some little familiarity with this material, but I have checked my racks and find, that, no, I don't. So it will be pleasure of the purest kind.
  17. Maybe out of kilter, but just out of my own modest racks, live stuff also from Kenny Dorham, Horace Silver, Lonnie Smith, Grant Green, Jimmy Smith.
  18. This is wide-ranging forum for jazz fans, many of whom have wide-ranging tastes. Grateful Dead, prog rock, Van Morrison, Heart Attack, Flipper, Black Flag, Sonic Youth - and a whole load more. Doesn't mean you have to express your distaste every time someone you don't dig gets some O cyber time. But the beauty of an open forum is that you have the freedom to express your distastes! I admire Costello for turning five good years of music ('77-'82) into a 30+ year career and a marriage to the lovely and talented Diana Krall. Sure - no problem. Just seems a time-consuming way of affirming one's own good taste.
  19. This is wide-ranging forum for jazz fans, many of whom have wide-ranging tastes. Grateful Dead, prog rock, Van Morrison, Heart Attack, Flipper, Black Flag, Sonic Youth - and a whole load more. Doesn't mean you have to express your distaste every time someone you don't dig gets some O cyber time.
  20. Ed, you should have a ball. In fact, I'd guess you could possibly have a much cooler gig than many of us with long histories with the band. I saw 'em once - 1977 - but it was momentous. So I suspect any revisit via a Dead show would lead to disappointment fuelled by memories of that show and countless hours of listening to great (almost exclusively live) recordings. Someone else nailed it: No matter how worthy the various guitarists, they ain't Jerry. But you shouldn't have any hangups on that score, and if anything your lack of exposure to the band's recordings is a blessing. Hold off on stocking up till after the gig, hey! Keep expectations modest and go for it. I second recommendations of the GD Movie soundtrack set (with the caveat that it features only the one drummer) and the Cow Palace 3CD.
  21. Oh please! I don't dig Joe Pass, Heart Attack, Flipper, Black Flag, Sonic Youth AND Ben Ratliff. But I'm not about to confuse my personal opinions on such with some sort of silly overall judgment on the matter of taste. I'm no fan, but Sonic Youth "junk"?
  22. That IS exciting! Reading between the lines, I'd guess this blues as in Armstrong rather Patton (to crudely summarise debate on another thread).
  23. Yes, it's a bugger, isn't it? But JSP is keeping stuff is circulation. In the past year I have also bought the Blind Willie McTell, Blind Lemon, Texas Blues (with Henry Thomas, Oscar Woods), Mountain Blues (Gene Autry and a zillion more) and Sunnyland Slim sets. Some of that may have been obtainable elsewhere, but it would have been a struggle and damn pricey way of going about it. And even their sets are being deleted. The Condon set, which is brilliant, I've seen going for $100+ on Amazon and I expect the now-deleted Texas Blues set to head the same way. FWIW, when/if I get comprehensive sets by Dave Macon, the Carters and Jimmie Rodgers, it'll be Bear Family I spring for. I was bemused to read on a blues forum the angry comments of a well-known member of the blues community about JSP, followed by a list of the JSP sets he had bought!
  24. There is a disc and a 1/2 of McClennan in the Big Joe Wlliams and the Stars of the Mississippi Blues JSP 5CD box, and a dozen or so tracks by Petway.
  25. I believe the next Off The Record/Archeophone project will be Freddie Keppard. Like you all, I have the Oliver set and look often at other releases, but other stuff always has priority. There's Sophie Tucker coming up.
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