kenny weir

I find the last four discs hardly get played, but the other six make it easily my favourite box set. Incredible sound and music. You're gonna love it. B)

This is a fine book - the best I've read in terms of fiction writing having the "feel" of jazz.

Thanks for posting those two, Chris. Even if Jazz Times' arguments are self-serving, Crouch can be judged on his own words. Very revealing. What a creep.

Haven't heard Fuller's own BN stuff, and of the albums I do have Bluesette is the best. He also rock on Art Blakey's 1961 album with Impulse!

Well, I'm still here representing downunder, although lurking daily more than posting these days. I definitely consider this my "home" board, but lurk on a daily basis at AAJ and JC, too. I'm fully considering using another name when (if) the BNBB reopens. Maybe Aric. Or Lou Donaldson. Or Greg. Or Music Boy. Or Softsong. So many to choose from ....

I'm just reading - and enjoying - "The Birth of Be Bop" for the second time. The author actually makes a good case for a few others besides Bird and Dizzy, most intriguingly Kenny Clarke - at least in a rhythmic sense.

Well, that all was certainly an entertaining way to start the working week. It's a mad mad mad world .... packed with professed non-Christians (and even athiests) who actually ARE Christian; and packed also (especially in the US it sometimes seems to those of us who live elsewher) with professed Christians who are anything but.

IS: FROZEN CHOCOLATE!

And I'd say it's a VERY safe bet this new project is heaps better than another, similar recent release.

Haven't heard this one, but I remain a big fan of two of his pre-Silk Degrees albums - My Time ('72) and Moments ('71), both excellently sung and played blue-eyed soul stuff. My Time has more of an R&B Muscle Shoals feel, while Moments has more of a jazzy feel ( and players such as Pete Escovedo, Mel Martin, Coke Escovedo, Bill Atwood, Curley Cook, John McFee, George Rains and Ben Sidran). The last track on Moments is Can I Make It Last (Or Will It Just Be Over) is an orchestrated instrumental that is just gorgeous.

Greatest San Francisco Band Ever???? Flamin' Groovies, Mike Wilhelm-era!

Greatest San Francisco Band Ever???? Flamin' Groovies, Mike Wilhelm-era!

Ed, you're right - that series-within-a-series is all good. I also like the McGhees and Foster albums. With the Melle and Watkins, I love 'em because they sound unlike anything else in my collection.

Looking at the list, I realised I own less of these than I thought. But I have some faves for sure: Julius Watkins Vol 1&2 Gil Melle Complete Sonny Criss - Imperial Sessions Jackie McLean - Jacknife Stan/3 Sounds Complete And a couple that haven't done it for me - Don Cherry - Complete Communion, Chick Corea - Complete Is.

Nah, I did boob but I actually meant Jackie's Bag.

I've been listening to a lot of Byrd in the past few weeks - Byrd In Hand, Jacknife, The Transition Sessions mainly - so I've decided to do my radio show next week on him. I was surprised to find I have more than 20 albums on which he is either leader or sideman, plus other tracks on compilations. I'm not going to have enuf time to listen thoroughly to all of 'em, so I wonder if any of you discerning folks would be prepared to name your fave albums or tunes. Cheers, Kenny

US: R&B legend Earl King dead at 69 US King NEW ORLEANS, April 18 AP - Earl King, the prolificsong writer and guitarist responsible for some of the most enduring and idiosyncratic compositions in the history of R&B, has died from diabetes-related complications. He was 69. Over his 50-year career, King wrote and recorded hundreds of songs. His best-known compositions include the Mardi Gras standards ``Big Chief'' and ``Street Parade''; the rollicking ``Come On (Let the Good Times Roll),'' which both Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan recorded; and``Trick Bag,'' the quintessential New Orleans R&B story-song. '''Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)' might be the one that people know, but I wish the world would hear more of his songs,'' said Mac ``Dr John'' Rebennack, a long time friend, fan and collaborator of King. ``He approached songs from different angles, from different places in life.'' In his prime, he was an explosive performer, tearing sinewy solos from his Stratocaster guitar and wearing his hair in an elaborate, upraised coif. King's songwriting was informed by syncopated New Orleans beats and his interest in a broad range of subjects, from medieval history to the vagaries of the human heart and his own so-called ``love syndromes''. ``Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,'or however they want to categorise it,'' King said in a1993 interview. ``I just sing songs. I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.'' Born Earl Silas Johnson IV, King described himself as a ``nervous energy person'' who constantly needed to be engaged in some creative pursuit. He cut his first singles in the early 1950s, taking on the stage name ``Earl King'' at the suggestion of a record promoter. Scenes and acquaintances from his life often found their way into his lyrics with little editing. A story King's grandmother told about his father, a blues pianist who died when King was a boy, inspired ``TrickBag''. In the song, the protagonist sings to his wayward significant other, ``I saw you kissing Willie across the fence, I heard you telling Willie I don't have no sense/The way you been actin' is such a drag, you done put me in a trick bag.'' King died yesterday and funeral arrangements had not been finalised late this evening. AP

Hi Shrugs! Yes, I will be using dry beans - with Monk, Fess, Booker AND Archibald providing the soundtrack.

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I know there's Thelonious Monk fans here. Are there Professor Longhair fans as well? Are there fans of both? I've been playing heaps of Monk lately, while 'Fess is never far from my thoughts if not my sound system. These two piano masters seem to have quite a lot in common - particularly the fact that late in their careers, and enjoying worldwide acclaim and fame, both mostly stuck to a tried and true repertoire they had first recorded many years before. And they're both dazzling individualists who are/were nevertheless lavishly pickled in their respective traditions. Speaking of which, does anybody have a great red beans and rice recipe? My wife has bought a ham hock and I'm planning on cooking that sucker up this weekend. Been so long, I've forgotten how.

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An in-office conversation with a colleague inspired me to think about this. Note, the key word is "influential". Not best, favourite, most famous or biggest selling, but influential. My list: Lil Armstrong Diana Krall Billie Holiday Marian McPartland Billie Holiday Carla Bley Bessie Smith

You'll be sorry! I'm no big fan of this set, yet, but I'm gonna keep hold of it 'cause I have a feeling it will grow. Besides, the idea of dumping an album that has Patton, Green, Clark is completely ridiculous.

John Coltrane Quartet - Complete Sonny Rollins - Complete RCA Silas Hogan - Excello swamp blues Tord Gustavsen Trio - Changing Places Quartet Out - Live At The Meat House Jackie McLean - Jackie's Bag Jackie McLean - Jacknife Old Spice Boys - Alibi Of Birdland Johnny Rivers - Rhino anthology

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