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I'm right there with you, my friend. I haven't yet had a chance to pick up the remixes mentioned on this thread, but my interest is definitely piqued.

Who said anything about "serious"?

Which EW&F did you get? Undergroove Collection, or one of the others? Anyone heard the J5 volume 2?

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I don't know if he posts here, but I'm pretty sure Stanley Crouch is the only person qualified to comment on this topic with any credibility...

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Congrats, Johnny! Nice write-up!

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I'm with you, Chewy. I don't care what the music sounds like, as long as it was recorded in the correct city. All those Beethoven sides that George Solti did with the Chicago Symphony? No way. If it wasn't recorded in Berlin, it's not Beethoven. And the Beach Boys? I know that MOST of their sessions weren't really recorded on the beach. WTF? And don't even get me started on the Clark Terry and Monk record "In Orbit." Yeah, right!

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I think that if he just gets a different free Yahoo/HotMail, etc. email address, he could sign up with a different identity.

This definitely "pickled" my interest: From MySpace.com: "I am from the Austrian village of Braunau, ... One day, around 1958, I heard a very interesting piece of music that turned out to be a jazz pianist named Thelonious Monk. It pickled my interest because it was very different from anything I had ever heard. Although his music fascinated me, I had very mixed feelings. On the one hand, Mr. Monk had obvious talents, but on the other hand, his piano playing was very messy, and his songs had many funny notes and rhythms. ... I have grown to the conclusion that his songs would be much better, and much more popular, if many of the dissonances, or "wrong notes," were removed. With my new CD, "Hans Groiner Plays Monk," I have done just that. I think music fans from all over will agree that this new interpretation brings Monk's music to a much prettier, much more relaxing place. So, please enjoy these brief samples from my CD, which I am planning to release worldwide, very, very soon! All the best, Hans Groiner" Here are sound clips (Beware!) Hans Groiner Plays Monk

Happy Birthday, and thanks for keeping this place up and running!

Jim.S, (or anyone else) If you decide to contact Ron, be sure to let us know what he tells you.

I don't have any of his recordings, but I know that in flute circles Robert Dick is considered to be a master and innovator of "extended techniques". He's able to make all kinds of sounds on the flute that completely confound more traditional players.

I don't know what the "norm" is, but two things occured to me: 1. my copy of the recent Ron Blake CD came packaged with a 2nd disc that had some remixes of a couple of the tunes (multiple remixes by different DJs). I have to assume that Ron had approval/instigated that. 2. Reading Michael Henderson's comments in the liner notes of the Miles Cellar Door box, Henderson talks about Marvin Gaye and says, "...Marvin would experiment a lot (in the studio) with many different musicians. He would cut songs one way, cut them sideways six or seven different ways until he got the sound he really wanted." He goes on to say that this method was similar to how Miles and Richard Pryor worked. So, how different is the process of "remixing" vs. "pre-mixing", a la Marvin recording different versions and picking the one he liked best?

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Back in '78 I was still in high school, and as a member of the Columbia House Record Club, Dexter's "Great Encounters" was sent to me as the jazz selection of the month. It had two cuts from that Carnegie Hall date, and was my introduction to Dexter (and Johnny Griffin), so I have frond memories of many spins of that LP. I need to grab a copy of that Carnegie CD.

Burrell's numbers fell? What the hell? That's no so swell...

Saw him with the Mingus Big Band several years ago, and he played a bunch of good sounding lead, as well as taking some solos. I liked his lines: not quite in; not quite out. But as you say, Jim, I'm unsure as to how Sipiagin's playing would hold up over an entire set, or a whole evening.

very cool. I guess they were using all of their calculatin' know-how on that commercial, instead of finding accurate fuel economy figures for the Civic Hybrid. (missed by almost 50%!!!)