jlhoots

Ornette Coleman

Art Pepper: Stuttgart, 1981

As I posted above, but you're right, it can't be emphasized enough! Yep - it's on the Mosaic. BTW, I like the whole box set a lot!!

Joan Baez

From your long list my favorites are: Sopapillas - get 'em nice & puffy, tear off a small corner, put honey inside. Churros - first experienced in Oaxaca, a few places here in Santa Fe (El Meson's have been the best) make them. Dip in hot chocolate

William Parker Organ Quartet: Uncle Joe's Spirit House (ltd. ed. 1000) - direct from Aum Fidelity

Luis Alberto Urrea: Into The Beautiful North

It's really too bad that you watch that and have nothing but negative things to say. It is completely your loss. I thought it sounded really good. And in a more natural live context I bet it'd stretch out and be much better even. Tedeschi is a frickin' monster singer (though I personally could do without her guitar playing...). Damn she's great. You can come at this w/ the purist attitude and wish that herbie was still playing classic quintet stuff. And you can come at this w/ the opposite purist attitude and get down on herbie for not constantly playing more "creatively" and pushing some personally idealized envelope. Or you can come at this w/ an open mind and hear this as a funky, soul/blues number played by a bunch of killin' musicians having a great time being fronted by a monster singer. How you look at it is your choice. And this is not to say that everyone has to 'like' this tune or style. Not liking it is fine. But it feels to me that the way you are 'hating' on this tune/performance/herbie here, there's some kind of agenda being pushed instead of just saying "I don't care for the soul/pop thing here." If you don't like it, that's cool. But writing "the whole thing is terrible... SAD!!!... herbie's attempt at a jazz solo." Herbie doesn't attempt a jazz solo. and besides, this wasn't a jazz tune. "attempt?" give that shit a rest. Thanks for your pleasant reply - "shit", etc. I should have said IMHO. I didn't think the jazzy 4 bar solos had anything to do with the rest of what was happening. Appears that only you & I care anyway.

Herbie Hancock on Letterman last night. The whole thing was terrible. Herbie's attempt at a jazz solo had nothing to do with the pedestrian blues that was going on. SAD!!

Love that "torn open & crushed" component.

Best wishes, Lon!!

Agree with TTK.

Po' Girl Boris & The Saltlicks

I believe Robert Levin is still around. Doesn't seem to show up here anymore.

High on my list!!

Strange thread. I don't know who Chris Heim is, nor do I know who Margaret is. My "loss" I guess. "Margaret" is Margaret Ray, a disturbed woman who, in the late '80s, stalked Dave to the point of stealing his car and dropping by his home in the middle of the night. She later committed suicide by lying down in front of an approaching train. Very sad. O.K. Who's Chris Heim??

"Monsoon" season. Rains every day for a while, mainly afternoon & night.

ESP sale: Lowell Davidson Trio Don Cherry: Montmartre, Vol.3

Strange thread. I don't know who Chris Heim is, nor do I know who Margaret is. My "loss" I guess.

It ain't what it used to be.

Good thing you only want a "few"!!

Great stuff. FWIW, I prefer Cecil Taylor In Berlin 88. YMMV!!

I'm waiting to see if he buys it for $3 & sells it to one of you for $35!!

Next topic!!

I didn't think I'd care one bit about this but I heard him do Wild World on GMA, & it sounded pretty good.