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7 hours ago, Dan Gould said:
I had the 45 though I was about 7 at the time and for a long time beyond all I knew of the Allmans was that song and Cher banging Gregg.
That's a grim tale!
6 hours ago, mjzee said:The Fillmore album was simply great through and through.
Yes, wore mine out as a teenager, was (and still am) especially mesmerized by the perfect "Hot 'Lanta"/"In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" album side, and by the live "Whipping Post".
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RIP, greatly enjoyed his guitar work, especially in tandem with Duane or with the spectacular Warren Haynes. Though I hated "Rambin' Man" the first time I heard it, let alone the 1,000 time!
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Author is Phil Freeman, who has a substack. I'm not familiar with him, but wish him the best on the book, which could be an interesting read if well researched and written. Freeman seems to have a strong affinity for Taylor's work.
https://burningambulance.substack.com/p/the-limitations-of-style
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My daughter! (1990). And whatever came of Junko Onishi? I really liked her BN albums from 25-30 years ago.
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I own this in addition to the Black Jazz titles, and enjoy it quite a bit:
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Great stuff. Pharoah shines.
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RIP. I enjoy his Black Jazz titles and have a good later session by him.
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The four extended cuts are two classic Chick Corea's (Times Lie, 500 Miles High), a Classic Wayne Shorter (Lester Left Town), and the title track. Great CD, even with the so-so (not terrible) sound quality!
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4 hours ago, JSngry said:
He sings standards now and one of his songs was covered by Chet Baker. He's been married to Diana Krall since 2003 and in 2004 she did an album of songs they co-wrote.
Plus, he used to be a rock star of sorts.
So he can draw a crowd to a jazz festival, rightly or wrongly.
And he's being backed by McCoy Tyner!!!!!!!
Costello was (rightly) a very big deal in post-punk/new wave in the late 70's/early 80's. He and Joe Jackson were the cream of that crop for me.
Costello is being backed by McCoy Tyner who passed in 2020? Tell me more!
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15 minutes ago, tranemonk said:
I don't think Elvis Costello appeals to the old or new jazz/non jazz fan.
He appeals to me, so not 100% true. He's terribly inconsistent, but throws out a fascinating album often enough that I try to keep up with his work (though sometimes with a several year delay to get them cheap on the used market). Very few other rock artists from his era I can say that about at this point (Richard Thompson is the only other one who immediately comes to mind).
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I like Chic and Elvis Costello, but never thought of them as headliners for major jazz festivals (or appearing on the same bill together.
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29 minutes ago, JSngry said:
Don't think it was that simple...the New Note Hitmakers got bigger deals at bigger labels. No help was forthcoming from the bullpen. Not unlike CTI.
Bobby Hutcherson also made a series of not-very-well produced records during this time. Him and Horace were the last "pure jazz" artists left on Blue Note...and then there was Horace. Those were good music, but less than great records. They too were all in the cutout bins in quantity.
Not only did George Butler not know how to make a good record, he did know how to run a business into the ground.
Besides, given the marketplace dynamic of that time, if Horace's & Bobby would have made no-frills records for that Blue Note, they would still have gotten ignored. Case in point - Knucklebean.
So much for the marketplace being an educated, reliable arbiter of music. The marketplace don't know shit about music, and when they get it right, it's usually because the music was in the same room with the sociology. And failing to recognize that as we age is not cultivating taste, it's just wallowing in nostalgia.
I liked those later Bobby Hutcherson albums (nice Mosaic Select), though you're right, they also ended up as cutouts very quickly. To me, Hutcherson and Elvin Jones made the last of the consistent runs of good albums on BN, though some other occasional titles (such as the two Chico Hamilton's and the Eddie Henderson's) were interesting. And I like the Ronnie Foster's, though not so sure they should be classified as jazz (also not sure they shouldn't). That first Ronnie Laws album is a guilty pleasure for me for "Always There". But the Silver 'n' series left me cold when I heard it (Being a BN obsessive,I have since picked up a couple of them on Japanese CD's, and they sound better to me, but I avoided the ones with voices on them, which includes Silver 'n Percussion also). Elvin went off to Vanguard, Hutcherson to Columbia, where they put out OK (but not great) albums, not up to the standards of their later BN work, but no doubt at least the Hutcherson's sold better. Of course, Butler also ended up at Columbia somehow.
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1 hour ago, JSngry said:
The lesson here is that George Butler didn't know what the fuck he was doing trying to make this kind of a record. Did anybody try to stop him?
The marketplace did. Those albums didn't sell (I saw them in cutout bins very quickly), and the company went dormant.
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Listened to the Live 1977 samples, and immediately ordered it - great stuff! If only his studio work at the time had been in the same vein.
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4 hours ago, jazzbo said:
Santana “Borboletta” Columbia LP
Love that album - Leon Patillo is great on it. Saw that edition of the group at the Atlantic City Raceway in 1974, and they blew CSNY and Jesse Colin Young off the stage. Incidentally, tickets were $10. What would they go for now for that type of show?
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20 minutes ago, JSngry said:
Not at all a great step down in terms of composition, quite the opposite!
In terms of records, though, they are not at all well-produced.
I can make that differentiation, but I get that not everybody can, or wants to. But there are some GREAT tunes in those records (and some not so great). That 1977 live record is worth a listen in that regard.
I hope in time that some ambitious retro person combs that catalogue and makes a record with some kind of project or whatever it is they do today. There is some good stuff there to be had!
Agreed and understood, I'm one of the ones who can't make the distinction. The production on the Silver 'n series renders several of them unlistenable for me, so I can't really judge the compositions. I've never heard that live 1977 recording on Promising Music, have always wanted to, and I still hope to at some point. Some of the lyrics on the United States of Mind albums sound painfully naive today.
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Sublime, underrated singer.
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21 hours ago, GA Russell said:
Don't know why, but I have always in my mind divided his music into pre-Song for My Father and post-Song for My Father.
I would really enjoy a box of his 1964-1969 albums.
Breakup of the Cook/Mitchell/Taylor/Brooks quintet, and entry of Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, etc., more progressive players is why. Another divide comes with the United States of Mind releases, which commence in 1970 and that chapter continues through the remaining decade of his BN stay; that break is noted by your 1964-1969 box set (that is my favorite period of his also, but I prefer owning the individual CD's with BN's to recreate the era and aura more fully for me). To me, the 1970-1980 releases have not aged well, and are a great step down from his earlier work (1972's In Pursuit of the 27th Man is an outlier, stylistically and quality-wise belonging with his 1964-1969 work). I'm not familiar with his Silveto catalog (was that his own label?), but the CBS/Impulse/GRP albums of the 90's, while "good", are quite retro in style, and not of great interest to me (I have owned them at different points, but not kept them. When I want to hear that style of his, I go back to the BN's. Can't own/keep everything). I'm thankful for the vintage live albums which have leaked out on Pablo, BN, and TCB. And there is some "grey region" live stuff around of varying fidelity.
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On 4/1/2024 at 8:40 PM, DrJ said:
That's great, glad you enjoyed it! Would love to hear your thoughts after you have a chance to absorb the whole disc.
Finished up listening. I also like the bass player a lot, and still love the pianist (BTW, looks to be his label issuing the disc), and they play really well together. The idea of adding lyrics to Shorter/Morgan/Dorham is intriguing. Still not sold on the singer as a singer, but she does have ideas and a style. The horns and drummer are functional, don't get in the way. Overall, a nice listen which will reside on my secondary shelves. The cut you picked is my favorite on the album. Thanks for the lead!
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5 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:
You know the way guys in Philly are.
Indeed I do!
8 hours ago, Dan Gould said:I figured it was obvious in context I was referring to Horace as the last contracted artist on BN until the end of the first incarnation of the label, and that therefore a live recording in 1964 would be BN property and that how it came to Pablo was an unresolved mystery, not that he was a Blue Note artist thru his entire recorded output. I am forgetful, not ignorant.
Understood, thx.
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28 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:
Verve/Impulse at the end.
interesting the Pep's material was tossed. Maybe the band wasn't on top of its game that night.
And Columbia and Silveto before that. My memory is reading that Silver asked Lion to toss the Pep's tapes.
New CD re-issues of Ahmad Jamal's Argo releases
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But with original artwork, which to me adds substantially to the overall experience of classic reissues. One of the reasons I'm not a huge fan of Mosaic's.