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I think I like his playing a lot and love his writing, and am not sure how to separate them sometimes. I'm sure Freddie Hubbard has to rate #1 for me in pure playing (favorite, I am not qualified to select "best"). And I really like Hannibal Peterson. Hannibal and Tolliver play more like Coltrane than like the usual trumpet players to me. I also really liked the VERY early Wynton Marsalis playing with Blakey. Hope that last sentence doesn't get me shamed off the website .

That's also my understanding. I believe I have everything else he did as a leader on CD.

I also like it a lot. Perfectly listenable as long as you don't expect more than that.

https://www.audaud.com/charles-tolliver-charles-tolliver-all-stars-pure-pleasure-records/ Just saw this in the jazzmessengers new release email. Still looking for a CD of it... Also, Clifford Jordan's masterpiece, Glass Bead Games, in the same vinyl series. https://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/79969/clifford-jordan/glass-bead-games?mc_cid=2fecb9c998&mc_eid=d43870520b

I think it's an utter mess, but an interesting utter mess. I do still own it, which says something. I hear you, but that maybe calls into question the idea of doing that concert in the first place. I heard McCoy Tyner and Marian McPartland play together at an encore at the Tower Theatre 20ish years ago. They retained their identities, but met each other somewhere that worked. Of course, McPartland did that all the time on her radio show. Did not know about the aspects of Mary Lou you are sharing, but easy enough to understand how some of that would have come about, given what she may have experienced in the biz.

Yep. This 90's album is a monster:

Me too, $25.49 from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/24x35-Great-Harlem-Portrait-Poster/dp/B000O2C0LQ/ref=sr_1_3?crid=9HH2VLQDFF00&keywords=great+day+in+harlem+poster&qid=1553271254&s=gateway&sprefix=great+day+in+harle%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-3

I actually do own that CD, which is what prompted me to ask the question! Is that recording the performance you saw?

Was it a train wreck? I love Williams. but doesn't seem like Taylor did.

Blakey (twice), McPartland, Rollins (twice). I was scheduled to see Dizzy at Penn's Landing in 1992, but he was ill, and the band functioned as a tribute band instead. Still remember the trumpet section - Jon Faddis and Freddie Hubbard, who were egging each other on, and Wynton Marsalis, who was having none of it.

That's a great set of music.

Thanks, I have a fair amount of Hoodoo Gurus early work. Have heard the others, but never really dove in, and I will explore more fully.

Checked them out and really like them - much of their catalog is on the way to my mailbox, thanks!

Sort of a tricky question because I use those sets as fillers for items I don't want to shell out bigger bucks on. In pure muslcal terms for rock, I would choose things like the Byrds, the Jefferson Airplane, etc, but I have that music in nicer configurations. Same with jazz, of course somethng like the Coltrane is great, but I love the "Heavyweight Champion" box, so don't have any use for the OAS set. I buy these sets for things like Jean-Luc Ponty Atlantic albums, Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Band, Tower of Power, Bad Company, etc.

I've revisited a few times through the years, and it's always left me cold in general. I find the loft scene music a lot more to my tastes. My tastes are also broader than they were in the past, but they aren't universal.

Thanks, yes, I have followed the adventures of Holsapple and Stamey for decades, and have the core Db's music. The "No Wave" stuff sort of sounds like the antithesis of Richard Barone. I can check it out on youtube, I imagine.

The strings are reversed. Not as strange as this, though.

Fair enough.

Not sure why the ENJA LP is being used to refute comments about the Honeydew content. I own the ENJA CD and like it fine. And Honeydew Vol. 1 is 60% drum solos, so not sure how the comments become hyperbole.

I'm getting old enough that I figured I had better finish out the two remaining genres I always meant to go back and explore in more depth, 70's Soul/Funk/Disco and Late 70'sEarly 80's Power Pop/New Wave. In the latter, I have come across Richard Barone, who does music of great beauty. His group the Bongos were apparently the pop kings of Hoboken, and garnered some early MTV play. I started with the greatly expanded CD version of their initial "Drums Along The Hudson" album, which then led me to his solo work, and back to the pricey followup Bongos albums (which I have on order). I find his work stunning, it just grabs me emotionally. Any other fans? Any other groups I should be aware of from that era, since I like him/them so much?

Apparently, Dale played the trumpet piece himself, and was reasonably accomplished on the instrument.

For the uninitiated. The Dick Dale version is both a great piece of music and a cultural touchstone. The Bbby Fuller version is just freaking jaw-dropping. What a loss he was, gone at 23 under such strange circumstances. Much more to him than "I Fought The Law" (though even that alone would have made him memorable). RIP.