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  4. More Original Vogue Masters

    in Re-issues

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    At those prices, I'll get it and pass along whatever I already have, but having trouble finding it actually available anywhere. And yes, amazing how ugly the packaging has been on this stuff in the past, especially those brownish covers on the BMG jewel case ones from 20 years ago..

  17. BNLA Series, more 999 Yen reissues from EMI Japan

    in Re-issues

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    Well, I went ahead and ordered Ronnie Foster "Live at Montreux" and GG "Live at the Lighthouse" from one of the previous batches. No one I know or asked has heard the Foster title which I'm quite shocked at because we're all into obscure titles here :)

    But we are NOT into UA era Blue Notes here! And those BN Montreux albums were notorious in how briefly they were available. They were cut out before people even knew they were released. I was fortunate to get the Hutcherson Montreux as a cut out at Third Street Jazz back in the day, and it is something I would have bought new as soon as I saw it.

  18. BFT 106 discussion thread

    in Blindfold Test

    Posted

    Honest first impressions, posted without reading other discussion:

    1 - They do everything "right",so I guess I should like this more than I

    do. Sort of just pleasantly fades into the background for me. Expertly

    played, but in a very predicatable, business-like manner to me.

    2 - Same response as above. I admire the tone and abilities of the tenor

    player but he doesn't grab me, and the main guy I normally had that

    response to was Michael Brecker, so I'm going to guess it's him. This BFT

    reminded me that a fair part of why I don't like newer mainstream stuff is

    because the rhythm sections play differently than they did in the 50's'-

    60's,and this is a good example of that. The drummer is really boring to

    me on this, even though he's likely a "name" guy, and the bass player is

    sort of all over the place rather than laying down a pulse that I can

    connenct to. Another thing that works against me for these first two is

    that they use those sort of samba-ish rhythms that I only sort-of take to.

    3 - Reminds me of those weird Walter Wanderley 60's Verve albums,

    especially that strange lead instrument. Again, not a rhythm I relate to

    particularly well. This one has a pretty cool sense of humor.

    4 - ZZZZZZZZ. Nothing "wrong" with it, but it just feels so "by the

    numbers".

    Thus completes the Samba side of the BFT.

    5 - This is more up my alley. Like what the rhythm section is doing.

    Vibes player sounds like Milt Jackson, but this is too "new" to be one of

    the things he did with Frank Wess in the 50's. Is this one of the ones

    with Jimmy Heath on Pablo in the 80's? A Cedar Walton compostion with him

    on piano?

    6 - I like this a LOT, has such a nice 70's spritual groove to it. This is

    the sort of think I do a lot of listening to. None of the individual

    players jump out at me for distinctive style, but they do their jobs well,

    especially the pianist. This is the first one I'm going to go look into

    acquiring if I don't already have it. Reminds me of some of the stuff that

    came out on Black Jazz or Strata East, or that Harry Whitaker album.

    7 - Carlos Santana, of course, and I was a fan back in the day, until he

    became so "Smooth" c/o Clive Davis. "Gardenia" from 'The Swing of

    Delight', the album he did with Shorter/Hancock et al. That one was a nice

    album, but a relative disappointment given the personnel. I like Carlos a

    lot on this cut, but the sax leaves me cold. I have not been a fan of

    Shorter's post-Miles playing, and really best like him with the Jazz

    Messengers.

    8 - "Land of the Velvet Hills" by JOhnny Smith. Jimmy Atkins on vocal.

    That's perverse, Big Al!

    9 - Time and place. Probably mid-60's, probably Verve records. Conversely

    to cut 1, I like this more than I should. It's a lot of fun, and the

    guitar parts smoke. From the words, I guess it's a cover of Jr. Walker's

    "Shotgun", but they've totally left behind the tune and changed the groove.

    10 - Time and place. Probably 60's, probably Atlantic records. Surely the

    tenor player's album. Fathead Newman? Doing what he does, doing it well

    like he does. Works for me, YMMV, but hopefully not too much. And you

    just don't get good boogaloos anymore.

    11 - The pianist's album. Sounds like something from Herbie Hancock's

    "Inventions and Dimensions" album, but it isn't, and certainly sounds like

    Willie Bobo,but I can't place it. I do like it.

    12 - Right in my sweet spot. Something I surely have, by a tenor player I

    have dozens of cD's by, but I can't place the song and hesitate to guess at

    the player (maybe Lockjaw Davis?). Too much wonderful music, too little

    time. I could spend a lot of decades listening to this sort of thing.

    13 - Gotta be Weather Report or a reasonable facsimile thereof. EP sure

    sounds like Joe Zawinul to me, gotta think it's Weather Report. I like it.

    The lack of synths and the solid bottom of the bass indicate that it would

    be pre_Jaco, which is a good thing to me. Whoever/whatever/whenever it is,

    it's good.

    14 - Blecch. My first thought was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, but

    it's probably something like one of those early A&M/Creed Taylor Nat

    Adderley albums, before Don Sebesky got his footing and made those

    beautiful CTI albums. Really reall dislike that style of trombone playing,

    though I know others here are fond of it. No doubt has "historical

    significance", but still...

    15 - Marginally better than 14, but still not something I'd ever want to

    listen to again. Alto player's album. Hank Crawford? Never have quite

    "gotten" him, even though I own some Atlantic and CTI stuff by him.

    16 - Has to be Lennie Tristano with Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, and Billy

    Bauer. Works OK for me, but it's cold. and George Russell and Cecil Taylor

    were certanily paying attention. I own it, I play it sometimes, I admire

    it. I don't love it.

    17 - Not cold. Vibrato says Coleman Hawkins. Again, something I admire

    more than I like, something I no doubt own, and listen to once in a blue

    moon.

  21. BFT 105 - The Answer Thread

    in Blindfold Test

    Posted

    11. So that is John Abercrombie on guitar? WIthin five years of this, he was making his classic early ECM albums. History seemed more compressed and eventful back then.

    Musically, history WAS more compressed and eventful back then. As far as jazz, look at 1945-1970, then look at 1985-2010. Pop/Rock/R&B/Soul, look at 1955-1984, and then at 1984-2013. I know I sound old, but still...

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