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PM sent on: $9 Mal Waldron/Marion Brown Much More Oliver Lake Trio Expandable Language Freddie Roach Down to Earth (Spanish BN) $5 George Russell New York, NY James Blood Ulmer In the Name of Jan Garbarek Eventyr Mulgrew Miller Chapters 1 and 2 $2 Walter Norris (w/ Mraz) Hues of Blues free* Miles Davis Essence of Miles Stevie Wonder Music from Jungle Fever

Can I trade you some Barry Bonds rookie cards for those CDs, Dan? Rookie cards? No. Prison Softball Team card, absolutely. I'll give you two for one if you throw in a Clemens "Solitary Confinement" card. In Philly we want Adam Eaton arrested for (poorly) impersonating a major league pitcher. And for stealing $25,000,000 over a three year period.

I was listening to Andrew Cyrille's Metamusicians' Stomp CD this morniing, and was blown away by the work of the bassist, Nick DiGeronimo. Reminds me of Reggie Workman, great double stops in his playing and very lyrical. I'm not otherwise familiar with DiGeronimo, and can't really find anything on him on allmusic. Can anyone give me any thoughts or info on him? The music on the CD was recorded in 1978 in Milano (It's a Black Saint CD, with Cyrille, DiGeronimo, Ted Daniel and David S. Ware).

PM sent on the following Michael Cochrane, Minor Matrix (Steeplechase) $7 Michael Cochrane, Gesture of Faith (Steeplechase) $7 Charles Earland, Blowing the Blues Away (HighNote) $7 Charles Earland, Cookin With the Mighty Burner (HighNote) $7

Even if you grant that what the world needs is a sampler of Davis's Prestige recordings, Concord already has five others of those in their catalog ("Plays for Lovers", "Prestige Profiles", "Jazz Showcase", 'Best of", "Bluing"). They are sitting on so much stuff, and there is such imaginative stuff they could do with what they do have, that this just struck me as especially lame on many levels. How about a box of the Miles pre-quintet recordings, for instance. How about a box of the Coltrane sideman recordings, how about something imaginative like Fantasy was doing when Concord bought them out?

Ya couldn't make this stuff up. Coming soon, according to their website: http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/albums/PRCD-30802/ and I quote: Muted Miles - Miles Davis This hand-picked collection puts a softly-focused blue spotlight on the intimate and unmistakable sound of the one and only Miles Davis playing his horn with a Harmon mute. In fact, this is the first-ever compilation to showcase his seminal harmon mute performances on Presige! Miles's artfully nuanced playing, presented with the sonic signature of his warmly-buzzing, muted trumpet tone is, to this day, often imitated but never duplicated. Featuring many of the all-time greatest names in jazz including John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, and Red Gardland, this incredible specially-priced collection is not to be missed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACKLISTING 1. Just Squeeze Me 2. My Funny Valentine 3. Surrey With The Fringe On Top 4. 'Round Midnight 5. If I Were A Bell 6. Nature Boy 7. It Could Happen To You 8. You're My Everything 9. In Your Own Sweet Way

PM sent on Eric Alexander, New York Calling (Criss Cross) $6 Eric Alexander, Straight Up (Delmark) $6 Eric Alexander, Mode for Mabes (Delmark) $6 Eric Alexander, Live at the Keynote (Video Arts - Japanese disc) $8 Kenny Barron, Invitation (Criss Cross) $6 Kenny Barron Trio, Lemuria-Seascape (Criss Cross) $6 Don Braden, After Dark (Criss Cross) $7 Don Braden, Wish List (Criss Cross) $7

Maybe yes, maybe no, but that's my perogative. Why should I keep a CD if I don't like it?

...and I'll take it next, even if I don't intend to keep it either. Then who's next after me?? Maybe we should just chip in and have an Organissimo board lending library!

Email sent on the Dennis Wilson, which I would like to hear even if I don't keep it.

We're trying to make a linear progression of Benson's work in the 60's-70', starting at point A and ending at point B or C (depending on if you think point A is jazz or pop), but the reality isn't so simple, either in terms of genre or quality. The Prestige and the Columbia's are pleasant enough genre exercises, but not that big a deal. I think he'd be pretty forgotten by now if that was it. The Verve's to me were poorly planned and executed sell-out's, far inferior to the early Warner Brothers sides. The CTI's contained some work which was the highlight of his career. To me, 'Beyond The Blue Horizon' is the greatest jazz guitar album ever made. By anyone. 'White Rabbit' and some of the other titles are also pretty terrific. But the CTI stuff started poorly as an extension of the Verve stuff, and ended poorly with 'Good King Bad' and Taylor's disastrous decision to overdub the Carnegie Hall stuff. 'Breezin' was a breath of fresh air, and only has two vocal cuts, less than the Verve's did, I think. Even as late as 'Live in L.A', there was still plenty of enjoyable music and plenty of fine guitar solos, although they weren't as fine as on his primo CTI titles. After that, it went bad. But something as late as "The World is a Ghetto" on 'In Flight' brings me a lot more enjoyment than anything as early as the Columbia's, which have always sounded awfully generic to me (and I've never "gotten" Lonnie Smith). Benson being true to himself doesn't neatly categorize, and that's fine with me (or was through the end of the 70's. His recordings since have been pretty useless to my ears).

PM sent on Vandermark 5 - Alchemia (12 disc box set, like new condition) -- $75

It is indeed! I was listening to it a week or so ago. Fabuloso! And just fits onto a single CD. The only complaint I have with the album is the LP packaging, which is dire, as well as being horrid. I suspect I'd welcome a CD, simply to not have to fiddle with the packaging. MG I'll give a third on the Masekela, which was indeed a double album. Contains what I remember being the definitive version of Larry Willis's great "Inner Crisis". I've been waiting for this one to come to CD. Getz's 'Sweet Rain', as mentioned in other threads, is great. My favorite Getz album of all time, period.

When teamed w/Stepney, oh hell yeah. The shit's all over the map, from psychedelic doo-wop to borderline wack vocal jazz to deep grit South((ern) (Side)) Soul to Power Funk, but its always got them voices, and them voices is good. This is what them that only know their music as Popular & Soulful nowadays call "grown folks music" in the best possible way. Yeah, Marvin Junior could deliver the goods! They even made "Love is Blue" soulful and heartfelt and cutting edge!

When teamed w/Stepney, oh hell yeah. The shit's all over the map, from psychedelic doo-wop to borderline wack vocal jazz to deep grit South((ern) (Side)) Soul to Power Funk, but its always got them voices, and them voices is good. This is what them that only know their music as Popular & Soulful nowadays call "grown folks music" in the best possible way. This seems like the right place to put in a plug for the three early 70's Terry Callier Cadet albums with Stepney - "Occasional Rain", "What Color Is Love", and "I Just Can't Help Myself". "Dancing Girl" from "What Color Is Love" (or most any of the best of's) is as stunning a piece of music as you will come across, and defies non-hyphenated categorization, as does most of Callier's music (is "folk-jazz-soul" helpful?). "Ordinary Joe", from "Occasional Rain" is a great anthem. Just a little bit freer than I indeed! Stepney also did some really interesting work with the Rotary Connection (Minnie Riperton was a member) prior to his work with Callier and at roughly the same time as his work with the Dells, though it didn't hit the amazing highs of the Callier work, which at it's best is a landmark in music.

The albums that sparked this thread, 'Soul Call' and 'The Tender Gender' were recorded in '64 and '66 respectively, and have a different feel to them than his 50's work. That's what caught me by surprise when I heard them. I find Burrell's 50's and ealry 60's work to be solid and dependable (many of the sessions were very "by the book", though admittedly it's a great book), but not overly exciting. I find much of his work since the late 70's to be pretty boring, though some of it holds up very well. But for me, he hit a peak in the mid 60's and produced his most rewarding sessions as a leader, both conceptually and playing-wise. Much of it stretched into areas his earlier and later playing never dared to (at least to my ears).

"Tender Gender" along with one other album was released on CD as "Soulero", which I think is also OOP, but sometimes shows up on eBay. Actually, 'Soulero' is 'Tender Gender' with only half of another album, the bad (non title-suite) half of 'Ode to 52nd St.'. Running time is like 54 minutes. Another one of those strange, screwed-up MCA reissues of some classic jazz stuff that were inflicted on us in the early-mid 90's.

I give an additional strong on both Soul Call and Tender Gender. Both proved to be well beyond what I expected of them based on the personnel, and rank as two of my favorite Burrell's. Mid 60's was definitely a peak period for Burrell.

I have the 1994 Blue Note CD of Bob Brookmeyer/Bill Evans - The Ivory Hunters. The CD has the booklet, but not the tray card. If someone would be willing to send me a scan of the traycard (john.felser@verizon.net), it would be much appreciated! thx

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Organissimo is of course one of a kind as a community, but is anyone aware of anything vaguely similar which discusses, trades CD's etc. for 60's/70's rock? Any recommendations? Thx.

PM sent on Jackson/Brown/Roker/Pass ALL TOO SOON: THE ELLINGTON ALBUM (Pablo/OJC) Jackson/Brown/Roker/Pass QUADRANT (Pablo/OJC) Somebody needs to grab that Sonny Criss title - it's spectacular, written and arranged by Horace Tapscott.

If she is a real individual, rather than a staff of customer service reps hiding behind one name to create the illusion of a cozy mom 'n' pop operation, then I hope she has good benefits. They're moving 400,000 pieces a year just through Amazon, so if she's one person handling all of that, I want to hire her! Caiman remains one of my top choices on Amazon Marketplace, along with ImportCDs. I find both utterly dependable for anything in print, and have not had any delivery failures from either in a long time (over a year). And I order a LOT of CD's from them.

Well, I guess that's one take on it - certainly not mine. It's deader than a doornail and has been for at least 20 years if not 30. When I see someone like Nick Cave being offered up as proof that rock is alive and vital, all I can do is cover my ears and think "huh?". I think I agree with the 50 years answer, and with the one that says something truly new and innovative needs to come along, and that it may or may not be called "rock".

Must be nice to have 1 - a brick and mortar to buy them at 2 - a lunch break