danasgoodstuff

was at my fav record store (Music Millennium in Puddletown) this noon and forgot to even look! Must remember....

finally upgraded my Capt Mrvel, much better sound. Would love to have that Montreaux perf at full length in any format, avail?

No, comparing Benson to Reifinstahl isn't "nuts", it's hyperbole. Just as saying that he'd turned "to the dark side" is... If noting the skill involved in Benson's latter work isn't a defence, what's the point in this context? I'm as big a populist as anyone here, but that's the point - his latter work (draw the line wherever you want, where exactly is interesting but not crucial) isn't populist, IMHO his early work is, even if it was much less popular. I love Grant's latter work, tolerate Wes's, but something about Benson's just seems wrong...and to suggest that it's just because I'm white (plaid?), middle-aged, middle-class, or whatever is just insulting and cheap. The point about people having struggled long and hard to get to "slick" is perfectly valid descriptively; it's just not on point normatively.

JSngry, Usually I'm happy to defer to your articulateness and real musician life experience, but if the foregoing is an elaborate defense/non-defence of "Turn Your Love Around", etc. then I gotta say I thinks that's the most over-thought, neo-romantic pretending to b ralist pile of BS I've read in a long while. Thinking that if something's hard to do it's gotta be good is lowbrow ignorance. Compared to 'Turn Your Love Around", "Work Me Annie" is fucking Shakespeare, and "Fever" is one of his better plays with really good actors and direction. That TYLA may be about coming in the back door might be it's most socially redeeming feature, otherwise it's nearly as big a misuse of skills as Triumph of the Will. I don't care how wonderful his audience may be/have been in other ways, the music still sucks... What happened in Ren. Florence? did they suddenly lose their skills? No, they might have actually gotten more accomplished in some technical sense but they still went from genius to crap in a generation or so. And if you think this is crumudgeonly, I'm still working on my what happened to Rock respnse. Dana

i have a few good 'ns that I believe meet the criteria set forth above: Bud Powell - Plays Charlie Parker on Roulette Stan Getz - studio date on Verve with Gary Burton from the '60s, one with chick remains mostly unissued! Sonny Rollins - the Alternative... leftovers from the '60s on RCA, first issued in FRance, 20 years+? Eric Dolphy/Chico Hamilton - Ellington Suite, first version Miles Davis - various bits and pieces on the boxes, despite the carping from some corners,ther's good stuff there...and not so good too.

Who let his mind spill out in a bucket?

the Belmonts, with and without Dion, made some nice party music

and Nina Rota, either the originals ST's or Amacord Nina Rota's reinterp's.

Spaghetti Western soundtracks - the Good, the bad, etc.

"All My Trials" from Sonny Sharrock's Highlife. Wish Stanley T. had done some more spirituals &/or gospell.

There are no wrong instruments, just wrong times/ways to play them...

I do, I love hearing genuine jazz populists like stanley or Grant Green play hits of the day. neither of these is any more unlikely than "Little Green Apples" or "McArthur Park" which were issued at the time. Not quite the range grant showed doing evrything from "On Top of Spaghetti" to Mozart... Sonny Criss did a very swinging "Up, Up & Away", apparently he thought it was an instruction as to tempo.

John bonham neil Peart No jazz drummer comes close to annoying me as much as these two.

Got and am enjoying the Turrentine, anyone have any idea why the versions of "Up Up & Away" and "Georgie Girl" listed in discographies for the second session seren't included?

Another great Scots organist bites the dust! I wondered who the third would be after Guiffre and dickerson. RIP

I love the part in Milestones where hard bop orthadoxy just disolves into an echoing rhodes wash...to me it's everything happening then in one little gesture.

I have this and haven't listened to it in ages, have to think whether I want to get rid of it...

Jim, My deepest sympathies, we all have to face this if we live long enough, but still... I'm 53 and thankful my 6 year old still has all 4 grandparents. I hope you can take some somfort in what certainly sounds like a great relationship with your dad. Dana

Never been a big fan, but 'you can't argue with a hit', much les 146 of them! In some ways the ones that stayed at #1 for months at a time are even more impressive than the total...

i've been listening to lots of Grant Green lately and digging it as always (early and late), but the single track that did the most for me recently was a relatively obscure later Drifters thing with lead vocals by Ben E. King, who also cowrote it, called "Sometimes I Wonder". I too dig Jr Parker, have to listen to some soon...

Love Danny G, pretty much indifferent to Roy B. New York Stories is fine by me. Loved Jr Brown at first then wnet kinda lukewarm. Shoulda put Gatton's version of "Funky Mama" on my blindfold.

I know I should be able to figure it out myself, but is there sheet music for "The Train & the River" available? And RIP Mr Giuffre.

I've got what I think is a complete Billy Larkin & the delegates on vinyl: 1) Billy Larkin & the Delegates (Aura 3002) 196? Featuring their hit "Pygmy", later covered by the MGs. If you've never heard them think somewhere between the MGs and the Three Sounds. Just a trio at this point with local (Portland, OR) hero Mel Brown on drums. 2) Blue Lights (Aura AR 83003) "featuring Clifford Scott" added to the above trio, Blue Hour it ain't, but nice. 3) Hole In the Wall (World Pacific WPS 21837) Half with the original trio, half new guys. Title tune is the Packers hit (Packy Axton plus MGs moonlighting). 4) Ain't That a Groove (WP 1843) Title James Brown cover could be added to Lou's "Say It Loud" and various Grant Green tracks for a Blue/Brown tribute. With Fats Theus. 5) Hold On! (WP 1850) Fats is back and they do Dylan, Sam & Dave, George & Ira, more James, and the Standells' "Dirty Water". And Duke Pearson's "Jenne" (sic). 6) Don't Stop (WP 1863) Group grows to 6, more hits of the day plus a few standards, pretty dancing colored girl on the cover. 7) Dr. Feelgood (WPS-21874) as described above. Didn't have too much trouble tracking them down locally, enjoy but would consider selling/trading as a batch.

News For Lulu is a triumph, one of the rare recordings where an interesting concept actually spurs better playing, and as no-set-roles fully interactive as you could hope for.

Saw Lightening at the U of Sask. in the '70s (a golden era for me). solo electric and quirky, but a good time was had by all and beyond that I really don't remember.