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There were some lovely clips of /ruth Brown, Joe Turner, Ray Charles and the Clovers (parts of 3 dif songs!). Good stuff on his differences with vis a vis J. Wexler. The royalty dispute with Ruth was covered, his role as an apologist for the Turk's slaughter of the armenians was not.

I'm more a fan of Love Bug, in part because of who's on it, but the're both good, dirty fun. "Hold On, I'm Coming" (bonus cut on Love Bug) is my fav since I'm a huge stax fan. Have to think about what my fav solo is...

Not to be confused with Little Johnny taylor...which, of course, they often are.

Was in the store the other day and I heard some pretty nice convential modern jazz on their system and wondered who it was til he started lecturing/hectoring in his prissy schoolmarm psuedo profound way - why can't Wynton just shut up and play? Still not quite as bad as the (Crouch authored?) sermon he put on one of his records...

The final product notes make the trane homage explicit, one piece is a notes for letters thing on "coltrane tenor" and, of course, they do "Africa" which works well as a small group thing and certainly doesn't get covered much. Unless I'm forgetting something I think I like this as well as any new jazz in the last decade or so, except maybe some of Frisell's Is It Jazz? Lovano sounds less indebted to Trane here than some other things he's done and I particularly like Lewis Nash, here and elsewhere.

OK, I know this isn't one of the ones I mentioned in my previous Help Me Pick thread but I had a change of heart. I also considered picking Dave Holland's Triplicate and/or extensions since they were the last of his that did anything for me. But I settled on Pat Martino's 2003 Think Tank since it's one of the few more recent things that I like, we don't do enuff recent AOTWs and I wanted to listen to it again anyways. It features Joe Lovano, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Christian McBride (no relation to Martina?), and Lewis Nash, but it's not just a jam session. I don't pretend to understand Pat's elaborate theories but I can sense that the material engages the players. If you want a point of comparison I'd suggest the contemporanius LoScoMoFo album which left me cold. We'll have to discuss Michel, Dave, Willie and Big Joe another time.

On the way to Carcassonne you might want to hit some of the Cathar hideouts in the mountains.

All five sessions would probably fit on 2 CDs and complete the issue of all non-rejected ST on BN...except for Look of Love and Always Something There which were out on Applause and could easily both fit on one CD. The mid-sized sessions, the stuff I've heard anyways, are definitely better than Look/Always and even those heavily orchastrated sides aren't too bad.

and Stanley Turrentine Orchestra Burt Collins, Marvin Stamm (tp, flh) Garnett Brown, Benny Powell (tb) Stanley Turrentine (ts) Jerry Dodgion, Joe Farrell, Al Gibbons (reeds) McCoy Tyner (p) Everett Barksdale (g) Bob Cranshaw (b) Grady Tate (d) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, January 25, 1968 2033 Spooky Blue Note 45-1936, B1 31883 2034 Elusive Butterfly Blue Note (E) CDP 7243 4 93991-2 2035 Love Is Blue Blue Note 45-1936 2036 When I Look Into Your Eyes unissued * Various Artists - The Lost Grooves (Blue Note B1 31883) * Stanley Turrentine Plays the Pop Hits - Easy (Blue Note (E) CDP 7243 4 93991-2) * Stanley Turrentine - Spooky c/w Love Is Blue (Blue Note 45-1936) Larry Young Quintet

another Stanley Turrentine Nonet Blue Mitchell (tp) Garnett Brown (tb) James Spaulding (as, fl) Stanley Turrentine (ts) McCoy Tyner (p) Duke Pearson (org, arr) Bob Cranshaw (b) Ray Lucas (d) Richard Landrum (cga, bgo, tamb) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, July 28, 1967 1928 tk.3 The Look of Love unissued 1929 tk.14 You Want Me to Stop Loving You Blue Note B1 31883 1930 tk.18 Dr. Feelgood unissued 1930 tk.21 - - 1931 tk.34 Up, Up and Away - 1932 tk.36 Georgy Girl - 1933 tk.39 A Foggy Day Blue Note CDP 7243 8 29908-2 * Various Artists - The Lost Grooves (Blue Note B1 31883) * Stanley Turrentine - Easy Walker (Blue Note CDP 7243 8 29908-2)

OK, here's one Stanley Turrentine Tentet Blue Mitchell, Tommy Turrentine (tp) Julian Priester (tb) Jerry Dodgion (as, fl) Stanley Turrentine (ts) Al Gibbons (ts, bcl) Pepper Adams (bars, cl) McCoy Tyner (p) Walter Booker (b) Mickey Roker (d) Duke Pearson (arr) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, June 9, 1967 1904 tk.16 With This Ring Blue Note unissued 1905 tk.15 Silver Tears - 1906 tk.20 A Bluish Bag - 1907 tk.26 Come Back to Me - 1908 tk.30 The Days of Wine and Roses - 1909 tk.45 Message to Michael Blue Note rejected

The Stan T sessions mentioned above would make a nice, logical coupling but there's more similar (some unissued) stuff from the same era, I'll have to see if I can copy and paste...

Lee Morgan and Sonny Rollins

I have driven in the south of France, once. Based on that my reccomendation is don't try to cover as much ground per day as you would in the States. It doesn't work and things change v. quickly, 100K and evrything will be different, the scenery, the food, etc. I planned my trip using a book called The Hundred Most Beautifull Villages in France which included places that were pretty touristy and soime that weren't at all. I crossed the Pyrenees through Andorra and it was pretty spectacular... Have a plan, but be flexible, you're bound to just run into things you want to spend time on.

Actually, I was leaning towards the other choices, and if I did LeGrand Jazz it would be to say that other than the soloists I don't really like it that much,at least not nearly as well as Gil's Old Wine New Bottles and other somewhat comparable work of the same period. Oh well, nothing like a little controversy...and I was looking forward to getting Clem's input on Willie and Big Joe.

I just signed up for March 4 and was considering doing Michel LeGrand's LeGrand Jazz (with Miles & Ben), Big Joe Turner's Boss of the Blues or Willie's Star Dust (the last two maybe together as they both rework familiar material). Thanx muchly for your input, Dana

What's the name of the instrumental on vol 1/2that Genisus obviously heard? ("That's all") Dana

Not sure if it's OOP, the library where I work has it and I have some of the material elsewhere...

I really like Rhino's Roots of Funk, Vol.1/2, a sort of prequel to their History of Funk series, once the genre gets firmly established it all gets too reified for me (more or less true for all genres, but more so for funk IMHO). Given that I'm not sure how much I would like this box...

I'll go one step further - I love this album, esp'ly Greensleeves, particularly the alt. take...

I was a bigger fan of Rod's than Elton back in the day but I think Elton's actually aged better (could hardly be worse), never woulda guessed...

I too wrote for City Pages (in MN), 15+ years ago, can it really have been that long? Both jazz and other stuff....

I geuss part of my reaction was due to knowing more of the story going in...creative collaboration is often pretty messy and Strayhorn wasn't the only one in Ellington's orbit who sometimes felt misused but ruthlessness is sometimes what it takes to get results and you can't really argue with something as sublime as what Ellington, Strayhorn, Hodges, Williams, Carney, etc. created together. Listen to And His Mother Called Him Bill.

Recently bought the Complete Omega tapes thing, mostly so I could finally hear the two tunes previously issued only on some long forgotten compilation - "jazz Blues" & "Blues Jazz". Nice, short period genre pieces, one med boogie, one slow honking blues. Not surprisingly Carl Perkins sounds more at home getting down in this fashion. Nice bonus was the interesting notes. And I felt no guilt since EMI/Blue Note?Mosaic have had forever to make this stuff fully available and failed...

It was on at 11pm here in OR. I found it interesting, focussed largely on the collaboration with Ellington and what benefits and costs it may have had for Strayhorn. The tie-in with BN's new tribute project had Lovano, Charlap, Hank Jones and Elvis Costello doing various compositions - interesting but not compelling.