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Interesting, I just barely skimmed my way through, but #2 grabbed me the most, to say the least. No idea who any of it might be.

Does anyone else hear the Oliver band with Armstrong as funk? Sounds to me more like the JBs, etc. than like any modern jazz band. Not that that's a bad thing... just wondering.

Ayler, Revelations

the Land of Living Skies! Enrico Rava and a bunch of Italians I never heard of play stuff written or co-written by MJ, plus Smile by Chaplin which was his favorite tune, I thought it was brilliant

That seems easily fixable, and the costs should be recoverable from the insurance on the truck what done it.

they let ties just stand in the CFL? I'd totally forgotten that.

I've always enjoyed this solo piano outing of his.

Those CDs are favorites of mine too, along with the Raymond Scott collection that came out around the same time. One of the few paces our tastes overlap, I think. Fun stuff and seriously great too, part of a thing then rethinking the canon and giving it new balls or something. it seemed like a thing at the time. I have them filed next to Zorn's News For Lulu and other non-bop versions of bop tunes and Bailey's Ballads. And Don Byron's Bug Music.

I love that neighborhood - we were walking around and had gone to the Albright Knox and the gallery at Buffalo State, having walked all the way up Elmwood from Allentown, when someone told us you have to see this place, just go down the way there and turn left and you'll see it. and they were right, like walking into a horror movie.

Yes, or maybe they do hear it and the're just very bad at telling you. but it certainly seems like for jazz and everything else that there are some who claim to get it who really don't.

Live at the Regal has better songs too, but they are both well worth having. As is the live half of Live & Well, and any number of other recordings of BB doing his thing for an appreciative audience. My favorite single live track might be the two-part single of Sweet 16 taken from the same date as Blues is King and added to some CD versions. My 3 recommends, that I don't think have been covered yet: Jr. Wells (& Buddy Guy), Hoodoo Man Blues Magic Sam, West Side Soul Albert King, Born Under a Bad Sign

Really? some might think he helped put them under.

Actually, mostly no. There's nothing wrong with the format per se, but in practice many of the particular brand of modernism of 10" jazz LP covers are not to my tastes. And the pop covers from that era are mostly just cheap looking.

Yes, Grant did say that he listened to horn players mostly. He also said about playing different material, 'it's all blues'.

I found them to be decidedly a mixed bag, but I'll possibly pick them up if I see them cheap when I've got $ in my pocket.

That was lovely.

I actually own both of those, although they aren't big favorites, I was thinking Final Comedown (where he hardly gets to play) and the first of the two Revenant live titles. Idle Moments is 'chill', Am I Blue barely has a pulse, IMHO YMMV etc.

While I generally prefer the earlier era, I wouldn't go that far - I'd take most of the later era over Am I Blue. I particularly enjoy Green is Beautiful and all of the live dates made for BN. And comparisons like that seem pointless to me, the only real question to me is do I enjoy something enough to buy and keep a hard copy around the house. There might be two albums under Grant's name where I would answer 'no' to that question. More interesting to me is my observation that I really only hear one guy playing across all of Grant's various eras and settings.

I think Weinstein is fantasizing to fit his narrative. Goin' West is an utterly joyful record, most likely inspired by Sonny's Way Out West. And Archie Shepp's gospel album Goin' Home is one of the best things in his discography, as is 4 for Trane which may very well have been Impulse's idea.

Big news here in Portland, RIP.

Jack & Willie playing Hank

Interesting, but I have no idea.

Thank you

I'm sure we'll mention darn near everyone he worked with eventually, but in addition to those already mentioned I like Kenny Clark and Roy Haynes with Monk. On the other hand, I generally love Billy Higgins but don't think he and Monk were quite on the same wavelength.

Soul, Barbara Simmons with Jackie Mac & Grachan, et al On this album Wm. Blake is set to new music since his music has been lost, sometimes it's sung and sometimes spoken. And I have a cassette recording of me reading my Hank Mobley poem to the accompaniment of my friend Scot Fultz's band Straight No Filter, said poem published in the UK literary journal Fire, all rights reserved by yours truly. as far as I know, it's not on the net. No wonder he got a No Bell Prize!