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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!

FWIW, Feelin' the Spirit and Goin' West are two of my favorite Grant Green albums. And if someone found a tape of him playing Xmas tunes, I'd buy that in a heartbeat.

And what if those held back sessions had been issued at the time and stiffed? And/or critics didn't 'get' them? Less Grant recorded overall? I also reject the implicit bias against organ dates and other greasy music.

Blue Note was a two-man record company struggling to survive, anyone else would've just recorded the organ dates and not let him record so much. I think the question is absurd on its face and more than a little myopic if not out 'n out narcissistic. I'm just glad that he was able to record as much as he did and that the tapes survived.

I do find myself getting lost in the music, any music, less often and for less time per episode, but while there is a time standing still aspect to that to me the differing perception of time is not the main thing happening (or not happening) there - it's more surface v. deep, not getting into it.

Sanborn playing Ornette's Ramblin' Man could play anything.

I have an acceptable version of every album on this, so it's a 'no' from me. I have about half of the BN Hutch that's not on this, might rectify that given the chance. Favs are Dialog and Head On, least fav is hard to say since I find much of the '70s stuff is kind of forgettable to me, although I own and am keeping both Montara and Natural Illusions even though I don't think either is very good. I should get Now just for comparison to other weird use of vocals on BN. I'd buy the still not issued in full funk date in a flash, I like the 3 cuts I've heard.

I think he's on both of don Grolnick's album for BN

Thanx, muchly. Looking forward to hearing the rest.

Trane at the Vanguard, Miles at the Cellar Door, Jimi's Groovy Children, and I must be forgetting something else. Dolphy & Booker Little at the Five Spot

Kind of an oddball example, but even more than the others Dickey wasn't one to be put in just one box.

Yes, it's ironic that most of these 'the world is dumbing down' narratives are themselves quite simplistic and naive.