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If Mr. Teasing is just teasing and saying that our attempts to predict the future of jazz now are just as absurd as past attempts seem to us now, then of course, but he's not likely to just say so. If he's suggesting that there was some lost opportunities and/or paths left less than fully explored back them, well sure but I don't think he and I would be on the same page regarding which might have been or still could be worth further exploration now. "kitschvictions" not very nice, but somewhat insightful. "And is this not the essence of jazz? Sophisticated music delivered with a veneer of elegance and urbanity? " Um no, I don't think so. It's deeper than that, and more complex, and it might have a veneer (or not) but its essence is not on the surface. Which is not to say that something with that kind of veneer can't have more going on beneath the surface, but it's no guarantee that it will. And to me, true sophistication knows when to be simple and direct.

This, and folks who don't get this...well, they just don't get it.

That's some prime Pres, even with idiot-stick yakking all through. Anyone have any idea who, when and where. The regular working band with Jesse Drake and Roy Haynes? When Pres comes back in around the 9 min mark there's some very nice playing.

Wasn't at least one of them on a Mosaic? 1965 IIRC with Larry Young on piano? Kinda loosey goosey? But once Alfred was gone?

That and Woody Shaw...but once the label was sold it wasn't going to happen. But Tyrone Washington got his, and that's fine in and of itself, but some things just don't make sense.

Yeah, but there's good derivative and not so good derivative, so I'd be interested in knowing what Sonny had to say after that.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5c8p24 Blue Note in 1970, Richard Davis on electric on an organ date, shit's done got weird.

JSngry, thanks for the prompt reply, think I'll got for this then: I've had my eye on it for awhile and it's got KD.

"Your Mama"!

I'm most familiar with their work for BN. but aware enuff to know that they worked together a fair bit post-BN, can you recommend something from the later period? An I like 'infrastructure creation;, great description. Who's you favorite bassist with those two?

Groove, intensely blue, and Sonny Clark again. They issued this one at the time and it must've done ok 'cause he got two more.

More Blue Note goodness, again not issued initially but considered IIRC, again with Stanley and Sonny Clark.

Groove, intensity, and Sonny Clark!

'Arctic Riff', is this part of a new Truth in advertising campaign from ECM?

Very impressive that you got Tate & Marcus to write intros; should help you reach a bigger audience, maybe even some institutions like Universities and public libraries. I need to check my finances but I hope to be a buyer myself.

IMHO, apex Hank is everything he did with Billy Higgins, so basically Turnaround through Reach Out, '65-68. To me they were as perfectly matched as Elvin & 'Trane.

I have my library's copy sitting in my basement, indefinitely since we're not taking returns during the current crisis. Probably won't buy since it has all of three alternates I don't have already and none of them struck me as better or even all that different (unlike HH's Blind Man where I prefer the alternate). I'm partial to this era: I love boogaloos, the instrumentation is more varied, and both the writing and the playing just got better, IMHO. But all Hank, front to back, leader and sideman is worth hearing. Slice of the Top is a uniquely beautiful thing, further proof that 1966 is the apex/zenith/___ of human civilization. The last Studebaker was built on 3/17/66, Slice of the Top was done 3/18 and my wife was born the next week. And we moved to SK later that year.

I too followed the Grand Prix circus when I was young. I had no idea Sterling Moss was still alive. One of the greats to be sure.

He put people together on that show that no one else would've even thought of, and it almost always worked.

If anything, I like the new one better.

Yes, but that's a little earlier (the not issued at the time Rainbow series albums with Jackie), I was thinking of '69 specifically and Larry Young's Mothership in particular.

Thanks, kinda what I suspected but good to hear from someone on the scene.

It's good and funny, but not as good or as funny as I remember. Still anything that takes Zep and their fans down a notch is fine with me.