Dmitry

I started looking at from another perspective some time ago. It's a bit akin to consumer goods - I am sure there isn't a plethora of stores around where you live that sell numerous variants of Zegna suits, Loeffler Randall shoes or the Quattroporte automobiles. If you lived in a major city, you would have all of those and decent music stores too. As it stands, we can order anything on the internet, including any kind of esotheric, non-mainstream music any time of the day. That's a hell of a lot better than it used to be. The closest store next to me is Walmart, but I got anything I want at my fingertips. And that makes me pretty happy.

Email from Bill Plummer - Hi Dmitry, The originator of the band was Emil Richards. He and Hari Har were conferring for some time before Don came into the picture. Recordings with Emil, "Stones and New Time Rhythms" (Uni Records). I believe Chuck Stevens was the drummer. That is not for sure though. Its been a while. Dick Bock *world Pacific) recorded some songs, I don't think they were ever released. Don and Emil had a disagreement in the studio about Don throwing some fifty caliber machine gun shells into a waste basket for an effect. Dave McKay also played piano in the band. Best BP

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Its also gone from Amazon. Looks like you will have to really hunt for this one. I doubt it's a rarity. This k2 has been available everywhere for a few years. I'm sure most retail stores still have copies. Not to mention eBay.

There's a reason for that. It's in Bill Plummer's email. Heh.

My mini-lp Japanese digital k2 sounds tremendous as well. I also have the Japanese 180 gm. reissue Lp that sounds simply gorgeous. No dropouts in either.

I got a brief but a very informative email from Bill Plummer early this morning. Will post the contents when I'm home. Teaser - there are some surprises.

What a dummie...

I emailed Bill Plummer for some info. Let's see if he responds....

While at UCLA, Ellis met Hari Har Rao, a disciple of Ravi Shankar, and began studying Indian rhythms. Together, Ellis and Rao wrote "An Introduction to Indian Music for the Jazz Musician" for a 1965 issue of the journal Jazz. "Indian classical music," said Ellis, "possesses the most highly developed, subtle and complex system of organised rhythm in the world. The best and most technically advanced jazz drummer that has ever lived is a rank novice compared to a good Indian drummer when it comes to command of rhythms." (Jazz, 1965, p. 20.) In 1965 Ellis organized the Hindustani Jazz Sextet, which included Ellis on trumpet, Rao on sitar, tabla, and dholak drums, as well as performers on piano, bass, drums, and sax. They performed regularly at the Club Havana on Sunset Boulevard. In February 1966 the Sextet performed at the Los Angeles Music Center with the Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra under the direction of Stan Kenton. In a Los Angeles Times review, critic Leonard Feather wrote, "Don Ellis grasped the entire mighty Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra, stuffed it in his hip pocket, and ran off with the show." Ellis gave an introduction to his composition "Synthesis," and Rao outlined the two basic ragas used in the piece. "This was no mere musical wedding," said Feather, "it was outright polygamy. Indian ragas and rhythms, European classical concepts, American sounds and African touches were all fused in a work that built to a wild, searing climax—in fact, two or three wild, searing climaxes." (Feb. 9, 1966, pt. IV, p. 10.) According to other sources Roger Kellaway and Bill Plummer were in the band also.

Well, I'm not assertive enough to go looking through archives, but here's what I googled - UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive DON ELLIS COLLECTION 7-INCH REELS Hindustani Jazz Sextet #1 ¨ Bombay tk #3 ¨ Pete's Seven, tk. #7 & 16 Hindustani Jazz Sextet #2 ¨ Shelly's Jacquebo ¨ Blues for Hari ¨ Deja vu Hindustani Jazz Sextet, 8-2-1964, Lighthouse Café ¨ Sweet 19 ¨ Bombay Bossa Nova ¨ Free Four Hindustani Jazz Sextet, 3-24-1966 ¨ Night in Tunisia ¨ Bombay Bossa Nova ¨ Demonstration in 19 ¨ Sweet 19 ¨ Blues for Hari ¨ Turks Works Hindustani Quintet #1, Icehouse, Pasadena -- 9-13-1965 Hindustani Sextet, demo tape Hindustani #1 ¨ Once There Were Nine Teens ¨ Nineteen times Seven ¨ Mount Olive ¨ Turks Works Hindustani #2 Hindustani #3 ¨ Frank St. Peter ¨ Tabla Solo ¨ All Blue, excerpt

Hindustani Jazz Sextet was formed by Don Ellis and Emil Richards in the mid to late 60s. I'm very curious to hear their recordings [if any are available, that is]. Anybody heard of this band?

It's the gas talking.... People often ask me why I chose this line of work. Well, this was one of the reasons...!

Aren't you a dentist, too? I take it, that's not the kind of music played in YOUR office...heh... Pt, it's called sarcasm. I knew someone would catch up. And yes, I do play Diana Krall sometimes. Patients say she's soothing. But no Kenny G.

I must confess I ordered about 100 cds, many of them not known to me, in a crazy moment of "at $3 per disc how can you go wrong?!" delirium. Got my shipment yesterday. Only opened one cd so far and it's a dudley. Dave Pike - Carnavals, which combines Bossa Nova Carnival and Limbo Carnival Lps he recorded for the New Jazz label in '62. While Bossa Nova Carnival half of the disc is more or less OK, the Limbo Carnival is totally a dentist's office music. That baby goes straight into the local library donation box. Next...!

A '93 Lumina still on the road?! It's a miracle! Buy some coolant and don't sweat it. I'd check the hoses too. If they're not dried up [which would be another miracle], you'll make it back home fine.

Wait a minute. Isn't that one of the opening scenes in Lawrence of Arabia?

Actually I'm very interested in that little pink silk lace number. Do you think it'll fit a frame of a 6'1" male, 175 lbs., average build? TIA!

Heh.

Got my order today. All 123 cds. I'll be disappearing from the board for a few weeks.

I haven't heard all of Mingus, but the one I recently unearthed and was floored by is the East Coasting. That band was amazing! West Coast Ghost sounds like a pencil sketch for the 1959 Columbia masterpieces. The biggest surprise was Gene Clarence Shaw. For the risk of sounding overly enthusiastic, I'll say that he was one of the best, most inventive trumpet players I have ever heard. What a tone!!! Along with Richard Williams he is now my favorite "forgotten talent". Shafi Hadi was up there already. Another little-known talent that vanished without a trace, it seems.

I didn't know he was a troubled man. What was wrong with him?

You mean you Want to avoid ....etc. I only have one of the 1500 yen cds, the Blues Walk by Lu Donaldson. Sounds ok. To my ears the tocj's are the best sounding BN cds en masse. Wish they'd include the bonus tracks though... But this has been discussed ad nauseum for the last 6 or 7 years.

Can someone clear this out for me, please - do I need an iPod dock? What are the benefits of having one? Thanks!