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  1. The flute thread

    in Recommendations

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    Anyhow, I'm sure there was quite a bit of discussion of jazz flute recordings on this thread. A quick search using that function would probably uncover this.

    Yes , more recommendations here .

    My Herbie Mann recommendation would be the one I most recently listened to , that being Latin Mann . This has Herbie fronting a big band with Oliver Nelson arranging and conducting tunes like Manteca , Señor Blues and Jive Samba .

    Harder to find ( read : vinyl only ) but worthwhile are Paul Horn's Impressions Of Cleopatra and Lloyd McNeill's Asha and Washington Suite .

  6. One-Track Ponies : Jazz Albums You Keep Just For One Track

    in Recommendations

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    Tom Scott's debut on Impulse, "The Honeysuckle Breeze" - lots of late 1960's pop-oriented tyring-hard-to-be-hip stuff, and one hard swinging tune among it. Well, he was 17 at the time he recorded it .... his next for Impulse, "Rural Still Life", is great.

    You didn't say , but I'm betting you think the "one hard swinging tune" on Honeysuckle Breeze is Emil Richard's Blues For Hari . If so , I agree that it's the best thing on the album , but since I also like the version of Naima , this album doesn't strictly speaking fit in this thread for me . Rural Still Life is better than Honeysuckle Breeze insofar as it avoids the Gary McFarland-like pop pandering , but for me it's pretty close to fitting this thread as well . I think With Respect To Coltrane is the best thing on it , and the version of Body and Soul is decent , but after that you've got four 'originals' ( including one inspired by Freedom Jazz Dance and one by Maiden Voyage ) that don't do anything for me .

  7. The Gasoline Blues

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Well, let's see what a Toronto equivalent would be...

    At a discount gas retailer, C$0.78.9/liter. At an exchange rate today of 1.255 that's 98.9 a liter.

    A liter is .9463 US quart, so let's say 4 liters is a US gallon, (close enough) making it 4 X $0.989 or about $3.96 a gallon.

    Youch!!!! That just don't seem right.

    That's because it isn't .

    C$0.78.9/liter is not US$0.98.9/liter , it's US$0.63/liter at today's exchange rate . So that's roughly US$2.50 a gallon .

  9. Fake Live Albums

    in Discography

    Posted

    While The Montgomery Brothers In Canada was recorded live at a Vancouver club , the audience was apparently so small and undemonstrative that the applause from a Cal Tjader concert was used instead ! The session has been reissued on a Fantasy CD called Groove Brothers under Wes Montgomery's name , where it has been shorn of all applause altogether .

  18. Organ dates with SIDEMEN who rarely did Organ dates

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    another surprising (to me) find (1953!)

    Zoot Sims Quintet

    Zoot Sims (ts) Chester Slater (org) Lord Westbrook (g) Peck Morrison (b) Tim Kennedy (d)

    NYC, January 23, 1953

    431 There I've Said It Again Prestige 852, PREP 1306

    432 Jaguar -

    433 Dream Prestige PREP 1306

    434 Baby, Please Come Home -

    * Zoot Sims With Organ Atomosphere (Prestige PREP 1306)

    * Zoot Sims - There I've Said It Again c/w Jaguar (Prestige 852)

    I've been wanting to hear this session for a long time now, but it was never reissued ... not even in Japan .

    Not true , those four tracks were reissued on this CD : http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/record.php?record_id=333

    The original 7-inch EP looks like this :

    Rare_Zoot_EP_.jpg

  21. Tony Scott

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    Around the time that show was taped Scott performed that piece as part of a concert at Town Hall put on by Down Beat , a performance which ended up on this record put out by Dot ( this is volume one of a two volume issue ) :

    DownBeatJazzConcertonDot9003.jpg

    The tune , dedicated to a singer Scott met in Johannesburg in 1957 , runs nine minutes and features nice assists from Jimmy Knepper , Kenny Burrell , Sam Jones and Paul Motian . I think it's the best peformance on the record . Don't know if it's available on CD though .

  22. Another couple ideas to help speed up the BFT process

    in Blindfold Test

    Posted

    we've had a number of folks who never revealed them, which is massively frustrating.

    But only one who still posts here regularly : Rooster Ties .

    I'm sure I'm not alone in finding it bizarre that during the 3 1/2 years since his blindfold test , he found lots of time for many , many posts , and yet no time to provide the answers to disc two of his blindfold test . That's just not cricket .

  23. Find Member's Posts in Particular Topic

    in Forums Discussion

    Posted

    The board software as currently configured doesn't seem to allow for an intra-thread member search . Inputting a member's name into the "search topic" feature ( bottom-left of each page ) only brings up that member's posts if they have been quoted by someone else . You can always use the "Ctrl + F" search function of your browser , but that means having to open and search each page individually .

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