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  3. Your favorite "obscure" piano trio recordings

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    A few more obscure worthies...

    Roosevelt Wardell - The Revelation (Riverside). An unquestionably obscure figure , he'd be in his mid-seventies if still living . If Chris Albertson (who wrote this album's liner notes) has more info about him I hope he'll share it here .

    Chris Anderson - Inverted Image (Jazzland) . While apparently not representative of his live playing , this album is one of only a few made by the estimable pianist .

    Steve Kuhn - 1960 (PJL) . Previously unissued Kuhn demo (briefly available on a Japanese CD) has the pianist in a trio with Scott LaFaro and Pete LaRoca . Good sound , brief playing time .

    Mike Nock - Between Or Beyond (MPS) . Essentially a Fourth Way recording minus Michael White , this one certainly has a period feel (1970) with lots of processed e-piano , but some nice acoustic playing as well .

    Paul Knopf - The Outcat (Playback)

    Paul Knopf - Enigma Of A Day (Playback) . See my comments in the Paul Knopf thread .

  4. Twilight Zone Jazz

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    Twilight Zone jazz has a nervous, caffeine-jag, Freudian-nightmare-of-the-postwar-working-stiff quality. It often incorporates elements of post-bop, west coast jazz, and 20th century "serious" music. You may hear driving, hard bop drum and walking bass patterns, intense bongos, and twelve tone lines with extremes in pitch, going from piccolo flute to bass clarinet in a single bar. Then, everything may stop abruptly and the vibes, for example, will ring a sustained minor second interval for a few bars.

    Some of the best examples of this music show up in late-1950s/early 1960s film and TV scores, often by "classical"-based composers with limited jazz experience.

    Something like Irving Joseph's Murder Inc. fits this description , but then so would quite a lot of so-called 'crime-jazz' I think .

    There's a bunch of stuff on this list that you probably either already have or would like to have .

  7. Your favorite "obscure" piano trio recordings

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    Pete Jolly -- When Lights Are Low (RCA)

    I think his MGM date , Five O'Clock Shadows has a better rhythm section , and is also more obscure .

    Don't know that one; who's on bass and drums?

    Ralph Pena and Nick Martinis .

    Jolly's duets with Pena on Impossible (Metrojazz) are also worth hearing .

    Jolly picked nice seldom-done tunes -- e.g. on "Yeah!" Horace's title piece, George Wallington's "Variations," Al Cohn's "Ah-Moore," Zoot's "The Red Door" (familiar from numerous performances by the composer but not a piano trio item)

    The MGM date has versions of Variations and The Red Door (under its alternate title , The Swinging Door).

  9. Terry Pollard 1931-2009

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    Also, anybody own her Bethlehem album?

    I have it . It's a fine showcase for her piano stylings . I also have Dorothy Ashby's Jazzland record that features Pollard on vibes . Fantasy never got around to reissuing that one . There's a nice shot of her on its back cover :

    Terry_Pollard_1961.jpg

  20. my NATURAL SOUL has a PRAYER MEETIN' label stuck underneath the ri

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    But you talk about reissues of this era w/different covers, there's also Lou's The Time Is Right, Sunnyside Up, & one by Grant...Latin Bit, is it? Don't recall for sure...maybe one or two others? No?

    Don't know about a Liberty-redesigned cover for The Latin Bit , but there was one for Green Street and possibly Grant's First Stand (featuring a coat rack ?) . I posted the redesigned covers for Donaldson's The Time Is Right and Bennie Green's Walkin' & Talkin' here .

    As for Donaldson's Sunny Side Up , the original cover is nothing special , so the Liberty cover isn't that much of a let down , obvious though it is :

    Lou_Donaldson_Sunny_Side_Up_Origina.jpgLou_Donaldson_Sunny_Side_Up_Alterna.jpg

  22. Need some consolation ...

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    Women see things differently. For them, it's not about the money you spend, it's about the money you save.

    .....except when the money is being spent on them as opposed to on themselves , when saving , far from being laudatory , is cause for hurt feelings !

    Like the man says, Venus and Mars.

    .....are alright tonight .

    Wish I hadn't listened to what the man said....

  23. The bowed (arco) upright bass

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    I never cared much for PC's bowed solos. They often seemed to me to get in the way of the flow of the music. They struck me, most of the time, as similar to a speed bump in the road.

    That's my feeling as well . Say what you like about his tone , but his injudicious soloing during uptempo numbers kills any forward momentum and swing the moment his bow hits the strings . For this reason , I generally find arco solos much more effective at ballad tempo .

  25. The bowed (arco) upright bass

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    The new Henry Grimes double CD "Solo" has a lot of great arco and pizz bass along with some violin. It's not for the faint of heart but there's some beautiful playing on these discs.

    As a bassist yourself your enthusiasm is understandable , but a 2-and-a-half-hour solo bass album strikes me as an indulgence not likely to be granted by many non-musician jazz fans .

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