Simon8

I recently got hold of FOOTLOOSE ! and it is rapidly becoming one of my favorite piano trio record. The recording quality is so-so, the piano sounds a little out of tune, but Bley, Steve Swallow and Pete La Roca are... somewhere else, digging in, at once fiercely swinging, deeply lyrical, in & out & in again - "sort of like Ahmad Jamal with certain kind of drugs" (said long time admirer Keith Jarrett...). Ethan Iverson (Bad Plus pianist and keen jazz commentator) does a great job of describing the record, its players and influence: http://destination-out.com/?p=576

On Miles' My Funny Valentine (the concert album), there's some long, audacious silences in Tony Williams playing.

I'm all for the understatement school... Bill Evans, certainly (those lingering, melancholic notes on ballads). Art Farmer always shows tasteful restraint. Jim Hall on guitar. Lester Young, Jack Teagarden ?

early Billie Mose Allison Jack T. Special mention: Jimmie Lunceford's guys.

An excellent one-disc selection of her best - and most swinging - Columbia sides : "Getting Some Fun Out of Life"...

Does anyone know by any chance what kind of trumpet and/or mouthpiece Fruscella played ?

Thanks for the "warning", Dan

re: "Locomotive" I think nobody mentioned the first, excellent version of this tune on Monk's MONK (Prestige, 1953) with Ray Copeland and Frank Foster. I wish that quintet would've recorded a lot more. Foster sounds great (and Copeland has a most remarkable solo). Regarding Rouse, I love his sound and directness, and I like Monk's Columbias, but for me the tunes tend to run too long for both Rouse's and Monk's good.

Yes - especially re: Don Joseph. I wrote to Uptown Records: they said that Don Joseph's "One of a Kind" has been remastered by RVG and that, "hopefully", it will be issued next year.

Hello ! What album (leader or sideman) would you recommend to hear Brew Moore at his best ? I really enjoy his playing here. re: Don Joseph - It would be great if Uptown reissues "One of a Kind": a chance to hear Bill Triglia as well (really like his subtly incisive, intelligent contributions, on this and on Fruscella's self-titled album).

A short but sound review by Doug Ramsey here: http://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides/2011/10/recent-listening-fruscella-moore.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Rifftides+%28Rifftides%29