Rooster_Ties

Do we know what year is this from?

I work alone in a big office, but it isn't really private (but also isn't high traffic all the time either, thankfully). I have earbuds in sometimes, but most of the time it's better if I listen with the speakers on my desk at a low volume. There's lots of white-noise in my big space (HVAC fans), but I often need to be able to hear when my boss in the other room hollers a question or needs something -- and speakers on my desk seems to work best. I never can hear bass-players (don't have anything turned up enough for that), but nearly everything else comes through. Can't quite play Ornette (or Tyrone Washington), and the like - but there's plenty I can get away with, without any repercussions at all. In other offices around here, plenty of people work with earbuds in all the time. I do maybe about 20% of the time, or more when my boss is out of the office (a fair bit sometimes).

"Hard" as in "Nearly impossible" to really give a good listen without headphones. I've tried (several times), and failed miserably every time. Even speakers on my desk right in front of my computer monitor (with me at the keyboard) doesn't do it either. I'm really of two minds on this set. I'm glad to have it, but maybe more in theory than in practice. Not regretting having purchased, but definitely one that I won't be spinning with anywhere near the frequency of the other volumes in this series. And if more open sessions like it come down the pike (in future releases in the series), I'm sure I'll probably give in and buy 'em too -- but I won't make them my highest priority. Although, BTW, I simply *ADORE* the two similar "rehearsal" sequenquences from the 1965-68 box, i.e... "I Have a Dream (Rehearsal Take)" (Hancock) - 6:43 * "Speak Like a Child (Rehearsal Take)" (Hancock) - 2:25 *

OMG, this was nearly 14 years ago.

I really need to spend more time listening to this with headphones/earbuds. I've had it on in the room a few times, but I never can focus on what's going on enough (my bad, I know). My boss is out of town the balance of this week, so I may try and listen at work the next few days, see if that works.

Tyrone Washington!!

Count me in... ...in the next few days, I promise.

11th hour (11:50pm here in DC, so getting in just under the wire)... I've long lost the random jpg I found on Google some 10+ years ago of some random neckbeard (that, for the record, *never was me*). Never the less... ***HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM JOEL AND THE CATS!!!*** (Can anybody find that old image for me? Anybody remember what I'm talking about? I've searched before, several years ago after the Big O board lost all its attachments -- but never any luck.) Happy, Happy Birthday!! ? ? ?

Charlie ("Charles") Rouse's 70's leader-date for Strata East (Two Is One from 1974) certainly isn't like what most folks might expect from Monk's main sideman. The title track, in particular (but the whole thing, really), is really something else...

Is Keith on lead vocals on any cuts. (And which ones?)

News to me as well. Better (10 years, in my case) late than never!!

My uncle was a lifelong jazz fan (whose complete Downbeat collection (with issues from 1965-1990) I inherited a few short years ago). And although as a kid I only went to visit him where he lived every couple years or so (most of the time he came to my family's town, not the other way around -- about 300 miles away) -- he nearly ALWAYS took me down to his basement to listen to some records from his collection of about 1,000 LP's. I don't have specific memories of specific albums, but it all started there. He had a wide variety of tastes, including Sun Ra -- and after my uncle's passing (circa ~2013?), I even discovered he had a copy of Heiner Stadler's Brains on Fire (with none other than my beloved Tyrone Washington), which I never even knew he had all these years. He also had some of the earliest LP issues of Schoenberg's works (on Dial), and a voracious appetite for all kinds of jazz sounds (even though he loved very traditional big-band most of all). So my uncle's influence was huge, though only the Sun Ra really stuck with me the most at the time (more for Ra's crazy biography and persona, than the actual music -- which I did later come to appreciate much more). So flash-forward to my sophomore year in college, circa 1989 (spring term, when I always tried to take a couple 'fun' classes), and that year it was Jazz History 201. So I heard a LOT there, and did my final paper on Sun Ra. But even then, I'm not sure many specific recordings really took hold of me, so much as the whole spectrum of sounds (which certainly did). But what finally *DID* stick, were the first four (4) jazz albums I heard with great frequency and repetition (I had cassette copies of these four, and played both on auto-reverse endlessly for a couple months). Those four albums were... Kind of Blue Nefertiti - with "Prince of Darkness" tacked on (from Sorcerer) Mode For Joe (Henderson) - with "Gary's Notebook" tacked on (from Sidewinder) Power To The People (Henderson) And THOSE were really my very first deep jazz loves.

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His piano concerto especially. Had the good fortune to hear him perform it live, with the Kansas City Symphony, not too long after its first release. I'd welcome another, frankly -- and more similar efforts by the likes of, say, Jason Moran (for instance).

Tempting...

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Are the in-line images showing up for you guys -- meaning visible within the thread? They were for me shortly after I uploaded them, but after I rebooted my PC here at work over lunch, now they're not. (I could go back and edit them out, because they're still taking up a huge amount of space -- just not showing -- and I could leave the imgur link to the album.) This is my first ever attempt uploading images to a hosting site, and then trying to link to them within the board software.

OK, I think I successfully scanned and uploaded the three (3) images of the interview -- since they were too big to upload directly to the Big O board, the whole album of images is here: http://imgur.com/a/k6zIl And here they are individually...

Been a good ten years since I first saw this photo, and immediately fell in love with it. SO cool to see Jimi in this kind of context, mixed in with other musicians like that. One of my favorite Hendrix pics, and certainly not very well known. Can't remember where I first saw it (and now I'm wondering).

This link claims "the most unusual feature of the track is an overdubbed brass section of two trumpets and two saxes, arranged by Larry Fallon." http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/artists/14238-jimi-hendrix-and-jazz Is "Larry Fallon" any sort of clue here? Is he perhaps one of the horn-players? Another idea, post this same question on the Steve Hoffman Forums (with the picture), and see if anybody there knows. Or maybe collectively they can come up with it (and knowing them, the colors of the baffles in the background, along with the particular combination of styles of microphones and microphone stands -- will all be a dead giveaway to some other clue, which will of course narrow it down considerably). EDIT: This link also mentions Larry Fallon as the arranger of the horns... https://books.google.com/books?id=JEdeJ6TcNM8C&pg=PA196&lpg=PA196&dq=jimi+hendrix+South+Saturn+Delta+horns&source=bl&ots=lfvQhhzf-x&sig=YOit6b0jzxsAobt8USng4rRT3j8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi90s2WgYvQAhUqsVQKHdqWA4c4ChDoAQhAMAc#v=onepage&q=jimi%20hendrix%20South%20Saturn%20Delta%20horns&f=false And this source says they were "four top New York session players" (and also mentions Fallon as the arranger)... https://books.google.com/books?id=o6ty_6SqPE4C&pg=PA106&dq=jimi+hendrix+South+Saturn+Delta+larry+fallon&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjR4Ov_govQAhXMzIMKHcuoAEQQ6AEIKjAC#v=onepage&q=jimi%20hendrix%20South%20Saturn%20Delta%20larry%20fallon&f=false EDIT2: Hell's bells, here's an interview with Larry Fallon about this specific session with Jimi. Fallon says (down at the bottom), he has no memory of who the horn-players were... http://jimihendrix.forumactif.org/t751-larry-fallon It's a couple pages of interview (and worth reading), but here's the main bit asking about who the players were... EXPERIENCE HENDRIX: Do you remember whom the four horn players you arranged were? LARRY FALLON: You know, I don't have the slightest idea. At this point, I don't really know. I hadn't heard that track since 1968 until about maybe a year ago, first time I heard it when I was first given a copy. Which was very upsetting because I really wanted to hear it.

It's an actual interview, almost three pages. I can probably scan at work this week, but not sure if I can upload pdf's to the forum.

To tell the truth, I would have loved to have heard what Elvin thought of Mitch Mitchell (more so than either Baker or Moon).

Someone on Reddit was looking for a copy of Elvin Jones' Blindfold Test (presumably for Downbeat), specifically where Elvin talked about Ginger Baker and Keith Moon. I have a complete set of DB's from early 1965 up through at least 1987 or maybe closer to 1990 (my uncle was a faithful subscriber, and I inherited his collection). So I probably don't need a copy, but I'm having trouble tracking down the exact date of the specific BF test in question. Google led me to the 12-Oct-1972 issue, which turns out to be Elvin's second DB BF test, but no mentions of Baker or Moon. That issue mentioned his earlier (first) BF test from 17-Nov-1966 -- but no dice there either (no surprise, being from '66). Anybody know which BF test Elvin would have discussed Baker and/Moon? (Anyone have a specific date?) Assuming Downbeat, but were any jazz publications doing BF tests over the years? Thanks!! PS: FWIW, the Reddit thread is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jazz/comments/58dsk0/where_to_find_elvin_jones_blindfold_test_with/

Love it, every bit as good as the earlier two Tolliver big band dates for Strata East.