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Just noticed a link to the score in the Youtube description. HERE (pdf). My favorite is the "Pierrot Lunaire" quote.

Oh, 200, maybe 300? - I'm just guessing. That includes a ton of local musicians. My interest dates back about 20 years, and I'm sure I've been to 15 or 20 gigs per year most years since about 1994. Oh, hell, I just remembered that my very first year in Kansas City -- I practically LIVED at this one jazz club in Westport (The Drum Room, circa 1994-96). I must have seen 300 gigs alone over that two-year period (before they closed). Seriously. I was in there practically every night of the week, even if only for an hour sometime in the evening (though often longer). They had pool tables, and I could play and listen to live jazz at the same time -- I was in heaven!! So you'd better up my estimate to at least 400.

Totally!! Missed this thread the first time around, but glad I stumbled on it today. Total riot.

Oh yeah? My link (I'm thinking, if only they could silence the shoes too.)

I can't remember if it was ASCAP or BMI, but 20-ish years ago I worked about half-time, on-air at a top-40 FM station in my college town (in the middle of nowhere, IL). Once or twice a year, for a full week, we had to log every single piece of music played on-air (everything, including music beds, everything). (With the permission of the MD, since he was signing off on all the logs), I religiously played Sun Ra under all my weather forcasts (often tunes off the "Other Voices, Other Blues" Horo double-LP I had) -- simply to log some Sun Ra, in the vague hopes I could push a couple dollars his way (and more so, just to make the ASCAP or BMI people have to look up some Sun Ra). True story.

I spent about 5-minutes spinning a copy of Monuments in a used record store here in DC on Sunday. Dropped the needle on all of the tracks on side one, and I couldn't bring myself to flip the disc. The 'rap' Jim mentioned way up earlier in this thread, is the 2nd Youtube clip down below...

On several of those early Blue Mitchel Blue Note dates, often Junior sounds like an absolute dead ringer for Joe (or the other way around, if you prefer). And I don't say it as a criticism; Cook is one of the things I like best about those Mitchel BN dates. PS: More footage from the same source, which is now a commercially available DVD!

I'm sure probably several of you have seen this before, but this Youtube clip was entirely new to me until just a few minutes ago... Duke Ellington Meets Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite

I love those late, late 60's / early 70's Mal trio things that just dig in with an off-kilter riff, and almost never give up (until they finally do). Just love 'em!

It's not tons of space in all of Joe's solos, but I seem to remember he pepper's a fair number of his solos with space here and there (for longer than you might have been expecting) amid what is otherwise (arguably) a flurry of notes. Or at least that's how I remember hearing Joe's playing. But, he's definitely not a "minimalistic" continuously. Although, come to think of it, he is rather fond of taking a small cell and repeating it over and over in a sort of "minimalistic" way -- so I think he fits in that regard too (in the "classical music" sense/definition of Minimalism).

I think Joe Henderson used a fair bit of space in his solos, at times. What do you guys think? - should Joe be included here? - or am I just being spacey? Oh, and Miles -- no doubts there.

My mother was a huge fan of Dark Shadows -- which she only saw because, when I was born (in early 1969), she was out of the workforce for about 5 years (when it ran) until I was in school. I remember seeing it in reruns about 15 years later (mid-80's), maybe on PBS come to think of it, and her going out of her way to watch it then (I think it ran practically at Midnight, or no earlier than 11pm at least). Not sure if I'll go see the movie, but I do have an urge to see some of the original episodes again.

That was probably after. Miles Ahead has Ron's earliest recordings with Miles in mid-April of 1963 (at Columbia Studios in Hollywood) -- which off the top of my head, I think are on the "Seven Steps to Berlin" box.

For my birthday Sunday, I had a lovely day with my Dad and his side of the family (the morning after my uncle's memorial service the day before) -- and then had both lunch and dinner in two of my all-time favorite haunts -- the Coney Island hot dog place in the small town where I went to college (in upstate Illinois), and then a burger and homemade chili at the bar across the street from the community theater that was the center of my social life all through high school (down near St. Louis) -- and a lovely drive from the top of the state down to St. Louis (taking the back roads), with my Dad (who's in his mid 80's) and my wife. (And the burger and chili was made by the very same person -- the owner of the bar -- who was there when I was doing theater there 25 years ago.) All in all, a really nice visit, and a great opportunity to remember an amazing man (my Uncle). I'll have to start another thread about him sometime, and share his artwork with you.

Thanks everybody. Out of town this weekend in upstate Illinois for the memorial service for my Uncle, who passed away recently. I have him to thank for my earliest interest in jazz (he had an amazing collection of a couple thousand jazz LP's in his basement, which I enjoyed especially starting in my college years, when I first became interested in jazz in the early 90's). And also, more recently, for his collection of Downbeat mags from April of 1965 through 1985 (complete!) - which I'm bringing back to Washington with me just this week, along with about 25 albums of special interest to me (I'll have to detail then in another thread when I get back home, with pics). Typing this from a wonky computer in the lobby of our hotel, so I'll otherwise be off-line until I get back home late Monday night. Thank god Southwest Airlines allows two free suitcases per passenger (I'm here with my wife), because the 20 years of Downbeats alone fill 3 carry-on sized bags, and come to between 120 to 130 lbs total. (And thank goodness most of those bags have wheels, because we're flying into Baltimore, and taking the bus to the Metro to get home in DC.) Catch you all in a couple days. Cheers!!

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (ft. Stéphane Grappelli) <<< This Youtube link cues directly to where his solo begins. This is totally legit (and it's really Grappelli, who was recording in the studio next door that day), and comes from the very recent expanded reissues of the Pink Floyd album, Wish You Were Here. His solo comes in around the 3 minute mark (link above), but if you just want to hear the whole song, here 'tis...

I don't dispute that The Wall is a triumph, but over the years, I've grown to have less and less and less use for it. In the legal wranglings over the Pink Floyd name in 1987, Roger got the full ownership rights to The Wall in the settlement (save for the 2 or 3 specific tunes Dave wrote, namely Run Like Hell and Comfortably Numb). So, as a matter of law, The Wall 'belongs' to Roger -- which is how I feel it should be. It's a GREAT Roger Waters album, for those who like such things, but The Wall doesn't feel much at all like Pink Floyd to me. If I owned a complete collection of Floyd and Roger Water's solo output, I'd file The Wall and The Final Cut under "W" at the beginning of Roger's solo work. Thus, Animals is the last 'real' Pink Floyd album, in my mind -- though I do fancy about half of the tracks from Gilmour's later efforts under the Pink Floyd name (even if they don't feel like real Pink Floyd either).

Gilmour played bass on the studio recordings of "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and "Sheep" (not sure about "Dogs" - but I seem to remember that was all Roger). Apologies that I don't have time at this very moment to provide citations, but I'm pretty sure these are both fairly well established, from everything I've seen on-line.

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For a good 15 year now, Animals has been my favorite complete album by Pink Floyd, though there are many individual tracks from years prior that continue to blow me away to this day. I also consider Animals to be the last "real" Floyd album, as I consider both The Wall, and The Final Cut, to really be more Roger-type projects (and if I had copies of either, I'd file them under "Waters" in my collection). And on a related note, Les Claypool (of Primus) did a remake of the complete Animals album (HERE), recorded live, no less -- and it's nothing short of spectacular. I highly and unconditionally recommend it to fans of the original album.

Except Herbie on "Speak Like a Child" and "The Prisoner". And speaking of Herbie... ...how about Wayne for this thread?? The tunes he wrote for Miles sure are incredibly distinctive, as as nearly all of his other tunes (at least in the 60's - I'm less familiar with his tunes after about 1970). Same with Herbie, for that matter. I believe those charts were done not by Herbie but Thad Jones. Herbie's tunes, though. Correct me if I'm wrong. Don't think I am, though. Not sure I've ever heard that (that Thad did the charts), but I have no idea, either way. Anybody know?

I think this may be the only live "1960's" Grant Green I've yet run across -- is this really it for any live documentation of Green in the 60's? (Or am I forgetting something? - wouldn't be the first time, that's for sure.) Edit: just thought of Stanley T's "Up At Minton's" - which is live (iirc). But other than that (plus what this thread is about), is that it for live Grant Green that's floating about? Nothing else jumps out at me here.

Not much of a VH fan, but I'm even less of a DLR fan. So, Van Hagar, if I must.

Lift Every Voice is the only one of these I have. Are all the rest piano-less quartet recordings? - and who are the trumpter(s)?

Isn't the extra live disc all (or practically all) standards? I love Woody -- he's near the very top of my all-time-favorites list of trumpeters, maybe 2nd only to Miles -- but I have to confess that his treatment of standards are often hit-n-miss for me. If the extra disc is all or mostly standards, I think I may have to be content with my Mosaic and the expanded Stepping Stones (which I have both on CD and LP).