Rooster_Ties

I re-listened to Speak Like a Child, The Prisoner, Empyrean Isles, and Maiden Voyage over the last couple days -- and much as I like the writing and arranging, I do hear what people are saying about wishing to soloists would cut loose a bit more. Another thought. FWIW, Herbie's soloing on the unreleased "Trainwreck" is pretty strong (IMHO) in a very "All Seeing Eye" kind of way. In fact, when Tyrone lays out -- much of the result is one hell of a 'free'-ish piano trio album (with Jack D. and Herbie Lewis). Also, another beloved 'challenging' date with Herbie (and Joe Chambers) is Wayne Shorter's "Etcetera" (which is probably my favorite Wayne leader-date).

I reach for the '67 live material three times as often as the '65 Plugged Nickel. I think I only have three dates from '67 (on various late 90's silver-disc Euroboots), though I realize there are others out there. This would be a pretty substantial addition to the cannon; at least as important as the unreleased material that came with the box Columbia boxes.

If you would, Chuck -- care to elucidate on which components are interesting for you? 8 years since starting this thread, I think Speak Like a Child and The Prisoner are still my personal favorites. Speak like a Child isn't particularly radical, though the instrumentation is unique - but it's still my 'go to' album for certain moods. And The Prisoner still has a bite to it, an uneasiness, nervousness, or maybe unsettledness about it -- that seems to always draw me in. I also like the arrangements and greater 'arranged' quality of the whole proceedings.

This appears to be through-composed, but certainly close enough for inclusion here... Jimi Hendrix on Harpsichord HEY JOE! Another (professional) recording of the same thing here, a better recorded and perhaps a better performance.

"the spines of southern Utah" on mountain dirt bikes.

Ditto here.

Might perhaps be a driver issue. Had an XP machine a couple years ago that I had to have reloaded from scratch (nasty virus that did a lot of damage, and a full re-install was the only solution). The default drivers with XP didn't have the screen dimensions for my monitor (though they were there when the machine came factory installed). Not to say that I'm sure that's the issue here, but there's a chance it could be a software issue, and possibly not hardware related.

Hell Yeah!!!

I'm good for $100 (when we get our house sold -- probably in a couple months, or at least I hope it's not any longer than that).

Walked 6.3 miles today, all around the neighborhood (took a good 2 hours). Eating a fair bit better too, though I gotta be better about eating less too.

I don't have much of either one in my collection -- only New York, Songs for Drella, and that Metallica collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony (which my wife likes), but on paper this does sound interesting. I'm guessing the sum could be greater than the parts.

Last week was a flurry of activity getting everything done back in Kansas City (to get our house on the market), but I got here over the weekend, and I am finally here in Washington DC now! Woke up bright and early Sunday morning, and took a four-mile walk around the neighborhood -- and yesterday I walked down to the White House(!) and back (about 5.5 miles round-trip). I'm trying to begin to get some serious exercise into my routine, before my new routine develops without it. There's a fitness center in our apartment complex too - which I plan to taking advantage of. I've let myself put on the pounds (242 lbs, and I'm only 5'10" - and should be more like 190 or at least 200/210). My hope is, without a car, that I can lose 30 lbs between now and Christmas (that would be 5 lbs a month, a pretty modest goal actually) -- and that by one year from now, I'm down to more like 190/200. Love the neighborhood (I'm in Columbia Heights), and am starting the arduous process of job hunting -- beginning with finding some volunteer opportunities quickly, so I can begin to network, and at least have something to show for my time here in DC before I actually find that job. It almost goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway - I'm *really* glad to be back in the same city with my wife. We've been 1,000 miles apart since early October, and although we've had several weeks together, at Thanksgiving, Christmas, half the month of February when I drove the moving truck out here, and when she was back in Kansas City for her brother's wedding in early April -- it's really great to not be living in an empty house any more, and to have someone to spend time and go places with. I've only been here 4-days, so it still feels like I'm just visiting, but I can't wait to take in so much of what I love about DC -- the museums, performing arts, and my first chance at living in a really big city. We'll be at Twins Jazz this Saturday night, for part of the Nordic Jazz Festival (a piano trio plus guitar, from Sweden). Sorry I missed the DC jazz fest, but I'd just flown in - and Rooster's arms were still pretty tired.

Good chance it'll be accessible after today here: http://www.google.com/logos/, though whether it's still fully functional there, I'm not 100% sure.

Maybe I was dreaming this, but wasn't there also a "Herbie Handcock" screw-up on some BN CD reissue sometime in the last decade?

That's certainly gripping.

Any chance this group might be down in Washington DC or Baltimore at some point in the future?? I would absolutely LOVE to see them sometime.

Don't know much about the Wildflowers box, but the first couple Amazon reviews seems to say it was originally 5-LP's of material recorded in the 70's. The new Rivers Select is all new recordings from 2008 & 2009.

Especially looking forward to the updated sound on the Tolliver set. The Charley reissue of Tolliver's "Impact" has always been one of THE weirdest sounding discs I've ever heard. I haven't listened to "Impact" in years, so I can't remember the details -- but frankly, I remember it being almost as bad as Stanley Cowell "Brilliant Circles" (although not 'bad' in the same way). Those Tolliver big-band dates are killer. And Sam Rivers' recent Florida big band date "Aurora" (from 2006) can be sampled at CDBaby.com* for a better idea of what that group can do. I've been calling them a 'Schoenbergian' big band with James Brown's rhythm section for a few years now -- and I was pleased to see the promo copy** for the Rivers set mentions the James Brown influence too!! *funny, the board won't let me link to it without generating a server error. Go to CDBaby.com, search on Sam Rivers, and it's the album called "Aurora". **Won't let me link to the Mosaic page with the promo copy, without the same server error.

Bought a 4th or 5th generation dub of this concert on VHS back around 1992 or '93. Good stuff! Exciting to have back then. Think I have a grey-market CD of it too, iirc. The details from Miles Ahead.

Hell yeah, me too!

I vaguely remember a bad CC screwing up part of the rest of my exhaust system on a car I had 15-20 years ago. Can't remember the details, but I think something broke off and went further downstream - so I probably had to also get the exhaust pipe from the CC back to the muffler replaced (in addition to getting a new muffler, though I think I already needed a new muffler anyway).

From the article: "...from straight-up disco to full-on bananas 'disco'." Question: Is this "straight-up disco" or "full-on bananas 'disco'"?? click: Sun Ra - UFO

Jim's just waitin' for me to get to DC so he can send my copy there. I'll be there as of June 10th, so everyone's wait won't be too much longer!

I think all of Greg Osby's leader-dates from the period with with Jason Moran are superb -- pretty much everything from 1997-2002. Not solely because Moran was in his band, but they were a case where the sum was greater than the parts. (I look forward to the day when they reunite on record.) Moran's first 3 or maybe 4 leader-dates are also stone classics, IMHO (though I've taken a bit less of a shine to his releases since those first 3 or 4). Mark Shim's two Blue Note dates were great too.