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Most of Reach Out is pretty good (and almost any Woody Shaw is worth hearing, IMHO). The two pop tunes (#1 & #4 below) are not as interesting as one might like (some days I like 'em less than others), but there's otherwise 24 minutes of solid material here. Don't spend a mint on it, but don't pass it up if you see it reasonable. 1. "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" (Dozier, Holland) - 6:49 2. "Up, Over, And Out" - 5:52 3. "Lookin' East" - 5:19 4. "Goin' Out of My Head" (Randazzo, Weinstein) - 7:25 5. "Good Pickin's" - 5:30 6. "Beverly" (Johnson) - 7:01 Oddly, The Flip is the one Hank BN date I don't own (yet), and I really should fix that someday -- if for no other reason than the presence of Dizzy Reece. I've had every Hank BN date for over 5 years, save for this one.

Morrisey's last 2 or 3 solo albums have been great. Saw him live in concert twice in recent years, fantastic both times. Had no idea what to expect the first time I went, and it turned out to be one of the best rock/alt shows I'd ever been to.

I've got that (well, at least 'really good' relative pitch), but definitely not "perfect pitch" as you describe it, Jim. The only way I can tell what key I'm in (and this is just to even get me in the neighborhood), I have to remember this high Eb I had to sing solo when I was 14 (in a production of Menotti's Christmas operetta "Amahl and the Night Visitors"). The entrance had nothing in the score to even begin to suggest the note, so I had to do it from memory. To this day, I can usually get it within about a half step or less. Then I have to work my way around an imaginary keyboard in my head, to figure out what some other note is. Imperfect, sure, but it's all I got, since somehow I've lost every pitch-pipe I've ever owned.

Strange Hello Kitty Tattoos (one of them is mildy NSFW).

I don't remember it being out of tune (if so, it must not have been too bad). Strong date, as I recall -- right up there with the BN material.

The full-length, track-for-track reconstruction of an alternate version of "Miles Ahead" on disc #1 -- is worth it's weight in gold. (Should have been included as bonus tracks for the single-disc version -- needs to be heard more!!)

Oh yes. How could I, of all people, forget him with Hill. Tolliver's also all over disc #1 of the Hill BN Select (half of which was first released on Hills "One for One" 2LP set). And Horace Silver's "Serenade to a Soul Sister". THAT'S his complete classic-era BN output, best as I can tell.

Let me set the scene: the group was in the living room, and the recorder was in the 2nd bedroom down the hall. And the only tape that survives is a 40th generation copy of the original. (And THAT'S putting it politely too.) On second thought, how's about we say it's "just about the worst sounding thing I've ever heard in my entire life". At least 100x worse than THE absolute worst Hendrix bootleg I've ever heard (and I've heard plenty).

Almost my first Mosaic as well -- maybe my 2nd or 3rd. Lots of GREAT Charles Tolliver; if you've got this, you've got his complete BN-sideman output as I recall. Everyone I've ever played this material for has suggested something to the effect that Tolliver almost steals the show.

There's a track on Jack Walrath's 1988 BN leader date ("Neohippus") -- the track's called "Fright Night" -- that is just about THE scariest jazz I think I've ever heard. Anybody else have this album, and can you confirm?

PM on the way...

Hmmmm..... Tempting. Tempting....

I was thinking the same thing.

Here's one more.

Took a bit of digging to find it on the Concord site. The new issue will be called Live On The Sunset Strip (which doesn't come up when you search on Whiskey). (A number of typos in the press-release style product description.)

I've got (or at least had) a Lee Morgan Left Bank date from about '68? - on FreshSound, if I remember. The piano was so horribly out of tune, I think I gave it to a friend. It was one of those CD's I put on the trade pile, would look at it a month or two later and think there was no way I could get rid of a live Lee Morgan date, then I'd put it on, which would immediately remind me why I'd put it on the trade pile in the first place. Did that sequence twice, if I recall, before I finally got rid of it (unless i still have it, I'd have to dig for it to confirm).

Pretty sure they're couw's designs. Sammich!

Has "Spanish Bitch" ever been issued on CD?

Anything with Nils Petter Molvaer (trumpet) could be interesting. Saw him live in Washington D.C. just last June - at a Nordic Jazz Festival kind of thing, at the Swedish Embassy. It was just Molvaer, and a sound-effects guy (don't mean to dis the 2nd guy with that description, but he was doing all kinds of electronic stuff, none of it with a keyboard though). Very ethereal, but beautiful and lyrical. The two Molvaer leader dates I have are wonderful (both on ECM), though I have to be in the right mood to want to hear them. A lot of his ideas remind me of Don Cherry, but with more of Miles' lyricism and coolness -- all backed with spacey and sometimes beat-driven 'ECM-ness'. Anyone else think highly of Molvaer??

Here's some infamous ones...

I've forgotten the specifics of their rationale... ...but somebody I know on this board thinks that Lee was VERY likely headed into doing work with the Mizell Brothers.

With Bare Hands: The Story of the Human Spider (article) Video of the same climb (from Youtube).

Thanks! Looks interesting.

Just out of curiosity, what was the Parlan disc? (Not aware there was a DVD of material with him.)