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Whatever, Aric. You're a hoot to have around, most of the time. But sometimes you're even beyond pointless.

Looks like there's a pretty nice Woody Shaw t-shirt now available at the "official" website. $20 plus P&H. http://www.woodyshaw.com/merchandise.htm

Some more cats to wish you a happy one!!!!

Straight from The Bastards... The AMG Review confirms their Omaha origins. There may be a real Omaha connection here too, though The Bastards don't say for sure... Edit: Love's AMG Bio says he was originally from Omaha, and in the late 40's and 50's, he toured the Corn Belt in territory bands lead by Nat Towles and Lloyd Hunter. So there!!

Hey, if it worked for Bob Dole, who's to judge??

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What, nobody's said Sam Rivers yet?? Tenor, Soprano, Flute, and Piano -- all of which he's recorded on multiple times. Sam's group since the mid-90's includes a couple younger guys who both switch-up too... Doug Matthews, bass, plus bass clarinet Anthony Cole, drums, plus tenor sax

Hey, that reminds me... I've always wondered whatever became of the other 9,999 other Manics??

Every once in a blue moon, I'll buy a used CD with green markered edges. (Usually on eBay, where I'll have no idea before getting the disc in the mail.) I think the last one I got was less than a year ago -- a Peter Murphy promo CD. In fact, Spontoonious was over for lunch today, and he had a classical disc with green painted on the outer and inner edges, both!!

God, I hope this band gets recorded sometime. Tolliver hasn't been heard on record since about 1991 (or am I missing something??). He's long overdue.

Yup, that's the same rule I use.

Bumping this one up again, cuz we really do need a better "rolly eyes" smiley, for all the reasons already discussed.

Just copying this over from the other Hill Select thread... Can't wait to hear it!!! B-)

Judging from the on-line clips of the Byron Allen ESP date (found 'em HERE, on the AMG), which I've never heard before --- Teddy Robinson seems like he was a mostly pretty "progressive" drummer in the mid-to-late 60's (or at least attempted to fulfill that role). So, given how little of his work was ever recorded (or so it seems), getting THREE unreleased Andrew Hill dates with Robinson could perhaps turn out to be even more interesting than we might have expected. These three Hill dates alone will practically double his entire recorded output (at least according to Lord).

Yup, I see it here too. (Running I.E. 6.0 - under Windows ME.)

If anybody has the promo version, and then decides to spring for the new longbox version -- I'd maybe be interested in taking your promo version off your hands. (And I've got a ton of trade-bate these days, something like 30 or 40 CD's.)

Looking back through the sessions (first post in this thread), I had forgotten that Robin Kenyatta was on not one, but TWO sessions from this set -- both of the sessions with Sam Rivers. Though I've heard Kenyatta on Hill's "Sprial" (from the mid-70's), I'm otherwise not at all familiar with Kenyatta. (I'm listening to "Spiral" now -- hadn't in ages.) And what's the story about the drummer Teddy Robinson????? He's on the first three sessions that'll be on the Hill Select (both the dates with Kenyatta, and the trio date). Poking around on-line (Google and the AMG), and in my Complete BN discography/book (the 2001 edition), and I can only find four dates (total) that he recorded on – and three(!) of them will be on this Hill set. The other date he's on is Donald Byrd's "Chant", recorded in 1961, but not released until 1979 (on the LT series). Is that it?? 1) Are these four dates really the only things Robinson ever recorded?? (Can't imagine this is so, but stranger things have happened, I suppose.) 2) And if so (a mighty big "IF"), then how does a guy's entire recorded output as a sideman happen to be on four dates that all sat in the vaults (and were unreleased) until 18 and 38 years after they were recorded?? Edit: Counting the minutes until somebody posts a huge Teddy Robinson sessionography that I overlooked.

Anybody got a picture of the new packaging??? Looked at a couple on-line retailers, and they didn't have it ("image not available"), and none of the listings on eBay had a pic either. Sounds from the eBay descriptions I've read, that it's a long-box, not unlike the new versions of the Miles Columbia boxes (or the Herbie or Dexter BN boxes). In my case, I dislike "long-box" boxes, cuz I can't file them with all my other CD's. And since this is a compilation anyway, probably the best thing for me would be the promo CD's, which are in standard jewel-boxes (or so I've heard).

("Black Rhythm Happening" is cool too, but IMHO, "Ghetto Music" is the better and more successful of the two, by some margin.)

Depending on your tastes, you might consider holding back (in reserve), like $40 or so for the Andrew Hill Mosaic Select due out in March. Hey, come to think of it, do you already have Hill's "Passing Ships" yet??? If not, you NEED it!!! (Seriously!!!) IMHO, "Passing Ships" is THE Andrew Hill BN release to own, for those who aren't really into his more "progressive" side. "Passing Ships" is still a bit progressive, here and there, but it also grooves a HELL of a lot too!!!! Then you can always wait-and-see what the collective board reaction is to the Hill Select when it comes out -- and then decide if it's worth your time/money, after a bunch of us here have gone ape-shit over it. (Cuz you know that there's gonna be like a dozen of us here that are gonna pre-order that sucker the first chance we get!!! )

Listened to a bunch of 20th Century piano concertos this past weekend... Roberto Gerhard's harpsichord (1956) and piano (1951) concertos (both already mentioned in this thread). Both are great, and very full of energy!! – and I'd love to give them another spin sometime soon. Roger Sessions' piano concerto (1956). Much more "normal" than I was expecting (for Sessions), give his serial tendencies. I'm a BIG fan of Sessions' symphonies (especially his later ones, 6-9), which are very thorny and exciting. On the same disc as the Sessions (New World label), is a more recent piano concerto from Francis Thorne, written in 1989. Nice work – with plenty of mallet-percussion, if I remember right, which is often a good thing (though sometimes decidedly not, in the wrong hands). Gunther Schuller's piano concerto (1962). I was working on other things while this was playing, so I need to revisit it. Two piano concertos (1947 and 1952) and a Theme and Variations for piano and orchestra (1961), all by Boris Blacher. Haven't heard anything yet by Blacher that I haven't liked. Not all of his output is probably important, but most of is very enjoyable. Karol Rathaus' lone piano concerto written in 1967 (already mentioned in this thread). Not as wildly chromatic as his first symphony (perhaps the work I know best by him), and not quite as bombastic either. Still, a very good work. Hadn't heard it in at least three years, but I recognized/remembered quite a bit of the work -- which usually the mark of something good (at least in my book). And probably the most obscure piano concertos in this post... Ahmed Adnan Saygun's first (1952-58) and second (1985) piano concertos. Saygun is a Turkish composer, born in 1907.

OOPS!!! - I goofed!!!! I was thinking about "Reach Out". Your original plan to get all 12 is probably A-OK!!!!

Just a friendly suggestion... You might pass on Hank Mobley's "Hi Voltage" in February, and maybe pick it up sometime down the road. Half of its six tracks are pretty darn good, but most of us can probably do without the other half (including two throw-away pop covers, half-heartedly done according to some, and I'm inclined to agree)-- especially if you have other spending priorities.