Rooster_Ties

Yeah, I noticed it a couple nights ago too.

Glad to be of help.

I should have also mentioned Sam Rivers. Some outstanding 'inside' playing from him on... Lazuli (Timeless, 1989)

Still available... No, I don't know the seller. Just know a good deal when I see one.

So, what's this like?? Never heard of Williams before. According to the AMG, this was his one album as a leader, and he's only listed as a sideman on two Charlie Parker recordings, and mentioned as being on a Hal Singer date in 1963. Is that really his entire recorded output?? What's the story??

For for love of mike, somebody ought to buy this. All the usual disclaimers apply... LINK

It's not that bad either. If you see it for rent sometime, it's worth $3 to see it.

I saw "Dingo" at a film-festival here in Kansas City a few years ago. It was "OK", but nothing to take great pains to find. Interesting to see that much Miles, if you are or were ever a Miles nut, but no where near a "great" movie by any standard. the "All Movie Guide" gives it 2.5 stars, which is probably about right. I'd have given it that, or perhaps only 2 stars - though I do remember some of the scenery in Australia as being quite beautiful. "All Movie Guide" review

With some mo' due respect, threads go off the rails around here quite often, Ron. IMHO, discussing "Dingo" is more "on topic" than some twist and turns have taken plenty of other good threads in the past. That said, I'd welcome some more discussion of "Aura" as well, or "Dingo", or any of the more "outside the norm" recordings Miles did in the 80's and 90's.

I'll start the ball rolling. Gary Thomas: I think his flute-playing is highly underrated, at least from what I've heard of it. Two of my favorites are... Thomas' own "Pariah's Pariah (Winter & Winter, ": a piano-less quartet with Greg Osby, plus bass and drums. A very deep album, and Thomas' flute playing is outstanding, as is the context he plays in. (I think he plays flute on about 2 or 3 cuts) and Thomas on Ingrid Jensen's "Higher Grounds (Enja, 1999)": a standard quintet with either piano or fender, and the great Victor Lewis on drums (Jenson plays trumpet). Thomas plays flute on about three cuts, and plays with a real "punch" that I rarely hear on flute, perhaps stemming from his M-BASE roots?? Otherwise, I'm not always the biggest fan of jazz flute soloists, and I'm wondering what other options are out there?? - that I'm missing out on. Who are the "Woody Shaws", the "Greg Osbies", or the "Chris Potters" of jazz flute these days???

Just sent you another e-mail...

What Conn500 said.

Actually, I really like it when changes become stagnant. You get the building of tension that the continuing flurry of chords never seems to provide. And actually, when you get down to it -- that's probably my biggest problem with pure 'be-bop', is that (for me, anyway) there isn't much tension created by the harmonic context of fairly traditional performances in said style.

At least it wasn't this!!

OMG, Jim's up to 76 posts within the last 24 hours!!! Go Jim!!!!!

And geez!!! - now "Today's top 10 posters" says that Sangry's posted 46 times in the last 24 hours. At that rate, he'll have passed me long before I get to 2,000!!!

I'm a bad person to ask this question of, because I pretty much have zero interest in vocal jazz. So from my perspective, almost by definition, adding lyrics to a jazz tune is always a very bad idea!!

Welcome to Kansas City!!!! I'm half kidding, of course, but I'm half serious too!!! -_-

For the record, at this moment, "Today's top 10 posters" are... catesta - a whopping 24 posts today Free For All - 13 posts today BERIGAN - 12 posts today Dmitry - 12 posts today Rooster_Ties - only 11, count 'em, 11 posts today b3-er - 11 posts today Jazzmoose - 10 posts today mikeweil - 7 posts today Jim R - 6 posts today alankin - 5 posts today So it's not like I'm not trying to give you guys a chance to catch up with me!!!

Glad you found this thread, Free For All, since you originally asked me what I thought was overplayed from The Real Book. Looking back on my original post, I think the three absolute worst offenders (at least from my perspective) are... All Of Me Autumn Leaves How High The Moon So we're still cool, as long as you don't call any of these three while I'm in the room, you dig?

Yeah, I had the very same thought!! (This is post #1881 ) If you won't tell us the "title" - can you at least tell us the last threshhold?? (Use3D mentioned once before that there was one more level after "Groove Merchant".)

Same (or rather similar) thing happened to me. I started an "Organissimo board is down" thread last night on AAJ, only to discover this morning that the title of the thread had been changed to "Power Outage", or something similar and generic, and I also got a similar e-mail from Mike Ricci. Long story short (and after several more e-mails exchanged), lastly Mike said to me (and I quote)... For some clarity, I bolded the words "site" and "board" above, and I also added the stuff in brackets. Please note, these quotes are taken from a couple different e-mails - but they give a good picture of his position on things at the end of our exchange. In any case, let's not bust Mike's chops too hard about this. I think Mike's an OK guy - he's just somebody who's not as comfortable with the idea of as nearly an "anything goes" model as we have here on this board. I volunteered that he and I would be better off trading a bunch of e-mails, and coming to some mutual understanding -- rather than my taking it to his or our board for a public discussion. (And I'm only bringing it up now because of brownie's post just before this one.) Mike's a little unintentionally 'heavy-handed', perhaps, but I do think he means well. And, I suspect he's learned a bit from this latest experience (or at least I'd hope so). And it's not as if our own "fist of doom" hasn't gone off a time or two, when it wasn't quite warranted either. (Not a dig against anyone, just an observation.) And I'm sure it's a little weird for Mike having probably 3/4ths of the entire Organissimo board also posting some (or even heavily) on his board too. He probably sees references to our board (on his board) much more often than makes sense to him --- but then he doesn't belong and participate in 2 or even 3 different boards, where lots of those same people on some of those same boards, are all are doing the same 'multiple-board' thing!!! My first thought was to raise holy hell about this whole thing, but on further reflection - I think it's just better to realize that Mike's probably doing the best job he knows how to, and that we all make mistakes now and then.

THIS Albert King?? (Like there could be any other.) Do tell some mo!! What kinda venues were you guys booked into?? Outdoor festivals?? - or (perhaps I'm guessin' more likely) real 'down-home' bars and/or clubs where you be maybe in the minority?? We want stories!!! (Rooster Ties - signing off for the night (it's almost 1am here) - but I'll be checkin' this thead again first thing in the morning. Night all!!)

Well shit, if everybody and their brother is gonna post links to everything there is to know about you on-line, then I might as well put this out here - since I thought it was such a good article. (And I've highlighted my favorite quote too .)