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  7. Steve Lacy

    in Artists

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    If someone could help to direct me to information about the handmade box set of Lacy's "farewell tour", I would appreciate it. I forget the title and am having trouble turning it up.

    It's called Blossoms. Can't find the website.

    Thanks, I found information about the single disc on the Senators site. Maybe the box set never came into fruition. I thought I saw a photo of it once, but perhaps I made that up.

    I recall seeing a photo too on a Belgian website, but there was never any ordering information.

  8. Steve Lacy

    in Artists

    Posted

    If someone could help to direct me to information about the handmade box set of Lacy's "farewell tour", I would appreciate it. I forget the title and am having trouble turning it up.

    It's called Blossoms. Can't find the website.

  9. Monk opinions sought

    in Recommendations

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    Thelonious-Monk-At-The-Blackhawk-542249.

    Harold Land gets Monk more than I thought. This one is turning into one of my favorite live Monk recordings. Anyone else spin this one more than others?

    It's my favourite Monk recording.

    Hmm. .... Interesting, as a big Monk fan I rate this fairly low, it's a bit of a mess IIRC but I've not played it in a while.

    Being a favourite doesn't mean it's his best, but I find the newcomers bring a freshness to the date that I find really entertaining. Some of Monk's later quarter dates can sound rote, but this one is lots of fun.

  11. John Carter

    in Artists

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    I bought mine for $30 two years ago. I do occasionally see copies at that price. Weber's piece is liner notes for a reissue, but I don't know if that's wishful thinking or if someone is planning a reissue.

  13. Jazz Books To Avoid (and some to seek out)

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted · Edited by B. Clugston

    Forgot about Swed's, yes, that one too, maybe could supplant Carr's. But I don't think that "the" Miles biography has been written yet, nor am I sure that it will be a good thing if/when it is...so many movements in that body of work, anybody who can deal with it all equally/objectively, at least not any time soon.

    I mean, how do you effectively frame Red Garland and Adam Holzman in a way that is fair and equal to both at the same time? I can do it, a lot of us can do it, but it takes some...shifting of perspective to do so, ya' know? Unless you're gonna go all Jack Webb about it, in which case, who needs a book? Just use the internet. Just do that until all the bodies are dead and cold and buried and actually dead.

    All of the Miles bios are full of holes--it seems every author has a period they dislike, skip over, etc. Maybe getting a different author for each decade is the answer.

  14. Jazz Books To Avoid (and some to seek out)

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

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    It wasn't a bad book necessarily, but Paul Tingen made some really weird statements in "Miles Electric", which I read 10 or 11 years ago, the first one was that people who couldn't appreciate "Bitches Brew" were because they had inferior stereo systems (WTF?) and he discussed Miles' alleged crossdressing (who cares?).

    He also knocks some of Miles' more interesting recordings and goes all Shunryu Suzuki for a bit. But overall, a good book, thanks to his extensive interviews of musicians who played with Miles.

  19. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    New Vocabulary, (System Dialing). Ornette Coleman – Alto Saxophone, Jordan McLean – Trumpet & Electronics, Amir Ziv – Drums, Adam Holzman – piano.

    My copy has blank labels, so you have to squint and look at the runout groove to figure out which side is which. That's annoying, but the record itself actually sounds great. Great music, too. I'm still curious about why this release took five years to come out and why it had such an under-the-radar release. Whatever the case is, I'm glad it did come out.

  20. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    Muhal Richard Adams, piano, percussion, voice, synthetizer. - Joseph Jarman, soprano sax, alto sax, bass say, voice, bassoon, alto clarinet, flute, percussion. - Douglas Ewart: B clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, bassoon, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, african flute, percussion, voice. - Amina Claudine Myers: piano, percussion, voice. - Thurman Barker: trap drums, percussion, marimba, timpany, bells.

    :tup !

  21. Blindfold Test #131 Discussion Thread

    in Blindfold Test

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    Track 4 - Needle drop. A lot of facility in this player. It wouldn’t be the first thing I grab, but a dark night, no lights, I could enjoy a whole lot of this. Seems similar to some of the Bill Dixon stuff, but I think this is a European player.

    My first thought was Slava Guyvoronsky, but it does sound more like Bill Dixon towards the end. I'm stumped on the others.

  24. Bill Cosby's lifelong love affair with jazz

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    he's always been a frustrated jazz musician rather than what I think of as a "jazz fan". his forcing himself on stage of a known jazz group just to shake a tambourine has always been embarrassing. by agreeing to MC the Playboy Jazz Festival, they let him have his own group to lead. musicians chosen have always been excellent but his ego has consistently ruined the sets by frantically directing or banging on the drums.

    His presence certainly didn't help Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert.

  25. Star Trek TV Show

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Know more about this topic than I care to admit and, thankfully, am too busy to reveal all. Will note that the quality of the writing in the first season was generally excellent -- many favorite episodes but one that stands out for me is the cat-and-mouse match between Kirk and the Vulcan commander in "Balance of Terror." The second season is more hit and miss -- some real high points but also more clichés and more what one author calls "puzzle-box" episodess where the conflicts are less truly character driven and more plot driven -- where the good guys find themselves in danger and KIrk extricates everyone safely (except the one extra you don't recognize who beams down to some planet and gets killed in the first act) while simultaneously solving some longstanding problem on the planet and ending with a bit of moralizing. Third season is a further definite drop off in quality of the writing.

    I have no idea how you got to your age without seeing this show.

    Fully agree. Season 1 was great and "Balance of Terror" is a must-see. Lots to enjoy in the second season. By Season 3, Gene Roddenberry wasn't as involved, the budget was slashed and there were a lot of bad episodes. That being said, the hippy episode is a guilty pleasure. Shatner's acting and over-acting remain a source of enjoyment. It's pretty sexist by today's standards, though Season 2's "The Apple" does feature a memorable scene where Celeste Yarnell's character takes down a couple of aliens on a planet of Buddy Ebsen lookalikes.

    If you ever get around to Next Gen, it doesn't really hit its stride until the 3rd season. Most of season #1 (Next Gen) is downright aweful, and so is nearly half of Season #2 (again, Next Gen).

    Riker grew the beard between S's 2 and 3, so the quick rule of thumb is to ignore anything with clean-shaven Riker.

    Also, Jim, how in the hell did you make it this far without having ever seen even one original series episode? Really, how?

    That is a good rule. Similar thing with Voyager--it got better once Janeway took her hair out of the bun.

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