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there you go - CD1 again - just squeezed in another listen: #1 - Not my favorite voice, I'm afraid, but plenty of character her. The opening is pretty strong, but then the whole thing goes off in a bit too smooth a direction for my liking. #2 - Well, I'm not crying "sacrilege", but this is a tune that I like quite a bit (favorite might be Sonny's version on "Saxophone Colossus") and I don't get this version here at all. Wrong tempo, wrong phrasing with these bent and extended notes... then underneath that pseudo-happening nervous beat that's not going anywhere except to tell us: hey, I can pull drum'n'bass beats as well as your drum machine... well, sure it's more lively, but I don't get this one, sorry. Also the alto sounds somewhat generic, and the voice... well, maybe I'm totally off here anyway, but it sounds like there's a bit too much of everything in here. #3 - Beautiful voice here, but weird lyrics, kind of... very nice mood though. Nice post-Trane tenor there (not Pharoah in a more restrained moment, is it?) - and very good bass and drums, too! And piano and guitar mix perfectly well, too - this is smooth in a good way! Enjoy it a lot, even though the lyrics are a bit... well, whatever, "joy gives you peace"... sure. No need for angels here #4 - This here's nice! Like that voice a lot, no antics, just straight out it goes... nice song, good accompaniment with particularly good bass, very laid-back. Wonderful! "Beauty's only an illusion"... does this happen to be Norma Winstone doing "The Peacock"? Great one! #5 - Starts out rather nice - rubato, Ornette-ish mood... but then that yucky guitar enters. Horrible, sorry. Still the mood is nice, the voice good (too much vibrato though, for my taste). But can someone please lock up that guitar player in the fridge or wherever I don't have to hear him any more? Guitar fits better under the good sax solo, but to me, it doesn't fit the moody atmosphere that the singer creates. #6 - This one's fun! Good scatting by a guy steeped in bebop and able to get through the chords, as far as I can tell... good groove, nice brushes from the drummer, good time from the bass. Good solos by the piano and very nice, old-fashioned tenor, with some swagger and a hint of a honk now and then... ah, and the bass gets some, too. Stomping good fun! #7 - Love the idea: voice, two basses, drums - great line-up! And nice mood, too! Interesting, cool-ish singer with good pacing. Ha, got it! Thanks to the second listen! That's Joni, yes? Wonderful! With Wayne on soprano? Beautiful soprano, bit of a weirdish story told in the lyrics, but never mind, it has a nice flow and the voice is wonderful, love me some Joni! Hum, but where's this from? It's not from "Miles of Aisles", it seems (one of the few early Joni albums I don't have yet) - is it not Joni, after all, just someone doing her song? If so, all the more impressive, how it bears her stamp! Well no, it's not Joni... I'm intrigued here! #8 - This starts out gorgeously! Love the idea to do "Caravan" in a slow-motion way... but as I was afraid, it does speed up eventually - though not as bas as I feared, just medium-up, not the speeding rushed tempo it's so often done in. Still, the mood gets lost a bit during the instrumental parts. (I made a mention of Shirley Horn in my original/lost post... adore her very much, and especially her ability to pull these slow-motion tempos... would have loved this much more if it had stuck to the original tempo.) #9 - Nice one, "Blues in the Night" by some male singer with what, a Fender rhodes? Very cool sound from that electric piano, and good singer, too. Would love to hear him kickin' with a full rhythm section, too! #10 - Now this one is definitely not my favorite again... not sure if this is a pipe organ or all synthetic stuff, the soprano is played with some ugly octave device or processed in some way... not for me, not at all, I'm afraid. But still the layers of sound leave me puzzled in a not only negative way... guess I'd have to hear more of this. #11 - This one's nice enough, but there are some of these nervous beats again that don't really go too far... not sure what to think of it. Doesn't bug me at all, but doesn't drag me in either, just goes along... #12 - Good opening, but too much vibrato for my taste... otherwise very nice voice though. But too much... "attitude". Thanks a lot, Mike! Interesting, even though some tracks are really not my cup of tea.

I'll try again, Mike! Work computer, no influcence on settings of crappy MSIE, alas... will squeeze in another listen right now and typ the answers into a txt-file this time

Shit, just lost my whole post for disc 1... ah, no... some of it I loved, some I didn't, some piqued my interest even though I didn't really like it... oh, crap. So sorry, Mike! Not sure I can repeat the listen within useful time (and I don't even have disc 2 on my ipod yet). Ah no, hate when this happens! (Why doesn't this site reconstruct partial posts when you hit to forward and back buttons - other forums do!)

lap dances and more or Wynetone serenading your gal...

Same here! Love it! It often has this very human touch - and it's right there in the range of the (male) human voice, which is always something I cherish, no matter if it's a cello, a tenor sax or a 'bone.

So if you take the cheap one (hey 350 is a bargain!) they'll throw you out before midnight to make room for the snobs?

Wow, amazing! Love the "Near East" label! And the one on the first "Holy Modal Rounders", too!

Subway has no continental mind... they seem to be closing down over here, rather than expanding. Starbucks still is closest to the pest though. Soemmetimes it seems as if no matter WHAT corner you turn around, Starbucks was there before you...

(and some bible belts? )

some belt bible verses, some print bibles on belts...

I'm much with Sangrey here... there's some Hawk that I dug right away, that went straight to the guts. But then there's plenty that took some detours through the brain, stuff the impressed me mightily from the git-go, but that took a while to sink in and be dug on a straight, emotional level. Then there's some stuff where the rhythmic stiffness (well, on the surface at least) puts me off somewhat and makes it difficult to dig in. But he definitely was an MF! And as if any more proof was needed, there's that Spotlite LP cover! WOW! I NEED THAT ONE, NOW!!! Got to look for it, that's for sure!

The ol' in & out has some rather secular over(inner- and outer)tones to it though

So this turned from so-called restaurants to flagellation? Thread of the week! I congratulate y'all (physically, uhm, literally at that... not figuratively!)

Well, in Switzerland it's dog meat

I never understood the idea of being able to eat the same crap, no matter where in the world you are... but I guess I have a continental mind

Ah, I see. Wasn't aware of that. Good that I got the LP then - will likely sound a bit better than the CD, too, I assume.

I got the Original Albums 5CD set fairly recently, mostly in order to finally get BNaE... have the Legacy editions of the first two and Lost Trident already... I hate this "put in some more tracks and have all the baboons buy the music for the umpteenth time"-policy! What does that mean? Did the old CD (red border) CBS CD omit anything? I got the LP of it a few months ago but haven't yet checked it out...

Guess I got to look for both the Connor and the Hawkins discs, then!

The Chris Connor Titles (5 - with trio of Ronnie Ball, Ben Tucker & Dave Bailey) plus some Coleman Hawkins are on a West Wind CD (2025) - At The American Jazz Festival with Chris Connor, Coleman Hawkins -> these Hawkins titles overlap with another WW CD called Body & Soul Is the West Wind label non legit? Okay, interesting... what else is on that Hawk CD? And does it have MORE Latin American Affairs titles than the Connor/Hawkins disc? Thanks!

With Armstrong, I'm not sure I'll get the Mosaic - but I'm sure I won't get the new box (which in a local shop here was only marginally more expensive than the Bechet - those were the only two they had there... and they cost quite a bit more than from amazon, so...) Anyway, with Satchmo I'll continue with the Fremeaux discs, I assume (got Vols. 1-3 so far). Too many duplicates there already anyway (a dozen Chronos, the Columbia Hot Fives & Sevens box, the RCA box, and in case Fremeaux ever gets to that point, the Decca All Stars Mosaic, too).

Oh, and if you've got a pacemaker, holding these magnetic thingies too close might cause trouble - see, old school is better some times Speaking of old school - were finally back on topic

These aren't what I'd call restaurants... needs to have a chef, at least

But those can be used to pinch your nipples, too