Alexander Hawkins

kids say the darnedest things.

I haven't heard this yet, but I'd be willing to bet big that it's absolutely excellent!

I think Wild's response is pretty much how I hear it. Listening to the Smith, I definitely agree that there is some 'sheets of sound' similarity in terms of the sheer volume of notes going on, but with Smith, these seem largely to be rapid diatonic/blues based scales, rather than with Coltrane, who as Wild says, would run 2/3 substitutions per chord, often. I like Clem's Tatum comparison as well. Actually, I think Tatum is probably something of a halfway house: he quite often plays the chord, then elaborates with a run based on a substitution. The Hasaan think is interesting. I don't necessarily hear it, but it is interesting in the context of the Monk-Hasaan-Taylor descriptor you sometimes read - and I certainly can hear similarities in concept between Taylor and sheets of sound (albeit not necessarily technical similarities).

You're all cynics - in a non-world cup year, this is the best tv of the year

As with all the others Marcello - beautiful picture!

Sadly, it's actually a studio record. But yeah, excellent stuff. I'll throw it on later today... that and the ICP variant of that tour, with "Eeko" on side two. Live in the studio? There is a small audience applauding at the end of some songs and after Dolphy's flute solo on You Don't Know What Love Is. Am I missing some informantion or misunderstanding your post? BTW, terrific album indeed. He had so many good albums, I'm not sure I could pick one out as his best. Are there any to avoid? I love the cover of the album too. Cool drawing and great pictures of Eric on the inside that make owning the 12" version worthhile. Live in the studio, I think. I think it was also broadcast on television? I love this record. I think after Tatum, Parker, and Ellington, Dolphy was the first musician whose music I completely fell in love with. IMHO this is a totally beautiful record. It's fascinating to hear Misha finding his feet here (or should I say, discovering how to misplace his feet), and it's a great reminder of what a killer drummer Han is. I think he has a very pre-bop thing to him - pretty foor to the floor fundamentally, and I love it!

I'm surprised at the stories about discord between Misha, Han, Schols and Dolphy. What are the sources for this?

Related, tangentially(!) - I really enjoyed Michael Ondaatje's 'Coming Through Slaughter' for a semi-fictional, semi-biographical portrait of Buddy Bolden's New Orleans...

Yeah, he's ferocious on that! Have it on at the moment Philip Wilson is also awesome on that side.

...I also love his work with Anthony Davis. 'Of Blues and Dreams' is a masterpiece IMHO!

I'm a big, big, Wadud fan. Beautiful player, and as you say, could bring some serious funk (check him out hooking-up with Warren Smith on Hemphill's 'Flat Out Jump Suite'!).

I completely take the point, and only make the comment because I happened to be listening to it earlier - but there's the large ensemble 'Variations on a Theme of Thelonious Monk' [Criss Cross] on the Ornette Atlantic box...(also answers the 'where can you hear Ornette playing with Bill Evans?' poser )

Do you mean 'Back Together Again'? I really quite liked that one! BTW - any recommendations for the recent one on Intakt with Irene Schweizer?

I certainly wouldn't bet against it That said...does anyone have a lead sheet for 'Harlem...'? Never heard (of) it! p.s. - on the edit - the tracklisting of the album, such as it is as a guide: Track Listing Disc One: Thelonious/ Locomotive/ Trinkle-Tinkle/ Stuffy Turkey/ Coming On The Hudson/ Intro Bemsha Swing/ Bemsha Swing/52nd Street Theme/ Pannonica/ Evidence/ Misterioso/Sixteen/Skippy/ Monk’s Point/ Green Chimneys/Little Rootie Tootie/ San Francisco Holiday/ Off Minor/ Gallop’s Gallop/ Crepuscule With Nellie/ Hackensack/ Consecutive Second’s. Disc Two: Brilliant Corners/ Eronel/ Monk’s Dream/ Shuffle Boil/ Hornin’ In/ Criss Cross/ Introspection/ Ruby, My Dear/ In Walked Bud/ Let’s Cool This/Let’s Call This/ Jackie-ing/ Humph/ Functional/ Work/I Mean You/ Monk’s Mood/ Four in One/Round About Midnight/ Played Twice/ Friday the 13th/ Ugly Beauty/ Bye-Ya/Oska T. Disc Three: Bolivar Blues/Well You Needn’t/ Brake’s Sake/ Nutty/ Who Knows/Blue Hawk/North Of The Sunset/Blue Sphere/Something in Blue/ Boo Boo’s Birthday/ Ask Me Now/ Think Of One/ Raise Four/ Japanese Folk Song/Children’s Song/Blue Monk/ We See/ Bright Mississippi/ Reflections/ Five Spot Blues/ Light Blue/ Teo/ Rhythm-a-ning/ A Merrier Christmas*/ Straight No Chaser/Epistrophy.

My thoughts exactly! Although I know relatively little Hampton, so am following all the other advice with interest...

Absolutely - just can't quite imagine it!

My brain hurts...any clues on what's going to happen

Nice piece - thank you. And to have heard the band in the photos... I was there. Wow! What 'territory' would a band like this have met on? Standards? Hill's tunes?

Nice piece - thank you. And to have heard the band in the photos...

If he is??? he is not active. jazz1

I was lucky enough to tour with him in the UK last autumn (album due out very soon...) - and agree with what you say. A staggering player - no surprise to see the fast company he keeps (besides Braxton, for example, he does the Cecil Taylor large ensembles and is doing one with Bill Dixon later in the year, etc. etc.) - and one of the most knowledgeable, insightful, and nice guys I've met. Check out his releases under his own name, as well (obviously) as the Braxton stuff etc. I think a few were discussed in the 'Funny Rat' thread a while ago - but I love each of the ones I have.

I suppose Louis Moholo is back now! He's pretty darn creative

These were my exact thought, with the addition of: Kalaparusha's 'Forces and Feelings' Muhal's 'Young at Heart/Wise in Time' and 'Things to Come from Those Now Gone' and of course, the two great, GREAT Braxtons: 'For Alto' and 'Three Compositions of New Jazz'. I know it's somewhat frustrating when asking for recommendations, and people list all the albums they can think of (and some besides) fitting the rough bill...but I honestly love all of the above!

He's a Scot, but he now lives in NY, I think I'm right in saying. Depped for Harry Carney in Ellington's band, hence Marsalis fetishising him. A nice player, to be sure - I saw him play a stunning rendition of 'Single Petal...' from the Queen's Suite with Marsalis and the LCJO, which was by far the best thing on the programme that evening. I think he might have been mentioned on another thread, come to think of it...