Milestones

Music is about unity and beauty and harmony.

Never heard of tis particular noir.

I came pretty late, all things considered--the year 2012. Somehow I got wind of this forum. It's been a great place all these years.

I have been heard a long time, but I don't think that far back. My first favored jazz forum was Jazz Corner.

If anyone questions you about political content, say, " I don't recall."

The Kennedy Center is no more.

Hitchcock--suspense, humor, romance, and some very deep (and dark) currents from time to time. The man had full mastery of shots and editing. I'm a fan in general of classic cinema, so add Frank Capra, William Wyler, Fred Zinnemann, John Ford, and Billy Wilder.

I've always thought the record with Ornette should be better known and more acclaimed. But it would have been nice if Ornette had played at least some alto on the album.

I read the piece on DeJohnette in the December Downbeat. He's just been elected to the Downbeat Hall of Fame (Readers). As I recall, it seems like an awful lot of musicians go in during the year of death. In fact, I am wondering if you have to be alive to elected--in many cases, alive for a portion of the year. But in this of Jack, there is no acknowledgment of his death in the article or anywhere in the issue. He had been interviewed, which contributes to most of the content. Anyway, it's a nice feature, and I don't think I'd heard before that he briefly played live with Coltrane.

Definitely some mixed reactions. I get that.

What's up with Jan Garbarek in recent years? Limited research shows he has not really been recording for about a decade. Admittedly, I have not collected much of his work. I liked him in the trio with Haden and Gismonti, as well as with Jarrett's European quartet. Some of his own early solo worked sounded good--pretty different from the later low-key stuff. He has had one of the longest runs ever on ECM, and it is a highly diverse output. I have sampled rather than explored. I do like several tracks on the live album Dresden. Whether one is a fan or not, it has been a major career. He appears to be one of the most important European jazz musicians...ever. I am just wondering what he has been up to lately, and who here has been keeping up with his work.

Escoffery is pretty good. I've heard him on some Tom Harrell records, and I believe he's been valued in big band settings--Mingus, Ron Carter.

Yes, Jack was great for his amazing skills and his unique style--that's why he is up there with Max, Tony, Elvin, Art, and those true greats. There are some fine drummers our there, like Joey Baron and Bill Stewart. But I think they are a level or two down from Jack.

Another one I have is Coltrane and Art Taylor. It should be remembered that Taylor was the drummer of choice on Trane's Prestige dates. It's hard to compete with the legendary pairing of Coltrane and Elvin, but there is a lot of fine stuff on these early records.

Plenty of good pairings...my thanks to everyone. I'm thinking more along the lines of players who were not in actual working groups for considerable (or decent) amount of time. Thus I would not choose Ron Carter and Tony Williams since they served so long with Miles (and you could count VSOP as well). Or Haden and Blackwell, since they were key players in the Ornette quartet and in Old and New Dreams. But then again it might be cool to spotlight Carter/Williams outside of Miles /VSOP, or Holland and DeJohnette outside of Gateway