Milestones

Gotta say, that's pretty amusing!

Just thought it was amusing to find a nut of one sort on a record by Wynton, whom everyone thinks is a nut of another. Plus it's getting tough anymore to get a discussion going on "jazz."

I don't know what world you live in.

Hannity is a nut, but they don't come any nuttier than Jeremiah Wright.

Remember The Majesty of the Blues by Wynton? I thought it was a pretty good record except for the "sermon," with some crazy pastor going wacky about the death of jazz. It almost ruined the record; it's definitely something to skip. Who was the pastor? None other than Jeremiah Wright. I wonder if he contributed to any other jazz records.

I played live music from France and from Monterey (both 1963).

I've been intrigued by Coleman for some time. I've never acquired any of his own records, despite some interesting titles and concepts. I know his work almost exclusively through his membership in Dave Holland's groups; there is a lot of his work there, and all of it sounds good to me.

Any fans of Bob Berg? Seems like he was a pretty fine player on both tenor and soprano. I'm getting perhaps my biggest exposure now by listening to his work on Corea's Time Warp. I know he worked a lot with Mike Stern, but most of my Stern is from the past dozen years. I've caught some footage of him on YouTube as a very young man playing with Horace Silver. I get the feeling he was too much under my radar.

There are definitely some titles listed I would check out if they were not so obscure and hard to find.

I for sure meant "underrated." I will edit. For a time I was more a fan of Prestige than Blue Note. For the work alone of Miles, Coltrane, Rollins, and Monk....it is label of great distinction and prestige (sorry).

Let's think about the works by Eric Dolphy and Yusef Lateef recorded for Prestige.

We should not forget that Sonny Rollins did a good amount of work on Prestige, and of course we all hold Saxophone Colossus as a classic. But one that may be underrated is Worktime. The mere fact that Max Roach drummed on most of Rollins' Prestige sessions makes them classics. I think Soul by Coleman Hawkins (with a big assist from Kenny Burrell) was on Prestige, or some offshoot. Very nice session. Didn't Red Garland record extensively for Prestige? Soul Junction I'm sure is highly regarded, but one should look at some of the others.

A towering figure--in some ways equal in importance to Bird. I certainly play his music more often than I play Parker's.

Anyone ever run into this problem, where the Windows Media Player simply won't come up--something about server error? I tried some troubleshooting online, but got nowhere. Would it make sense to use System Restore? Would it make sense to download a new media player? By the way, I'm using windows 8. That alone probably accounts for this mess.

I was always most struck by his work with James Newton, particularly on The African Flower. R.I.P.

That's some nice stuff. Here's hoping more Haden and Methney (live or studio) receives official release.

Really...Haden and Jim Hall? I had never heard of Hall being involved at the Montreal shows. Metheny, yes, and yet that one never was released. A little more Haden and Metheny would be cool. Not that I'd mind Haden and Hall. The only previous collaboration was one track (maybe two) on Jim Hall and Basses (his last Telarc).

I first hear Muhammed on several Randy Weston albums. You know if Weston is using him, you've got a drummer supreme. I very much agree about his fine work on Soul Manifesto. He also spent some time with Joe Lovano, and in fact I saw him live when he was with Lovano's nonet (he was not on the records). Man, he sounded great, and Joe and Idris locked in at times with a Trane/Elvin force.

I like Jasmine and possibly I like Last Dance a bit more. Very elegant and unrushed. On Last Dance it would have been cool to have had one more uptempo number, along with "Dance of the Infidels." It's individual preference to go with other duos. I think the first one with Hank Jones was great. But for anyone who likes Haden and Jarrett even a bit, these two newer albums will satisfy.

You must be kidding.

AllMusic.com is my go-to place for information on records. Anyone else finding it a bit difficult to navigate? Maybe a poor mouse and crappy Windows 8 are factors. But these days it's slow and I'm always besieged by ads.

That comment about both Silver and Ornette having tunes named "Peace" and "Lonely Woman" hits home even more with the passing of Charlie Haden. I can almost hear in my mind Charlie playing on the Silver tunes. Not that this meeting ever occurred in reality, but you know that Charlie could have played with anybody.

Bad news. I had been hearing stuff for awhile about him being in bad shape, but still one hates to hear such news. I was a fan from the Ornette days, then was so pleased to see him find success as solo artist. The Quartet West stuff was often exquisite. The duo album with Metheny...I wish there had been at least one more. The amazing trio of Charlie-Bill Frisell-Ginger Baker. Also, the two Jarrett albums that came out recently--the second very recently--although actually recorded a few years back. So many great appearances on so many projects and such a diversity of artists. I feel lucky to have seen charlie Haden once in person--and not very long ago. It was Quartet West and curiously Joe Lovano was subbing in for Ernie Watts. It was a great concert. R.I.P.

NIce list, Starthrower. I'm also partial to "The Mama Suite" (all 3 parts) from Silver's last record: Jazz has a Sense of Humor.

I don't think I've ever heard "No Smokin." I've been reading Silver's autobiography. He knew and respected Ornette and enjoyed his work--at least in the live environment.