Milestones

I am really feeling my ignorance--in that I don't know nearly enough about the great Aretha Franklin. I owned only one of her albums (a good one) and otherwise knew her by the hits. Clearly a great a singer, but now I have to think one of the greatest EVER and I'm realizing howe diverse she was. On some of her albums you find players like Frank Wess, Bernie Glow, Snooky Young, Grady Tate, and many more. Kenny Burrell is a major presence on the jazzy small group records Yeah. So jazz was part of who she was, along with gospel, soul, blues, pop, and much more. It seems like she's always committed and highly expressive. Why the hell have I slept on Aretha Franklin?

Yep!

It was cool just to see some jazz greats talking, such as Randy Weston and Jimmy Heath (no longer with us) and Sonny (retired). There is a wonderful hour-long concert of Max and Weston on YouTube: San Sebastian, 1999.

I've had a CD for ages with two alternate versions, plus one extra tune: "Born to be Blue."

How much extra music is there?

I like To the Max for the variety and ambition--not that it perfectly captures all his skills, at top level at least. The late albums (usually quartet and the intriguing double quartet) have their fine moments, some good moments, some dud moments. No album masterpieces, as far as I can tell.

I will be checking this out. I have been listening to a lot of Max lately, especially work from his last period.

Yeah "Quadrangle" was instantly identifiable. Great tune and I always love Jackie's playing. #4 reminds me of Lovano in a trio setting, except it doesn't sound like him. George Garzone? #5 reminds me of early Mingus, but too low key. #7 is some jazz cello. Not Ron Carter. I can't think of many cellists. Abdul Wadud?

I'll just say, "Noel who?"

For a Scot, he made a fine Russian!

Anyone aware of Roger Waters remaking this classic album? What's the point? And he's been a prick about it (which is usual, from what I gather), not even telling his ex-bandmates about it. I listened to "Time"...sorry, his new version sucks.

David McCallum was fantastic. He was a talented guy in many ways. It's a toss-up as to which of two characters is more iconic: Illya Kuryakin or Ducky Mallard. He will be missed. R.I.P.

I would not be surprised. I know Wayne made some big contributions to Glengarry Glen Ross.

What is the deal on this piece? I know the original version (from late 40's, I think), but I'm not aware of anyone else covering it. The piece is not even to be found on Frank Kimbrough's Monk's Dreams. It's not bad, though hardly in the upper echelon of Monk's works. But it seems to be a real obscurity. LATER: So I guess it was written by Ike Quebec. I was thrown because I was looking at a Gary Smulyan album and there the composer was listed as Monk.

Yes, I have often wondered why Sonny and Max did not have at least a couple of reunions. One of jazz's greatest partnerships.

Sonny Rollins--living legend and living treasure. I need to play some Sonny with Max Roach.

Hardbop, So what does that mean--put the music back into the main computer to play it properly and then take it off from there and put back into the cloud when done listening? I still cannot figure out the cloud (and for that matter external HD) when it comes to playing the sequence of an album. I can only get one track at a time, thus constant stop-and-go.

I pretty much find that you can't go wrong with Tyner. I have the majority of his work, and he is one of the most well-represented artists in my collection--both in pure numbers and in high percentage of his total output. I love, love, love The Real McCoy and Expansions, and I love Tender Moments (all on BN). McCoy Tyner's stature is such that he deserves a full biography.

I love the Tyner/Williams duet on "I Mean You." Talk about two players totally amped up.

I was not initially that big a fan of McCoy in piano trio format, though I did have the ones on Milestone (Trident, Supertrios) early on and always enjoyed them. There was quite a bit of trio work on Impulse (some of it excellent), and the trio became a much bigger factor in the post-Milestone period. Of these later trio albums, I find Remembering John (and we know who that is) to be an absolute classic.

On another note, does anyone know why tracks would play only one at a time on the external hard drive? That is, once a track ends the next track jumps back to music on the computer itself.

Who understand how this works? So far I don't. After years of Dells and HPs, I have shifted to Apple. My wife has used Apple for decades; and she has said that when you have Apple, the icloud is as certain as death and taxes--but in general she does not seem to have a firm grasp of it either. I have been ripping and downloading a great deal of music. Some music goes to the cloud. In fact, it seems like a recent Tom Harrell album went half and half--first 6 tracks a regular download, the last 6 in the cloud. I also get messages about icloud being full or nearly full. I don't actively work with icloud in any way, and at least it hasn't created any serious havoc in my recorded music. But it sure is strange.

200,000 hours...that just boggles my mind!

I really don't want to add much (if any) physical artifacts anymore. I used to buy the occasional CD from Amazon or from Half Price Books. At the latter, a few years back I found a jewel: Pete LaRoca's Basra. Like many, I'm finding that there is enough (or perhaps too much) physical product. That said, I still do appreciate these things.

In terms of streaming, I mostly go with YouTube Music. In most cases (at least with jazz) it is just audio--no video, which is what I prefer. The amount of jazz on this service is impressive.