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I heard of the passing of a longtime acquaintance from the tournament Scrabble world, and upon reading his obituary was surprised to read that he had been a professional jazz drummer. We had never spoken of music, and I was curious if anyone here had crossed musical paths with Webster Phillips of Montclair NJ?

Aaaahhh, Third Street Jazz. The hole in my pocket where the money goes! A truly awesome place.

I had a couple tags show up and viewed the thread before listening, so 4 and 7 are the only remaining mysteries to solve. The style of McCoy Tyner is certainly noticeable in 7 but I don't know of him recording a drums duet, so we're looking for someone influenced by him. Joe Bonner and Myra Melford come to mind, with Don Pullen and Mulgrew Miller as left field possibilities. I do think this is 80s or before. Very nice selections. Like JSngry, this is the era that I "grew up" with jazzwise and remains my favorite.

Belated download please!

I can't resist lurking in these threads though haven't had time to participate fully in a while. I believe I have figured out #9 from the comments. You might discover the answer if you go back to the beginning.

I always liked Ira Sullivan's Norwegian Wood, from Horizons.

I can't resist pointing out that Pat has been less affected by pressure to avoid surprising his fans than George Benson, and that he is currently more marketable than George Benson. Score one for diversity, artistic integrity and drive. To be clear, George does also possess these qualities, but he did honor his record company's wishes to avoid recording outside of the form where he had is greatest commerical success and I believe in the end his long term career suffered.

The visit to Spotify that this thread caused was well worth it. Beautiful. I must be disconnected from eveybody else's sources of hype because I'm glad to hear the news for the first time here and I'm happy to hear the word is spreading.

A musician friend has reported on Facebook that Donald B. has passed away at 80. A second blog that posted the info has since retracted it. Sorry for any concerns I may have caused

You could listen to a studio remake of McCoy's Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit, but the live original will always be definitive. Walt Dickerson - Peace (both long tracks) All of the 3CD Lee Morgan at the Lighthouse and Last Session Woody Shaw - Love Dance and Blackstone Legacy Billy Harper - Black Saint Randy Weston - Carnival

Lost in the Connecticut elementary school massacre.

Complete albums of Walt Dickerson. 20 albums in all, but two were paired on a twofer, Missing a promotional 45 called Warm Up, don't think the take was the one issued as a bonus track. Fabulous body of work.

Very much enjoying Shape Shifter. Recorded for Carlos's own indie label, with native american colorations meeting classic soaring guitar and rhythm tracks. I got a big kick out of hearing Santana top the charts with some very good commercial tracks, but I'll always love him more in this vein. The vocal track is quite fine and there are some ethereal voice effects on the title track also, but the guitar and rhythm are as glorious and inseperable as ever and featured more prominently that they have been in some time. (I really don't think of Carlos when I think of great guitar solos, because they really aren't solos.) Spotify has it so check it out on the cheap.

Figured I'd forget if I didn't do it now so I signed up for the digital.

Nice idea and appropriate to the music it celebrates. I might get on board for the digital edition.

Having to carry ten thousand CDs in your car kills impulse listening.

Spirit in the Night is a great song. The first two albums have several tracks which I'm pretty sure "swing" in the jazz sense and very little since then does, but I consider middle period Springsteen as great but quite different. The energy and effort level in his concerts is enough to convert some listeners who didn't "get it" after album listening only.

Been listening to the new Springsteen and want to comment. The lead track We Take Care of Our Own is the song that the political spin doctors on both sides tried to turn Born In the USA into years ago, a straightforward and engaging flag waver with a little bit of exhorting us to do even better. It sounded great on the Grammys and will sound great on the radio if I happen to flip one on. Born in the USA happens to be both a more conflicted song and a greater one. The only place it could possibly have in the album Wrecking Ball is right where it is as opening track. The remaining songs form a sin to salvation song cycle that is tightly and intelligently constructed with bits of foreshadowing. My first impression was that no Bruce album had as much musical variety since David Sancious left the band after album two. You could look at "Own" as an overture to draw listeners in, but it does stand on its own out front. From there Bruce's protagonist has his lady put on her red dress and grabs his hat and gun looking for easy money. In the next song the singer is in prison at hard labor and sounds at home there, with a bit of third party preaching at the end giving us a hint of things to come. Now we meet a humble working man prepared to care for his own with sheer effort, but by the end of the song we learn that he too has thoughts of violence toward those who have contributed to his troubles. Death to My Hometown rails at corporate greed to the tune of an irish jig. My Depression leans on the love of a woman to get the singer through the emotional difficulties that have followed from the economic ones. Then the title track finds the inner strength to stand up to the world and taunt it. In this context the amorous pursuit of the next song "You've Got it" also comes across as a regaining of strength. Then comes the keystone of the album, Bruce's purest statement of religious feeling ever, Rocky Ground. I'm not a churchgoer, but this tale of faith in the face of great challenges is both beautiful and inspiring. This can't help but contextualize the next song, "Land of Hope and Dreams" as a rousing gospel shout. Then Bruce joins three ghosts in a field for the finale, a gently sung celebration of eternal life.

Been looking for Nolan and No Apologies by northern soul singer Nolan Porter for many years now and they showed up as CDBaby downloads. Grabbed them from eMusic and can say they were definitely worth the wait. Many bonus cuts.

I was lured back by the news that Jack Wilson - The Jazz Organs and Brazilian Mancini were there and added a booster pack so I could download indie label stuff from a couple of friends from the Scrabble tournament scene - Fern Lindzon's second album Two Kites (an atmospheric mainstream jazz date) and Paul Epstein's rock band Spider The Cat (enjoyably retro power pop) and the son of a college friend from the Temple University jazz station WRTI - Ava Luna (lead singer Carlos Hernandez spices up his genetic love of R&B harmony singing with three female backup singers and a synth whiz. Daddy's the longtime icon of New York R&B/Oldies radio Felix Hernandez.) Had 3.88 left to spend which ruled out most albums, but discovered I had missed Jaki Byard's Soul Note date when the got that label just before the price hike. Had download problems but they were fixed by deleting internet history and downloading the new Download Manager. Will hang around for one more month to nab the Spider the Cat debut. Warm feelings from the club 2K glory days, but without the redownload privileges there's not enough to keep me there continuously.

That's When Miracles Occur - Andy Pratt Gonna take a Miracle - Patti Labelle/Laura Nyro Miracle Row/Maria - Janis Ian Miracle Man - Elvis Costello Miracles - Jefferson Starship Tougher than it looked, items 3-4 were electronically enhanced memory. As a tribute to BC, my next word is Spring.

Gee, David, aren't you glad you started this thread!

Yet another reason to listen to Peace by Walt Dickerson - Andrew Cyrille continues the mood beautifully.

Google led me here: http://www.scaruffi.com/jazz/70.html More free-bop than hard-bop, but interesting choices.

An uncredited dog joins in on Serendipity by Walt Dickerson, recorded live at the Players Palace in Philly.