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Hey, don't leave out Waldron and Marion Brown!

When Warner bought Rykodisk I think, been a few months.

Max Roach Live in Tokyo Max Roach Horo or even Complete recordings of Max Roach with Billy Harper Sun Ra Horos Anthony Braxton Aristas - packaged so I can avoid Music for Umpteen Orchestras Jack Wilson on Discovery Ted Curson - The Trio from the pop side Garland Jeffreys - Ghost Writer Spirit - Spirit of '76 A good Nolan Porter anthology. I haven't heard but am tired of reading aboiut. and bring back that Jimmy Webb Rhino set sometime when I have a few spare bucks!

Start your own thread about the new release! Why Yes!!! We wouldn't want Funny Rat to get off topic!!!

I started redownloading the Prestige/Contemporary catalog a few months back, got about halfway through before disk space indicated taking a break from the endeavor. Too bad about the Koch Jazz disappearances, many things I have on burn only and would have to re-rip to get mp3s.

Music of immense dignity, and it grooves! African Cookbook and Tanjah deserve a mention, Booker Ervin fit in very well. Hi-Fly has been covered by many, anybody familiar with the sultry Karin Krog - Archie Shepp version? I can't think of any Randy Weston appearances as a sideman, anybody know of any?

Headed for the Schnabel Beethoven Piano Sonatas next week when my new downloads come in. THe curious should start with Volume 4 and the Hammerklavier sonata in particular. Anybody know anything about Oren Ambarchi & Keith Rowe - Flypaper?

Booker Ervin - That's It Charles Mingus - Reincarnation of a Lovebird Santana - Shorter live at Montreux 1988 Martin Kuchen Trio Live at Glenn Miller Cafe (member of Exploding Customer) Down to one download left. I think I already own Cecil Taylor - Jumpin Punkins but I need to make sure.

Is World WIthout Tears the one that mentions Coltrane? That's another good one.

Great new album. These days Lucinda gets lumped in with Alt-Country but she's been doing it for decades so the label doesn't stick too hard. Intensely felt songs, one four letter word and several other blunt sexual allusions. Plenty of tenderness to offset the excellent tough woman moments. She can hang with Morrisette and PJ Harvey but doesn't spend her whole life there. Unsuffer Me is my current favorite, the arrangement really builds drama. Bill Frisell plays like he was put on earth to make this record, not at all obtrusive, but every note matters. Lucinda's voice is very earthy and a little rough. If you like this, you need her earlier album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road too.

I'm a fairly reliable lurker, but dropped off the Blindfold Tests due to time difficulties. Scrabble going OK, dabbling in tournament poker also.

Walt Dickerson - To My Queen. Three tracks worth many times the price. Early and great Andrew Hill as sideman.

This has always been a favorite of mine, I prefer it slightly to Basra. The recording has never bothered me. The concept is subtle and evocative (think Maiden Voyage) rather than flashy and hard-swinging (like, say, the Messengers' Blues March). Anyone like me who appreciates both Blue Note and ECM should enjoy this unsung classic.

P. S. Hell yeah on Greensleeves too! Whenever I hear Blues Minor I can't help but hear the tune's similarities to Bag's Groove, but I love it too.

My tastes in music run toward the dramatic and I'd give serious consideration to calling this the greatest recording ever. My preferred listening experience would be the original three track configuration, but I don't want to be without the bonus tracks. I have other moods in which the Body and Soul from Coltrane's Sound would get that honor, but I find myself wanting to hear this right now. I'll get home from work in a few hours, have to wait until then. Coltrane's entry over the throbbing heartbeat bass - what a moment.

Played 2 scrabble tourneys this year, just missing the money both times. Thanks for the hijack : )

I absolutely agree on Free Spirits - I used it on my second Blindfold Test. Buster Williams plays great on that one.

In honor of the Asch Recordings (1944-1947) showing up on eMusic from Folkways, I thought it would be a good time to start a Mary Lou Williams thread. I enjoyed the Asch Recordings a great deal when they were issued on LP in 1977 and will be downloading them tonight. I believe Kool may be Kenny Dorham's first recorded solo. It's likely that the Asch Recordings can be ordered on CD now. Also newly appearing on eMusic is an album entitled Mary Lou Williams, whose first track is "Black Christ of the Andes (St. Martin de Porres)". This differs from the album "Mary Lou Williams Presents Black Christ of the Andes". It looks like "Presents" has four bonus tracks inserted just before the final track. Zoning is a fascinating modernist set from Mary Lou. Bob Cranshaw plays electric bass, but I find his playing appropriate to the context.

I'll be grabbing Mary Lou Williams - The Asch Recordings tonight. I believe Kool may feature Kenny Dorham's first recorded solo.

Anything from the 50's in order to meet US copyright laws must be licensed from the intellectual property owners. The period of protection is 75 years rather than 50 and entertainment moguls are lobbying heavily for an even longer period.

Mal Waldron - Breaking New Ground With Reggie Workman and Ed Blackwell, and as good as you'd expect it to be. Four seventies vintage pop tunes are covered. I was expecting a more percussive and intense interpretation of Beat It, but this one's growing on me and the trio plays Earth Wind and Fire like they wrote it for the vocal group. I've had Sam Rivers- Purple Violets for a while, but I'm really enjoying it recently. Might be Sam's most "inside" date.

I listen to the Blue Note Lighthouse and Last Session more than any other Lee Morgan albums. Chops can be overrated. There's a later recording of Ted Curson where he plays Lin's Garden, and you can hear him struggle to play the theme, but the struggle just adds to the emotional impact. I can't be absolutely sure he didn't mean it that way, but it doesn't matter.

Thanks. Recorded on my seventh birthday. Ten years later I was playing a lot of pinball in Mitten Hall, then heading over to WRTI to hang out and fill the occassional DJ slot. Never knew this existed.

After seeing Billy Hart Quartet on some best of year lists I grabbed it and have enjoyed it. Dennis Gonzalez' name drew me in to Alvin Fielder Trio - A Measure of Vision and it was worth it. Lyrical and evocative. Rudresh Mahanthappa - Codebook impressed on first listen, a quartet with Vijay Iyer. They continue to add items on the Ayler Records label and William Parker - And William Danced and Exploding Customer Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe are both excellent.

The two albums on which Mike Brecker completely blew me away were a Joanne Brackeen album (Tring-a-Ling?) on Choice, and then later, Joni Mitchell's Shadows and Light live album which I consider an utter classic. I think I'll play McCoy Tyner's Infinity tonight.