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  1. Music, and its effect on you

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle.

    Van Morrison - His Band and Street Choir

    Joan Armatrading

    Keith Jarrett - Solo Concerts Bremen-Lausanne, Death and the Flower

    Oregon - Winter Light

    The Gentle Side of John Coltrane

    Hampton Hawes - High in the Sky

    Walt Dickerson - Peace

    Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues

    Most particularly I've Been Working from Band and Street Choir among the first three, incredibly intense and entrancing at the time, and still quite powerful.

    I took to Keith Jarrett and Ralph Towner quite quickly when I started exploring jazz. It wasn't long before I got the Cecil, but that took many many listenings to get a handle on. The Trane anthology was mainly about the originally released version of Living Space.

    I have acquired all of the albums of Walt Dickerson since then but Peace was the first to capture me with the unearthly lyricism of bass and vibes.

    The Hamp Hawes is something that I listened to over and over and loved the mood it created.

  2. all things emusic

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by randyhersom

    Mary Lou Williams: Presents Black Christ of the Andes, Zoning and Zodiac Suite all hit today along with lots of other Smithsonian/Folkways material. James P Johnson from the jazz side, Lucinda Williams, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and various Seegers included in the folk/blues. Also Monk Live in Paris on Hyena.

    Other recent highlights are Woody Shaw Live Volume 4, Sonny Rollins latest Without a Song: the 9/11 Concert and Sonny Fortune/Billy Harper: Great Friends.

  5. BFT 27 - DISC TWO DISCUSSION

    in Blindfold Test

    Posted

    1. Um, Cannonball Adderly?? : )

    2. David Ware's strings album?

    3. Johnny Griffin? Dexter was my other thought, but I think his strings album had more modernish string arrangements.

    4. Abbey Lincoln?

    5. Lee Morgan a possibility

    6. Steve Kuhn over Chick Corea

    7. I'll try Jones-Lewis big band here.

    8. I'd expect something by Andy Narrell to sound slicker. Definitely thinking steel drums, not hubkaphone. Maybe it's the trombone's date. Robin Eubanks?

    9. Sounds like Weather Report.

    10. Harold Mabern Jr.?

    11. Unusual fragment here. Dave Bryant?

  6. BFT 27 - DISC ONE DISCUSSION

    in Blindfold Test

    Posted

    1. Nice organ groove. Don Patterson?

    2. Gotta be Pops. Firmly wedged in my mind. I gotta struggle to avoid singing it out loud at inappropriate times. Gobble Gobble.

    3. Mongo Santamaria?

    4. Reminds me of G-Man, but that's not the track. I still say Rollins

    5. I first thought Paul Desmond, which would have meant that Brubeck was in a particularly delicate mood. Sonny Criss came to mind on second play, and that's my guess

    6. A tart alto in a 50's style who's not Bird. How about Stitt?

    7. Tune sounds like Rainy Night in Georgia. Jug? I wouldn't even be surprised if this was particularly hip filler off a seventies R&B date.

    8. Billie, but some of the tenor phrases sound shockingly like Shepp. Probably Ben. Duke's I Got it Bad.

    9. Woody Herman?

    10. Gerald Wilson?

    11. Randy Weston's Hi-Fly on vibes. Jay Hoggard?

    12. A very familiar tune from the lat

    13. Moon Maiden from The Intimate Ellington

    14. Stylistically like Louis Jordan. I remember his voice being a little deeper, so I'll try to dredge up another jump blues name. Jay McShann?

    15. Shirley Scott and Stanley Turrentine?

    16. Pretty cool beer commercial. Anita O'Day?

    17. So who sounds like a cross between Helen Merrill and Mabel Mercer at a Shirley Horn tempo? I should be able to come with a better guess than Helen Merrill, but I cant.

  8. all things emusic

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Grabbed four of the five new James Finn sets. Liking what I've heard so far. Tending toward the Avant Garde, but also some nice flute work.

    The new design requires an extra click to get to the latest new releases so I don't consider it an improvement. Not bad though.

  9. BFT #26 discussion thread

    in Blindfold Test

    Posted

    Wonderful set, left me feeling quite clueless.

    1. I'm not good with big bands. Maria Schneider?

    2. This lovely muted trumpet may come from Art Farmer

    3. Guessing Anthony Braxton here.

    4. I heard a lot of clarinet on the new Art Ensemble of Chicago sets on Pi.

    5. Of the two names that came to mind, Dave Holland has recorded with vibes, and I'm not sure Ken Vandermark has. I'll go with Dave.

    6. La Banda's my guess, an opera influenced ensemble including Willem Breuker.

    7. Elvin and McCoy with Pharoah?

    8. No idea at all! Maybe a group featuring Michael Moore?

    9. Oscar Brown Jr?

    10. Later Louis Armstrong?

    11. John Mclaughlin - My Goals Beyond?

  12. Paul Motian, ECM Recordings

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    Any recommendations for these (aside from the most recent one)?  A lot of them seem to be out of print domestically so I want to narrow down my choices before paying $20-25 a disc.  The ones I'm especially interested in are Conception Vessel, Tribute and Dance.

        Guy

    Tribute is brilliant, enhancing the spanish guitar feel of Charlie Haden's bass lines with a couple of guitarists and Carlos Ward on some tracks. Very hypnotic.

  17. BFT#25, disc #2 - discussion!!!

    in Blindfold Test

    Posted

    2-1 Jazz version of King Crimson's Red, fabulous. I'm inclined to credit British musicians. Maybe John Ethridge?

    2-2 Paul Bley comes to mind.

    2-3 Some subtle hip-hop influences here. Graham Haynes perhaps?

    2-4 Bossa feel. Bobby Watson perhaps?

    2-5 Reminiscent of Keith Jarrett, but no vocalisms. Frank Kimbrough?

    2-6 Quite lovely. Maria Schneider?

    2-7 Pronounced rock backbeat. Maynard Ferguson?

    2-8 A tenor tearing it up on Stevie Wonder's Sunshine of My Life. Joshua Redman?

    2-9 Sounds like tenor and alto jamming over Rhodes rhythm section. Very fresh. Donald Harrison maybe?

    2-10 Burning organ and tenor track. Agonizingly familiar, but I can't put a finger on it. Don Patterson?

    2-11 Herbie's Mwandishi Band? No, that trumpet is just too Miles. Bigger band than I'm used to hearing with Miles.

    2-12 More good solo piano. I hate to HAFC so I'll try Roland Hanna

    2-13 Live organ date. Soft Machine?

  18. BFT#25, disc #1 - discussion!!!

    in Blindfold Test

    Posted

    This set seems to be about fusion in the best and most organic sense of the word.

    Disc 1

    1-1 I'm going to guess that this is Andre Previn conducting a late Romantic piano concerto ...

    1-2 ... segueing into Andre Previn, solo jazz piano

    1-3 is this Wynton Marsalis - All Rise?

    1-4 Something off Joe Farrell - Moon Germs?

    1-5 Miles with Wayne and Herbie?

    1-6 Electric Miles

    1-7 More Wayne Shorter?

    1-8 Kind of an inside-outside vibe here. Ted Curson?

    1-9 Solo trumpet isn't done very often. Could be 50s or 60s, or a later player paying tribute. My wild guess is Leo Smith because he did a solo album, Kulture Jazz, but this isn't the style he commonly plays in.

    1-10 Art Ensemble of Chicago

    1-11 Blue Note era McCoy Tyner?

    1-12 Piano trio is wide ranging stylistically, with an unusual vocal contribution at the end. Don Pullen?

    1-13 Trumpet trios were very hard to find before the 80s. Roy Campbell? Once again, not as "out" as I'd expect for this player.

    1-14 A Blue Note style with some percolating wah-wah guitar added in. Gary Bartz?

    1-15 Nice. I'm going with Sonny Rollins against my better judgement.

    1-16 Reminds me of Herbie Hancock's The Egg from Empyrean Isles. Whether I'm right or not, I love it.

  19. Funny Rat

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    Listened to and enjoyed my emusic download of One More Time - Steve Lacy and Joelle Leandre. With emusic you miss liner notes, so I'm wondering if anyone might post a translation of the French phone message that ends the CD. The final "Love you baby, au revoir" needs no translating and is a touching ending.

  21. What cd/Lp have you played the most often?

    in Recommendations

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    Having much more to choose from later in life really favors early acquisitions and perhaps leaves some quality stuff out of the running.

    It's probably Bruce Springsteen Born To Run. Coltrane's Africa/Brass, Neil Young Live Rust, Woody Shaw Love Dance, Walt Dickerson Peace and Stevie Wonder Innervisions would be in the running. Might be some Santana, Jim Croce and Elton John in there from my teen years.

    I still love 'em all.

  23. Looking for vocalese artists

    in Artists

    Posted

    Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie Jefferson.

    And Eddie Jefferson.

    The older he got, the more he flirted with "old man bebop nostalgia", but hey, them's the breaks.

    I dont guess you've heard the date he did with Frank Wright late in his career

    :D:tup

  24. Anthony Braxton

    in Artists

    Posted

    The Piano Quartet version of The Star Crossed Lovers is a fascinating piece of music. Marty Ehrlich approaches Hodges part with much reverence, as if he feels that what he is trying maybe can't be done, but the best results will come from staying close to the source. Braxton's piano is in direct contrast - the impression I get is "Duke Who??". Of course Braxton selected the composition for his album and you know darn well he knows, but reverence is nowhere to be found in the piano playing. If I listen to it fifty more times I may be able to decide whether I like it, but I know I won't be bored.

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