randyhersom

The disks were also a no-show here.

Quite surprised not to find this topic already posted. The Yahoo headline seems like a trustworthy source. I've kept an eye out for a CD reissue of A Funky Situation, mainly for the totally great, (and totally lurid) Lay Me Like You Hate Me. A sometimes troubled soul who sang with great force and emotion.

Some Max Roach is a must, probably We Insist. Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come The Meters - Africa (from Rejuvenation) Gary Bartz Archie Shepp

I do have a weakness for crunching rock-like riffs, and Abdul Wadud is the man. If you like this aspect of Dogon and bidness, you maight also check out the recordings of David Eyges and Arthur Blythe together. Ace, The Captain and Sky are all available on www.emusic.com.

I've tried twice with no luck. The first time the MP3page was down, and the second time I could find no link. I do own the vinyl, but would love to burn a CD without pops and clicks.

I'm headed for the World Scrabble Championships in London on Tuesday so I figured I'd better start this thread early. I won't be sending any disks before Dec 1, but you can get the ball rolling by emailing randyhersom28655@yahoo.com with your snail mail details. Acknowledgements will probably not happen until I get back. The curious can follow the action at www.wscgames.com Thanks Randy

Some Naxos Classical Favorites Haydn Op. 76 string quartets - Kodaly Quartet (2 volumes). If you like and want more, they have the complete quartets. Nielsen Symphones 4-5 Adrian Leaper cond. French Violin Sonatas Dong Suk Kang and Pascal Devoyon. Gorecki Symphony #3 (purists may howl but I love it) Antoni Wit cond. Shostakovich String Quartets - whichever disk includes Quartet #8 to start.

Good new stuff: Byard Lancaster's It's Not Up To Us features some good Sonny Sharrock in a rockish style, somewhat reminiscent of the Byrds Eight Miles High. Not a fusion date, but just a little rock influence creeping in. A live Sheila Jordan with Cameron Brown. Naxos Classical beginning to show up. Older, but still stuck in my CD changer is Memphis Blood: the Sun Sessions by James Blood Ulmer. Blues, not jazz, but raw and real and entrancing.

Two Jeanne Lee's including the Mal Waldron duo. I already own them both. A downtempo Helen Merrill date for late night listening. And today, not jazz, but on my list - two by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - (recommended by JSngry)

Heads up on the MP3s, 19-32 wont fit on 1 CD, burn 1-19 on disk 1 then 20-32 on disk 2. Nice stuff!

I don't see Michael Ray on either list. Anybody have info?

Sunnysides starting to show up, two by Luciano Souza and a Beat poetry date by Steve Lacy. A new conversations with Sun Ra album that curiosity will drive me to check out sometime. Two new Braxtons on New Albion. The Matthias Lupri sounded great on first listen. Other items of curiosity include Danny D'Imperio, Khan Jamal, Brother Ah and Pepper Adams.

The other half is the Horace Parlan date Happy Frame of Mind which is on the (in-print??) Mosaic. It came out as a separate CD but has since gone OOP.

For the Rollins, you have to scroll way down to the Live Performances section. Chiaroscuro appeared in quantity today. I've been wanting a CD copy of guitarist Jack Wilkins - Merge for some time now, with some nice mainstream playing by Randy Brecker. So that was my first grab, but the Mary Lou Williams and Earl Hines beckon too - I feel a booster pack coming on. Another Jeremy Pelt on MAXJAZZ and many nice looking west coast items by Richie Kamuca, Jack Sheldon, Herb Geller, Pete Jolly and Conte Candoli on VSOP.

Would the first disc of the Curtis Amy Mosaic Select qualify? I found the playing enjoyable, blues oriented in keeping with Curtis's style but quite different from the organ style I'm used to hearing.

1. Nice. Richard Galliano just because I know very few names. 2. The drums are much more active than usual for piano trios, leading me to guess Great Jazz Trio with Hank and Elvin Jones. 3. Nice mellow hard bop era tune with emphasis on the composition. Duke Pearson, maybe? 4. Maybe early McCoy Tyner from Tender Moments? 5. I think Bobby Hutcherson recorded on marimba. 6. Kurt Rosenwinkel and Mark Turner? Also reminded me of mp3s I've heard of live Brian Patneaude. 7. Bill Evans is first to mind. I also thought of Brad Mehldau and Frank Kimbrough. 8. It doesn't seem edgy enough for Gil Evans, but a little left of mainstream for say Gerald Wilson. Maria Schneider? 9. Toots Thielmanns with Stephane Grappelli? 10. This sounds like early Sonny Rollins. 11. A little touch of latin percussion, lots of McCoy Tyner influence. Maybe it is McCoy? I had also thought of Fort Apache Band. 12. Curtis Amy came to mind, although there's valve trombone on disk 1 of the Mosaic Select with the similar organ style. 13. Sounds like Wayne Shorter's more experimental side.

Very nice. 1. Artie Shaw? I wavered toward Duke, then back. 2. Donald Byrd with Pepper Adams? 3. There was something very familiar about the style here. I'm thinking it's Hamp Hawes, although Herbie Hancock ran through my mind too. 4. A guitar with an edgy musical showmanship, but rooted in bop. Jimmy Bruno? 5. Kenny Dorham with Cecil Payne? 6. Count Basie? 7. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers? 8. Earl Hines? 9. Sounds like early Walt Dickerson. 10. This might be my tenth Jones-Lewis Big Band guess without getting one right! Is that a record? 11. Miles? 12. Is this Dolphy from Out to Lunch? 13. Is this a Duke Ellington small group? 14. Monk? 15. Nice trumpet battle, could be JATP. I'll guess Fats Navarro is one of them. 16. Seems like kind of a classic swing band ensemble sound. Maybe a Cootie Williams big band? 17. Marty digs the booting sound of the bari sax and I say hell yeah. Might be the tenorists date. Lockjaw? 18. Sounds post hardbop with just the slightest touch of out. Kind of like Thomas Chapin's Arabesque dates.

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.

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.

Discs arrived Tuesday.

I love Song For My Sister, it has some suprisingly Blue-Note-ish moments led by the title track.

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?

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.

Thanks John. Keen eye there. Hope you liked it.

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.