Larry Kart

"Brittle"? Never had that thought about Tete. I'll listen again. BTW, on some tracks of this album, he swings with a propulsiveness that brings Wynton Kelly to mind.

Some damn fine Tete:

I'll have to listen again to "Sings, Sobs," but I'll be surprised if "Circle Waltz" doesn't remain in first place.

Maybe the most modal piano trio album ever, but none the worse for that. Friedman was a special soul.

I wouldn't have listened to them either, but IIRC Nic Hodges was pointing in their direction, and I thought that was worth following up.

Except for his vintage (1959?) concerti disc with Kletzki, I don't care for his Chopin or most anything else he's done, but oddly enough (oddly so even to me), I recall liking his late Schubert sonatas.

I like this version of Parker's "Cheryl" by Adam Rogers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIdXr_Yxvt Rogers' version of "Dexterity" is also nice:

No -- it sounds like a shortcut to what Thalia probably liked to do best. BTW, are you as struck as I am by how different Osie Johnson sounds here than he does on all those RCA studio dates he did in those years?

No doubt "Jack the Bear" was still fresh as a daisy in Pettiford's mind. Further, Jerome Richardson's tenor solo would have left Thalia Menninger flat on her back with her legs up in the air.

Sure sounds like Gryce to me on the theme statement of "You'd be So Nice To Come Home To." Otherwise, compare the solos on the two side-one versions of "Nica's Tempo." On the former, it not only sounds like Gryce, porcelain-toned, albeit more fluid at times that one is used to from him (which seems to me to be the case throughout), but the announcer also names Gryce as a soloist. On the latter, it's clearly Quill -- that characteristic hoarseness of timbre, for one.

Since when is "Jack the Bear" common man friendly? It would have been known only to veteran Ellingtonians, I would think. Also, it was chosen by Pettiford to please himself and to pay tribute to Blanton. The harp, as the notes explain, was a bee in Oscar's bonnet. Gryce versus Quill -- I'll listen again.

On the first selections -- tracks 1-5 -- the trumpeters are Art Farmer and Joe Wilder; Wilder probably would be playing lead, though IIRC that was not his thing. On the rest of side one the lead player was Ray Copeland. The presentation, yes, but I don't find the arrangements "quaint," certainly not Gryce's. What standards of today do you have in mind? Dave Pell charts -- now those would be quaint.

I'll listen again, but a) I'm going by the booklet notes, and b) I know what Quill sounds like, and it didn't sound like him. This soloist was almost as much on the "polite" side as Gryce usually is but looser rhythmically. P.S. Just for fun, check out Quill's hellacious solo on Johnny Richard's "Cimmaron." From the Capitol album "Wide Range," it's on the Mosaic Select Richard's set. (It's not from the album ID'ed below, though that's a good one.) The trombone chase on "Cimmaron," with the same three "bones," is fun, too. Solo order, IIRC, is Rehak, Cleveland, Dahl. P.P.S. I know Richards can be pretentious to say the least, but the noble theme of "Cimmaron" has always seemed quite something to me.

Yes, in 1989.

What a slick record. Eddie Bert tells a good story about it: "...[Hawkins] had just off a plane, and his horn had come through baggage. so we were forthy-five minutes into the date and he was still oiling his horn. We had no music and the producer got nervous. Well, we did the whole date with head arrangements and finished on time. My feet were tingling. My wife took my temperature when I got home (apparently Bert had the flu]; it was 104 degrees. I wasn't going to give up that date, temperature or not."

Listening again to this one, especially to the material on the 2-CD set that wasn't on the Palo Alto LP. Sal is in pretty staggering form on the 20 minutes-plus "Tenor Madness," and at some length. Strazzeri's comping is distinctive and excellent. And this may be the best Noto I've ever heard (that ballad especially). Simpkins is over-miced and/or over-amplified, yet what he's playing is very stimulating; Shelly likewise (i.e. he's very stimulating, though not over-miced).

Best alternate history novel I know is Ward Moore's "Bring the Jubilee," in which the South wins the Civil War.| https://www.amazon.com/Bring-Jubilee-Ward-Moore/dp/143447853X The second link contains spoilers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_the_Jubilee

Sorry. Thanks.

Not only was the Vanguard material that (for the most part) John Hammond recorded in the mid-1950s re-issued in a haphazard fashion (to say the least), some of the personnel listings and information in the liner notes was screwed up. As it happens, I knew who the guy was that the Moss Music Group had hired to put out this material again, and I wrote to the MMG to complain, giving details. Apparently that guy then was slapped upside the head to some degree, because a good friend of mine is a longtime friend of that guy (whom I've never met), and my friend told me that that guy was furious at me for making trouble for him. Hey, I thought, just do the job right, and there'd be no problem. BTW, aside from the unfortunate decision (made by that guy or someone above him at the MMG) to scatter material that was on individual 10-inch LPs over several CDs, I think that assembling accurate personnel listings and making sure that the notes were free from mis-statements would have just been a matter of paying attention to already available material, like the information that was on the backs of the original LPs. And if for some reason that information no longer was readily available (perhaps MMG or the guy they hired didn't have the old Vanguard LPs to hand), I don't think it would have been hard to find via collectors and discographies.

Damn -- she was only 62. I saw her early on in several Steppenwolf Theater productions. Brilliant actress. A lovely person, too. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/glenne-headly-dead-film-tv-actress-dies-at-62-1011839

Did you mean to say "Now, when you ask them where most of that rebound ended up...."?

BillF, erwbol, et al: IIRC Jim's rule on this had a simple practical basis: Based on what he'd seen on other jazz boards and on this one too at one time, he felt that discussion of political subjects often led to inflamed feelings and so-called flame wars. This he didn't want to play host to -- and because it's his board, that was that. Also, as I said above, there are lots of other places on the 'Net where political discussions can and do take place with no, or virtually no, limits. Just not on Organissimo. BTW, if you're a Facebook friend of Jim's, you'll know that he's a man of strong opinions on a number of political and social issues and is not averse to mockery when it suits his mood. But FB is where he expresses those views, not here.

I feel better already.

I apologize for screwing up again in how I "policed" this, but if you guys want to say that politician X or Y or Z is a sack of excrement, not saying that literally but instead posting grotesque images of said politicians is something you're not going to get away with here. The vast plains of Facebook and the like await you. As for the First Amendment, that means that the government (repeat, THE GOVERNMENT) cannot pass a law abridging freedom of speech. It has no bearing on the rules Jim Alfredson put in place for speech on this forum.

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