Man with the Golden Arm

Not being a musician myself, but...go find yourself Marty's "Pliant Plaint" w/ Stan Strickland. Beautiful stuff but might be a bit hard to come by these days. Boy, I would loved to have seen him fronting w/ Byard. Yoww!

I recall a BNBB resident poster Nathan of "all things in that ny downtown groove" liking this an awful lot. I meant to make it down to an installation at Harvard that I believe this piece was based upon, but alas, never got there. I think this was an obscure import that could be had from DMG. I'm sure ol' Bruce down there loves it! No help I know but myself would be interested in hearing any comments on Marty's "Line On Love" release.

Thanks again John! I've listened hard to this set and always find something new (obviously since it still is new, duh) everytime. Lots of new avenues down which to proceed. (And the thugs in your alley will no doubt steal my wallet-full of PayPal and drain that baby quick as quite a few of these have been ear-marked not even knowing what they were until now.) Most especially Jim's QO selection. I laughed out loud when you revealed Track #5. Worried of what my comment might have been, it is now completely perfect :" 5) I really do know this song but it ain't coming to me... That's what I get for trying to enhance the musical experience during those formative years." Obviously Mancini with a different kind of "twist"! I've listed that link to the Fontella w/ AEC as seeking the obscure. I really did think that was Leena Conquest from the get go. It's amazing when one finds the roots. I am hoping that Mr. Nessa might weigh in here regarding that session. My comment about the 'bombastic' as unwarranted is now moot- this is AEC dinner music! This one is en route as we type. If anyone has not checked out Ms. Bass with that whole legion of "downtown northwesterners" on No Ways Tired, this should be done despite AMG's errant rating. Or even this one with David Murray. Beautiful stuff you might find real cheap. Now that you have revealed your sources I'll be off on another hunt to quench my own little jazz head knowledge base. While I can't hold a candle to most of the discussions and revelations from posters throughout this board this BFT thing is a real treat. (thanks DG) You all will get the call someday to front my innervention when it is finally revealed that I am consumed by obscure jazz roumminations (that's how couw's spell it). ...and I do rather like 'vint' with the golden arm'.

Thanks for that article. Been thinking about what new British Soul might be on the horizon. Great to have some other names to watch out for. (Just hope that Josh Stone comes up with something new as her take on all of this is certainly based on some weird producing for the moment.) And I must confess that I'm a sucker for some good sultryness and Norah ain't got it for me. I've been on a bit of an "acid jazz" (how I hate that moniker) tip lately courtesy of some cheap comps I've listened to. Any of you Londoners have some guidance to offer based upon this article? Please! Like telling me whatever happened to some great singers like N'Dea Davenport, Martine Girault, Dyanne Fearon, Marcia Johnson, Carleen Anderson, Shara Nelson, Caron Wheeler, Juliet Roberts etc... Or making some suggestions as to some truly great females to look out for. And certainly not coming from that Macy (my hometown girl) Gray, Badu / everythingbutthetrickyportisheadfrapp vibe.

This is a great choce for AOW. While it seems to be so the norm that maybe no one will step out of bounds here. Listening to this at the same time as the BFT5 is just like bein' over at couw's w/o libations. I much prefer this era of Lou to any other. His post bebop stuff always seemed to exercised.(He was in good shape, no?) His soul jazz or rather some of that post soul jazz was obviously the main appeal. To me it's those sides with the conga that do it! Mind you not all of his song selections were great but those originals he penned are some outstanding pieces. I was puzzled by this quote off of the Mosaic website: œ"Solid, enjoyable, uneven--- There is a lot a enjoyable music here. The second reviewer's suggestion to mix quarters and other sessions is a good one, for variety and interest. There is ?too much conga for my ears on these sessions, it flattens the music.? For best Donaldson, you should look elsewhere, particularly to his sessions with Jimmy Smith."œ It really now helps to have read Lou's decision, from the quote above, on bringng in 'hard hands' just to simmer it down into that swanky-ness that he does so well. There's still a bit of dirt when Lou goes down south that I really love. Not really a care to hear Lou do up a standard but his pieces as well as Best's "Move" are shoe-ins for turning any neo into a hipster. I sure do hope that mikeweil levies here!

Hey deus62, Do have that Spectrum and the previous. Specifically for the work of a good friend I used to work next to for years. His piece is on page 94 of #10 and it's the train titled "Flash Gordon's Rocket Locomotive". This guy is a god in his own right! Used to work up in Hi-Brow at American Geetings just after the R. Crumb days. That train is completely hand crafted. Guy can paint like a son of a gun too. I used to change his blackened water-crock cause it drove me crazy watching him get pristine hi-lights out of his dipping swamp.

Chat le Krylon!! ...and she doesn't have to outsource for models! FAFI

Goddess of G-5! Kirsten Ulve

God of INK! Heinrich Kley

deus62, I've almost picked up that 'popbot' series. Is that the same Foster you linked. Have to explore further! Looks a bit like the stuff by Rick Berry w/o the heavy strokes. The David Ho reminds me much of John Jude Palencar's work. As for the precursor to this type of illustration, here is an easy trivia test: what illustrator that had many editorial pieces across the board in the eighties and nineties did the cover for a now sought after Collector's Choice CD??? As for my most favorite of all present day magazine illustrators- Peter de Seve

...so that means that Wilson's "Easterly Winds" will still sound like poop. Buyer beware. As some have unloaded when the gettin' was good.

Yes, Whitehead says the same in the review bite I linked, but states that somehow Ran seems to like being 'over for dinner'. Care to comment on what you may or may not be keen on with the Schullers. How is the saxophone playing on "ST" in your opinion? And I wish that discussion from a show called "Here & Now" was available. It was one of those where I sat in the car and wanted to drive on and grab this disc. Very conversational and really down home, like Chuck's. Maybe someone can get it to work.

You know that was sort of the first thing that came to mind on this, certainy not this album in particular as I've never heard it, but just the overall 'Kohlhase' sound. It does have a Beantown Large Group feel to it? I think in the past I may have seen couw sporting notes on The Either Orchestra and such (?), and as of yet this one is still on the list of the un-recognized. And you all need not worry about big brother treading on this code you guys got going here. I been flipping back and forth like it's some big term paper trying to figure this out.

Just released on Boxing Day in the UK are some really cute little critters for which I had hands-on character development and design. The sculptor who did the line hit the mark on spot! You can even win the whole set here. In the UK from Vivid Imaginations. Unfortunately, I'm not on the royalty take but these guys really do look like the initial vision. Good looking stuff and we all know how much y'all like "vinyl"!

could post here all day with images. glenn barr, shag, et al... Noj! Art Center!! DUUUUDE. hey, how 'bout this guy...he draws articulated anthropormorphic cats for britz. on your Harrod's shelves now!

Late, Can't take credit for that. James Jarvis is the creator. One of those "urban vinyl toys" out of the East, from a Western designer. Would fit well with my King Kong shrine I got going though. Alas, only an avatar at this time.

Thanks for starting this one up. Googled and found a pdf of his kudos. Kind of funny what this came up with. Here is a link to Whitehead's review of 'ST'. At that same time he was interviewed w/ Schuller on our local NPR 'Here and Now' but they hve rehashed the archive. I have only a couple and always want to grab another. Has the "Vertigo" album on Owl ever been re-issued? I have a hefty pressing but am w/o a table. That was some spooky work. I love his Monk disc on Soul Note. Pretty stuff.

Man o man I have done minute searching ( google le obtuse) and am WAAAAY off the mark on the track #10. Pay no mind to my ignorance, but at least this is not what I thought. All I'll say now is "I'm lonely and I'm blue..." Good lord I do hope that some one who posts here will give us the real deal as it went down on this one. I had no idea that the vocalist ..... couw, I almost want to post a link to this that contains a great, great article about the piece. I'll wait for permission. B)

KB ...You know there is an Ecco outlet of sorts down in Lawrence. Used to be a sister store called the 'D & J Shoe Warehouse' in Salem, MA ...Eccos for $35 bucks... I've transcended the geekiness and think they are cool! Especially when they are 1/8th the price... But when it comes to all things tarsel-iary I immediately thought of this guy , not sure if his 'fingers' are on any Blue Notes?

Man, that's not fair...my coffee was still really hot! Sheesh, I was really hoping for some sort of nostalgia with a Packers - Chiefs match-up. Was it Brett's finger at the end that did him in or did he get a "call"? Well we will root root root for the hometowners now but them Pats looked a bit dicey despite the icey. And Conn... a lot of Belechik imitators? I guess if the NFL introduces the "de-animator machine". He looked like a losing coach at his post game interview. -_-

I'm thinking I might know track number #10 as being down this river. The trombone thread is sort of in fullest swing (sic) on this one as part of the mix. This disc is 'Swell'. As for #12, I do think this might be his most "serious" recording but for me his work on these-- here and here--, two stellar albums that Blue Note should be re-whipping onto the shelves, is where it's at!!!

The mail came early today and brought Friday joy. Guess the mailman decided driving around at 5 below put some fire under hisass. Thanks to Tom in RI and thankfully the only mad-couw not culled from the heard. I did a text edit and wrote my guesses and first impressions as it happened. A trully great disc... So far my top three releases from 2004 are just these past couple of blinfold tests. (Why bother going to the store and looking for some salvation in the drivel.) So here's my response and I can't wait to read the blurbs by the real knowledge base. So we will start at the bottom.... 1) "Generique" (can't keep some of these french discs quite right) from here: rhino or cinema. Got on a kick of this guy's stuff a few years back. I only have a few of his discs and have listed the compilations here. I'd love to hear more of his instrumental sides than I have heard. I just can't believe that I knew the first one off of one of these tests. Those jazz and afro cuban Mercury sets are great as well as the JiP:JeC collections. Truthfully I really only dig him cause he makes my nose look small. 2) Sounds like something I should have but don't. Dig it! 3) Boy I like this conga-fied greasey groove and then that sawankeh bari...Now this is something that I gonna go buy. A bit of those Lou D sides w/ Barretto that I love but with a lot more texture. This ain't Ronnie Ross cause it just sounds new to me. Man this cuts already spun twice ...Hoo Baby Couw!! 4) "Tenderly" is my guess after just 00:08... we can do name that tune can't we? Nice bone. Now after a minute and a half it goes Lateefy... this is one of those that you would want to buy if the record store was playing it while you were in there, only to get up to the register and have the guy tell ya that it ain't for sale. Well it's not the song I thought but some kind of groove though. I'm gonna says it's the bassist's date? Man you guys are spinning me around with this BFT thing. 5) I really do know this song but it ain't coming to me... That's what I get for trying to enhance the musical experience during those formative years. 6) Definitely has that "_____ in Paris" feeling to it. Other than that I have no clue. I do like it though. 7) Need to do more listening to all things Parker oriented so I can just whip off this song. More nice bone... I'm not going to just guess and look really foolish here. (edit here: as i skipped out at midpoint and didn't hear the Monk. so much parker in Monk and vv) This one got better after subsequent listenings. A great blend of these two tunes. 8) No idear? 9) Again no clue...I do like this segueability you gots on here. The hefty backbeat sometimes supplanted by the various instruments that conjure the belly of the groove. Now I'll wear my brain on my sleeve cause I don't know whether this is a soprano or a clarinet? Some huge sound from that thing. 10) Gotta be French but sounds a bit too much like William Parker and Leena Conquest. "your fanny's like two sperm whales floating on the seine"?. Maybe one of those live Eremite discs. I love that groove though, but the bombastic seems just because. I might have to cheat now and look this up later. This is a great segue from the previous BTW... Find that I'm forever cursing DJs on jazz radio for putting some lame shit after a great tune or having absolutely no sense of mix. Not here my friend!!! 11) "Hernado's Hide-Away' by some Threadgill-y low key Screamin' Jay Hawkins type. This sounds Chicago. 12) Title cut from here:spitvalve Man I saw him when I was just brought to the east coast at a little theatre at Brown Univ in Providence. (Shortly after seeing Anthony Braxton at the same venue. He of course did not seem so out of place in didactic environs.) That's a great album you got there and some stellar playing from the back stokers. I always loved his work with Bobby Previte and the other downtown boys. Hoy more bone!! Do I sense a trend here with the predominant boning. 13) No idea here but it's nice. Not something I' run out and buy but very nice little soother. 14) "Ask Me Now" .... I'm not a big knower of horns that don't turn up at the bell. So it's too straight for Lacy and the support is playing beautifully. Like the rhythm from the other horn. I almost expected this thing to go into some full blown romp rather than end so quickly. Very nice. 15) "Lover Man" no foolin' us here. These are some straight readings as opposed to Jim's previous hints at them through BFT4. But no idea as to who this solo is by. Guess i don't know much from horns that do turn up at the bell. Great player... sort of Rollins with only one lung. Man you did good. Ain't throwing this baby back.

With my own money at the Giant Tiger. Boy they had a great lp section right over by the stretch pants. Not really jazz but a first.- The first jazz album, before it was "smoov' jazz".- ...and Alexander, there is a lot of dough out of my pocket at the same time in that old Tower Records (now Virgin) you speak of.

I've sort of nibbled away at jazz. Like Evan above my first ever album that got played all the time was the original score by Neil Hefti to the Batman TV show. Boy do I wish i had that one just for hangin on the wall. I remember running around the living room with a little blanket safety pinned around my neck. But my earliest memories (and I believe I might have shared anecdote on the BNBB so excuse for sounding senile) were my Dad's Jimmy Smith albums. He just had two - 'Bashin', the Unpredictable...' and 'The Monster'. The local drive-in eatery that was a diner in the winter had a juke w/ "Walk On The Wild Side" as a single. Still one of those yesterday like memories of dropping a nickel a few times when we would go there for a weekly nite-out. Probably had more to do w/ it being something familiar and even more to do with flipping through the buttons and watching the lights on the box. 'Bashin'' side one had heavy rotation at home along with some Sinatra, and my favorite of all covers "Whip Cream and Other Delights" (Had a fit when Mom informed me that she got 50 cents for it at her garage sale while I was in college.) Never paid much mind to anything jazzy after that save for a friend's "three words for you" lecture after telling him how I thought Clarence Clemmons was the nuts on this album called "The Wild, The Innocent and The E-Street Shuffle": "...John Fucking Coltrane. Man!" Well after that I again didn't take the hint and became an LP buyer (at $2.99 - $3.99) of Stevie Wonder and the Kudu Grover Washingtons. So I guess the first jazz I really played and actually "listened to" would be 'Mister Magic' and 'Feels So Good'. Wore those babies out! Then I went to college and just started listening to the same crap everybody else did - late 70's and 80's rock. Not even something cool like the Talking Heads but just rock...sheesh. Not until the re-issue era and having a design teacher who was into Reid Miles (I could've cared less at the time) did I put it together and see the light. My first CD purchase was a pair of import Japanese Blue Note comps, (and 'Aja'). At that time 'Chronic Town' and 'Murmur' were heavy stuff but once I uncrated that little Sony-D4 and pulled out those two discs that I paid just an unbelievable amount of money for at the time, $16 or so each!!!! and cued up "Moanin'" it was all over.

Thanks for posting this couw and a good looking site from the little I have perused thus far, tooter. Are any of Ross' titles slated for any kind of re-issue? Had never heard his own work as a leader until the Giles Peterson's comp. What a wonderful player. Most of us on this side of the pond might pass him up, but "the colored girls go: doo do doo do doo..."