Man with the Golden Arm

Milford Graves!?

Today, do we even need to say who did track sixteen.

Me too to all that! I recently put together a Verve sides comp and gave a review copy to a friend just a couple of nights ago in that "you need this" way that as we jazz fans do. The 'Monster' is certainly worthy but I think Verve must read the same reviews that are all about. Silly! That was my first exposure to my 'moniker' cut. I can still listen to "Walk on the Wild Side" and never tire of that complete throw down solo! Those Blue Notes are as fine as can be but there is still something about those Nelson, Schifrin etc charts that get me! What is the greatest is that we get to choose these two dramatically different stylizations from the Master. How can you not just go wild with the groove on "Ape Woman" or "Burning Spear"!

Thanks for posting and continuing to do so! I saw the Pont Neuf installation when he covered it back in '84 maybe. Still have a little piece of it stashed away.

Damn! is right!

WOW! Quite the collection on disc one. Excellent listenings!!! Just guesses for me with only a couple known to be. No peeking of course and straight off the top which ain't much. T1- Absolute vibe phenome ... is this you Cary after some Evelynn Wood course. I was waiting for it to break into Flight of the Bumble Bee. Top notch starter for certain, natch. T2- My guess here from a disc I have never heard, but I am presuming this might be 'Blues for Smoke'? Hefty thumping with a bit of humor under the paws is my reasoning. T3- Byron with Glover doing "Ask me Now" or a Monk to be Googled later? T4- Another from a disc I have yet to hear (maybe) - sounds like it might be a cut from the Parker and Drake disc on AumFidelity? The trappist gets better marks from me than the percussionist accompaniment. T5- A nineties Blue Note release sound but as for who the two horns are I have not a clue. The piece is just swinging like mad. It's amazing how close the tone is for both. This is damn fine! T6- Very nice mellow break. I have got to think about this one (not that it will help). T7- Has that moody ECM heady vibe w/o vibes this time. A bit of a freaky intro. Baron on hand drums maybe w/ Abercrombie or McLaughlin. I love these sonic sculptings but don't come back to them as much as I should. T8- A modern Miles influence is nice. Any .:.relativity.:. at work here. T9- Nice pick up with the walk segue from geet to double bass. This past quartet of tunes has a very nice flow. Bonus! I like this metallic tone from the vibes and I'm sure that might give it away to the resident quasimodos. This just swings like mad. T10- Another addition to the theme. The last five are quite a team. But after this piece takes off into the fisty blues I burnt out a bit. I like the unfolding going on here but did not need the glare of what was inside. T11- I like this track a lot ... a lower register and more deliberate Roy Campbell? and if it is I'll butter my hat cause I usually don't like that guy. Assuming, based upon the bass and the fact that it leads into .... T12- Wm. Parker's "Percy" from (edit oops): 'Painter's Spring' NOT 'O'Neal's Porch'. (big nod to the Air of the windy city.) T13- A beautiful tune here. A modern reprise of track #2. T14- "RM" by a lustier version of Jeanne Lees? T15- An Ellington tune(?) or just a veiled version of "Nature Boy" with that "Angel Eyes" underbelly... this is a beautiful piece and one of the standouts among the many. That sour sax will call it for the big guns. So I will just listen again and again... that "cry" in there might be Booker. hmmmm. T16- Another "cry" of sorts as Ca-R(a)y "laces" up some greasy "Mo-Jo" for a closer! * Very nice indeed! I dashed through a bit after a couple listens as I'm too curious. edit: * as I re-read and it looks like I might think #16 is Ray but of course it's not since it's one of the two I did know!

listening to disc one now... NICE! cary, can we break up the disc-cussions into two separate threads? in the past it was tough to have it all in one. thanks.

... and he was listening to this!

send in the klones, they arrived yesterday .:.

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Zorn was recently in Boston to discuss himself:

The Tubas are on this one released by BeatGoesPublic. Dean Rudland writes of that same feeling that 'baryshnikov' tells. Once you wade through the cheese on that twofer the meat is tasty! Classic song titles, too. A fellow boardmember made me a comp of burned goodies from all those Jazzland and EMI held lps. Highly under-rated and deserving of greater recognition and all that. Lytle spun in my car for a whole summer a few years back after discovering all of his available releases.

Up to tell me what a fair price might be for the Basie LIVE Roulette CDs sans box and book. Recently spotted. B-)

Don't forget Tatum / Stingley, Noj.

That track on the 'Gundown' album is "Erotico (The Burglars)" featuring most prominently Shelly Hirsch warbl-lizing in pained ecstacy over Frisell's dog killer guitar. Patton is coloring the whole thing and creating an acutal groove in spite of it all. Most certainly worth at least hearing along with the title track. Now "Two Lane Highway" is another story! "Big" John is more than just a Jersey barrier and his grease tossing with Albert Collins halfway through the trip is well worth the toll fare. Horvitz holds down the roadhouse pretty well on this, too.

re: Another WorkOut don't forget Matt Mahurian got into hot water over that Time magazine dark-side O.J. cover.

I read that the tune "Aubade" is co-penned by Hill ... completist alert!!

my bad

I thought I heard Bush talking about them just last nite. Through my heavy earlids I hear he has passed some law about these harbourers of pleasure. No/

spring IS in the air!

and these seem to be made more and more dependent upon the moon. B-)

Damn straight!!! I had the TOCJ of this and it was so audiophile quiet (and mind you I don't care for the pumped RVG volume just for the sake of it) that you had to go past one o'clock to get anything out of it. The JRVG is superb!!!

I know a few here give Terri short time (go figure), but she is interviewing James Brown today along w/ his wife. Terri sounds truly stoked to have him. Give it up and give a lissen.

"Oblique" I think Reinier knew of these before you!

Had to bump this thread as my wife's been making these new cheapo turtles confecoctions lately: 1) place a piece of wax paper on a plate. 2) arrange as many mini pretzels as you can 3) place a hershey's caramel kiss (peeled) on top 4) microwave for twenty to thirty seconds 5) remove and smoosh down each kiss with a pecan or cashew - they plop right down but stay somewhat solid 6) just try not to eat the entire bag once you have started this