Man with the Golden Arm

You will if you listen to the TOCJ version. Wonder if the newest RVG has any of the problems the JRVG did.

Just curious.... Did you hear this tape hiss(I assume that's what it is) on the CDR? If you could describe the noise a bit more, I'd appreciate it. Have others noticed this on the Mosaic CD set? Not a CDR issue at all. I guess I should clarify myself in that it's not really a "hiss" - tape or otherwise - but that over-all brightnessss to the 'Contours' session on the Mosaic that seems to carry into those lulled passages (and mind you that it's not a glaringly serious issue with the Mosaic set). It still is very hot on the Conn but that session in particular on the Mosaic was almost too crisp in a "domestic RVG kinda way". FWIW I think that the Conn of 'FSS' is just a freeking oustanding improvement over the Mosaic. This one seems slighter than that but still better to me. Simply put: the Mosaic session sounds like a new RVG / the Conn sounds good. I guess I only posted as when I first read thru the thread I was looking for the worst in this newest re-issue. Then again if I'm up against wolff and Hans I should with all due respect check my ears at the door.

I do agree with "wolff" here. I just received and have now compared a Mosaic cdr to this new Connoisseur. The solo and interplay say on "Euterpe" (love those eastern modalities and was concerned when I first read this post ) at 5:00 + are very quiet. The sonics on the Mosaic might be a touch louder to me but the fact that McMaster now clears the deck of all the noise he put into the Mosaic in the first place makes this new re-issue a strong buy. And no "ssssss" behind this disc whatsoever.

A more modern release might be David Murray and Fontella Bass: "Speaking in Tongues" but even more gospel-ish would be Fontella's release "No Ways Tired".

soul station click here: the toe courtesy of couw

Just reading the news and saw that Martha Stewart will be doing her time at the same WVA prison that housed Billie Holiday in the late forties. While sleuthing thru it seems that this website inquires about Holiday possibly recording some sides as one "Billie Stewart" just before her incarceration. I just thought it serendipitous. "billie holiday ou billie stewart"

clik

THAT is some funny chit!!! smilies are not worthy edit: as i am envisioning the bull huffing hash & being strapped to the windmill. otherwise it's not funny at all.

This (via snips) reminds me a bit of the 70's fuse-aloo band "Ocho". Don't know much about them but this kind of sounds very similar to what I have heard. Anybody?

never heard that accordion before.

Certainly aggree to all points and that the first CC version has great warm sound that is not worth upgrading to the RVG hissyness for. Regarding the cover - does anyone know the in of the xxx-out over "Art Sailor" on the stickey? Or was that how the files at BN were kept??

jim, your PM box is full! so... you gotta send me yer address. i culled up some discs a while back to hip folks to the electro side of shipp.... that whole guillermo brown, spooky, wally, ware melange and had them returned my way with looks agast! all cobblations btw. love to send down some discs for the kiddies to either heave or ho! lemme know. vg

snippets are the death of me (and now that it's officially dog season on the beach, whippets are as well). that stuff always sounds better with just that little taste. defer to the long arm of the law down in texas for giving it such good props and getting us (well, me) all excited. Now "Arnie The Thermometer"??? If it has the girth of the Gov then I'm pullin' up and headin' out.

"Funky" may or may not fit, depending on what the word means to you. It ain't The Crusaders, if you know what I mean. But it's definitely groove music. Wrote my "funky" before I saw the DMG splot where Bruce uses it a bit!! Not Crusaders funky at all I hope. But Shipp Hopp Funkee is good news. Somewhere in here I read something in another of Jim's postings today about Shipp always coming in to confound you. I'm ususlly not in the mood for his more cerebral tones and repetitive actions but his Blue Series has always had an appeal for me because, despite the sometime electronic gloss that may be there, the band is always alive in the rhythm. Organic funky is up my alley, where machine based funky just ain't.

i like the acrylic one w/ all the separate "shot" containers. sheesh!

gee, i didn't think madonna was sending christmas cards anymore.

I can't believe Jazzmoose hasn't visited this thread.

DMG's flushed out "disclaimer:we love everything" review:

Thanks Jim. I have only listened to the snips but this is sounding mighty fine. Purely funky, huh? I've not been to over the top on Campbell but maybe this context might have been more relaxing for him. Aside, I have been trying to wrap myself around Shipp's latest trio + sfx 'Harmony and Abyss' but just can't seem to do it, yet. I was completely enthralled by last year's, or was it even this past spring's, 'Equilibrium' and played that constantly for some time. (Even some selections from Jim's recently noted 'El-P' are more to my liking). This new one however is just tepidly sterile. Sure there are some attempts at some hopping electro-afro-cuban but Shipp continues to hold onto that tension building repitition thing of his that makes Parlan and Green's use of the device sound like a nice game of lawn tennis compared to this old school "cecil-pong". I was only able to remotely shake my ass to one cut and that don't cut it these days. Maybe someone can explain Matthew Shipp a bit more to me. Unfortunately his Blue Series has become monotonous to me now. This sounds like a nice change-up.

you might be able to get one by collecting some of them pepsi points.

You probably never cared for "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson either?

Clem, from all I've "read recently" you NEED to put on "St. James Infirmary" from this album!!! (why Verve does not put this out every Halloween yet endcap "Christmas Cookin" is beyond me?) pretty much a nasty solo outing with the comping coming from oliver's usual pals. gotta make sure it's dark and cold. by the time the winds take flight out of that morgue you'll be asking why you short shrifted those verve big band sides like all the critics. then chase that one down with the theme from "Joy House" from 'The Cat'. Oooohhh baby!!!

So what is the '...Virgina Woolf' album like, anyway? This week I've been listening to my auto comp of the Verve sides that I put together a while back. Great goods IMO. I sampled a bit of 'The Boss' recently and am surprised they have not given difinitive props to his career rather than put out inferior sounding gigs such as that. Verve seems to think it best to put out poorly sequenced compilation after compilation instead of focusing on, say, a complete or well done large band retrospective. Those 60's Nelson and Schifrin sides are, in their own way, as important as the Blue Notes.

5 years ago mine was Turrentine's "Jubilee Shout!". From some guy in Arizona? hmmmm... I remember getting all itchy fingered as I won it via real time bidding since I did not know about that proxy thing and had lost a few auctions before. Luckily it was gotten for cheap, ATC.

Makes that big box set look cheap. A nice way to sample the cuts though.