Eric

What Jim said. I would go to the AMG site and make selections based on tunes and sidemen, with a bias towards the earlier records. If I could only have one, it would be Enlightenment. Eric

Wow - you are in for a treat. I have been listening to this stuff for 20+ years and come back to it often. Many highlights including: Echoes of a Friend - solo date, devoted to Trane, mixture of Trane and McCoy compositions if memory serves. Enlightenment - this is live and outstanding. The intensity comes very close to the classic Coltrane quartet. Azar Lawrence burns on sax and there is a great solo piece here too. Thunderous! Song for My Lady - basically a quintet with Sonny Fortune and Charles Tolliver. Nice tunes, great playing. Song of the New World - a larger group - also with Fortune. The word that comes to mind here is "swirling". Great stuff. Atlantis - similar to Enlightenment, although that record is superior to my ears. Still wonderful though. Trident - a trio with Elvin and Ron Carter. Probably the best McCoy trio record out there. Tyner, Trane and Monk tunes. Together - a little later, a little less intense than those mentioned above. But ... it has Freddie Hubbard and Bennie Maupin. Once again, killer tunes. I will let someone else take it from here. There are 6-7 others which are very strong. Eric

'd Bronx, I hope ;-) I might add that the 7th Heaven on Troost is one COOL record store (although not as cool as it used to be). On any given trip 10 years ago, I could come home with a Funkadelic CD, a bootleg REM CD and a TOCJ of Jimmy Smith. As Tom mentions, it is on Troost Ave in KC, which sadly is the black/white dividing line in KC. Sort of our version of "north of the tracks". Anyway, on any given day you can see some guys who are deep into rap, deep into speed metal and then old farts like me (dragging my kids along). Eric

Here' a second for "Know What I Mean" with Bill Evans. Great record. Eric

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/08/28...reut/index.html Sobering. Last week I had dinner with a guy who sat in an office building adjacent to the WTC and witnessed much of this first hand. We can never forget this. Eric

I think this thing is screwed. I am 41, 5' 11" weigh 205 and and on the obese side of "overweight" according to the calculator. I work out 5-6 times a week and eat no junk. In short, I am in pretty damn good shape. The calculator infers that I would have to weigh 175 to be at the top end of normal. It 'aint ever gonna happen. Eric

http://www.beyondcoltrane.com/ Eric

Just received "In Action". Lovely CD. Thanks for the recommendation! Eric

There is a review in the latest issue of Magnet. I don't need a review for the $$$ to go flyng out of my wallet for this one, but it was nice to see somebody write about it. Fair typical ... lots of great unreleased stuff and some noodling. The Sonny Sharrock stuff sounds pretty cool. Eric

you have got to be kidding??? do *not* wait for the RVG, it will only SLIIIIIIIDE out of the jewel case anyway more grease than the broom closet at the hog plant ... Eric

Hank never sounded so raw. I am pretty sure that is a good thing! Eric

While I know the title of the thread is not (your favorite Hank Mobley) BN cover, it has got to be this one. I have a 16x20 print of it and I LOVE looking at it. Pretty much says it all!

Oh man, I saw the P-Funk mob in Lawrence KS a couple of years ago. It was without question the loudest show I have ever heard. It ws also a great show - those guys just have a blast. It was sloppy, but still very unique. It was also Halloween and the costumes (on stage and in the crowd) only added to funkiliciousness! Enjoy! Eric

Huge blues fan here,although I came to it through rock, not jazz. I tend to like guitarists best: Albert King Otis Rush Elmore James Freddie King Albert Collins Magic Sam Buddy Guy (older stuff) Son Seals Eric

I love Woody Shaw! I saw him in Chapel Hill, NC in the mid 80s and he was outstanding. His set was drenched with passion and fire. His passing was very sad and unnecessary. What a shame! The guy seemed to have an incredible intellect but something of an inability to deal with life at times (according to Cuscuna in his Mosaic notes). Some days I can empathize and I think that is what makes his artistry so personal. Hard to pick his best stuff. The Mosaic box is great, as is everthing on Muse/32 Jazz/whatever. I also like his playing with Horace Silver on BN. Great thread idea! Eric

Waylon Jennings ...

Lessee ... Graduated in 1984 from the U of Kansas with a degree in accounting. Worked for Ernst & Young for 11 years, then 5 with a large investment manager in KC, and am currently CFO for a small public company here in KC. I lived all over the US as a kid and travel quite a bit today - mostly to NY, SF and Boston. Thanks to the job(s), I have hit most of the neat jazz clubs and record stores in the US. The job has also taken me to London, Paris and India, so no complaints there either. Picked up the jazz jones from a jazz appreciation class at KU (aside from punk rock, I was pretty sick of rock in the early 80s). The instructor, Dick Wright, was something of a local legend on the jazz scene. One of our assignments was to go see Phil Woods in KC (Tom Harrell had just joined) ... and after that I was hooked. Eric

Coltrane, Wes Montgomery and Bird Eric

This should be helpful: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=A10d4vwvya9rk Funny, I was eyeing this myself after re-discovering Dolphy on the Trane Villiage Vanguard set. Think I will grab this! Eric

ever heard "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road"? I am pretty much a jazz guy but this one knocked me out. Great tunes, great variety of guitar playing and I love her vocals - breathy and perfectly suited to her lyrics. Anyone else know her music care to share a recommendation? Eric

Lessee ... Woody Shaw Art Blakey Joe Henderson T Blanchard George Coleman w/ Harold Mabern McCoy Don Braden George Cables Wallace Roney Phil Woods Tom Harrell I am probably forgetting half of them - been to the Village Vanguard a bunch and just cannot remember. My favorite - Woody Shaw. God, he was intense in a very interesting way. My least favorite - Wallace Roney - very intense but to my ears, in a very boring way. Coleman/Mabern was another favorite as was Tom Harrell. Eric Ahh yes - thanks Rooster - Bobby Watson a bunch of times, before and after his return to KC.

OK, this is one that I constantly debate with myself. Have to say that I don't own the Prestige or Miles boxes, but have most of the individual CDs. I really love all of Coltrane's stuff, including the very final recordings. To me, nobody else embodies the passion of jazz like Trane. Perhaps I am biased because I have this set on vacation with me, but I am voting for the Village Vanguard set. Tough call between it and the Atlantic/Impulse studio sets. I love both of those, but something about live Trane turns it up a notch for me. I remember hearing Chasin' the Trane for the first time about 15 years ago and thinking "so what?" Now I can sit there transfixed for the entire (15?) minutes. The VV stuff has a very wide variety of emotion, albeit most of it on the more serious side. But I do hear great fun in Chasin' and Impressions too. Not a lot of variety tune-wise, but the mix of instrumentation more than makes up for it. So vote on, fellow O-ers and tell me what you think! Eric

Went with Trane - a no-brainer for me. I happen to be on vacation and brought Live at the VV - Complete with me. Amazing - still so fresh sounding. For me, Coltrane had the passion and drive like no other - plus I love his tone. Eric

Love this one ...

Hey Rooster, Sorry, wish I could join you, but I snagged this a couple of months ago You are still welcome to come over for a beer and some tunes though! Eric