HutchFan

O.K. But Eric Dolphy, Booker Little, and Jaki Byard will always sound wonderful. Five decades ago or 500 years hence.

Nice!

Did you get Far Cry when it was originally released?

Eric Dolphy with Booker Little - Far Cry (New Jazz/OJC)

Finally getting to this. (Work got busy.) Oh hell yeah. I'd forgotten how potent this music is. It's like an entire world. You can get inside it and move around in it. Astonishing. By the way, I had the label wrong earlier. It isn't a Milestone 2-fer. It's a Prestige 2-fer (with green labels). I'm just sayin'.

Yessiree, you cannot go wrong with Bob Porter-produced Hank Crawford & Jimmy McGriff records.

Years ago, Inner Glow was a Holy Grail on my "to get" list. I'd collected all of Hutcherson's recordings as a leader -- except for that one. Then Mosaic saved the day, issuing their Hutcherson Select set. Problem solved. Quest retired. Crisis averted.

porcy, I have that Byard LP on a Milestone 2-fer reissue: I think I'll follow your lead, pull this album off the shelf, and give it a listen.

Jovino Santos Neto - Roda Carioca/Rio Circle (Adventure Music, 2006) Thanks again to jazzbo, who hipped me to this marvelous disc.

Bill O'Connell's Latin Jazz Project - Black Sand (Random Chance, 2001) Excellent.

I'm hesitant to recomend any as "best," but here are some trombonists that I enjoy: Ray Anderson Steve Davis Robin Eubanks Marshall Gilkes Wycliffe Gordon Conrad Herwig Frank Lacy Josh Roseman Steve Turre

More Gil Evans:

"Decadent Euro 1970s Fondue Sound"! Yeah. Now that is a felicitous expression. I'm not even exactly sure what that is. But I like it.

Lew Soloff - Hanalei Bay (Electric Bird/ProJazz, 1985) The rhythm section on this disc -- Gil Evans (el p), Pete Levin (synth), Mark Egan (el b), and Adam Nussbaum (d) -- is drawn from Evans' Monday Night Orchestra, as heard on the recording above. Soloff played in that band too, of course. Hmm... I've never had much of a reaction to Bullock, one way or the other. (My biggest association: Him playing with the "Late Night with David Letterman" band.) What is it about Bullock's playing bothers you? Incidentally, he also appears on Hanalei Bay.

Gil Evans & The Monday Night Orchestra - Live at Sweet Basil (Evidence)

Late last night and again today: Weather Report - Night Passage (Columbia/Legacy) I'm listening to the CD from The Columbia Albums 1976-1982 box set. It includes four live bonus cuts. Definitely one of their best studio albums, IMO. ... And the live cuts are ridunkulous. Up next: Weather Report [1982] (Columbia/Legacy) An end of sorts. After this LP, Pastorius, Erskine, and Thomas all departed. Zawinul is everywhere!

More Pres: Lester Young - Lester Swings (Verve)

Lester Young - Pres and Teddy and Oscar (Verve) Right as rain. One of Tyner's finest, IMO. I love how Hutcherson's lyrical playing contrasts with McCoy's surging, volcanic eruptions. Heaven and Earth.

Ah. That makes sense.

Now: Cal Tjader All-Star Latin Groups - Black Orchid (Fantasy)

I wonder why that hasn't been done yet... And not just the Prestige All Stars. You'd think there'd be all sorts of jazz that would be ripe for the sort of packaging that's been so common in classical music.

Masterful.

NP: BN Conn series CD; originally released as two Pacific Jazz LPs: - Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie - Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring James Moody - Night Flight

I've been eyeing that one too!