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Stanley Turrentine & the 3 Sounds

What's the story on a new Dinosaur Jr.? I had no idea. This is going to be a good year for new releases, for me anyway. Looking forward to hearing The National. I heard David Dye playing them the other week. "Boxer", the new release by The National, is one of the best new releases of this year. I can't stop playing it. I'm also really digging Wilco's new one "Sky Blue Sky". It seems to be dividing Wilco fans down the middle, but to me its a welcome change, although I loved their previous two more experimental releases. The album has a nice vibe reminisant of Neil Young's "Harvest" with some strong songwriting and very nice jamming.

Glad to see this thread resurface. I bought the set back when it was released, and its without a doubt a must have if you are a Dexter fan. He was playing in peak form for these sessions....and for me, it doesn't get much better than peak Dexter. Something I found interesting....there is a session where Tootie's drums sounded really unusual, and in the booklet he explains that the drum kit in the studio was for rock music, and the bass drum was stuffed with pillows. He had to tune it the best he could to suit the music. While the drums do sound a bit strange, I actually think it worked really well, and gave that particular session a unique sound. And NHOP.....what a player! What a great sound.

I definitely don't see "Point of Departure" "Out to Lunch", "The All Seeing Eye", "A Love Supreme", ect.....as free jazz albums either. I can see listening to them as good preparation for more "free" music though. Baby steps, if you will.

Check out his "Live at the Village Vanguard" CD on Winter & Winter for a fine display of his straight ahead prowess. Aside from this one and "Toys" I don't have any of his other recordings, but I think he's a phenomenal pianist. I dig his work on the electric keys with Dave Douglas as well.

Always thought "Being for the Benifit of Mr. Kite" was an underrated tune

One of my favorite all albums, and a key player in making me a human being who loves music. May it be listened to by all generations for all time!

How funny, I was just coming to this thread to post some comments about this film, which I viewed on the excellent Criterion DVD last night, and I see this. Thanks Stefan! I had seen this film a long time ago, but watching it now was just a completely new experience. This is one of those films that is so powerful, beautiful, sad, important, etc....that it should be seen by everyone. It is drama at its peak, and is difficult to watch at times becuase of the suffering experienced by some of the characters, but one will be challenged to watch a more humane film. I am so moved by this, that I think I'm going to take a short break from watching any other films. Need to give some time for the effect to wear off a bit, as I'm getting the feeling that other films will probably seem silly in comparison.

For me personally, I don't care about skin color....if the music is good, its good.

Some wise advice, though you're eventually going to want to get that Footprints Live CD, as well as Beyond the Sound Barrier. Some of the best jazz recorded this millennium.

You'll eventually want all his Blue Notes from that period.

My apologies, Jim. Began my above post before seeing yours. I'm done.

So I don't like it when people try to pimp Christianity, or any belief system, to me......I don't see how that has any relation to my earlier post. The board member's comment that I defended was not anti-religious. It was a comment pointing out a flaw in an individual's reasoning regarding their defense of creationism, as the entire argument made by that individual made vague scientific (?) statements that continued to revert back to the Bible rather than ground themselves in science. How a criticism of that is anti-religious, I don't see. What I will speak out on is when they try to shove their religion down your throat. Religion is a great thing for people if makes them happy, and I'm all for people doing what makes them happy, as long as they don't harm anyone in any way. And as far as all these anti-religious statements that I supposedly read and remain silent about, I assume they are in the political forum? I am not in that forum very often....maybe 5 minutes a day to read the latest spat between the usual parties. I'm not too comfortable discussing religion or politics in an open forum. Over the years I've have seen a few sporadic anti-religious and pro-religious comments and kept my mouth shut. But seeing this stuff pop up outside the politics forum is a bit annoying, especially in a thread that is discussing something very serious such as care for our elderly, a topic that is very dear to my heart given the unusually high number of people I've seen die for someone my age (I'm 30). But I assure you, jazzypaul, that when I'm reading a thread about the Hank Mobley Mosaic running low, and someone chimes in and says that the only reason its running low is because so many board members believe in Jesus, and that they should really become atheists or else more sets will run out quicker, I won't keep my mouth shut. P.S. Sounds like a good idea to me, as long as we limit the talk about religion or politics! And I dig your radio show....with all due respect to Bruce Oscar or John Benet (sp?), I much prefer your taste in jazz.

I hate writing this, Shrdlu, becuase I normaly really enjoy reading your posts and I think you're a great member of this board and are probably a really nice person, but you should really stop to consider if posting stuff like this might offend some board members. If it needs to be posted, there are pleanty of religion threads in the Politics forum. Carry on.

Nice thread. Andrew Hill - "Time Lines" Jason Moran - "Same Mother" Eric Dolphy - "The Illinois Concert" Herbie Hancock - "Takin' Off" Joe Lovano - "From the Soul" Wayne Shorter - "The Soothsayer" John Scofield - "Time on my Hands" Greg Osby - "St. Lous Shoes" Herbie Nichols - "Complete BN Recordings" Lee Morgan - "Live at the Lighthouse"

Without a doubt! I don't own more than 2 of his recordings, but I've seen him perform live a few times and he's a fine player.

I don't listen to much pre-bebop jazz, but Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens are some of my favorite recordings in my collection. Such moving, emotional, and fun music. Haven't spun them in a while, will remedy that this weekend.

Pat Martino - "Live at Yoshi's"

I want that Horace Parlan Mosaic bad, but will probably wait til its running low. I keep thinking about grabbing more OJC's as well, as well as more Impulse re-issues. Basically the stuff that may not be around much more. Other than that, like brownie said, I've cut my music purchasing quite a bit this year. I've bought less music this year than I have in the last 10 years. I've quite enjoyed going back and just really absorbing and enjoying what I already have.

"The Sting" is superb. And I'm glad that he was able to go out on a big screen high note with "Road of Perdition". His performance there was so touching and sad....better than the film itself, actually.

This gets my pick for best new release of 2007 thus far. I just listened to it for the first time. This music has reached me like only my favorite music does. Roscoe is the best.

Gotta add the Elvin Jones Mosaic as well. LOVE those trio sides with Joe Farrell.

Randy Weston Mosaic Select.

Congrats!