Templejazz

Duke Pearson Ebay Crazy?? Is this item that rare to have a $160.00 Buy it Now? Of course it looks real tasty and I've never, ever seen it before in my life.

I sure am jealous of all you people who've been able to see Woody Shaw, Miles and some of the older guys perform! That's all right cuz my first major live jazz experience was part of the '95 Mellon Jazz Festival free concert here in Philly featuring these guys in various band settings throughout the day: Christian McBride Terrence Blanchard Roy Hargrove Wallace Roney Ray Brown Milt Hinton Benny Green (pno) I vaguely remember seeing a local trio in my town back in '94 featuring a guy named JOHN HICKS. I had no idea who he was then but he knocked me out. I've also seen Roy Hargrove live on one other occasion back in, I think '95 I saw Wallace Roney shortly after I started college...I think my soph year, '97. I've since seen: Chris Potter, Seamus Blake, Jimmy Cobb, Donald Byrd, Eric Alexander, Joe Magnarelli, Brian Lynch, Jon Faddis, Claudio Roditi, Steve Turre, John Swana, Chucho Valdes, McCoy Tyner, Dick Oatts, Maynard Ferguson Probably a couple others if I think real hard but this is the meat of it.

I picked this up today and my first impression is I really wouldn't call this lightweight listening at all! A tight grooving band with subtle elements added to the arrangements for texture and effect from the horn lines to the wah-wah pedals. There's so much to pick up throughout. My favorite tracks so far are 'Made in Sweden' followed closely by 'Oblighetto'. In 'Made in Sweden' you KNOW that when Dukes raps on the ride cymbal after the bass intro somethin' BAD'S gonna happen!! This is a nice one on my Disc Man but when I get home I'm jackin it LOUD on my player! It's only fitting. Great choice.

I picked up the Blakey along with some other goodies with a Tower Gift Card. This is my first time hearing 'Indestructible' and it is VERY nice. Nothing out of the ordinary but surely some smoking hard-bop at its best. The writing for the band is tremendous ( I want to hear more Fuller, that first tune is tight!! ) and the solos are wonderful. I'm listening to Calling Miss Khadija as I write. Can anyone speak of the music on 'Grantstand'? Grant Green/ organ soul-jazz is not exactly part of my listening routine right now but I'll probably pick it up later if it's a worthy record. I also passed on the others for now as they don't interest me that much but I was eyeing the Rollins, as I have very little of him in my collection. I'm really gearing up for September 2nd. Peace!

Barton Fink, eh? I didn't know that was the Bros. on that one. I'll have to check it out.

I'm with David, I couldn't understand after watching it why this movie is so great. My favorite Coen Bros. films are Raising Arizona and Fargo. I haven't seen any others.

I almost forgot, the same friend who has the Charles Barkley Celebriduck has the above mentioned Louie singing figure. He rolled up a gigantic spliff and put it in its mouth and tucked a pack of rolling papers into the lapel!

My friend Rob has a Charles Barkley Celebriduck in his dorm room.

"Not I", said Bill. Hey Tom, I didn't get the CD out today but once I copy the cover I'll be able to send it tomorrow. You're in for a treat.

Jim, Please inform us as soon as you find out if you'll be taking a trip to Philadelphia. I'm there if you do. Bill

That's pretty crazy Jim. I've had similar experiences with the flying and have, to some extent been able to control some of my dreams. Not often though. Every few months I'll realize I'm having a dream and gain control of my own body and things will become clear. Other times I have been able to track my sleeping patterns and catch a dream just as it starts. IOW, many people fall asleep and then dream, and wake up, with no recollection of ever falling asleep. I have been able to grasp that exact moment where I fall into a dream and to some extent retain consciousness into the dream, if that makes any sense whatsoever. Listen to this dream I had about 6 months ago. I remember it vividly only because it was very long and it had several identifying parts.... It begins with my friend Mike and I strolling around my home neighborhood (standard suburban flavor, twin-houses, trees, front and backyard) We come upon a patch of forest which is part of the nearby baseball field. We're up for some adventure and decide to head into the forest. After making our way through bushes and trees for a little while, we come to a complete clearing and find ourselves in front of a huge cave which extends as far to the right and left of us as we can see. The door to the cave is closed and right in front is a parking meter which accepts only dimes from the year 1974. Mike and I look at each other shaking our heads. He fishes in his pocket and finds a dime with the year and puts it in the meter. The door to cave opens. We go inside and its real warm, with a glow from candles on the wall. It's a roomy cave, kinda long, with a big treasure chest not far away from where we entered. We open the treasure chest and there is a neat looking vial of some kind of oil which smells of sandalwood. There are instructions telling us to rub the oil on our temples. Confusinly, we do so and out of nowhere these weird black cats appear. Three of them, meowing, playing with each other and doing weird stuff. We watch them for a bit and then the cats notice us and run to the other side of the cave where this door magically opens up. We have no choice but to follow. The cave opens up right onto a real wide street, with houses real far to the left and right, almost like a residential community. The skies are real gray and it's snowing and there are lamp post every 20 yards or so on both sides and they are lit. After walking for a few minutes, the street starts to slant upwards and into forest treetops. We go up and find a city of these flying folk called sprites. We stay up there for a while and learn about the place. The city is divided into separate sections named for mythological Greek cities, Crete, Argolis, etc. While up there we learn that ghosts from many figures reside on many of the different sections. I remember seeing Miles and Bird up there along with Duke Ellington who was playing with his band at some point. The city had strict rules. You could only leave your specified section at certain points of the day and if you tried to leave to another section, the gods would get angry and there would be a deafening rumbling that would get louder until something terrible happened. I remember leaving back to my neighborhood with my friend Mike and we wanted to tell people about this place. Along the way we met some Temple music friends of mine who were up there and they asked me if I saw Dizzy and Art Blakey. I told them I missed them this time around. The next thing I know, we went back with my good friend Ed, who is a very unique individual, he loves 80's metal, wears leather, spikes and has a huge afro. We bring him up there and the last thing I remember before my alarm went off is my friend Mike and I standing at the bottom of the ramp into the treetops and my friend Ed is air guitarring his way down from the city. WTF was THAT one all about?? I told my friend Mike, who is a film major and a pretty good director. He said he was gonna write it into one of his scripts

Ok, I've had several strange dreams over the past several years. Lemme share one that pops up every few months or so. The dream begins with an unnamed bunch of people and I (probably family members) are riding in a car just as it leaves land to turn onto a series of slightly elevated one direction, single lane roads completely surrounded by water, almost like a very low, flat bridge. All you can see around you is water everywhere. In the horizon about 4 miles away is an extremely large, HIGH bridge which extends into the clouds. As we're driving on the road, I dread the real high bridge way before we get there. After turning a couple times on the road, which, remember is completely surrounded on all sides by water, we turn one last time onto a long stretch of road and start to speed up. We speed up because at several spots in the road upcoming there are complete sections missing, about 3 of them, each about 15-20 feet long. We speed up and jump the missing sections and soon afterwards start to climb the large, high suspension bridge. The dream as I have it will end either on the first or second jump over the missing sections. That's when our car plunges into the water and I wake up all freaky like. Other times we will make the jumps and start to climb the bridge. The experience climbing the bridge isn't unlike the climb of a very, VERY steep rollercoaster, which usually gives me a thrill, except in this particular instance the climb is FOREVER and when I mean steep, I mean almost vertical, in a car, no less. Some times the dream will end up there cuz I can take the vertical climb and it actually starts to physically hurt. Other times when I have the dream, we will make it AALLLL the way past there and then we'll start to descend, which is the classic "falling" dream, except in a car. WEIRD huh?? Whaddya think? And have any dreams really taken you for a ride lately?

Part of the top of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Please share your thoughts about Lee Morgan the composer. Some of my favorite tunes were penned by Mogie including Ceora, Yama from Blakey's A Night in Tunisia, and Haeschen, a very underrated ballad on the Taru album. What are some of your favorites?

With Free Form on the RVG horizon, I've decided to revive this thread. I heard snippets of this album over the weekend and must say there is some EXCELLENT playing by Donald Byrd. GET IT!! Along with those I would say that I love his playing on Jackie Mclean's New Soil, Vertigo, and his own Fuego.

Sucks they're OOP over there, all three are readily available where I am. Reminds me, last time I was out I saw a copy of Dizzy Reece's Comin' On, and Hutcherson's Stick Up. Not to hijack the thread but I also saw a JRVG of Griffin's The Congregation FOR $20!! How is the session and the sound of the JRVG? I'm thinkin' of pulling the trigger for this. Thanks guys!!

Can I have your "Ready For Freddie" JRVG, in that case? I don't think Weizen will give in to that one, McKinney didn't change his name until 'A Slice of the Top', no?

I'd like to see a Dizzy Reece Mosaic Select

I'm HEAVILY diggin' this one as I type. These guys can SWING!! :rsmile:

If this is true, I can't see anything being left out of a DVD set(I hope not anyway!!) This is a historic concert that should be preserved the way it was meant to be.

GREAT NEWS!! I have Volume 2 in this series and the perfomances are SWEET . The group of Jackie, Woody, McCoy, Jack D, and Cecil McBee cover good versions of Passion Dance from The Real McCoy, Appointment in Ghana one of my favorite tunes, and a blues that I can't remember right now. Bennie Wallace and Cecil Taylor aren't too shabby either but the quintet does it for me all the way1

Don't remind me PLEASE....!

I noticed that this is listed on the AAJ site for release along with the Conns in October. Anybody know anthing about it? There was talk back on the BNBB of a DVD set of this concert. Tom E. mentioned that it was a project in the works. Could this be it or is it just a rerelease of the CDs? Was something previously mentioned that I missed? Inquiring minds want to know. B) Thanks!!

Tom Harell

What's that I see with the Conn releases in October??? One Night w/ Blue Note Preserved???? Is this a reissue of the CDs or is this the fabled DVD release that was talked about several times on the BNBB???? Anybody know?